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Just when investors are persuaded the bottom of a bear market has been reached, share prices slump once more.

The sharp post-Lehman slump in the won could have been a lot sharper had flows out of equities not re-directed into bonds, as they did.

I've never been stuck in such a slump before, my life seems pointless.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the housing slump will continue to be a drag on U. S. growth into next year.

And this picture is often treated as evidence that trade contraction was somehow driving the slump.

Almost a year later, the Chinese stock market was the first to turn and then lead the world's markets out of their post-Lehman slump.

In a slump there is no natural tendency for the rate of interest to fall, because people's desire to hoard money is increasing.

This is bad news for Asia's export-led economies at a time when their domestic consumption is still not enough to compensate for a US slump.

Branded-goods groups must decide how much of the slump is cyclical and how much reflects a permanent change in consumer behavior.

Economists don't agree on much, but there seems to be a wide consensus that the United States is in an innovation slump.

So it looked as though they'd be all right together, he thought, as long as a war didn't start, or trade slump and bring back the dole.

IT HAS become known as the "Great Recession" , the year in which the global economy suffered its deepest slump since the second world war.

Steven Gerrard has held his hands up over Liverpool's desperate slump in form, and vowed to improve to turn their season around.

The worst of the media sector slump might be behind the company, he said, as he reported "some good signs of life" in advertising.

They are planning to get out of the economic slump, watch out for each other and let fast rising nations help out.

Fan said the slump in major stock markets was a correction of earlier overheating that would have a limited influence on other economies.

Bankers warned yesterday that this trend was a creeping form of protectionism that could plunge the world into a deeper economic slump.

The United States will no doubt find its way out of the ongoing slump.

So, naturally, the only way out of the slump that I could think of was, I decided to call Oprah.

China's economy is picking up. The slump in global manufacturing seems to be easing.

Even in this year's unilateral market slump, corporate annuity return on investment is often better than the market.

As you know and as I know, we have descended into a pretty deep slump, measured by unemployment and labor force participation rates.

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

He warns these countries will not be able to push the world economy out of a renewed slump.

Many analysts believe that stocks are again in such a turbulent period, and that this rally could lead to another slump.

Windows: The company is banking on a new operating system to break out of its slump.

Well, that argument has no force now, since the chances that this slump will be over anytime soon are virtually nil.

China, theoretically, should be one of the locomotives that will eventually help pull the world out of its slump.

He describes the dazed incomprehension of those who came of age during the boom and who now do not know how to cope with a slump.

While the slump did not reflect pessimism so much as an overdue dose of realism, it has had severe consequences nonetheless.

I really resent the way the press is now saying that I'm depressed and in a slump, as if I'm finished.

The private equity business, one of the iconic businesses of the boom, is struggling with a deep slump of its own.

"A global slump would drive widespread position cutting, " he said. "Today's favourite trades would be tomorrow's dogs. "

The only way we could have avoided a prolonged slump would have been for government spending to take up the slack.

Bringing it out of its slump, the Droid earned Motorola the number one spot on TIME's Top 10 Gadgets of the Year.

However, there was better sentiment in Spain and the UK, where the extent of the market slump means many hope to see a bottom soon.

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

To be sure, the Obama administration is taking action to help the economy, but it's trying to mitigate the slump, not end it.

When sales slump due to a slow economy, a business owner's first inclination is often to cut the marketing budget.

No signs so far, therefore, of the sort of dramatic price drops that might lead to a slump in investment and put pressure on the banks.

This aid may have mitigated the slump, but it wasn't the kind of job-creation program we could and should have had.

Feeling poorer and with fewer people prepared to lend them money, consumers are cutting back: witness the slump in car sales.

But just as that slump shows up in the economic statistics, more forward-looking evidence points to a rebound.

The slump is being discussed as if it were a natural catastrophe like the arrival of the comet that destroyed the dinosaurs.

It could have been a tough crowd: Manchester has received much public money over the years to recover from a post-industrial slump.

Other firms that have survived the slump in retailing in reasonable shape also seem to be looking for indebted competitors to snap up.

Germany, in the grip of a massive export slump, firmly believes it has no alternative to export-led growth.

The property sector is still in a slump, and domestic consumer spending isn't making up for the slowing of both these areas.

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

If my argument is correct, Harrison and Scorse would have found a slump in employment in export factories in the brand-name regions.

Consistency: Ability to keep a shooting streak or get out of a shooting slump.

