Among the losers: Gap, Wet Seal, Bon-Ton department stores, Children's Place and New York and Co. Tween Brands, which operates Limited Too! and Justice stores, faired relatively well in the weak sector.
Lack of additional fiscal reforms, combined with large and growing public sector deficits and widespread corruption, resulted in high inflation, a weak banking sector and increased macroeconomic volatility.
Many private equity firms struggled in 2011, as a weak financial sector made buyouts harder to finance and execute, and lower performance fees hampered profitability.
While regulation of the CAM market presents a challenge for many countries across the globe, regulation is particularly challenging in countries with a weak public sector; such as Lebanon [ 21].
Our focus on shrinking the budget deficit, in a time of a weak, private sector economy -- that's called austerity -- has been a very serious problem and a major contributor to what has been a pretty weak recovery, relative to targeting the trade deficit.
But because real estate performance typically softens after other sectors in a weak economy, investors have begun to re-evaluate the prospects of REIT's.
We engineer explicit breaking of scale invariance in the ultra-weak sector via a Coleman Weinberg potential, which requires hierarchies amongst the ultra-weak couplings.
It's been a rocky year for women's contemporary apparel and accessory retailer Bebe, which eked out a 2% sales gain in a generally weak retail sector.
This appears to occur only for rather strong fluxes in some sectors, in which case a weak signal may be detected in all azimuthal sectors at the same energy as the original signal.
The price of flexibility was higher for workers in weaker sectors or with "atypical" contracts.
