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He said the overall slowdown might be because of changing plumbing deep inside the ice.

But what sort of slowdown China experiences during the next few years remains unclear.

But there has been a sharp reversal this year as a slowdown in policy sales has led to a decline in premium revenues.

But he said Shell's balance sheet was strong enough to support investment and dividends throughout the slowdown.

Back in Grand Island, though, there seems to be no slowdown.

If Sea Launch went into bankruptcy, in my opinion, it had nothing to do with the global slowdown.

A small rise in private sector activity has been offset by a slowdown in the public sector, which had proved resilient during the recession.

The sale showed that Asian collectors were still prepared to pay high prices for wine, even in a global economic slowdown.

In a statement, Mr Bezos says he is "looking forward" to a slowdown in the company's rate of growth in technology spending later this year.

Moreover, even as our economy went into a slowdown, exports kept the U. S. going.

Severstal spokeswoman Elizabeth Kovach said the idled blast furnace is due to a slowdown in the construction steel market.

Analysts said the slowdown was a return toward normal, sustainable growth, rather than the beginning of a worrying slump.

If it meant a shrinkage in its trade surplus, a Chinese slowdown would be good for those European firms that compete directly with it.

"Even if the slowdown is not going to be very deep, it is going to be protracted. "

"Growth was always likely to slow once these boosts began to fade. However, this slowdown need not develop into a double dip. "

Financial reforms designed to prevent the next crisis need to be designed and implemented in a way that does not exacerbate the slowdown.

He said the latest statistics suggested "what appears to be a significant slowdown" in the economy in the last month.

Inflation figures published yesterday showed that there had been a slowdown in the rate at which prices are rising.

Recent automotive sales data have shown signs of a broader slowdown, or at least a moderation in the pace of the recovery.

However, Agrawal has predicted that this slowdown will only be temporary and new contracts are expected to be signed in the coming weeks.

China's authorities have spent much of the past two years trying to engineer a slowdown in property prices.

Yet the subsequent slowdown seems to be greater than can be explained by the number of people directly affected by the changed rules.

Faster productivity growth could help to mitigate the slowdown, but it does not seem to be forthcoming.

Given that the sharp regional slowdown did not start until mid-November, year-end results capture only a fraction of the impact.

"Our immediate priority must be to focus on management of the economy to counter the effects of the global slowdown, " she said.

This does not mean that the world will be able to make light of a slowdown in industrialised countries.

If it were to show zero growth or a decline, it would be a signal of a significant upcoming slowdown.

He said the immediate priority is to persuade China to stimulate its domestic economy, given the global economic slowdown.

The mystery now lies in how much effect the real estate slowdown will have on the broader economy.

And the Bank of England looks more comfortable in its steady stance given the British economic slowdown evident in recent data.

"The ECB could well end up getting much of the blame for the sharp economic slowdown, which is now in the pipeline, " he said.

"Asian governments have been preparing for the slowdown for over a year, " Mr Geoghegan said.

Economic growth in the Philippines slowed down in the first quarter of 2011 due to lower government spending and a slowdown in global trade.

The risk of slowing growth in response to a US slowdown strongly suggests that the Bank of Japan will keep interest rates unchanged.

Even with a slowdown, China will still be one of the world's biggest economies, and a vital contributor to geopolitical discourse.

It's an intelligent question, the answer to which will largely determine whether the current slowdown turns into a worldwide slump.

Investors appeared to interpret the cut as a sign that a slowdown in economic growth might be even more serious than they expected.

The bank says high oil and food prices and a prolonged slowdown in industrial countries are casting a shadow on the economic outlook.

Loans from state banks are the cornerstone of the stimulus programs China put in place amid global slowdown more than a year ago.

The latest signs suggest the summer slowdown was just a temporary lull in a pretty mediocre recovery.

Private equity activity in Asia, like the rest of the world, has ground to a near halt, hit by the economic slowdown and credit crisis.