The gleaming surface betrays the fact that like the rest of the world, Hollywood is experiencing an economic slump.

And so I worry that our governing elite, which just isn't all that into the unemployed, will allow the jobs slump to go on and on and on.

Car makers, facing a prolonged sales slump, are trying to hit the price point to lure recession-weary consumers.

Ssangyong is one of South Korea's first big casualties of the global crisis that has led to a slump in demand for cars.

I can understand that this economic slump is hard on the company, as it is on all of us.

This doesn't mean letting yourself slide passively into a deeper slump but, rather, engaging with your feelings in a mindful way.

And when the core at last burns itself out, will some of the Earth slump into the void, leaving a giant sinkhole on the surface?

Last week, the New York Times suspended the payment of any dividends this quarter amid the slump of its share value to six cents.

Sometimes the best way to get out of a slump is just to power yourself through it.

Press said the transition to a smaller product line could result in some difficult times in which sales slump.

The true reason is, of course, to lessen the risk of a slump, when on his own estimate output is already 10 per cent below trend.

In her speech, Clinton also repeated her proposal made last week for a new economic stimulus package that would focus on the housing slump.

Yet, at worst, a lengthy slump might be needed to grind out a reduction in nominal prices and wages.

Asking for help from your Guides is the easiest, most effective way to get out of a slump. Trust Them.

As the output slump sends Germany's jobless rate towards double-digits, it is hard to see consumers going on a spending spree.

Like the Advertiser &Times, the group is still profitable despite the economic slump, and the resemblance goes further.

Hughes' play over the next few weeks will take on added significance with Gibson sidelined and Damon Jones in a painfully protracted slump.

In the long run, taking a day off every now and then to get out of slump will make you happier and more productive.

Treasury Secretary Paulson told skeptical lawmakers that the two-year long slump in the U. S. housing market is the cause of the crisis.

Global banks have lost more than $300 billion from write-downs since the housing slump evolved into a full-blown credit crunch.

CENTRAL bankers in Western countries are getting used to the idea that part of their job is to try to raise animal spirits after a slump.

Heavy markdowns are not enough to pull retailers out of a months-long slump.

Like oilmen everywhere, Hassan Marican, Petronas's boss, is busy trying to pare costs in a global slump.

Yet the British economy, far from relapsing into slump, enjoyed a prolonged boom for the rest of the 1980s.

WSJ: It sounds like you're not a believer that Asia can do well during a slump in the U. S. and Europe, a scenario known as decoupling?

First, during the economic slump that extended into the early part of this decade, the benefits of apologizing became less clear.

Another round of manufacturing data from various countries indicated that the industry was pulling out of a slump.

Prices may be sticky for a while, as developers cling to hope that the sales slump will prove temporary.

SBI insists that its expansion did not reflect a Chinese-style, government-directed effort to offset the global slump.

Neither of these parallels is exact, because today's global slump combines several types of downturn and an unprecedented policy response.

If only in this respect, the scale of Japan's slump benefits Mr Aso for now, since it has stilled such a rebellion.

One does not have to commit oneself to Keynes's long-term pessimism to see how it applies in a slump.

Some investors are beginning to fear that a growing government debt mountain induced by a slump will create incentives for future inflation.

Looking through my lenses, the present slump at this point appears to be structural.

Yet the recent indications are that the global economy could be in for a more prolonged slump than first thought.

It was about this time that Martin took a great slump in Maria's estimation.

Others worry not that the Fed will prolong the slump but that it may sow the seeds of the next crisis.

When fuel prices started falling back to earth in the second half, a credit crunch and economic slump hammered sales of any kind of vehicle.

But that dire outcome is no longer impossible, not because a slump is inevitable, far from it, but because action is needed to prevent one.

But whether the current economic slump will take a toll on your own health depends, in part, on your health habits when times are good.

In France, aides to President Nicolas Sarkozy point to the rising cost of food and fuel as the key to his slump in the polls.

Many businesses, bracing for a prolonged economic slump, have shelved expansion plans that would have required them to line up a loan.

The slump in global manufacturing seems to be easing.

The past year has been a rough one. People are less disposed to make costly gestures towards environmental protection in a slump.

The Fed's purchases have helped lower mortgage rates, making homes more affordable amid the worst housing slump since the Great Depression.

Consumers have been shaken by a prolonged slump in housing that has pushed the country close to a recession.

Thus we drive ourselves into a slump, which has little to do with what some economists call "creative destruction" .

