In the CBI's January survey of industrial trends, the number of exporters with shrinking order books outweighed those with rising ones by more than 20% of the sample for the third quarter running.
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing of Singapore, the world's third-largest chip subcontractor, said it lost $30.8 million in the first three months of 2001 amid shrinking orders that would probably push it farther into the red this quarter.
Then in September, Invensys warned that first-half results would fall below those in the period a year earlier, when the company earned $514 millionn, or $731.4 million at current exchange rates, on sales of $3.4 billionn, amid shrinking orders from the oil and gas industry, and fewer housing starts in the United States.
FRANKFURT — More than a year after the United States entered a recession, Europe is now catching up quickly as the pain of job losses and shrinking orders spreads.
The team decides to dig deeper into Lindsay's past, only to discover she has a history of harassment and extortion -- a total of four men, one mother-in-law, and one shrink have orders of protection against her.
The clumps grow and shrink on the order of days and weeks, and none lasts longer than about 3 months, said French.
They not only have the means, but they must engage in public spending when the private economy is shrinking, in order to keep the wheels of the economy turning.
He must also persuade creditors to support Loral's two remaining businesses: a satellite manufacturing group, currently living off a shrinking backlog of orders as it tries to weather the deepest slump in the industry's history, and a small group of satellites providing video broadcasting and communications services to developing countries.
But rentals have been shrinking in order to keep monthly rents reasonable amid high demand, said David Sigman, an executive vice president of LCOR, an investment and development company.
The lion's share of the decline resulted from shrinking overseas orders.
