Sentence examples for sharply bad from inspiring English sources

Estonia's growth rate and property prices have dropped sharply: bad news for construction companies, but good for everyone else (and its current growth rate of 6% is still mouth-wateringly good by West European standards).

"The fact that they're not really going down sharply on bad news is heartening in a perverse way.

Norway says the minke whale catch is down sharply, partly because bad weather limited commercial hunting.

Hedge funds, those bold adventurers of the financial markets, have lost pots of money as markets have fallen sharply, which is bad enough.

What's perhaps most pressing to note here is that, having been brought up sharply for some bad male behaviour, the Last Shadow Puppets find themselves in the interesting position of having to sell an album about bad male behaviour.

To cope, Mr. Goldin persuaded lenders to maintain his credit lines while he cut costs, sharply reduced the bad debt on his books and switched his target from customers dependent on the housing industry to businesses that do well in recessions, like fast-food restaurants.

Options implied volatility is up sharply as swirling bad news boosts investor uncertainty.

Earlier this month her employer, WestLB, a regional state-owned German bank, sharply increased its bad-debt provisions to euro1.9 billion ($2.2 billion), thanks not least to a euro400m rise in provisions at the unit run by Ms Saunders.

How can $30bn in aid help if the company's sales are down so sharply from an already bad year?

That means they are likely to find themselves lending too much when times are good and contracting too sharply when they are bad, exaggerating booms and busts.

Heizo Takenaka, Mr. Koizumi's economic and financial services minister, has ordered banks to reduce their bad loans sharply by next March, and improve their profitability.