Disk-drive and memory-chip makers, already suffering one of their severest price slumps ever, are bracing for more pain as Korean manufacturers dump inventory to raise cash.
But he said he was gratified to have defeated Philip Morris, which, along with other cigarette makers, was suffering a string of court losses.
Today it blamed May's decline on weakness in the paper, printing and publishing industries, with machinery and equipment makers also suffering a fall in output.
But after a decade of legislative successes, including tax breaks, speedier approval of drugs and patent extensions, the drug makers are suffering some defeats.
China's biggest solar panel makers are suffering losses of up to $1 for every $3 of sales this year, as panel prices have fallen by three-fourths since 2008.
The Dell Computer Corporation, continuing its elbows-out assault on the rest of the computer market, announced yesterday that its second-quarter profits had improved and product shipments had increased at a time when other computer makers are suffering.
At Wheeling-Pitt, workers and management have long blamed each other for the industry's woes, but they agree on one thing, that President Bush must do something soon to prevent other steel makers from suffering LTV's fate.
The company was on the brink of collapse before France's Renault took a 37% stake in it in early 1999, installing its own man, Carlos Ghosn, as president.Volkswagen unveiled good news at a time when most big car makers are suffering.
Now, with emerging markets joining the downturn, firms like engineering firm Sulzer, which make specialist products such as pumps for oil producers and paper makers, are suffering too, with the resilience of the Swiss franc acting as an added burden.
The giant computer maker is suffering partly because of a slowdown in orders on millennium-bug worries.Dell Computer gave a warning that third-quarter profits would suffer after a sharp increase in chip prices which it has been unable to pass on to customers.
