With consumer demand weak in the U.S., American businesses are looking to markets abroad to take up the slack.
With consumer demand showing signs of weakness at current prices, the upside in oil prices appears limited for now.
Companies with heavy exposure to raw materials, particularly in the food and beverage segments, have to balance rising input costs with consumer demand.
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Seasonally you would expect a drop in sales after Christmas, so I doubt this is not a major sign of any issues with consumer demand, but it is an area I would watch very carefully during Q2.
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Now, depending upon your economic persuasion, this is either good news for Apple since stock isn't rotting on the shelves or bad news as they trend towards a replenishment issue with an inability to post profits in line with consumer demand.
With weak consumer demand putting pressure on turnover, we need firm action on fuel and utility costs.
With weak consumer demand and oversupply of semiconductors in the market, semiconductor manufacturers are delaying their expansion plans indefinitely, and that???s what we're seeing reflected in ASML's guidance.
With increasing consumer demand for larger screen sizes, Samsung will also expand the number of models available in 60 inches and above, in addition to the world's largest commercial UHD TV at 110 inches.
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For 2012, ISI likewise cut its forecast to 6% growth, down from 10%, with consumer sector demand of 8%, down from a previously forecast 12%, and commercial growth of 4%, down from a previously expected 7%.
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But this time round, more of the spending is being done by private companies, with an eye to consumer demand, rather than by states.
We expect this trend to continue in the final quarter with growing demand for consumer products in regions such as Argentina, China, India and South-East Asia.
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Roughly 53 million homes have access to video-on-demand with the average consumer spending more than 8.5 hours using on-demand services and watching more than 17 titles a month, according to Rentrak, a research group.
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While projections were low to start with, both consumer and enterprise demand look encouraging.
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And now in Brazil, with an economy facing hot consumer demand and a government bent on keeping the lids on it, both banks are staging a comeback.
Entergy, one of the nation's largest producers of electric power, says in a legal brief that it needs to plan now to build plants that will deal with an expected doubling in consumer demand for power over the next 50 years.
But the fundamental problem with the economy remains: consumer demand is weak.
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After a period of calm following the 2008-2009 manufacturing slowdown due to the world financial and economic crisis, Chinese plants are running almost non-stop again, with demand in cars, consumer electronics, plastic toys like vuvuzelas coming from all corners of the globe.
As with TV on-demand, consumer behaviour typically shifts dramatically as they begin to take advantage of the freedom 4G offers them, mobilising their Internet use to never-before-seen levels downloading videos and other media, and speeding up their migration from desktop to mobile platforms.
More Streamed Content: With the consumer expectations increasingly requiring on-demand or streamed content versus simply downloaded content, mobile cloud traffic will increase, growing 28-fold from 2011 to 2016, a CAGR of 95 percent.
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With a great management team, growing consumer demand for food safety, new legislation, and a rock-solid balance sheet, I believe NEOG has a strong chance for superior growth over the next five years.
Companies struggle to keep up with demand for the essentials of a consumer society.
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The inability of European authorities to deal with the galloping the debt crisis may change consumer demand outlook pretty drastically in coming months.
With the country exhibiting positive demographics, strong consumer demand and an open, competitive economy, Turkey is at a figurative, as well as literal, crossroad between Europe and Asia.
High consumer demand in Brazil, coupled with what the International Monetary Fund said this weekend was excessive loan growth, has prices for real estate and other goods and services on the rise.
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When coupled with progress in the housing industry and resilient consumer demand these are key elements in shaping the profile of aggregate demand and supply in the US as well as pinpointing the improved efficiency in the allocation of resources.
"Despite the easing in the rate of decline, the region still looks set for further contraction in the early months of 2013, as weak consumer demand in many countries combines with low levels of business confidence and falling global trade", said Chris Williamson, Markit's chief economist.
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"The industry has evolved so that TV Everywhere and subscription video on-demand services can coexist with the appropriate windowing strategy, while allowing for more content flexibility to meet consumer demand in the changing digital landscape, " said Deborah K. Bradley, senior vice president of program acquisitions for Turner Broadcasting.
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Their reluctance to invest may have more to do with regulatory, financial and fiscal uncertainty than weak consumer demand (see article).
Enthralled with what Texas would do for their market reach and consumer demand for their array of conference-specific programming.
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It would be nice, too, if small companies were in better shape, the yen not so strong, consumer demand more brisk, companies less concerned with paying off debt, and the whole economy not so dependent on exports to China.
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