Predicting the impact of a weak dollar on the broad market is especially difficult.
"The ongoing impact of a weak global economy continues to impact both the advertising and retail markets".
Sales fell 4percentto to 9.51 billion euros ($13.07 billion) as a result of problems on a military transport program and the impact of a weak United States dollar, the currency in which Airbus sells its planes.
And we consider the impact of a weak Canadian currency on the winter flight to the US of that country's snowbirds, a term for the folks seeking to escape a (usually) frozen north.
Federal tax revenues have fallen three years in a row, coming in far worse than expected even after government forecasters tried to anticipate the impact of a weak economy.
Cridland is generally upbeat about the state of the UK economy, although in the past few months he has become concerned about the impact of a weak eurozone on the prospects for growth.
Even if Japan allows its central bank to spend money, the combined impact of a weak response in Europe, a tightening by Beijing and stasis in the US could send the world somersaulting towards another crisis.
The causes of the decline, which could include the impact of a weak economy as well as adjustments by doctors and hospitals to policy changes in the 2010 health care law, remain unclear.
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Thus far, the BoJ has achieved inflation of no more than 1.5%, excluding the effect of the consumption-tax rise, and as the impact of a weak yen abated in the middle of the year, price indices started to head downwards again.
