Rough Month All Around Overall, sales for June fell 18.3%, one of the weakest selling periods in years, according to Autodata Corp., which tracks vehicles sales.
The Northeast had the weakest selling environment for the month of January with just 24,000 homes sold, down 35.1% from January 2009, which could be a result of the harsh winter weather this year.
It took hours, days and weeks for me to fully appreciate the intelligence of what he was saying: If your business can't kick off enough cash flow to service even a small loan at the beginning, then you're doing something wrong--wrong product, too much overhead, weak selling and marketing, whatever.
A strike, especially a prolonged one, would likely be the death knell for some weak-selling shows.
Anyone who makes them heroes while damning hard-working, educated, honest men as weak, sell-outs or pussies.
If you're cooking up something for Graham Norton or Jonathan Ross, you can expect to see your work delivered with confidence and an innate sense of timing, the good gags sold, the weak sold harder.
Gartner notes that anticipated arrival of Windows 8 helped companies control inventory better, although there was still oversupply because of "rather weak" sell-through.
"Their ads are weak, their selling staff is weak and the way they buy a lot of merchandise is old," said Alexander Vreeland, a partner in GAV, a company that designs and manufactures clothes for Calvin Klein.
Those who anticipate weaker results sell.
BMW has bucked the industry's weak results, selling 19percentt more cars in the first eight months of this year than in the period last year.
Anglo's recent strategy has been to mine in easier places; the De Beers deal may drag it deeper into quagmires.More competition means De Beers can no longer control prices the way it used to: by buying diamonds when markets are weak and selling when they strengthen.
