Big Oil can still have a decent future as Big Gas, but that will not prove as profitable.The biggest impact of declining demand could be geopolitical.
In many countries, including Spain, the domestic film business is subsidised by the government, limiting the impact of declining DVD sales.
By now, the impact of declining rates has already been factored into prices, but a carefully selected portfolio of bank stocks could still outpace the market, said some fund managers and bank stock analysts.
But now scientists fear the real impact of declining wildlife could be closer to home, with the threat to creatures such as ladybirds posing the harshest danger to biodiversity.
There were probably several reasons for this – from "active" welfare policies that made the workless a better substitute for those in work, to the cumulative impact of declining collective bargaining.
But recent research suggests that the negative impact of declining wealth may even be greater because people react differently to changes in housing wealth than they do to changes in financial wealth.
A host of companies hobbled themselves recently with ill-timed newspaper deals that magnified the impact of declining print advertising.
Goldman said Dell's growth could tick briefly higher in the January 2006 quarter as the impact of declining federal government demand lessens.
Cheaper home loans have sustained household wealth and spending power as lower mortgage payments offset the impact of declining stock prices.
This study was designed to assess 8-year trends in the duration of hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia and to evaluate the impact of declining length of stay on postdischarge short-term readmission and mortality.