Because much of the shift in sentiment about employers can be attributed to the global economic slowdown, it could turn out to be temporary.

"It is just all adding up to a picture of a much more slowdown risk than people were hoping for, " Mr. Schweitzer.

Added customs inspections don't appear to target rare earth, though such shipments may have been caught up in the wider slowdown.

The slowdown in both exports and imports is at least partly due to a higher comparison base in the year-earlier period.

"Either way you slice it, the Canadian economy is beginning to feel the weakness of the global economic slowdown, " he said.

But all that has been achieved so far is a slowdown in the rate of economic decline.

If political leaders don't step up to the plate to fight the growth slowdown, Europe's debt crisis could worsen over the next year.

Commissioner Hall says the slowdown in layoffs could be, as he put it, "a glimmer of hope" that the economy could be improving.

They still had a slowdown from the printer side, but the other parts of the business made up for it.

The slowdown was worse than economists expected but is likely to be viewed by the Federal Reserve as a prelude to a gradual recovery.

For the CBRC, the truly delicate decision is going to be whether to see to it that this slowdown continues through the new year.

Over the last decade, the idea of a "Chinese slowdown" has come to seem like an oxymoron.

Imagine how much less inclined they will be to do so if they are frightened by a Chinese economic slowdown.

Crude oil futures fell from record recently as terrorist attacks in London raised the possibility of an economic slowdown.

Analysts view the slowdown as a return toward more normal, sustainable growth, rather than the beginning of a worrying slump.

UBS economist Wang Tao said the slowdown in foreign reserve accumulation was likely due to less inflows of speculative capital.

Ironically, this unwelcome slowdown prevents you making arrangements that, in the long run, would be as costly as they'd be unwise.

Secondly, the US economy is still vulnerable to a housing-induced slowdown, which could spread to countries dependent on exports to it.

But they added that it was too early to say whether the slowdown would hit commodities prices across the board.

As one of the outstanding species with a good education, Trenven ran for a whole day and didn't slowdown at all.

All it will take is a fall in housing, or some sort of economic slowdown, to reveal an untold number of bad loans.

American stocks and bond yields fell sharply as concerns mounted that the economy might be in for a slowdown.

But the relationship between GDP and electricity consumption has been distorted by the uneven nature of this slowdown.

Even the imaginative massaging of China's official state statisticians has not been able to hide a slowdown in their analyses .

Qu Hongbin, China chief economist at HSBC, said the "upbeat reading" implied the growth slowdown seen in previous months was decelerating.

"The national economy is confronted with the pressure of a slowdown, " he said.

It may take more than an economic slowdown and a few injunctions from on high to eradicate such habits, especially during a holiday.

A slowdown in Europe is not as important as it used to be, given Asia's strength.

The company can't make "mass-scale acquisitions" because of rising protectionism amid the global economic slowdown, he said.

For those worried about a sudden shift in sentiment, the good news is that investors seem to be prepared for a slowdown.

It looks as if the global economy is heading for a serious slowdown this year.

Analysts said the slowdown came as banks continue to make it harder for firms to borrow money.

Export growth has remained relatively robust in recent months but some analysts expect a dramatic slowdown in the next month or two.

Our discussions with operators have found a similar slowdown among some apparel and luxury goods retailers.

But they know they are vulnerable to criticism that they are not doing enough to help Chinese victims of the economic slowdown.

If unemployment is already so high, it would not take much of an economic slowdown to push it to crisis levels.

This slowdown is partly owing to lower prices for Canada's resource exports, weak demand for its goods from Europe and a strong currency.

A series of new reports on the U. S. economy has investors concerned a global economic slowdown could turn into a recession.

While some of this slowdown may be cyclical, there is a growing belief that the "ecosystem" in which entrepreneurs work can be improved.

They also said the subsequent fall in price and increase in inventories was due to the slowdown in the world economy.

A shift in favour of larger shares would be the most likely result of an American economic slowdown.

