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Like the rest of the industry, Shell has been hit by the fall in oil and gas prices over the past year and a squeeze on refining margins.

He said government cuts coupled with a squeeze on bank credit had suppressed growth.

The direct result of these scrambles is a credit crunch and a squeeze on aggregate demand that is forcing Europe into recession.

Such a squeeze on the most risk-taking segment of the economy will not do anything to encourage banks to loosen lending standards.

Director of the PIBA mortgage-brokers group, Rachel Doyle, said the squeeze on bank lending was hindering a recovery in the housing market.

But the squeeze on Gaza has led to what Israel wanted to avoid: co-operation between Hamas and its rival party, Fatah.

There are also clear signs of a serious retraction in the U. S. manufacturing sector, which will in turn put a squeeze on fuel use.

Poles retort that they bought it for political reasons, to help Lithuania survive a Russian squeeze on energy supplies.

Rising prices-including sharp increase in meats-are expected to put a fresh squeeze on the family budget in coming months.

The Bank's experts are concerned about a lending squeeze on the continent, which they fear could spread to the UK.

In the face of the falling prices, H-P has tried to maintain its profit margins by putting the squeeze on suppliers.

Consumer spending has faltered in the face of a squeeze on household budgets and tighter credit.

and that faced with a squeeze on credit, many thriving, innovative businesses can go bankrupt.

Still, New York prices are putting such a squeeze on the middle-class that many people are looking for greener pastures in foreign lands.

such strategy - more variety , lower volume for each model - diminished economy of scale and put a tight squeeze on kin yat s profit margin.

The president himself then put the squeeze on Hu at their bilateral meeting on the margins of the G-20 summit last month.

Inflating that "spare tire" around your waist may put the squeeze on your lungs, a new French study shows.

A squeeze on bank lending has prompted some businesses short of cash to stop paying wages to blue-collar workers.

The 2007-2008 squeeze on profits margins was a real phenomenon with financial consequences.

But this has come at the expense of an unsustainable squeeze on China's export competitors.

As banks shrink their balance-sheets the squeeze on business intensifies, which in turn hurts the banks through higher loan losses.

ComPeer also predicts a squeeze on profit margins in coming years as competition intensifies and new clients shop around.

This pile is with various sections though sending concrete with high pressure pump and the squeeze on the pile of soil compaction effect.

Adjustments for envelope squeeze on seats and valve testing are done by machine during factory assembly.

The gap between those two figures is a rough proxy for the squeeze on Chinese companies' margins.

Many are braced for the first squeeze on the economy when VAT is increased at midnight tomorrow night.

It happens whenever and wherever there's a squeeze on the ingredients of creativity, and it's happening in many businesses today.

Thankfully, slowly declining feed costs are now easing the squeeze on farmers.

Short-term protection of large-scale introduction of housing will form a big squeeze on the housing market.

That's put the squeeze on overseas loan growth, Japanese bankers say.

Hedge funds that exploit the approach can use a lot of borrowed money, so a squeeze on credit will cause the liquidity to dry up.

That would help ease the squeeze on full-time university places, which is expected to get ever tighter.

The cost of the recession will push the budget deficit to some 12% of GDP this year, but the squeeze on the defence budget began years ago.

I am very not easy to squeeze on the car, with people find a place.

They said they would put the squeeze on him.

One way to reduce the squeeze on services would be to find additional welfare savings.

Optimists have grounds for hoping that a squeeze on public spending will bring about some structural reforms by default.

Another quibble is that the Treasury figures do not reflect the continuing squeeze on welfare beyond 2012-13.

Those measures together would add perhaps 0. 5% of GDP to the deficit, partly offsetting the squeeze on current spending.

Technology has thus improved nuclear's economics. So has the squeeze on fossil fuels.

Another common feature is a squeeze on mortgage finance.

Suddenly map makers had to squeeze on the Americas.

One way to alleviate the squeeze on public services is to intensify it on the welfare budget, which accounts for 28% of all spending.

Those fears, it is argued, stem from a double squeeze on America's middle class.

I am sure mills hope any squeeze on supplies will be timed to coincide with the typical summer slowdown in steel demand.

If those rates rise, banks face a squeeze on their profits.

The squeeze on government budgets that we are facing here is also being felt in Africa.

I have things in hand and no matter how heavy, hard squeeze on the inside.

None is easy, particularly in view of the shortage of social investment capital and the squeeze on charities.

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