There were a few bright spots amid generally lacklustre demand.
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The anger intensified after the team's lacklustre World Cup performances.
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So, how to explain the currencies' lacklustre run in 2018?
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Whatever the reason, last night's showdown was a lacklustre affair.
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Performance was lacklustre and a steady flow of redemptions followed.
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That partly reflects a lacklustre outlook for the global economy.
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But the background picture for the wheat market remains lacklustre.
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It may also shine a light on a lacklustre valuation.
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Nissan's lacklustre performance has sparked concern at Renault, its top shareholder.
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Since the financial crisis, business investment in Britain has been lacklustre.
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Together with lacklustre productivity growth, that will limit the economy's potential.
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The latter's reaction was as surprising as her fairly lacklustre performance.
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NS) reported lacklustre revenue growth, while second biggest rival Infosys (INFY.
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The Croats will now go on to play a lacklustre Portugal.
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In part that is because the opposition is fragmented and lacklustre.
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Wage growth in Britain has been lacklustre since the financial crisis.
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Lacklustre corporate results also hit investor appetite for riskier assets, analysts said.
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This suggested arrangements for its defence were, to say the least, lacklustre.
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Some fret that too many students are still exposed to lacklustre teaching.
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Coming after a lacklustre predecessor, Ollanta Humala, he is a refreshing change.
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But two-year bond sales this year have met relatively lacklustre demand.
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Financial stocks surged 768.333 percent after a lacklustre performance across the week.
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Market leader John Lewis has also reported lacklustre trading in recent weeks.
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This explains exporters' restraint, given lacklustre global demand and a pricey dollar.
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UK data meanwhile confirmed first quarter growth at a lacklustre 0.1 percent.
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Gold rose 13 percent while silver was lacklustre, gaining just 5.5 percent.
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The only concern has been Apple, which has been said to be lacklustre.
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While the results were just about acceptable for Germany, the performances were lacklustre.
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But business surveys over the course of August have painted a lacklustre picture.
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Sceptics point to the lacklustre decarbonisation record of places that already price carbon.
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BRITAIN'S DEFINING economic problem since the financial crisis has been lacklustre productivity growth.
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Sectors were mixed, with big-cap blue-chips far outperforming lacklustre growth stocks.
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The lacklustre productivity growth could be a temporary feature of the economic cycle.
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Chinese demand is also lacklustre owing to the slowdown in China's manufacturing industry.
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Johnson never led against Hadwin, who was surprised by his opponent's lacklustre form.
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The opening action at Rio's Olympic stadium was lacklustre with few clear chances.
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Strong jobs data failed to pump any life into a lacklustre trading session.
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Britain's exporter-heavy index of stocks rose 0.4 percent from a lacklustre open.
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Such lacklustre track record could weigh on China's chances of making a successful shift.
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Low inflation and a lacklustre labour market could open the door to further easing.
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Another survey from payments company Barclaycard also pointed to lacklustre consumer spending in April.
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Dubai's index edged down 0.1 percent in line with a lacklustre global market trend.
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Cities in China's northeast region, excluding Dalian, had a lacklustre performance, the report said.
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He's also been a lacklustre and lazy performer at the dispatch box in parliament.
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But May, facing scorn for running a lacklustre campaign, was determined to hang on.
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But Hong Kong's lacklustre aftermarket may still send mainland unicorns galloping to New York.
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That came after lacklustre economic data on Tuesday from Germany and the United States.
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The most impressive introductions, though, are the ones that shine despite their lacklustre subjects.
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The local MP is the DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly, another lacklustre presence in Westminster.
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Hong Kong stocks rose 65.6763 percent but mainland Chinese stocks delivered a lacklustre performance.
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The report adds to a string of lacklustre data showing the British economy weakening.
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However, concerns over high valuations have meant lacklustre debuts for insurance companies that have listed.
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But the bank's returns remain below target and there are concerns about lacklustre revenue growth.
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Punters who discard the Cavaliers' lacklustre first 82 games entirely do so at their peril.
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The relatively lacklustre performance of private schools in Washington, DC reflects improvement in public schools.
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His call for protests at all military bases on May 5th produced only lacklustre attendance.
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Labour, which has had a series of lacklustre leaders, has lost most of its support.
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Beijing is fast-tracking more infrastructure projects but prices for some construction materials remain lacklustre.
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That is partly owing to the lacklustre Martin Schulz, her Social Democratic Party (SPD) rival.
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New Zealand's benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index closed at 8,922.09 in a lacklustre session.
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Investors' risk appetite was also curbed by a lacklustre performance in global equity markets overnight.
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Britain's FTSE 100 exporter-heavy index of stocks rose 0.4 percent from a lacklustre open.
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ST) made a lacklustre start on its debut on Friday, as shares in Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.
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Financials took a breather on Friday, in lacklustre trading, after a five-session winning run.
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Return on equity was a lacklustre 7.5 percent, below its 8.5 to 9 percent target.
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Investors are jumpy about China's economy, rising costs, trade wars, and lacklustre euro zone growth.
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I stumble over my words, but all I come up with is a lacklustre triangle.
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It is hard to reconcile Mr Westbrook′s magnificent handiwork with his club′s lacklustre showing.
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European shares also turned around following a lacklustre open, with a pan-European benchmark up 0.6%.
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But lacklustre rhetoric and a feeble grasp of detail mark only the beginning of his problems.
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Mr Cook may put on a lacklustre show, but his rivals had better watch him regardless.
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"Revenues are up despite a lacklustre environment," Bonnafe said, adding costs had been kept under control.
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The trading environment has been harsh for many traders in 2018 after a somewhat lacklustre 2017.
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Credit traders described the session as lacklustre with investment grade bonds mostly unchanged to 22041bp tighter.
