The phrase "a difficult trading environment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe challenging conditions in the market or business landscape that affect trading activities.
Example: "Due to the recent economic downturn, many companies are struggling to adapt to a difficult trading environment."
Alternatives: "a challenging market situation" or "a tough business climate."
Like all business we're in a difficult trading environment".
John Lewis is expected to take action this year to cut overheads as it navigates a difficult trading environment.
The owner of the Daily Mirror announced a sharp drop in revenues for 2017 yesterday amid what it called a "difficult trading environment".
Against a difficult trading environment this year, VBL said it had been "investing for future growth and building its senior leadership team".
"It remains a difficult trading environment for a small bank dependent on retail funding, with a combination of low interest rates, subdued mortgage market demand and high competition for retail savings," Sandler added.
The company said in a statement: "Operating conditions within the group's banking and advisory businesses remain mixed with low levels of economic activity and a difficult trading environment persisting in the first half of the financial year".
(See "Sony Ericsson Prepares To Shrink").. "Sony Ericsson is experiencing a very difficult trading environment and everybody is talking about a rapid decline.
Engineering software group Aveva said today it was cutting about 80 jobs to counter a more difficult trading environment.
The excruciatingly narrow OEX 660-670 range lasted for almost three months and made for a hugely difficult trading environment.
The fewer shares you sell in an IPO (or, conversely, the more that are closely held by you and your venture capital investors), the less liquidity in your stock, making for a more difficult trading environment for public investors.
However, fixed-income and equity traders will not fare quite as well, he said, predicting the difficult trading environment recently could result in a 40 percent compensation cut for some employees.
