Sentence examples for deteriorating business from inspiring English sources

A reading below 50 signals deteriorating business.

Amid deteriorating business and personal balance sheets, he says the last thing on Main Street's agenda is another shopping spree.

Many analysts and fund managers who found the combination unwieldy see its deteriorating business outlook as the chief culprit.

The feud adds to a long list of problems at Penney, including a deteriorating business, a protracted legal battle over Martha Stewart goods and fleeing executives.

"The entitled travelers want to be comfortable and do what's convenient, but that flies in the face of economic realities like the euro's strength and deteriorating business conditions".

The Conference Board reported Tuesday that consumer confidence fell sharply in January on worries over deteriorating business conditions and a weakening job market.

Some Mid-City residents have complained that the growth is unchecked and that there are inadequate parks, crowded schools, deteriorating businesses and overtaxed municipal services such as roads and sewers.

"Not that there aren't tire kickers, good companies, looking around," Mr. Stanton said, "but they are not behaving with any urgency in a deteriorated business climate -- and with great big companies, even when business actually begins to pick up, there is a long lag before that translates into action on real estate.

"We'd really be in trouble if consumer attitudes were deteriorating like business attitudes," said Nigel Gault, chief United States economist for IHS Global Insight.

"Yellow lights are blinking all over the industry," says Donald Light of Celent, a consultancy.All of which means AIG faces a double whammy of credit-market missteps and a deteriorating core business.

H&R Block, the tax preparation firm, for instance, said recently that it might not be able to complete the sale of its deteriorating mortgage business, Option One, to the equity buyout firm Cerberus.