But world copper stocks are depleted, so prices may yet perk up again.In this section Overview Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Metals Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Markets Urban competitiveness Reprints.
But 1982 suggests otherwise: America then had its deepest recession since the 1930s, yet consumer spending continued to grow, offset by plunging investment and exports.Consumer spending may soon perk up as tax-rebate cheques drop through letterboxes.
But if you show me something like a 1080p LCD then I may just perk up and take notice.
The batting may or may not be perked up by the inclusion of Jonathan Trott for the most high-pressure Test debut of recent years, but England are already on course for one of their most miserable Ashes performances ever.
And there is always luck: demand from overseas may perk up again.
But inflows to America may perk up: SoftBank, a Japanese telecoms firm, recently bought a $20 billion stake in Sprint Nextel.
If only because, at some point, Congress may perk up and poke its nose into the United States Olympic Committee's pristine breeding ground for chaos in Colorado Springs.
The go-ahead seem to have taken flight, and tourism alone cannot sustain the place.But business may perk up when Poland joins the European Union in little more than a year's time.
Yes, they may perk up in another context, but they started me thinking about work by other artists, many of them women, that I'd much rather see here, which in turn got me thinking about the essentially arbitrary nature of star-making.
The reader's interest may perk up around page 238, when Cohen begins relating how he met his business partner, Moe, a Hindu engineer who, though he appears only in secondhand flashback, is the novel's most vivid character by far.
