Sentence examples for sluggish trade from inspiring English sources

She said sluggish trade growth in 2012 and 2013 appeared to have centred on advanced countries.

In October, M&S warned that difficult conditions would continue into the current half-year, but the 31percentnt fall in the shares over 1998 has more than likely accounted for six months of sluggish trade.

After the Revolutionary War, when Thomas Jefferson, then minister to France, joined John Adams for sluggish trade negotiations in London, they also engaged in the timeless British pleasure of visiting gardens, then dominated by the picturesque landscape movement praised by Alexander Pope, whom both had read.

Without a move towards more private consumption in countries such as Germany and China, the world is in for a prolonged period of slow growth and correspondingly sluggish trade.Over the past two decades the spread of a global supply chain has allowed trade to grow exceptionally fast, and the benefits have been shared more widely than in earlier eras.

Some countries, like Canada, have unilaterally removed barriers in sectors that benefit domestic investment, but overall, more sluggish trade will raise the incentive for trade barriers.

Despite Oswal's criticism of Australia's boom-induced costs, the country's industry minister, Ian Macfarlane, says the Oswal investment is a milestone in Australia's gas-processing industry and a step up in the historically sluggish trade relationship between India and Australia, which amounted to only $1.5 billion in 2000 before growing to $6 billion last year.

True, sluggish trading revenues and lackluster loan growth have dented banking revenues and profits in recent years.

The figure slightly buoyed a session of sluggish trading that ended early, with the New York Stock Exchange closing at 1 p.m.

[C3.] Stocks Mixed on Sluggish Trading Stocks were flat with the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index up 0.03 point, to 1,144.94, and up less than 0.1percentt for the week.

"Most investors are taking a wait-and-see stance, given the sluggish trading volume," said Castor Pang, a strategist at Sun Hung Kai Financial.

Last month, in an effort to revive sluggish trading by its clients, Schwab began offering steep trading discounts to customers with more than $1 million in their accounts, who can pay only $9.95 to buy or sell shares.