The factory is now operating short weeks, due to a slump in car sales. It shut down completely for four weeks over Christmas.

And emerging nations could and should play an important role in helping the world economy as a whole pull out of its slump.

The strong earnings growth of listed Chinese companies would provide a cushion against a slump, he said.

One of the Lakers' few concerns is Bryant's dislocated right ring finger, a contributing factor to a minor shooting slump.

But even as the synchronised slump has underlined the implications of this integration, it has turned politics inwards.

Obama emphasizes infrastructure investment as the most useful way of lifting the country out of the economic slump.

So at this point, I see the chances as roughly even between a global slump and a return to quasi-stagnation.

If every European country followed that example it would be a recipe for a slump.

Attempts to save more translate into a collapse of consumer demand, deepening the economic slump.

The Lakers went through a slump since then, but seemed to get that footing back at the end of the Hornets series.

In practice, the most likely outcome of such fiscal retrenchment would be a slump in countries with large external and fiscal deficits.

One reason is that it was a bit-part player in the system of global imbalances that precipitated the slump.

In an economic crisis why are waste companies first to go into a slump?

Just how far along the U. S. recovery from its slump has come will be tested next Friday in the October jobs report.

When you're tired at the end of your run, it's common to slump over a little, which can lead to neck, shoulder, and lower-back pain.

On your next inhalation, lengthen the back of your neck and bend back slightly to counteract the tendency of your upper trunk to slump.

Stimulus spending and a surge in lending by state banks during the economic crisis helped China power through the slump.

A more likely outcome, in present circumstances, is mass default, shrinking profits, damaged banks and a renewed slump.

Whatever the explanation, teens have been AWOL from movie houses so far this year, and as a result the box office is in a prolonged slump.

Warren Buffett declared that "by any common sense definition" America was already in a "recession" and that the housing slump was hurting.

World trade in general remains in its worst slump for generations, although it too is no longer falling.

But if deflation is the result of a deepening economic slump, that's another thing entirely.

A 2001 management shake-up, as Cisco grappled with a sales slump after the dot-com boom, was designed to streamline the company.

In the West, it was rising interest rates that led to a housing slump and raised solvency concerns at the banks.

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

So, during the analyst's call, she tactfully but forcefully pointed to her predecessor as the source of the sales slump.

We hit an afternoon slump at this time. So what better than sitting in front of the box while our concentration is at its lowest?

The reduction in labour input would be voluntary and completely different from what happens in an economic slump.

There must be a secret behind this, let the impudent persons slump into their self-designed shackles.

Mr. Wei says Alibaba. com has no plans to slow its expansion, despite the economic slump.

caused widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing.

Real estate: During the slump of 1992, the government had not been sophisticated sellers of real estate.

One of the leading reasons for U. S. exchanges' difficulty in gaining more listings is a prolonged slump in U. S. initial public offerings.

Bloomsbury banked a lot of the money, and has taken advantage of the slump in asset prices to pick up specialist and scholarly publishers.

Judging from Tuesday's stock market slump, investors seem to think that it is too late for government intervention to prevent a recession.

The manufacturing sector, like the rest of the economy, seems poised to end a long slump.

This is the most dangerous economic crisis since the Great Depression, and it could all too easily turn into a prolonged slump.

A measure of U. K. property sales adds to recent evidence that the U. K. housing market's slump may be bottoming out.

The possibility is there for a prolonged industrial slump and a restive population.

Millennials, of course, will have to temper their expectations as they seek employment during this deep economic slump.

Its economic slump was no deeper than Ireland's, its job losses were less severe and it seems better positioned for recovery.

Despite the current price slump, Mr Suwaidi's faith in a global LNG market seems likely to be rewarded.

And even those not willing to go that far argued that any attempt to fight an economic slump would do more harm than good.

Soon enough, after The Body found a job, he needed another can of Coke just to push through the mid-afternoon slump.

Especially from June, the liquid crystal display panels several major slump, is the price of LCD monitors will drop to a very low level.

Concern that China's economy may cool due to a real-estate slump erased an early rally in U. S. stocks.

China, set to surpass Japan as the second-largest economy this year, has helped pull the world out of its deepest postwar slump.

So a fall in overall consumption is a blip for most people, but a slump for those near the top.

A key indicator of manufacturing improved in January, suggesting the slump might be reaching its bottom.

Into early autumn, the mortgage market continued to slump.

