They have some headwinds, so help from the economy would be good, but even in the absence of that they can do well".
"We are growing at a moderate pace of 2 to 2 1/4 percent, but we have some headwinds that are starting to assert themselves, particularly coming from Europe," Paul Edelstein, an economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Mass., said.
Ultimately, the company said it was seeing good cost performance as it wrings more out of the existing customers that it has despite facing headwinds coming from its commitment to increase compensation among some hourly workers to $15 per hour.
In the release, the company said it had faced "some operational headwinds" and was working to achieve a federal safety certification that would enable "the start of production and sales within the U.S. market".
Nonetheless, it has run into political headwinds in the region.
Now it has also warned of currency headwinds, and that markets remain challenging, although it was trying to cut costs.
Some of it has also been down to favorable "currency headwinds" — a recurring theme on the call.
"For the time being we still have some domestic headwinds which are weighing on growth," said Marco Valil, chief eurozone economist for UniCredit in Milan.
Unfortunately, in the past two years, it has faced tremendous difficulties; a lot of headwinds.
Instead, she went on: Long-term unemployment is also a great concern because it has the potential to itself become a headwind restraining the economy.
