slump in demand

Still, some analysts say a slump in demand is not a question of if, but when.

In previous years, work had been shared during a slump in demand.

This helped offset the slump in demand for personal computers on the back of the global economic slowdown.

The economic and financial crisis has led to a slump in demand for mechanical and electronic equipment.

Companies like eBay that choose to pass the taxes on to their customers must brace themselves for what could be a slump in demand.

The slump in demand for cars, economists said, is affecting both imported as well as domestic models.

But these days, orders may be placed anywhere from six weeks to eight months ahead as computer makers respond to surges and slumps in demand.

Along with other businesses in the town the works suffered, during a slump in demand for iron, and closed in 1877.

The island is in its deepest recession on record, drained by the slump in demand for its technology exports.

But the telecommunications-spending bubble burst, and JDS has spent the last two years grappling with the slump in demand.

Home builders, grappling with a slump in demand, slowed construction on new homes in January to the lowest level in almost a decade.

The terrorist attacks in the U.S. led to a slump in demand and consequently to an extreme tightening of liquidity.

(Borgward was not the only European auto-maker hit badly by a North American slump in demand for imported cars during 1960.

Bombardier Inc. of Montreal said today that a sudden slump in demand for corporate jets contributed to a 65 percent decline in its second-quarter earnings.

Corus has been badly hit by the worldwide slump in demand for steel as well as cheap imports from Latin America and the Far East.

The best response to a slump in demand like the one that has affected the world economy in recent years is to stimulate circulation of the existing money supply.

After the end of World War I, the slump in demand for aircraft forced Dewoitine to close his company and move to Switzerland in 1927.

According to Carol Evans' detailed analysis (1991), the land-based arms industry was not planned: it emerged after a slump in demand for machine tools and other capital goods.

Peter, I have been ambitious in my UCAS choices on the understanding that the uncapping of fees this year would cause a slump in demand.

Battered by the Depression, World War II and a slump in demand for Bordeaux wine that lasted well into the 1960's, the property deteriorated badly.

Fujitsu Ltd. will eliminate 2,100 jobs at four locations in Japan and consider shutting one factory as it adjusts to the slump in demand for telecommunications equipment.

But LVMH said it expects profits to improve 15 percent this year, as the Asian slump in demand for luxury products with European names bottoms out.

At Ford, where workers across the country have been put on short time because of the slump in demand, the feeling was that car tax should have been scrapped much sooner.

Dwindling demand What makes matters worse is that the global economic slowdown has triggered a slump in demand which has met over-supply in the oil market head on.

The slump in demand for CDs, DVDs and video games this year is hammering HMV, which has debts of more than £160m.