If you were at all worried about The Vampire Diaries having a sophomore slump, your fears can go away.

And living with his parents rent-free allows him to start paying off debt he built up during the slump, he says.

But by 2000, when global steel prices were in a slump, all talk of rescue faded away. There seemed to be little that could be done.

It remains to be asked what the results of a Chinese market slump would be.

T500 flow time of modified grouting materials to be shorter, slump flow (SF) was bigger when coarse aggregate ratio were more.

Thus unilateral moves by the U. S. to contract consumption, unless done very gradually, could foment a world-wide slump.

Dubai is suffering from a slump in the trading, lending, holidaying and profiteering that buoyed this remarkable emirate for so long.

Rumours of the demise of gold have been exaggerated so often in recent years that seizing on its recent slump smacks of recklessness.

Stocks kicked back into rally mode Monday, ending a week-long slump.

And the likely sales come amid a protracted slump in the U. S. market for medical equipment and devices triggered by the economic slump.

Far from being felled by the global slump, many Chinese consumers believe that the good times are still rolling.

But Japanese thriftiness has gone so far that it is undermining the nation's ability to surmount a deepening economic slump.

Germany, Europe's largest economy, became one of the first to fall into the slump, with the US and UK following behind.

given the growth outlook for the USA and the historically low interest rates, there is no compelling argument for a price slump.

The country's ~ economy burst a year ago and the slump in the market is showing no sign of improving.

For advanced economies, it may be the fastest way out of their slump.

The figures confirm growing fears that the housing market is starting its second slump since the credit crunch struck three years ago.

Yet analysts think the British habit of piling children's bedrooms with junk is changing, thanks to the economic slump.

The number of cornerstone investors' involvement in deals has tended to peak just ahead of a market slump.

If there isn't a global slump, GE stock could weather more hits to its commercial- and residential-mortgage book -- and still rise.

But the company hasn't been immune to the recent competition from cellphone games and an industrywide slump.

The company replaced the head of its 12, 000 US restaurant chain last October amid a slump in US market share.

But the slump was as striking for its synchronicity as its severity.

In essence we failed to produce the type of performance that can lift us out of this slump.

As a young man, he lived through the local slump that accompanied the end of the Apollo program in 1975.

Many believe that this slump is caused by eating a heavy lunch.

But professionalisation has also pushed up the price of child care, defying even the economic slump (see chart).

The slump was deepest in the prosperous north: worst hit was the border state of Coahuila.

At the moment, China is drawing global praise for maintaining growth amid a global slump.

I'll just say here that there's no price deflation going on this slump, and there's not even any disinflation going on now.

China's exports plunge continues to be worse than expected, impeding recovery for the first major economy to emerge from the global slump.

America's large budget deficit is, after all, primarily the result of the economic slump that followed the 2008 financial crisis.

WITH the world economy in its worst slump since the Depression, the history of the 1930s has again become a hot topic.

Warnings that this would deepen the slump were waved away.

Car companies worldwide are enduring their worse sales slump in a quarter century as the financial crisis has caused buyers to cut back.

But even before the slump, progress was faltering, and there is nothing to restart it in prospect.

The subsequent slump is now forgotten: prices are back close to the peaks.

The result has been a slump in trading in all financial assets as investors flee to the sidelines.

Through bad operation, the company had a slump in profits.

But they simultaneously feel the pull of dealing with issues closer to home, like shuttered plants and a slump in domestic sales.

The numbers provided fresh evidence of a serious trade slump that has caused a wave of factory closures and staff layoffs, analysts said.

"I think maybe we're hitting the bottom" of the news industry slump, Mr Grauer said.

Dealers have seen sales slump from 20 cars a day to a couple a week.

Japan's worst slump since the war is accompanied by some chirpier signs .

Mining executives worry that projects that get the go-ahead when prices are high will not look so attractive when the next slump comes.

The second slump is in the emerging world, where many economies have been hit by the sudden fall in private cross-border capital flows.

U. S. consumers, burdened by unemployment and a continuing housing slump, are unlikely to generate a new consumption boom.

Most have by now picked up the stylized fact that a rigid adherence to the gold standard made a bad slump worse.

This was followed by another round of Fed tightening, which coincided with the bursting of the equity bubble in 2000 and a slump in 2001.

The rate of decline slowed, raising hopes that the export slump may be bottoming out.

Finally, a U. S. economic slump has repercussions around the world through the mechanism of trade and investment.

But more important was the resurgence in consumer spending, which accounted for half of post-slump growth, on average.

