Sentence examples for industry slowdown from inspiring English sources

NationsRent Inc., which rents heavy construction equipment to contractors, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors after an industry slowdown.

The reason, airline executives said, is that fares had already been discounted heavily even before the attacks to try to counter an industry slowdown.

Mr. Krasnoff said in a statement that foreign exchange rates, the semiconductor industry slowdown and the sluggish domestic economy affected third-quarter profitability.

The company reported that profits fell as it was hit by an industry slowdown and a mounting bill for legal fights.

It also cited price competition and an industry slowdown tied to slumping retail sales and a housing market weakened by higher interest rates.

Nations Rent which is based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sought bankruptcy protection after an industry slowdown and increased competition hurt its earnings.

The move, which is likely to be seen as a brazen attempt to inject pension cash into the market to shore up prices and restore investor confidence, comes ahead of several reports that are likely to show the world's major economies struggling to recover as China's main industries slowdown.

Mr. Brown said there was some concern that the financial industry's slowdown would start to affect restaurants.

The stock has tumbled from $115 last March amid concerns about the government's antitrust case and the computer industry's slowdown.

The scale of the industry's slowdown will not be clear until Dec. 1, when many automakers will announce their sales for November.

Reflecting a crisis in Britain's steel industry, a slowdown in the oil sector and sluggish demand overseas, manufacturing registered one of its weakest performances for three years, according to the Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) report.