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The lacklustre institutional and public interest in the period only serves to prolong this jarring disconnect.
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But broader emerging assets were lacklustre, with stocks set for the first monthly fall since May.
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The government and the coalition insist that the lacklustre provincial governor, Nowfal al-Aqoub, is in charge.
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Mr Renzi's biggest handicap as he goes into the referendum is the lacklustre performance of the economy.
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In taking a hawkish line, Ms Haley may be positioning herself to replace the lacklustre Mr Tillerson.
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Trading was lacklustre as the Hong Kong market will be closed on Monday and Tuesday for Christmas.
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Mr Schulz was already weak before Sunday's drama, tarnished by his party's lacklustre campaign and terrible result.
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That is good going for a firm whose earnings have been lacklustre and which faces big challenges.
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Airbus announced last month it would scrap production of the A380 from 2021 superjumbo following lacklustre sales.
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The stock fell steeply on Monday after results, hit by lacklustre trading at its flagship Primark chain.
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The Australian bourse also reflected the lacklustre performance on Wall Street, which ended flat on earnings news.
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They expect the "lacklustre" performance of European government bonds in recent times to reverse as this happens.
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This contributed to an acceleration in overall business activity in the bloc, though again this remained lacklustre.
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This contributed to an acceleration in overall business activity in the bloc though again, this remained lacklustre.
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Launched in April 2009, it made a lacklustre £1.5bn of net corporate bond purchases by year-end.
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Net exports contributed positively to growth for the first time since 1Q15, but domestic demand remains lacklustre.
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In a lacklustre session, New Zealand's S&P/NZX 2.13 index ended 3.97 points higher at 9,114.52.
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Regional shares were also let down by lacklustre earnings performance by Asian firms in the second quarter.
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The stock fell steeply on Monday after results, hit by lacklustre trading at its Primark clothing chain.
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His lacklustre management of Nissan in recent years made him a dubious advocate for French interests anyway.
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United Arab Emirates markets were closed for a religious holiday, while other bourses closed mixed in lacklustre trade.
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Tokyo's retailing sector was down 1.6 percent, pressured by recently lacklustre earnings from some companies in the sector.
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Aeon owns Japan's biggest supermarket chain, but its stores have struggled due to lacklustre growth in household spending.
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That stretched the gap with benchmark German equivalents, which moved in the opposite direction following lacklustre economic data.
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Universally flattering on all skin shades, the warming hue gives life to washed-out cheeks and lacklustre lips.
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The New Zealand dollar was firm at $0.7063 after it was also hit by the lacklustre Chinese numbers.
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Currencies fared little better with South Africa's rand and Turkey's lira weakening 21327 percent despite a lacklustre dollar.
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Johnson has since said Darroch told him the lacklustre support was a factor in his decision to resign.
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Tata Group companies have already met with a lacklustre reception in the offshore loan markets in recent months.
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Among mid-caps, William Hill slumped 6.6 percent after a lacklustre update that reaffirmed a difficult trading environment.
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Traders said a lacklustre session on Wall Street played a part in helping underpin the safe-haven yen.
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In the euro zone, economists said lacklustre demand, not inadequate credit, is holding the euro zone economy back.
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The rest came from bakery products, such as biscuits and bread, which had a lacklustre performance last year.
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HONG KONG, June 1.53 (IFR) - Asian credit markets were marginally wider today as new issues had lacklustre performances.
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After lacklustre performance for most of Van Houten's tenure, Philips shares are up 17 percent year to date.
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Compared with him, I never had much interest in studying; my grades were lacklustre from start to finish.
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Since then trading has been lacklustre, with most investors holding off big bets ahead of the Christmas break.
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After a lacklustre response, it tweaked the terms of the sale and extended the deadline for submitting bids.
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"All this should mean less inflationary pressure, lacklustre economic growth, and little upward pressure on interest rates," he concluded.
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The Russian finance ministry, possibly fearing a lacklustre take-up from investors, cancelled its weekly bond auction on Wednesday.
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Ultimately, this is a promising product that will leave you wondering why you used lacklustre earbuds for so long.
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That is why they have not managed to upstage the lacklustre "pro-establishment" camp that officials in Beijing support.
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"Demand growth remains lacklustre and has not made significant inroads to clear the inventory overhang for oil," Barclays said.
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Compared with "Mad Men" or "Masters of Sex", a 1980s tech start-up seems lacklustre material for a drama.
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However, sentiment amongst buyers has remained lacklustre, especially going into the second quarter, when jewellery demand is relatively soft.
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But lacklustre projected demand from China, the biggest consumer of metals, was undermining prices, said Macquarie analyst Vivienne Lloyd.
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Portugal saw lacklustre support as it reopened its October 2022 and February 2045 notes, only raising a combined 1.5bn.
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On February 10th Twitter reported lacklustre earnings for the first full quarter that he has been back in charge.
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To deliver these returns despite a lacklustre stockmarket, they have piled on debt and cut into their own margins.
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Far from his usual charismatic self, Naseem looked lacklustre and deflated, while his punches were perpetually a millisecond late.
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The sterling effect turned the FTSE around from a lacklustre start of trading, with some weak company updates weighing.
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Meanwhile, on the defensive end, Cleveland took a quantum leap forward from their lacklustre performances during the regular season.
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Against the euro, the dollar weakened in a lacklustre session trading 0.2 percent at a day's low of 1.13735.
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Fernández complained about the lacklustre audiences in a theatre in Valladolid, where she had just been playing a comedy.
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The lacklustre growth is dragging the euro down, pushing it to three-year lows and threatening the 1.08 barrier.
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Japan's economic growth has been lacklustre for much of this year as consumer spending and exports largely undershot economists' expectations.
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The kiwi had sunk 0.7 percent the previous day, hurt by a weak business sentiment reading and lacklustre housing data.
