"There has been a significant reduction in demand over four or five years, and we don't see robust demand in the future". Moreover, the TVA president said, "with all these coal plants we had to make a decision about how much we would have to invest" to keep them open.
Forbes have reported that "store checks suggest that initial sales of the BlackBerry Z10 are off to a solid, if not healthy start in the U.K", while John Paczkowski of allthingsd.com contacted a market analyst; Peter Misek of Jefferies & Co., who said:"Carphone Warehouse is seeing widespread sell-outs, while O2, Vodafone, Orange and EE are seeing robust demand".
WALL STREET JOURNAL Indian Exchange Sees Robust Demand for I.P.O.
Birnstiel said Siemens saw particularly robust demand for LED lighting systems and renewable energy, with $2.3 billion in orders for windmills in the company's first fiscal quarter.
Thursday's $11.0 billion reopening of 30-year bonds saw particularly robust demand from foreign central banks and other indirect bidders, which took 46.2% of competitive bids.
Yet when I look at journals like The Point and n+1 and Triple Canopy; at The Believer and Granta and The New Yorker; at the Kindle Singles and longreads.com and even at what gets passed around on Twitter, I see a robust demand for, and supply of, long-form "magazine writing".
Both have seen robust returns.
"We are not looking at the most robust demand we have ever seen," said Tom Pagano, vice president for corporate planning at the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, a big maker of corrugated containers, "but we are not looking at weak demand either".
Shipments have seen a steady increase through all the quarters of the year, primarily driven by robust demand from end-market such as automotive, industrial equipment, construction, and pipe and tube.
U.S. factories saw orders rise by 2.9% in May, the biggest gain in 14 months, with most of the strength reflecting robust demand for airplanes and parts.
