Sentence examples for difficult trading environment from inspiring English sources

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.

Engineering software group Aveva said today it was cutting about 80 jobs to counter a more 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.

Given the intense regulatory and political pressure on banks to rein in hefty bonuses that encourage excessive risk taking -- as well as what is undeniably a difficult operating trading environment -- will clawbacks soon become a common reality on Wall Street?

It may even suggest that boring retail banking has become sexy again in the difficult investment and trading environment.

"He is both a retail banker through and through and a Barclays man," and his appointment "may even suggest that boring retail banking has become sexy again in the difficult investment and trading environment," she added.

The biggest mistake, he reckons, is that it slides over the difficult trade-offs between environment and development in the real world.

"We expect the trading environment to remain difficult for the remainder of the year with continued month-on-month volatility," said Fox.