Sentence examples for downturn ahead from inspiring English sources

Sales figures shot up — hinting that the co-op sector may be the one that wins the race out of the downturn, ahead of single-family homes and condos.

"There's not another downturn ahead," predicted Lakshman R. Achuthan, the managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, one of the few groups to have forecast last year's recession.

After months in which investors have become increasingly pessimistic -- and after Gov. George W. Bush and his running mate, Dick Cheney, publicly raised the possibility of an economic downturn ahead -- Mr. Greenspan's comments seemed intended to reassure the markets and the country that the Fed would step in as needed to keep the 10-year-old expansion going.

Though listening is on the agenda, the aim of the trip is to make sure friends, voters and countrymen are in no doubt about the government's plans to help through the downturn ahead of a "summit" of industry and trade unions.

By this gauge today's spiraling oil stock performance, tied to spiraling oil prices, portends a downturn ahead.

President-elect George W. Bush has been warning for the last two weeks that there may be a downturn just ahead, and that his proposal for a $1.3 trillion tax cut over the next decade is just the prescription for a faltering economy.

Many economists are predicting an economic downturn up ahead.

If an economic downturn is ahead, increased loan defaults and consumer pullbacks will harm the bank's main engine.

That would be a considerably weaker performance than any major securities firm has turned in so far, and, analysts said, would signal that the worst of this downturn might lie ahead.

BONDS are usually more resilient in a downturn and often rally ahead of stocks in a recovery.

To counter the financial downturn, Nokia is pressing ahead with "substantial" additional cost-cutting, Mr. Elop said, and is rapidly bringing the Lumia into new markets.