Ideally these should normally have very modest portfolios that should be temporarily enlarged when a slump threatens.

THE last time Mexico suffered an economic slump, in 1995, it turned to its northern neighbour for help.

The volume of drug sales has been very strong and, combined with cost-cutting, has brought companies out of their earnings slump for now.

Across the region as a whole, the slump has been as bad as it was in 1998.

Eventually, Japan's big construction companies will move into the tsunami zone and shake off a nationwide slump in the building industry.

When everyone tried to restrict imports, the combined effect was a deeper global economic slump.

The result shows that with appropriate amounts of retarder, the slump loss, workability and strength of the concrete can be improved.

The sales slump is a blow to the world's biggest auto maker because China is the only major global auto market still growing.

Even two years ago, when I toured the housing slump in western Florida, I saw bankrupt condo developments that were fast becoming derelict.

Growth will not be measured against the worst of the slump; and faltering recovery in the G3 will dent exports, however well China does.

The IPO also comes at a time when Silicon Valley shows signs of emerging from a prolonged slump.

Indeed, China's said Wednesday that its export slump eased in September, down just 15 percent, a strong improvement over August's decline.

It's no wonder, then, that most economic forecasts warn that in the absence of government action we're headed for a deep, prolonged slump.

But the U. N. says the global economy could go through another slump if governments withdraw stimulus measures too early.

Stabilizing the housing market, the main trigger of the current economic slump, is crucial for the economy's recovery.

In fact, it took a very severe recession, the worst slump since the 1930s, to get rid of the inflationary legacy of the 1970s.

They have to be accommodated by someone else borrowing and spending if the world is to avoid a slump.

A upward movement means the price stays strong whereas a downward movement means the price is going slump abruptly.

The French company's exposure to China helps explain why it is pulling out of the industry slump faster than expected.

JUST as flows of capital and goods fell in the global economic slump, the churn of labour slowed too.

Meanwhile, Japan's economy is still poised precariously between recovery and renewed slump.

During the economic slump the Obama government liked to say that "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. "

The housing slump and its associated plague of negative equity aggravate this by making it harder for the unemployed to move to find work.

Moreover, Japan's economy was returning to health after long years of slump.

But in a slump the rule of these copybook maxims is temporarily suspended.

Still, bankers are cautiously optimistic about the remainder of the year, as long as the broader markets avoid a prolonged slump.

In a vicious temporary slump, driven by a credit crunch and the collapse of global spending, such subsidies make short-term sense.

THE worst global economic slump since the Depression has generated reams of mind-boggling numbers.

THE machine that sputtered badly during the slump in world trade is now firing on all cylinders.

Will the next administration do what's needed to deal with the economic slump?

They left the stock market, fearful that another Great Depression or maybe a repeat of a '70s-style slump was coming.

Housing sales are finally coming out of a three-month slump.

Comparing output now with its level before the crisis actually understates the depth of the slump.

Can only say that the dealers have to 9, 10 in the hope of greater hope in the off-season slump, sales share.

The latest list of the world's super-rich produced by US magazine Forbes, shows how the global slump is affecting the mega-wealthy.

It's true that some prognosticators still expect a "V-shaped" recovery in which the economy springs back rapidly from its slump.

An advertising slump has hit local newspapers much harder than national papers or other media (see chart).

Spain, hit by a huge housing market and construction slump, remained in recession but contracted at a slower pace than before.

After so deep a slump, the pace is usually much faster.

'Whether it can be a silver bullet to drag American (sic) out of the slump remains unknown, analysts say.

S. market, rising fuel prices and concerns about housing and credit availability as the main reason for the slump.

AMERICA'S great labour market slump continues to cast its pall over the economy, leaving one lonely group in particular shrouded in shadows.

A property tax might help to avoid a bigger bubble down the road, but if badly handled it could cause the market to slump.

Economists contend that the economy might not emerge from its slump unless the housing market stabilizes.

History shows that one of the great policy dangers, in the face of a severe economic slump, is premature optimism.

When people start spending the money they saved during the market slump, we'll do well.

Nevertheless, this week's housing data suggests that the market is climbing out of the ashes of the three-year slump.

but aside from a brief fielding slump in early april , not much of it has been caused by jeter.

We were discussing the slump, and how it's effecting most business - not jus should you get a jolt real estate.

China's economic slump has sidetracked the careers of thousands of university graduates who studied computers, management and other fields.