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Bollywood ends another lacklustre year with fewer box office hits and no solution in sight to address falling theatre footfalls.
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Many energy firms' results have been affected by lacklustre oil prices, which averaged $47 a barrel during the third quarter.
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Their fans had been great, the craic had been great, but things on the pitch had been lacklustre at best.
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Latin American leaders will have to fight similar battles on equally pressing issues, for example boosting the region's lacklustre productivity.
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Aside from the supply-related moves, some lacklustre economic data dragged down yields slightly in the bloc's core debt markets.
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Also, it's quite lacklustre and disappointing news coming out of macro side so the economic data warrants more monetary easing.
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In 2016, KGI Bank's profitability weakened due to a lower interest margin, lacklustre fee income generation and higher credit costs.
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Lacklustre U.S. market debuts from Uber and Lyft have tempered enthusiasm for ride-hailing in general, raising question about profitability.
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Lacklustre reports from major British companies added to the sense of a tougher 2017 for the economy than last year.
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First-quarter sales growth topped market expectations of around 2%, following a lacklustre 1% growth in the previous three months.
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Central banks in Europe and Japan are loosening monetary policy in response to lacklustre economic conditions; China is easing, too.
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With her out-of-nowhere introduction, immediately following a lacklustre season 4, Dawn is thrust upon us with no context.
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Experts say, historically, growth in demand for beer in India has been lacklustre due to a preference for local alcohol.
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Growth may have been lacklustre in the first quarter, but stock investors are optimistic, encouraged by an impressive lending rebound.
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Klein denied sales have been lacklustre — claiming the current Star Wars and Frozen e-products have "done enough for us".
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The second flaw is less widely understood but just as important: the performance of the non-financial business has been lacklustre.
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German government bond yields had already risen on Wednesday, pushed higher after lacklustre demand at a sale of five-year debt.
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Germany's central bank warned that there was a real risk the country could slip into recession, describing the economy as "lacklustre".
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However, India's lacklustre auto sales may pick-up as its economy continues to grow strongly, at over 6 percent per year .
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Overall for the tech IPO market, this is a big bounce back after the lacklustre performance of Funding Circle last week.
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The Democratic base appears motivated by its hatred for Mr Trump, while the Republican base seems depressed by his lacklustre record.
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Demand, even in top-tier buyer Japan, is lacklustre and weather forecasts do not support a dramatic shift any time soon.
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Watch Dogs was a lacklustre revenge story with a dour, unlikeable protagonist and fell woefully short of what hacktivism really is.
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However, latest growth figures are still well below its potential, the recovery has been fragile, and private sector credit lending lacklustre.
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Instead, consumer prices have slumped due to lacklustre growth, which is pushing up real wages but unlikely to benefit the economy.
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Other stock markets delivered a lacklustre performance, with Chinese mainland shares down 2118.06 percent and Hong Kong shares down 210.39 percent.
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New Zealand's benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index saw lacklustre trade, just three points up at 7051.49 by 01:32 GMT.
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Though the economy has begun expanding again, growth is lacklustre and output is nearly a quarter below its level in 2007.
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But after lacklustre U.S. and European data kept alive concerns about global growth momentum, European shares could struggle at the start.
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New Zealand's benchmark S&P/NZX 13 index declined 0.3 percent or 24.18 points in lacklustre trade to 8,914.27 by 2349 GMT.
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A decade ago, after a series of boardroom crises, HP was keen to add high-margin software to its lacklustre hardware business.
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But Salvini's comments came at a time of heightened investor sensitivity to Italian risk, underscored by the lacklustre bond auction on Tuesday.
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Conspiracy theories abounded, especially when he proceeded to put in a lacklustre performance as Brazil went 2-0 down before half-time.
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Lacklustre results from other retailers had weighed on Mr Price, said Treurnicht, with its shares down around 15 percent since end-March.
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Indeed, the last feature to be published, headlining "English silver's lacklustre market," could hardly be described as a press coup for Sotheby's.
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That's no small feat when the original felt so lacklustre, and really hasn't benefitted much from the intervening time since its release.
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The move comes five months after Airbus announced it was scrapping production of the world's largest airliner in response to lacklustre sales.
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More than 40 people were killed in the latest outbreak of forest fires in Portugal, prompting criticism of the government's lacklustre response.
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The March orders figures marked an end to two months of steep declines, but were weaker than expected, pointing to lacklustre growth.
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This moderate outlook reflects the fact growth is still lacklustre in the euro area, Japan and emerging market economies as a whole.
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"Demand in China has remained relatively weak amid lower liquidity and lacklustre price performance in domestic terms," GFMS analyst Samson Li said.
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The company said in August that it would review the continuation of its businesses in Kenya and Ghana due to lacklustre performance.
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Rob Dobson, an IHS Markit director, said manufacturing — which accounts for about 10 percent of Britain's economy — looked increasingly lacklustre in August.
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Tottenham will be coming off a disappointing Champions League defeat to Bayer Leverkusen, as well as a trio of lacklustre domestic draws.
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The team flattered to deceive during the group stage, drawing with a lacklustre Switzerland after narrowly defeating Romania and Albania late on.
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The picture is lacklustre in dollar terms especially, with both the FTSE 100 and mid caps roughly flat since the Brexit vote.
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Copper prices extended losses, weighed down by a stronger dollar, the potential for a U.S. rate increase and worries about lacklustre demand.
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Other than the odd critical hit, such as Cary Fukunaga's "Beasts of No Nation" and Ava DuVernay's "13th", most offerings have been lacklustre.
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The figures follow lacklustre economic data in Europe, signs of steep inventory build-ups in the United States and subdued manufacturing surveys worldwide.
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LG also makes smartphones, which you may or not have noticed, given the lacklustre sales of their latest modular G5 Android-powered smartphone.
