The computer maker Dell, considered a bellwether for consumer and corporate spending, said after the market closed Thursday that its net income improved 16 percent in the last quarter, but it saw weakening demand for personal computers.
He likened his opposition to the millionaire's tax to his father's opposition to the death penalty, all while working with an alliance of business interests called the Committee to Save New York, which saw weakening labor power as necessary to helping the economy.
"With car sales seen weakening further in the second quarter and consumer confidence starting to take a hit from fiscal austerity announcements, consumption prospects for the second quarter are not going to improve much," Marco Valli at UniCredit Research in Milan wrote in a research note.
"With the yen seen weakening further, while the won is set to keep rising, Hyundai's ability to overcome worsening external factors will be put to the test this year," said Lim Hyung-geun, a fund manager at GS Asset Management.
Many caveats and uncontrollable factors including the price of crops, the latitude at which they are planted, and specific advances in technology could contribute to the changes in trend that the authors see, weakening their link between yields and warming.
It isn't an accident that corporations and the right have seen weakening unions as central to their political project.
The statement, a senior United States Treasury official said in a telephone interview, was "a recognition that certain emerging markets that are seeing weakened investor appetite need to look at their policy reform agenda" and help themselves.
Americans do not want to see weakened protection of air and water quality, more oil industry exemptions from regulation, or the end of incentives for encouraging alternative energy technology.
Arvind Mayaram, economic affairs secretary: If you see weakening of all currencies vis-à-vis dollar, the rupee is also not unaffected in that sense.
Some businesses here in Changsha, a city of 6.5 million people that is the capital of Hunan Province in south-central China, say they already see weakening sales.
Because of all this uncertainty, the RMB is seen weakening due to the combination of a slower economy and lower capital inflows from corporate and foreign portfolio investment.
