DISTANT FUTURES LOWER Corn, in Feeble Markets, Drops With Rye -- Oats Show Independent Strength.
Whether it was the cool response from critics, the feeble marketing efforts of MGM, or -- as Roger Ebert later surmised -- the lack of enthusiasm for holiday-themed movies at the time, A Christmas Story performed poorly at the box office and was mostly gone from theaters by the time turkeys, geese and ducks were being slow-roasted around the country.
John Buckingham, chief investment officer at Al Frank Asset Management, also marveled at how well companies were doing in a feeble job market, and he wondered how high corporate numbers and stock indexes might go if employment picked up.
Other factors also influence a decision: whether a spouse works, whether children are still at home, the state of the economy (experts suspect that more officers are delaying retirement because of the feeble job market).
South Africa's government is also keen, believing that a flourishing film industry encourages tourism and other interest in the country (films of South Africa will be promoted by its embassies around the world).The only hindrance is a feeble domestic market.
But in today's weak economy, much of the decline in the jobless rate is not due to new hiring, but to a shrinking work force — the very definition of a feeble labor market in which employed people work for years without raises and unemployed job seekers routinely end up in new jobs that pay less than their previous ones.
With ever-increasing debt burdens and a still feeble job market, of course people are defaulting on their gigantic loans.
As he and Silver continued to pitch "Godless" around town, Frank branched out into directing with the 2007 noir "The Lookout" and Liam Neeson in "A Walk Among the Tombstones" He decided he wanted to helm "Godless," which was already a tough sell, thanks to the feeble international market for westerns and a projected running time of three hours.
It's a familiar cry from Wall Street executives and Congressional Republicans: New regulations will dampen profits and crimp an already-feeble job market.