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It's had a somewhat lacklustre early performance: the company's market cap is currently at €188.8 million, compared to a debut at €190 million.
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Chinese shares recovered from a lacklustre start, with the CSI 249.21 index trading up 21 percent and the Shanghai Composite climbing 21.3 percent.
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Some lacklustre results from U.S. companies such as railway transport company CSX Corp stoked concerns about the June quarter performance of companies worldwide.
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DUBAI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Gulf stock markets saw lacklustre trade on Wednesday as low oil prices and weak earnings weighed on investor sentiment.
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Last month South Korea's two biggest cosmetics-makers, Kolmar Korea and Cosmax, which now depend heavily on the Chinese market, announced lacklustre earnings.
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Even if Bezos leaned in to charity like Bill Gates has—Bezos' lacklustre philanthropy is infamous—he would still have billions of dollars.
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Hong Kong markets also ended higher after investors chose to focus on the bright spots in otherwise lacklustre economic data at the weekend.
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Thyssenkrupp has its 19th century roots in steelmaking but the sector is now being hit by lacklustre demand and cheap imports into Europe.
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Meanwhile, a day after auto makers posted lacklustre monthly sales figures, the country's auto index rebounded from early losses to close 0.2% firmer.
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Europe's top planemaker decided that after years of lacklustre sales the last of the world's largest passenger plane would be delivered in 2021.
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The increase in manufacturing output was modest in many countries, this being accompanied by subdued capital spending and lacklustre global trade in goods.
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Standard & Poor's said it expects negative earnings growth for banks in the United Arab Emirates in 2016 and a lacklustre performance in 2017.
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Economic growth cooled to its weakest quarterly pace since the global financial crisis at 6.5 percent, exhibiting lacklustre domestic demand by Chinese standards.
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The increase in manufacturing output was modest in many countries, this being accompanied by subdued capital spending and lacklustre global trade in goods.
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Thyssenkrupp has its 19th century roots in steelmaking but the sector is now being hit by lacklustre demand and cheap imports from China.
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L and House of Fraser have struggled, and furniture retailers DFS and Dunelm last week reported lacklustre results, partly due to the hot weather.
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"This tightened monetary policy stance unfortunately comes at a time of very lacklustre economic growth," said Hanns Spangenberg, an economist at NKC African Economics.
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Trump, who has accused the administration of President Barack Obama of lacklustre support for Israel, won his party's nomination for the presidency last month.
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The next day, Kraft Heinz reported lacklustre quarterly results that investors saw as a sign that the company's cost-cutting had reached a limit.
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Elsewhere, France's Airbus is slashing production of its A380 superjumbo, which has struggled to win new customers amid a lacklustre market for widebody aircraft.
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"Domestically, upbeat Japanese manufacturing PMI readings underpinned the strength of the currency, comparing to lacklustre US new home sales numbers last night," she added.
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On Tuesday, it is scheduled to announce April-June earnings that are widely expected to be lacklustre due to a dearth of product launches.
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Lacklustre transfer activity was followed by disappointment on the pitch, which has left fans angry, frustrated and divided over the future of Arsene Wenger.
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British consumers' darkening mood over the economy and the outlook for personal finances, added to signs of a lacklustre second quarter for the economy.
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The company is only the second infrastructure investment fund to list in India after IRB InvIT Fund debuted in May with another lacklustre opening.
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Asian shares struggled after a lacklustre performance on Wall Street as investors looked to U.S. economic data later in the day for potential catalysts.
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Great campaigners can and do sway voters who may disagree with some of their views, while lacklustre ones can disenchant even their natural supporters.
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"Demand conditions in the country appear to be weak, as indicated by lacklustre increases in new orders," said Pollyanna De Lima, economist at Markit.
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Buyer beware Analysts, however, warned that lacklustre yields and a lack of historical data on NPLs may keep sophisticated investors away from these transactions.
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On the other hand, foreign investors net sold Indian equities on concerns over lacklustre third-quarter earnings and uncertainty ahead of the upcoming elections.
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Investors in European banks fret not just about lacklustre growth but also a possible move deeper into negative territory by the ECB in March.
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The cut comes as more than 60% of Indian firms missed their consensus earnings estimates in the June quarter, underscoring a lacklustre earnings performance.
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The cut comes as more than 60% of Indian firms missed their consensus earnings estimates in the June quarter, underscoring a lacklustre earnings performance.
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Young people were encouraged, in fittingly consumerist terms, to "shop around," so that they wouldn't find themselves saddled with a lacklustre steady for life.
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The main obstacle that appears to be discounted by the market is lacklustre demand in the world's top two physical consumers, China and India.
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Many of the automakers, already hit by lacklustre sales, have also been under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on imported vehicles.
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Having fallen down the pecking order at Arsenal, lacklustre loans to Sunderland and Juventus followed, as did a fruitless transfer to the Bundesliga with Wolfsburg.
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After years of strong output and lacklustre demand, copper prices are languishing at around $20203,22020 a tonne, close to January's seven-year low at $211,22020.
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But it also speaks to Labour's lacklustre voice on Europe (notwithstanding the wise appointment of Sir Keir Starmer as its Brexit spokesman) and general funk.
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We expect lending to diversify further over the medium term, reflecting a shift away from the manufacturing sector and lacklustre capital investment opportunities in Taiwan.
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The Economy Ministry said that the development of incoming orders was lacklustre so far this year, suggesting industrial activity would be rather weak in autumn.
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COLOMBO, Feb 20.3 (Reuters) - ** The Sri Lankan rupee rose 21 percent on Wednesday in a lacklustre trade on dollar sales by banks, market sources said.
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Founder and lifelong vegetarian Vikas Garg remembered having to settle for a lacklustre salad at the numerous steak-houses he visited as an investment banker.
