Sentence examples for soft consumer from inspiring English sources

The soft consumer spending overshadowed a $52.2 billion increase in business inventories, which was well above the initially reported $43.8 billion rise.

Inflation in Britain is running about 2percentt as the growth outlook remains murky because of soft consumer spending and falling housing prices.

Some analysts are hoping that exports, bolstered by a weaker dollar, will help the economy skirt recession, despite a teetering housing market and soft consumer spending.

Markets had been divided on whether the central bank would opt for more stimulus as slumping oil costs and soft consumer spending have ground inflation to a halt in the world's third biggest economy.

Those declines are putting a serious dent in Florida's sales tax revenue, which have already been impacted by soft consumer spending.

In the current soft consumer environment, we would not be surprised to see CMG ratchet down its current plan to open 130 to 140 new locations in 2008.

Schwartz said that was indicative of a "soft consumer-spending environment".

"Overall weakness in the global economy, softer consumer spending and lower channel demand for our desktop processors in China and Europe made the closing weeks of the quarter challenging," Rory Read, the president and chief executive of A.M.D., said in a statement.

The IFS analysis of the Treasury's Red Book showed there had been an underlying deterioration in the public finances, with the credit crunch, the weaker housing market and softer consumer spending having an impact on receipts.

Besides the weak jobs figures, recent data for manufacturing have been soft, while consumer confidence remains mixed.

Jeffrey Siegel, the company's president and chief executive, attributed the loss to soft demand, consumer uncertainty over events in the Middle East and the late Easter holiday.