It also reports weak service and manufacturing sector activity, and falling prices in weak housing markets.
The dollar was, ehe, weak, but not as weak as it would be years later.
In theory, the agreement promises to break the self-reinforcing link between weak governments and weak banks.
We have had a weak dollar (especially against gold) and weak aggregate demand at the same time.
That perked markets up since it promised to sever the link between weak banks and weak sovereigns.
One could argue that one of the reasons al-Maliki is weak is because the constitution makes him weak.
Stimulative monetary policy will not cause inflation in a continually weak economy, though it will strengthen a weak economy.
They also tend to trade like a bond in a weak market environment or when company fundamentals are weak.
We've seen weak retail reports this month, and just before Christmas (US chipmaker) Cypress warned about weak wireless chip sales.
The senator from Illinois proved the near-complete counterpoint to Clinton: weak where she was strong, strong where she was weak.
But one of the concerns is weak exports from a strong dollar and weak overseas economies will hurt U.S. growth further.
Rather than worry about a weak euro, Mr Summers might do well to contemplate the real possibility of a weak dollar.
They try to cover up weak writing and weak scripts with special effects, but nobody goes to movies for just special effects.
Friday's weak jobs report (See "Weak Jobs Data Sinks Wall Street") roiled Wall Street (See " Wall Street Needs A Weekend").
Having the means to stabilise failing banks and wind up failed ones would break the feedback between weak banks and weak sovereigns.
Weak credit data in recent months was mainly due to weak demand.
Neither does this American writer exchanging increasingly weak dollars for weak francs.
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This would help break the link between weak banks and weak sovereigns.
Obama is weak on foreign affairs because he chooses to be weak.
Better a strong weak agreement that has a good chance of being honoured than a weak strong agreement that is likely to collapse.
Marek Belka, the prime minister, is in a weak position, as his ruling Democratic Left Alliance has been falling apart over scandals and a weak economy.
Fire is weak to water, wood is weak to fire, and so on and so forth, making team formation an interesting task for each dungeon at hand.
If this trend of weak U.S. data continues, my bias is that it would be more bullish to the precious metals than has the recent weak data.
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They are often connected via extremely weak links but as Google has pointed out converting weak links to strong links is where the real power of social networking lies.
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Typically strong bull markets may start the day weak or even gap lower shaking out weak hands at which point buying emerges and bids stocks up into the bell.
Expansion, for example, brings weak clubs into the league and inflates the win totals of top tier clubs (or sometimes there are just more weak clubs anyway, without expansion).
Either of these (preferably backed by the ECB as lender of last resort) could create a European lifesaver to prevent weak sovereigns and weak banks from drowning each other.
The problem now is that due to a weak dollar, one made weak by Treasury and Fed policy that says its creation is a stimulant, there will be no growth.
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And if, as the paper implies, anything other than weak protection reduces innovation then we had really rather better have a system with only weak protection and thus weak property rights.
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By the same logic, weak demand would tend to cause prices to sag, which is why deflation is often associated with a very weak economy, as was the case in the 1930s.
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