Sentence examples for Bad downturn from inspiring English sources

We had a wicked bad downturn wherein millions couldn't find the hours of work they sought.

Analysts have speculated that investors are already pricing in a historically bad downturn, which could explain the quiet morning session.

While the value of stocks can evaporate in a bad downturn, bonds deliver an interest stream and the principal invested, regardless of what the market is doing.

A well-known fund manager in Beijing told me that he and all his colleagues expected a "very bad" downturn and that most everyone he knew was selling assets to eliminate exposure.

"You won't see the telecom industry have this bad a downturn again in our lifetime".

Mr. Lau, the Sun Duck Market salesman, said Mother's Day was a good indication of how bad the downturn had been.

"We're coming off a bad economic downturn that resulted in 10 hotels filing" for bankruptcy protection in the early 1990's and two closing, he explained.

A company spokesman, Stephen Chen, conceded that capacity was low at the company's Korean factories early this year but said that was because of the unusually bad economic downturn.

A finance professor says permissive bankruptcy laws, not bad business downturns, seem to be the greatest cause of corporate bond defaults.

"We know how bad the economic downturn has been, and that means the carbon market is somewhat prepared," said Isabelle Curien, an analyst in Paris for Deutsche Bank.

AMID a worsening downturn, bad conditions contribute to layoffs, which reduce spending and fuel debt defaults, which create layoffs, and so on.