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The Australian dollar jumped after the employment data but the lacklustre economic data from China, one of the country's biggest trading partners, limited the gains.
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Lacklustre at club level – he took Middlesbrough down in 270 and was sacked a few months later – he's been England under-222 boss since 21.
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Same store sales rose by 4% in the period, topping market expectations of around 2% after lacklustre growth of 1% in the previous three months.
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The budget statement for the fiscal year starting April 2000 comes as Singapore's trade-reliant S$402 billion ($294 billion)economy faces lacklustre growth prospects.
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But it has always promised more than it has delivered because, although it is an excellent conductor of electricity, its other electronic properties are lacklustre.
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By going after lacklustre management, he argues, he has generated "billions and billions" of dollars for shareholders, while managing to make out just fine himself.
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Profit for the year just ended grew 38.6 percent to 176.4 billion yen, as brisk business at Uniqlo's overseas stores offset a lacklustre performance domestically.
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And despite the industry climate, it's kind of disappointing that the first track in Taylor Swift's new era is her most lacklustre work to date.
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A run of lacklustre economic data has also sowed doubt over how quickly U.S. central bankers can tighten monetary policy in the world's biggest economy.
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The effort is meant to appease Pyongyang, which has criticized the South for lacklustre progress after their leaders agreed to restart economic cooperation in 2018.
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SINGAPORE, Feb 22023 (IFR) - Asian credits were broadly unchanged in a lacklustre market, where some two-way trades were done at prices in narrow ranges.
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The effort is meant to appease Pyongyang, which has criticised the South for lacklustre progress after their leaders agreed to restart economic cooperation in 2018.
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The weakness in Emaar's shares, which are down 10 percent iin the year to date, has been a major factor in the Dubai market's lacklustre performance.
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Bramson's concession indicates broader investor confidence in Chief Executive Jes Staley's plan to boost the lender's lacklustre share price by prioritising growth in the investment bank.
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Shares of Xiaomi fell as much as 10 percent to HK$19.40, a week after it made a lacklustre debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
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The French economy picked up speed in the final quarter of 2016, after a lacklustre performance in the previous two, thanks to consumer and investment spending.
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"With global growth still lacklustre, monetary policy seemingly ineffective and government bond yields unprecedentedly low, the case for fiscal stimulus has become more compelling," Kenningham said.
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As Mr Lamb's campaign kept gaining momentum, out-of-state Republican groups came to Mr Saccone's rescue, funnelling as much as $10m into his lacklustre one.
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The take-up of similar efforts, such as Solid, developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Maidsafe, a Scottish data-sharing network, has been lacklustre.
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McLaren had another lacklustre day, with Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne 17th and 18th respectively in the opening session, although the Spaniard was testing aerodynamic details.
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Export revenues were stable, as copper production grew by more than 40% year on year in Q1 and Q216, counterbalancing the effect of lacklustre mineral prices.
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LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) - Italian banks shone in lacklustre European trading on Thursday after results led by Unicredit whose results indicated its turnaround was gathering pace.
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Citing weaker car sales and lacklustre growth in infrastructure investment, Argonaut Securities analyst Helen Lau said she expects Chinese steel demand to slow down in 2019.
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Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson believes it is now unlikely Merck will decide to file anacetrapib for approval, while Berenberg's Alistair Campbell described the results as lacklustre.
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Yet at a pre-election rally for Malu Dreyer, a brassy, witty local leader who stands out against her lacklustre peers, the mood was remarkably flat.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Uncertainty over Brexit is depressing economic growth in Britain, Chancellor Philip Hammond said on Friday after official data showed lacklustre year-on-year expansion.
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In big cities and university towns the humbled pro-EU Liberal Democrats want to pinch Labour voters fed up with the party's lacklustre pro-EU campaigning.
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And if its overpaid top managers were lacklustre, its supervisory board was fossilised: crammed with elderly doctors and pharmacists who did little to pep it up.
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And I know this because some Sia fans have launched their own lawsuit against the singer for being "impersonal" and "lacklustre" at a gig in Israel.
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Spaniard Muguruza, who lost to Williams in last year's final, looked lacklustre and struggled with the accuracy of her powershots that had thrilled the French crowds.
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The crisis may also empower Mr Wickremesinghe's government, so far lacklustre in its achievements, to push through parts of its agenda that the president has sabotaged.
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Most high-grade euro zone bond yields were lacklustre in early trading, with 10-year Bund yields, the benchmark for the region, edging below 0.30 percent.
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TOKYO, May 9 (Reuters) - Japanese government bond (JGBs) prices were little changed on Thursday as demand remained lacklustre following the previous session's 10-year debt auction.
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But the lowest unemployment rate since the 1970s and an expected improvement in lacklustre productivity growth suggested pay growth was about to rise, the BoE added.
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After a relatively lacklustre week in regional debt markets, driven by headlines related to U.S.-China trade relations, the focus returned to the euro zone economy.
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The S&P/ASX 200 index slid 103% or 79.10 points in lacklustre trading to end at 6,672.20, its biggest one-day drop since June 3.
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Figures released this month show that the economy grew by a lacklustre 2.3% in the year ending in June, its slowest rate in almost five years.
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So the lacklustre outlook for the benchmark equity index revealed in the poll highlights the extent to which Brexit worries are spreading across all British assets.
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German lender Commerzbank was urged by European Central Bank to speed up its restructuring efforts with the region's top financial regulator expressing concern about lacklustre profitability.
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But there has been no significant progress amid tightening sanctions aimed at the North's nuclear and missile programmes, and lacklustre denuclearisation talks between Pyongyang and Washington.
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Seng Yick Tee, senior director of consultancy SIA Energy said lacklustre domestic fuel demand, for gasoline in particular, prompted refiners to curb production amid weakening margins.