Even a serious US slowdown could be good news for some Asian countries that were showing signs of overheating, he said.

'What you are seeing now is leading indicators are confirming you are going to end up with a slowdown in the second half of the year, ' Mr.

No doubt a significant slowdown would be unwelcome among China's leaders.

Analysts said the market was reacting to worries about an economic slowdown more than any actual slowdown itself.

The company may offload part of its stake to outside investors to shore up its cash flow and counter the retail market slowdown.

However, more recently, bearish reports showed a further slowdown in demand and higher stock levels have had a negative impact on prices.

But a prolonged slowdown, with consumers still not on top of their debts, might be self-reinforcing.

There has been a slowdown in the wool trade with you.

The British government has come up with a literal cure for economic slowdown - it wants drivers to drive faster on the nation's motorways.

But even if that proves to be the case, it would not necessarily signal a sharp economic slowdown.

Yet this mountain of bad loans did not portend an economic slowdown, undermine public finances or derail economic growth.

"The kind of slowdown we have pencilled in is a slowdown that is needed to contain inflation, " he said.

A slowdown in these reforms at a time of decelerating global growth risks adding to the spiral of global decline.

The gloom over the economic slowdown continued to drive down energy prices today.

If your modem connects at a faster speed when you redial , then the modem did not cause the initial slowdown .

is not the only country facing a worse economic outlook, as all of the other G7 industrial nations are suffering from a similar slowdown.

The abrupt slowdown in human movement might seem to improve the odds that America's broken immigration system will be overhauled soon.

A looming global economic slowdown could threaten regions of the U. S. that have managed to outpace the country's sputtering recovery.

But it said the US economy was likely to contract in the second half amid a general slowdown in global growth.

He warned the problem was likely to arise again during the current slowdown and said observers should watch other indicators more closely.

A prolonged and volatile slowdown in global economic activity from the eurozone crisis, coupled with a sluggish US recovery, is now likely.

Barroso says the financial crisis is not the only cause of the global economic slowdown.

At the moment, the markets aren't signaling a dramatic slowdown in growth, but the situation needs to be monitored closely.

But surpluses are likely to swell again as the exceptional mix of a global slowdown and China's stockpiling of commodities comes to an end.

And although there has been a gradual slowdown in exports, imports growth has surprised on the upside thanks to strong domestic demand.

It's pointless trying to drive up sales by advertising during an economic slowdown.

Any sustained slowdown in customs clearance could at least temporarily disrupt activity for companies in both countries.

Also, in case of a more pronounced slowdown than the anticipated soft patch in the global economy, earnings estimates are at risk.

China's economy expanded at 9. 5 per cent in the first half of this year and is widely expected to see only a slight slowdown in 2006.

But with the world in an economic slowdown, companies are hungry for cash and China has a lot of it to tilt the balance in its favor.

An air of inevitability exists around a potential slowdown in capital flows from outside the US to its Treasury market.

The troubles in the property sector have had a major knock-on effect on investment by developers, exacerbating the economic slowdown.

Despite signs of an export slowdown, many economists say China's currency, the renminbi, is still artificially low compared with the dollar.

Overall, the rise in inflation has been the main factor responsible for the sharp slowdown in global growth since the start of the year.

A recent RBI stress test simulated the sort of slowdown bearish economists now fear.

The National Australia Bank, a private bank, says the economy is "still struggling to find traction" since the flood-induced slowdown.

Impressively , the game keeps pace just fine as you fly through each level, without any slowdown throughout the game.

Mr Mori said the Shanghai economy would continue to grow strongly in spite of a slowdown in the global economy.

But prices, slashed to the bone during the slowdown, have failed to recover, undermining the sustainability of the restaurants' recovery.

Without the buffer of Wall Street cash, the forces behind the slowdown in the rest of the country's economy have begun to take Manhattan.

These industry trends are likely to continue, albeit at a more tepid pace given the current slowdown in the U.

In spite of the sharp slowdown in property sales and the troubles in Europe, he said economic activity was still too strong.

