Sentence examples for sector slump from inspiring English sources

The telecom sector slump hasn't been kind to the company: For the six months ended March 31, revenue was $2.59 billion, down 29% compared with the year-ago period, while losses for the more recent period totaled $220 million, a threefold increase.

Forming an alliance to improve efficiency and benefit from the mass scale of production, as well as to create a market niche, is a sensible strategy for Japanese chip makers as the global chip market has started to recover from a devastating long and dip sector slump.

Figures out today, for example, showed car sales fell sharply last month for the 11th month in a row, while new orders in the construction sector slumped again.

Homebuilders and other construction firms have been laying off more workers as the housing sector slumps after the expiration of a popular homebuyers' tax credit.

Those worries were fanned overnight by news that the output of China's factory sector slumped to a three-year low in August.

A closely watched barometer of China's economic performance — a monthly survey that measures the conditions in the giant manufacturing sector — slumped sharply in August, offering one of the earliest glimpses of how the month has been progressing.

Bank of Scotland was the worst performer of the sector, slumping 311C2p to 878p,after a run that has pushed the shares 22percentnt higher since the start of the year.

The homebuilding sector slumped Tuesday as data showed that the U.S. housing market continues to stagnate.

When evidence surfaced in the fall that benefit managers were balking at further medical cost increases, the health insurance sector slumped.

That the company nearly doubled its premium memberships in less than three quarters — initially a three-year goal — is "an amazing result," as China's manufacturing sector slumped, Citi analysts wrote in a Thursday note.

Global syndicated lending to the shipping sector slumped to $245 million in the second quarter of this year, down from over $1.6 billion in the first quarter and over $3.9 billion in the second quarter of 2011, Thomson Reuters LPC data showed.