'sluggish trading' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It generally refers to slow movement in the markets, and can be used in either a financial or a general context, depending on the context. For example: "The sluggish trading in the stock market this week has made investors uneasy."
True, sluggish trading revenues and lackluster loan growth have dented banking revenues and profits in recent years.
"Most investors are taking a wait-and-see stance, given the sluggish trading volume," said Castor Pang, a strategist at Sun Hung Kai Financial.
The figure slightly buoyed a session of sluggish trading that ended early, with the New York Stock Exchange closing at 1 p.m.
[C16.] Dow Edges Up in Sluggish Trading Blue-chip stocks moved higher, but some technology issues lagged behind in one of Wall Street's quietest sessions in recent weeks.
[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.
Treasury Prices Fall (By Reuters) -- Treasury bond prices declined slightly yesterday in sluggish trading as players cast a cautious glance at rising oil prices and an impending onslaught of corporate debt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