When the economic tide began to turn in 2006, as US housing prices peaked, few expected more than a gentle slowdown.

A dollar crisis would be very damaging for the global economy, making the expected slowdown much deeper and more protracted.

The bank says the authorities may wait before introducing any new tightening measures, fearing they could engineer a sharp slowdown.

Now, however, the trend of rising reserve accumulation appears to be peaking, amid increasing signs of a global slowdown.

The million-dollar question is whether the slowdown is enough to quell the inflationary pressure or whether you need more rate rises.

But Melanie Flouquet, a luxury analyst at JPMorgan, an investment bank, says that this growth is not enough to offset a slowdown in America.

U. S. critics of the bill have also warned it could stoke trade tensions just as the world economy is facing a sharp slowdown in growth.

Goldman Sachs economist Yu Song said the slowdown in money supply and credit growth is alarming.

If the economic slowdown continues, the Fed may have to dole out the hard stuff, in the form of more QE, later this year.

The Redmond, Wash. , giant can ill afford to let Office sales slip as it seeks to recover from a tech-spending slowdown.

China cannot risk a material slowdown in economic growth at the best of political times, and certainly not in the coming year.

Growth in China's gross domestic product this year is still expected to be in the high single digits, property slowdown or not.

The impact of a slowdown on copper-producing Chile, which ships 23 percent of its exports to China, would be considerable.

Economic slowdown has to a large extent been the result of a concerted government effort to rein in housing prices.

For these reasons, emerging economies must often raise interest rates in the teeth of a slowdown in an effort to defend their currencies.

Even though China would suffer from any drop in exports as a result of a US slowdown, the fall-out should be manageable.

Among the negatives, manufacturing which has seen the slowdown in new order, some of that is tied to Europe's economic struggles.

"If a renewed slowdown comes, it would likely create a deeper and a more prolonged impact the last one, " it added.

A slowdown would be a particular blow to GM, which aims to attract investors to a public share offering this year.

The figure was 10. 7 percentage points higher from a year earlier, showing the adverse effects of the economic slowdown was still under way.

The economic slowdown is still hurting the global handset market, research firm Gartner Inc. said in its quarterly report on the industry.

That significantly reduces the potential impact of any slowdown in demand on production and employment.

South Koreans are cutting down on cosmetic surgery and vacations amid the economic slowdown, news reports and surveys showed Tuesday.

In the international area, business is business, your economic slowdown only shows your incompetence, it has nothing to do with us.

Economists and investors around the world have been wondering whether China would escape the worst of the global slowdown.

While an economic slowdown, and perhaps a recession, grips the U. S. , economies in the rest of the world are still showing healthy growth.

"Growth elsewhere helps cushion the shock but nothing can displace a slowdown in the US, " he said.

The bank bail-outs now being announced will not prevent an economic slowdown.

Around the globe, consultants are concerned about how the economic slowdown will impact their business pipelines and 2009 bottom line .

The bank believes oil prices could trough in March or April with the seasonal slowdown in demand.

The commodity boom has so far concealed the slowdown, but even if prices stay high, further gains on this scale seem unlikely.

But Mr Rubenstein is not alone in thinking that private-equity firms are "much better prepared for a slowdown" than they were.

"What you're going to see is a big slowdown in capital expenditures, " said Russ Rudish, a health care consultant for Deloitte.

Signs of a slowdown in the first quarter are now expected to be followed by a jump in lending in April.

Among the implications is the rapid spike in oil prices and its potential to trigger another global economic slowdown.

The fast-growing economy is now at risk of an abrupt slowdown or downturn due to the global economic crisis.

'Europe is in more serious danger of a slowdown than many people think, ' says Simon Johnson, chief IMF economist. 'If the U.

The company is experiencing a decrease in sales volume affected by the economic slowdown and the dramatic drop in steel prices.

Or change could come through a slowdown in world trade and a correction of international imbalances.

