sluggish market

In the current sluggish market, builders are not rushing to start new projects.

Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market.

The auctions were deemed a surprising success in a sluggish market.

At the same time, the already sluggish market for initial public offerings slowed to a crawl.

At the same time, the company had reduced the volume of new books it was buying, to adjust for the sluggish market.

"It is not a collapse, just a sluggish market."

Its exports jumped 15 percent last year, and it is one of the few car companies whose profits have been rising in a sluggish market.

A sluggish market, ascribed to the economic downturn and regional political turmoil.

Very aggressive actions in such a sluggish market.

But many commercial property owners found that impossible amid exceedingly sluggish market conditions in the past 18 months.

Now, because of the sluggish market, many companies have decided to sweeten the pot to persuade recent arrivals to move out.

Also to blame were sluggish marketing and rates that he said were roughly double those in America.

He expects to make $50,000 this year, about twice the earnings of the average salesman in the current sluggish market.

The trend is being driven by several factors, but chief among them is a sluggish market for initial public offerings.

There are few sales in the current sluggish market that would demonstrate the slide in actual transactions.

"The chav issue won't have helped, but it's on top of what was already quite a sluggish market," she says.

Given the sluggish market, the consensus of experts was that lenders would be looking for more than the benchmark return of 9 percent.

Manufacturers have proved ingenious in trying to meet the challenge of capturing a strong share of a sluggish market.

The company attributed the moves to a sluggish market for cars and a desire for balanced inventory levels.

Overextended sponsors, facing a sluggish market even for vacant units, are eager to find investors.

- Michael C. Aronstein, a money manager, on the sluggish market.

Crude oil went up a penny a barrel, to $26.93, with weather, not war fears, having the biggest impact on a sluggish market.

But Frank Cashen, the general manager, said he sensed a sluggish market for a while.

With many new employees and in a new Midtown office, it is rolling up deals even in the current sluggish market.

They are recommending the stock as one expected to outpace both a sluggish market and a sluggish building supply sector.