Sentence examples for because of poor trading from inspiring English sources

Shares in the Mecca bingo and Grosvenor casinos group Rank slumped nearly 9% in early trading today as it axed its dividend and said it was slashing spending plans for next year because of poor trading and the consumer spending slowdown.

In November, the investment group, which also includes Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, asked Diageo to revise the terms of the sale because of Burger King's poor trading performance.

Reports of new talks come as Diageo disclosed earlier this month that the $2.2 billion deal that it struck in July might need to be revised because of Burger King's poor trading.

The price was slashed from the original $2.2 billion deal, after the investor group which includes Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital, had trouble with financing because of Burger King's poor trading performance.

The collapse of Mosaic into administration – which follows the demise of a number of UK retailers including Woolworths, MFI and Land of Leather because of unsustainable debts and poor trading – mainly stemmed from the financial and economic problems in Iceland.

All these banks' shares rose.J.P. Morgan Chase bucked the trend, reporting profits down by 91% to just $40m because of bad loans and a poor trading performance.

A Surrey music festival that has run for 21 years has ceased trading because of poor ticket sales this summer.

The Street is looking for profit of 72 cents a share, versus the 60 cents reported last year, which missed the consensus because of poor results in fixed-income trading.

Trading revenue fell sharply because of poor bets on both stocks and bonds.

The mental hospitals' trade association claims that, because of poor funding, its members barely break even.

The company behind the fin whale trade, Hvalur hf, has not hunted any this year because of poor market conditions in Japan following the March earthquake and tsunami.