A longer cable would allow you to get a longer delay from the same percentage slowdown, which would take less power.

The recovery is now very broad based and leading indicators indicate only a modest slowdown at the data edge.

In short, it could be a slowdown in the Internet economy that has ballooned over the last decade.

Irrespective of any slowdown in growth , these numerous deals show China's quest for oil is progressing at speed .

Nevertheless, cushioning against the slowdown in exports, the tightening in monetary conditions since mid-year appears to have reversed.

Economists had expected China's exports to be affected by the slowdown in the United States and Europe.

Devaluation offers, instead, a relatively painless way out of a slowdown: an export surge.

At the end of 2011 data from big ports started to turn choppy, fuelling fears of a slowdown that has come to pass.

These all point to a looming economic slowdown, but it would probably take something more serious to trigger another all-out global slump.

The Indian stock markets have been falling since worries rose about a slowdown in the U. S. economy earlier this year.

Emerging markets' sharp outperformance versus Wall Street since the subprime- induced slowdown appears to support the assumption.

A slowdown was expected, but many are warning that if it continues, it could spell trouble for the developing nation.

Traders also pinned the falls on a research note from Goldman Sachs working through the possible impact of a Chinese slowdown.

In the short run, however, a decrease in money growth leads to a slowdown in growth and an increase in unemployment for some time.

Still, Singapore's dependence on global trade may mean it's unlikely to escape the impact of any renewed slowdown.

Even before the slowdown began, there were signs that it ought to be a major consideration for companies.

The ripple effects of a real estate slowdown will be felt around the world.

"Basically, what we see is the Chinese market as a saviour to us for a world slowdown, " he said.

The strains have been made worse by collapsing housing markets and the general economic slowdown.

The slowdown is an abrupt reversal from the period leading up to the crisis.

Although the global slowdown put the brakes on India's economy, it weathered the financial crisis better than Western countries.

With its rich foreign-exchange reserves, China is better positioned than other export-driven economies in Asia to weather a global slowdown.

Just as bad, a sharp global slowdown would slash the value of the kingdom's hundreds of billions of dollars in overseas holdings.

Linda Green, who directs the Baltimore airport business partnership, says there already is an economic slowdown near the airport.

The slowdown can be accounted for by the overhead associated with an extra method being called on each array item.

Analysts said the eurozone debt crisis coupled with a slowdown in China may hurt Japan's exports going forward.

China's domestic high-speed rail market has boomed in recent years, but appears to be on the cusp of a slowdown.

First of all, from the enterprise IT market, China's economic development has resulted in market demand, the slowdown began to slow down.

America's mid-year slowdown did not become a double-dip recession.

Such an analysis implicitly assumes that the second round impact of the US slowdown on other economies is incorporated into the estimate.

Joe Hinrichs, Ford's Asia-Pacific head, said the slowdown was not as pronounced as expected.

But this risk will be tempered by the slowdown already afflicting the American economy and heading across the Atlantic.

Rightly or wrongly, voters blamed the slowdown on the free-market reforms known as the Washington consensus.

In spite of the global economic slowdown, China's economy has continued to maintain sound development.

That could prove to be a conservative estimate, as the economic slowdown begins in earnest.

"This framework is exactly what a tight monetary policy means, " he said of the expected slowdown in M2 and lending.

One sign of a sustained slowdown would be a return to less frothy condo names.

She says investors are now weighing up the impact of the external slowdown, elevated inflation and rising raw material costs.

At a time of a global slowdown, suchreform is timely.

The policymakers of Beijing have leaned hard on their system to turbocharge the economy during a global slowdown, and it has worked so far.

"This suggests we are unlikely to see a sharp slowdown in growth when the impact from fiscal easing starts to wane. "

Developing economies have varying degrees of room to respond to any slowdown with fiscal and monetary policy .

Due to the economy slowdown, intellects of that country are out streamed.

A slowdown in exports and weaker consumer demand at home led to the unsurprising downturn, which is expected to be temporary.

