Sentence examples for expected slump from inspiring English sources

Since then, the data revisions and a steeper than expected slump in investment suggest that 2% might be closer to the mark.

If they do not make drastic cuts in the cost of this sales force, in line with the expected slump in demand for the medicines they are peddling, Bain reckons the foreign firms' Chinese profits could vanish entirely in five to seven years.There is a ray of hope for the longer term, though.

The centre-right Centre for Policy Studies thinktank warned that Scotland faced a £14bn black hole in its budget, because of an expected slump in North Sea oil forecasts and "the probable flight of a large proportion of the financial services sector from Scotland".

But that pattern doesn't figure to go very far in offsetting an expected slump in gift shopping this year.

In America, we expected slumping house prices and a battle to resist recession through government spending, interest-rate cuts and surging exports (indeed, growth held up for longer than many expected).

The lows When Wales won the Grand Slam in March, no one would have expected the slump that followed.

However, global sales of PCs, a big driver of operating system sales, are expected to slump about 1percentthis yearaccordingding to IDC, a market research firm.

No district reported an increase in new home construction, and real estate agents across the country said they expected the slump to continue for "several more months at least".

In the last three months of 2012 Spanish GDP contracted by 4% and is expected to slump again this year as government cuts and a combination of high unemployment and declining wages undermine consumer and business spending.

The three-year programme entails a "fiscal adjustment" of up to 5% of Greek GDP, while the economy is expected to slump by 2.3% this year and 1.3% next year, according to senior sources.

Previously, up to 90% of the more than 400,000 people retiring each year bought poor-value annuities to generate an income for life, but the number likely to take this option is expected to slump.