But it expects that sales cratered by up to 25percentt in the just-ended fiscal year, heightening worries about layoffs if the slide does not stop.
A monthly economic index that projects growth over the next three to nine months, compiled by Westpac Banking and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, fell to 1.1% in September, down from 3.5% in August, heightening worries about a 2009 recession.
Building on last week's surge in energy prices, crude oil futures reached a new intraday record of $59.52 per barrel, heightening worries that higher prices at the pump would hurt consumer spending and slow economic growth.
Failures in Europe Heighten Worry | Signs in Europe are not good.
But we want to be crazy on our own terms, not on the terms of a medical profession that, were it any good, would have already banished all illness and most death, thus obviating the need for our heightened worry.
31 41 47 48 To patients with medically unexplained conditions, where chronic whiplash might be included, 49 50 it seems that frequent testing and visits to doctors provide little reassurance and can heighten worry and anxiety.
All this has heightened worries over maintenance.
That heightened worries that other central banks — the Federal Reserve in particular — will soon pull back on pumping money into the financial system.
The news of the hiring, just a week after Kodak unexpectedly tapped its credit line, heightened worries about the viability of the company's turnaround plan.
Further confirmation of China's slowdown will heighten worries over the futility of a series of moves by Beijing to shore up growth and investor confidence.
Brent crude fell by 3% to below $52 a barrel, as cuts to monthly oil selling prices for European buyers by Saudi Arabia heightened worries about oversupply.
