Sentence examples for overall slump from inspiring English sources

Web services appear to be an exception to the trend of an overall slump in technology spending.

Despite the overall slump in mergers, health care has proved one of the most reliable sources of new takeovers.

But amid an overall slump in mergers and acquisitions, Nomura's net revenue for the year fell 60percenttoto 312 billion yen.

Despite Standard's successful quarter, none of the four analysts who track the company upgraded their recommendations, citing the industry's overall slump and the company's vulnerability to diminished demand for computing products in general.

C1 Business Digest C2 ARTS E1-8 Weak Summer Box Office The holiday weekend and a strong opening for Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" failed to relieve an overall slump in sales at the box office.

The options award was reduced by more than 22percentt, but that did nothing to halt the slide in C.A. shares, which now hover around $18. Computer Associates can't simply blame the market's overall slump for the weakness of its stock.

Ms. Welsh said the overall economic slump was hurting AVE business "a bit," but not substantially so far.

Some investors said they were more interested in what they considered a larger problem: how the overall economic slump would affect WPP's core advertising revenue.

The decline is largely because of the explosion of e-mail and electronic bill-paying, along with the overall economic slump.

The option may seem especially tempting today, as some regions have much brighter job prospects than others amid the overall employment slump.

Today (Thursday) market bellwether Marks & Spencer will reveal how it fared over Christmas in the face of an overall 9.9% slump in clothing prices in December, according to figures from the British Retail Consortium.