South Koreans are cutting down on cosmetic surgery amid the economic slowdown, surveys showed Tuesday.

Most of the slowdown in regional economic growth so far stems not from a fall in net exports but from weaker domestic demand.

Qu Hongbin, economist at HSBC, said: "This is just a slowdown towards more sustainable growth, not a meltdown. "

A Chinese recession combined with a European slowdown will not augur well for the fortunes of workers anywhere.

That will be the lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2008 and a very steep slowdown.

For starters, prices may not look so tempting after a year of economic slowdown.

The timing of the Doha round could not be more significant, as an economic slowdown has given rise to a new wave of protectionist sentiment.

Although the downstream industry slowdown, but future still holds a strong bullish attitude of investors.

Capable of running the game, but will experience considerable slowdown. Adjusting settings is unlikely to improve performance.

Zhang Liqun, a government economist, said strong exports and stable growth in consumption should alleviate those fears of a steep slowdown.

It was still unclear whether a possible slowdown would be just the temporary effect of the Olympics.

In the midst of a global slowdown, the scope for a tighter monetary policy is also constrained by concerns about growth.

Is the current slowdown likely to result in a technology recession, comparable to the bursting of the dot-com bubble?

Although economic data for May, the most recent available, haven't shown much of a slowdown, some leading indicators are flashing red.

The business sector has entered this slowdown in a very strong position with low leverage and record profits, margins and ROEs .

With a gradual slowdown in bottled water sales in some of the larger, more mature markets, companies are seeking new opportunities.

It is an overall slowdown across the world, with some countries getting close to zero-growth and recession.

As the old joke goes: when your neighbour loses his job, it is called an economic slowdown.

On present predictions, the global economy is heading for a more pronounced and longer downturn than the previous slowdown this decade.

China's credit tightening and a slowdown in the construction sector prompted some Chinese steel mills to cut steel production last month.

In many cities, only parts of the market have been affected by the slowdown.

Meanwhile, oil-demand growth is expected to ease in fuel-hungry China, as the economic slowdown in its Western export markets takes hold.

Some economists warned that the spending would not necessarily prevent a sharper slowdown.

So what may look bad now could turn out to be just the standard Chinese New Year slowdown.

But the slowdown is coming from more than just a downturn in property.

But a global slowdown could help tamp inflation by bringing down the prices of key inputs like oil and commodities.

The slowdown was due to the state of the property market and the prolonged interest rate hike environment.

Blackstone has warned of a slowdown in large private equity takeovers due to the upheaval in credit markets.

The feedback from a Mexican exports slowdown is likely felt mostly by the United States and Canada, rather than by Japan.

Banks are expected to unveil more cost-cutting initiatives in response to a slowdown that may extend through the summer months.

The U. S. economic slowdown and risks of the impact of rapidly emerged in world trade. As the U.

Around the country, the economic slowdown has added to the numbers of children receiving free or reduced price lunches at school.

Arguably, the other benefit of a Chinese slowdown is already starting to be felt.

Why do it at a time when there's just so much talk of a slowdown happening in China?

Friday's U. S. GDP report is likely to show a hefty contribution from government spending and a slowdown in consumer spending.

'The biggest factor for a slowdown that we predict is investment in government-related infrastructure, ' Ms. Wang said.

The RBI is, of course, wary of choking off India's rapid recovery from the slowdown in growth during the global economic crisis.

The data reflect a global slowdown in the rate of demand growth this year but show that manufacturers are still not reducing their output.

In setting growth targets for the coming decade, the likely slowdown in potential growth needs to be acknowledged.

Keeping the companies they own alive through a brutal slowdown is, as Mr Rubenstein implies, practically a full-time job.

Many commentators are looking for an increase in domestic demand in emerging markets to compensate for the slowdown in the US.

Had this cocktail of moves not resulted in a slowdown, Chinese policy would deserve to be judged a failure.

slowdown turned out to be milder than initially expected.