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But lacklustre earnings from Netflix and Facebook have triggered losses across the tech sector with Wall Street's tech index shedding 6 percent in the past three sessions.
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After protests in 2014, companies ranging from a local hotel operator to the sprawling Swire conglomerate blamed lacklustre results and weak consumption on the Occupy Central movement.
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"2016 started in a lacklustre way, particularly in European markets and so the bank has evolved quite strongly over the year," Machenil said of the overall business.
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The Australian dollar was a shade higher at $0.7478 , steadying after retreating to a three-month low of $0.7455 the previous day on lacklustre local inflation data.
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TFG said it was "extremely cautious" on expanding in Africa due to a mix of lacklustre economic growth, the high cost of rental agreements and infrastructure bottlenecks.
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A lacklustre economic performance, weak banking sector and a coalition government at odds with the European Commission over the budget deficit have also soured sentiment towards Portugal.
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The tail, the difference between the lowest and average accepted price at the auction, widened to 0.12 yen from 0.02 yen and also pointed to lacklustre demand.
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Software AG reported a decline in third-quarter core profits as its digital, database and consulting divisions all showed lacklustre growth, but affirmed its full-year guidance.
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The Australian dollar was down 0.35 percent at $0.7068 , hit by declines in domestic bond yields and largely lacklustre economic data from China, Australia's major trading partner.
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Bollywood is pinning its hopes on two of this year's biggest films opening on Friday to rev up a lacklustre box office for the festive Diwali season.
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Shenzhen's tech-heavy ChiNext board became a hotbed of speculation and soared to dizzying heights after its 2010 launch, but has had a lacklustre performance since 2015.
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Growth in the first quarter of 2016, due to be revealed as The Economist went to press, was expected to be lacklustre, at less than 1% annualised.
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But beyond a short-term bounce, factors such as lacklustre economic growth in developed markets and shrinking population growth will keep rates lower for longer, said Kwan.
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"The culprit behind their (commodity currencies) lacklustre performance is the oil price in recent days," said Valentin Marinov, head of FX strategy at Credit Agricole in London.
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Despite lacklustre first quarter activity, mergers and acquisition (M&A) financing, particularly backing Chinese companies' overseas purchases, is expected to push volume higher in the second quarter.
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But lacklustre quarterly results from department store operators Nordstrom and J.C. Penney, following weak reports from retailers earlier in the week, reignited jitters about the consumer sector.
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Mid-cap Hochschild Mining, which had slipped 9% on Friday after a lacklustre production outlook for 2020, lost another 5% and sank to near six-month low.
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Markets are betting on more policy easing next year because of the lacklustre outlook for the economy, Asia's fourth-largest, in the face of persisting global uncertainties.
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The company, whose investment banking revenue fell 11 percent to $1.79 billion in the second quarter, has been hit by a lacklustre environment for deals across Asia.
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The performance of the sector may remain weak in 2017 in view of the continuing lacklustre demand for premium class travel, strong competition and the strong US dollar.
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The FTSE itself has traded in a narrow range since June, reflecting a lacklustre sterling as worries over the progress of Brexit negotiations continue to shackle the currency.
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It gained a lacklustre response from investors and ended up with an IPO pricing at US$9 a share, rather than the hoped for US$13 per share.
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Markets were juggling a host of issues, including lacklustre data from Asia's two biggest economies, the ousting of Brazil's president and signs that Spain's political impasse would continue.
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They deserve—and pay for—prime content, not safe, tired, lazy scriptwriting; most reasonable fans would prefer two series of cohesive, captivating narrative, than nine of lacklustre clichés.
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Growth prospects for the eurozone economy have weakened, with the latest PMI figures showing lacklustre growth as weakness in the manufacturing sector is also hitting the services industry.
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The surprisingly low order intake from home added depth to a picture of lacklustre investment among German companies while European peers seem more willing to open their pockets.
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As gold miners seek less geopolitical risk in a lacklustre bullion market, Eldorado agreed to buy fellow Canadian mine developer Integra Gold this summer for C$590 million.
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KAMPALA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The Ugandan shilling traded unchanged on Tuesday, amid lacklustre demand for hard currency from both importers and players in the interbank market, traders said.
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The common currency was lacklustre against the dollar, touching a four-week low of $1.1216, before recovering to $1.10.2, up 0.2 percent from late U.S. levels on Friday.
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The move follows its buyback of around $1 billion worth of shares in August, which CEO Masayoshi Son had said was a response to its lacklustre share price.
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Demand from North Asia, the world's biggest importing region, is also lacklustre amid high inventory even as new supply enters the market from Australia and the United States.
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Many of the most contentious measures, however, are blocked in the Senate while record low wages growth and lacklustre nominal growth have badly crimped the government's revenue take.
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Japan's benchmark Nikkei share average rose as first-quarter economic growth proved firmer than expected, although market gains were limited as data also pointed towards lacklustre domestic demand.
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Meanwhile, a stable but lacklustre economic outlook is expected to push the European Central Bank to tweak its asset purchase programme and announce an extension by year-end.
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"World demand remains lacklustre and is subject to significant risks of downside revisions due to trade war concerns and disappointing macroeconomic data," Intesa Sanpaolo analyst Daniela Corsini said.
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The United States has for years called on countries with current account surpluses to do more to lift their domestic demand, which has been perceived to be lacklustre.
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Ronaldo has come in for serious criticism after his lacklustre performances against Iceland and Austria, failing to score in either game and missing a penalty in the latter.
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Output expectations were muted in December, with the degree of confidence at the second-lowest level for over two years, as respondents cited lacklustre global and domestic demand.
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Unclubbable and post-ideological, Mrs May is held in office only by the fact that the Conservative Party fears a leadership contest more than it fears her lacklustre leadership.
