"We know, for example, that aging baby boomers will drive long-term demand for health care services and equipment".
Long-term demand for the dollar is guaranteed by the fact that American citizens must pay taxes in dollars.
And seeing the prospect of long-term demand for hybrids, automobile companies would invest to make these cars cheaper and more desirable.
Mr. Vestberg told financial analysts that long-term demand for new network equipment was expected to remain strong, driven by rising purchases of smartphones.
Qatar is becoming a new Saudi Arabia, more concerned with market stability than maximising short-term profits.Even so, long-term demand for gas has never looked better.
"The continued growth in our order book demonstrates the long-term demand for our innovative products and services and underpins my confidence in the fundamental strength of our business," East explained.
In another month, many of them will run low and have to resume importing, and China's true long-term demand for the goods should become more apparent, Mr. Banga said.
Sales in April were a little higher than what the auto industry considers to be the long-term demand for new automobiles but below the annual rate of 17.2 million cars and light trucks in the first quarter.
And landlords, Mr. Van Houten said, are not "willing to spend the money to make those improvements unless they are financially strong players and understand the long-term demand for this kind of space".
Long-term demand for the company's services is clear, Mr. Heppelmann said, because "more and more services like telephone, data and Internet access are coming across cable TV lines".
As Huang Haizhou, the managing director of the China International Capital Corporation, told the nervous Latin Americans at the I.M.F.'s conference here, despite any slowdown in growth, China's long-term demand for commodities remained voracious.
