Sentence examples for sluggish capital from inspiring English sources
More recent economic data, including sluggish capital expenditure numbers, have pointed to a slowdown in Japan's economy, the world's third largest, after those of the United States and China.
But the move showed the bank's eagerness to re-inject some momentum into an economy that has been hobbled by sluggish capital investment, fiscal indiscipline, poor infrastructure, policy gridlock and the gloomy global environment.
Sluggish capital investment, lack of fiscal discipline and poor infrastructure, however, have slowed the growth momentum recently, prompting the central bank last week to cut interest rates more aggressively than many analysts had expected.
The FleetBoston Financial Corporation plans to cut as much as $700 million in annual expenses by the end of the year as sluggish capital markets and a slowing economy sap revenue.
PNC Financial Services reported today that its profit rose 15percentt in the third quarter as its regional banking and asset management businesses helped offset the sluggish capital markets.
The era of market fundamentalism has been one of repressed wages and mounting consumer debt, household stress and uneven economic development; of sluggish capital formation and collapsing public investment; of sharply rising inequality and social exclusion.
Overall subscriber growth is sluggish and capital intensity rising.
Japan's economy expanded 0.7percentt in the July-September quarter, but analysts expect a slowdown next year because export growth is sluggish and capital spending at home remains weak.
The Bank of New York Company said yesterday that it expected 2004 operating profit to rise less than analysts' forecasts, hurt by a sluggish recovery in capital markets and expensing of stock options.
In the wake of tougher capital requirements, sluggish economic growth and growing concerns about risky trading activity, several European banks have announced efforts to reduce their work forces, shed unwanted assets and increase capital reserves.
REUTERS Commerzbank to Cut Up to 6,000 Jobs | Facing a sluggish economy and tougher capital requirements, Commerzbank says it will cut up to 10 percent of its work force in a bid to increase earnings, joining other European banks that have announced restructuring plans in recent months.