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"The trade outlook for the region remains quite lacklustre so we think this NODX slump could drag into the second quarter," said Selena Ling, an economist at OCBC Bank.
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Business investment fell every quarter last year due to uncertainty about how Britain will leave the European Union, and most economists think it will be lacklustre again in 2019.
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A late recovery in crude oil prices on Wednesday helped drag Wall Street higher at the close, after lacklustre economic data weighed on sentiment for much of the session.
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S. trade talks lift rest of the market HONG KONG, Feb 22.5 (Reuters) - Hong Kong stocks ended flat in lacklustre session on Friday, as optimism from the Sino-U.
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Last September's election saw a surge in support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD); it took Mrs Merkel six months to cobble together a lacklustre new coalition.
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TOKYO, May 16 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds edged down slightly on Monday, with the 30-year zone still feeling the effects of lacklustre results at an auction last week.
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Simon Walker, the head of the Institute of Directors, another big business-association, fingers the government's lacklustre support for exporters on the ground, despite all the ministerial jet-setting.
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China's auto market is likely to see growth of around 3 percent this year, CAAM said last month, in what would be a second straight year of lacklustre growth.
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However, the French economy picked up speed in the final quarter of 2016, after a lacklustre performance in the previous two, thanks to more buoyant consumer and investment spending.
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Italy's postal service provider said on Wednesday its third-quarter operating profit was almost flat year-on-year due to a lacklustre performance of its mail and parcel business.
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After slashing rates to record lows and pumping 2.6 trillion euros of cheap cash into the economy since 2015, inflation remains below its near 2% target and growth lacklustre.
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Rich economies are expected to grow at roughly the same lacklustre pace as they did in 22020—the euro zone's, almost exactly the same: 1.3%, against 1.2% last year.
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These increases belie a lacklustre growth picture in a region reliant on stubbornly weak exports, which are set to demand more rate cuts and push bond yields even lower.
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"On current policies, staff projects a lacklustre growth recovery from an estimated 0.4% in 2019 to 0.8% in 2020 and 1.5% percent in the outer years," the IMF said.
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Soeder, who replaced the lacklustre leader Horst Seehofer as CSU leader, may have had his mind on the same prize with his 40-minute speech, which received rapturous applause.
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Concerns over fees and performance have generated a groundswell of consumer disquiet in Britain and the United States about the vague language retirement funds use to justify lacklustre performance.
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Analysts said the deal could boost China's export activity and corporate investment in the near term, but its economic outlook would continue to be challenged by lacklustre global growth.
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COLOMBO, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee was steady in lacklustre trading on Friday ahead of a long weekend, amid little importer demand for the dollar, dealers said.
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Trading in both investment-grade and high-yield names was less active than earlier in the week in line with lacklustre performance in regional equities markets today, traders said.
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As for the Haim sisters themselves, they show no sign of attempting to be anything they're not, or feeling lacklustre about an industry they've always been a part of.
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KAMPALA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The Ugandan shilling traded stable on Tuesday on the back of lacklustre appetite for hard currency from both merchandise importers and players in the interbank market.
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The lacklustre partial spin-off on May 10th of the American life-insurance unit of AXA, a French insurer, is just the latest sign of worries about the industry's prospects.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb 21 (Reuters) - South Africa's Woolworths Holdings reported on Thursday a 2.9 percent drop in half-year earnings, while the retailer's lacklustre fashion, beauty and home businesses dented sales.
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Last year, the company shut its doors after its aggressive recruiting practices and its students' lacklustre record in the job market prompted the DoE to turn off the federal spigot.
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The Japanese currency has been boosted by safety-seeking flows driven by Brexit worries, but also the government's decision to delay a sales tax hike due to the lacklustre economy.
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The Australian dollar was down 0.35 percent at $0.7068 , hit by sharp declines in domestic bond yields and a largely lacklustre batch economic data from Australia's major trading partner China.
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Given how heavily small- and medium-sized businesses—which account for 90% of the total in Italy—rely on bank financing, that bodes ill for the country's lacklustre economic recovery.
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Growth in the UK's construction industry accelerated to a four-month high in April, adding to tentative signs the economy might be recovering momentum after a lacklustre start to 2017.
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They are furious at his lacklustre opposition to Brexit (some reckon he tried to sabotage the Remain campaign) and spooked by the possibility of a general election in the autumn.
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However, with bets on sterling at their most bullish in years and forecasters predicting more gains, the lacklustre data will encourage some investors to take profits after the recent rally.
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"Market was lacklustre as investors remained on the sidelines because of the upcoming Eid holidays and lack of triggers," said Muhammad Rizwan, head of sales at Topline Securities Pvt Ltd.
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Analysts say the withdrawal of funds by foreign institutional investors and lacklustre market activity at the year-end could see the indexes trade in a small range throughout the month.
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In the tech sector, Software AG fell 3.7 percent and it reported a decline in third-quarter core profits as its digital, database and consulting divisions all showed lacklustre growth.
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Elections will probably be held in September, the HDZ has plunged into a leadership battle and the polls show that the lacklustre Social Democrats might lead the next governing coalition.
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Japan's Nikkei was all but flat, as was the South Korean market E-Mini futures for the S&P 2107.33 edged up 212% after a lacklustre session on Wall Street.
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Saudi stocks made a lacklustre start to the week due to weakness in financial stocks amid profit taking after robust gains in the Gulf region's biggest stock market this year.
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Bank profitability will remain lacklustre and under pressure, owing to another likely cut in the benchmark one-year lending rate and further migration of deposits toward wealth management products (WMPs).
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Analysts cited a note by UBS which questioned whether investors had seen the 2016 peak for miners, as April data from China, the world's biggest consumer of metals, proved lacklustre.
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Europe's domestic politics also kept downward pressure on German yields after Andrea Nahles, leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) announcing she would resign after her party's lacklustre performance in European Elections.
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Most economists think inflation neared the BoE's 2 percent target last month, after undershooting it for three years which helped support households' disposable income during a period of lacklustre wage growth.
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But at least HSBC can draw on other sources of strength as it attempts to lift the division's lacklustre return on tangible equity towards a modest 6 percent target next year.
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But as usual the devil is in the detail and the seemingly lacklustre performance by the world's largest importer of commodities may not be quite as weak as it first appears.
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The budget statement came as Singapore's trade-reliant S$250 billion ($230 billion) economy has been buffeted by a slowdown in China and tepid global demand, and faces lacklustre growth prospects.
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That fall, plus record low wages growth, a lacklustre job market and core inflation below the RBA's target band of 2-3 percent, all argue against a rise in official rates.
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The strength in the main indexes, both of which hit their highest levels since early January, contrasts with the lacklustre performance recently in China's growth board ChiNext , which was roughly flat.
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Europe's domestic politics kept downward pressure on German yields after Andrea Nahles, leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD), announced she would resign after her party's lacklustre performance in European Parliament elections.
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Yet the lacklustre performance of pronatalist policies elsewhere in the world suggests that it would take vast investments to raise fertility, and that making child care cheaper should be a priority.
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SHANGHAI, April 26.7392 (Reuters) - China stocks rose on Tuesday despite lacklustre factory activity data, with some analysts saying that sharp corrections recently have largely reflected expectations of a slower economic growth.
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Thales raised its dividend 21 percent to 1.36 euros after posting higher-than-expected core profit and record orders for 2015, kicking into a higher gear after years of lacklustre growth.
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Jim Hackett, a new boss brought in because of his technology know-how, oversaw a lacklustre relaunch in October that was sketchy on Ford's vision for the future of transport services.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Software AG reported a decline in third-quarter core profits as its digital, database and consulting divisions all showed lacklustre growth, but affirmed its full-year guidance.
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The Amazon partnership, he said, could turn around BT's fortunes given that BT TV has recorded losses for the past two quarters and subscriber growth has been lacklustre in recent years.
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Appearing exasperated with the EU's austerity policies has a double advantage: it casts the blame for Italy's lacklustre economic performance elsewhere and lends Mr Renzi an air of fashionable euro-scepticism.
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The dollar slipped against a trade-weighted basket of currencies on lacklustre U.S. wage data that could weigh on the pace of interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve next year.
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But even with Mr Cranston's debonair swagger and bristling moustache, Jay Roach's lacklustre biopic of Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter, won't appeal to anyone except current screenwriters with masochistic tendencies.
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REUTERS - India's stock markets ended 0.1 percent lower on Monday in lacklustre trading as markets took a breather after Friday's more than 2 percent gains, ahead of the RBI's monetary policy.
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The company had cut its full-year net profit after tax forecast in May to A$230 million from A$235 million to 240 million, citing lacklustre performance by Good Guys.
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MILAN, March 12 (Reuters) - Italy's biggest private broadcaster, Mediaset, reported a 4 percent fall in 2018 net revenues on Tuesday, roughly in line with market forecasts, but painted a lacklustre outlook.
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In October, Mubadala backed out of a plan to list 25 percent of Cepsa on the Madrid stock exchange citing uncertainty in international capital markets and lacklustre appetite among international investors.
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But in the meantime Mr Moynihan's response to the lacklustre first-quarter results gives a good sense of Bank of America's strategic impasse: he promised to cut costs even more fiercely.
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Sub-Saharan Africa's second biggest stock market had put in a lacklustre performance after a sharp fall in crude prices from mid-2014 led foreign investors to flee its financial markets.
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Svitolina, making her second appearance at the season-ender, appeared focused and determined to make amends for a lacklustre display a year ago when she exited in the round robin phase.
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DUBAI, July 26.55 (Reuters) - Stock markets in the Gulf were soft in early trade on Sunday, weighed down by weak oil prices and a lacklustre set of second-quarter corporate results.
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KAMPALA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The Ugandan shilling traded in the same position on Tuesday from a day earlier as inflows of hard currency from some commodity exporters met with lacklustre demand.
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Railway stocks such as Kalindee Rail Nirman Engineers slumped after the government announced a railway budget for the year starting in April 2016 that was seen as lacklustre for the sector.
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"The outlook for the local currency remains that of stability over the coming week due to lacklustre demand and supply of dollars," said a trader at Commercial Bank of Africa Tanzania.
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"There are good reasons, still, to expect a soft landing ... (but) medium-term growth prospects remain lacklustre," the IMF said in a so-called Article IV Consultation, a regular surveillance exercise.
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DUBAI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Petrochemical stocks could bolster Saudi Arabia's benchmark on Tuesday, while other Middle East bourses will be lacklustre as selling pressure ebbs and buyers await fourth-quarter results.
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"Overall, the economy grew slightly in the latest 3 months, with growth in construction pulled back by weakening services and another lacklustre performance from manufacturing," ONS statistician Rob Kent-Smith said.
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Investors also overlooked lacklustre data from the euro zone and the United Kingdom as the focus remained on trade and Brexit - two factors that have weighed on global markets this year.
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Standard Chartered reported falling income and lacklustre third quarter trading on top of fresh compliance worries on Tuesday, laying bare the task it faces to rebuild revenues hurt by a sweeping overhaul.
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DUBAI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Gulf stock markets may have a soft tone on Thursday as global markets sag, and after lacklustre earnings reports by some major United Arab Emirates and Qatari companies.
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London-focussed housebuilder Berkeley Group was a top gainer among lacklustre mid-caps, up 2.2 percent after its full-year results beat expectations with a 53 percent increase in profits before tax.
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The last was Bill Clinton, who won a plurality, though not a majority of the state's votes in 1996 thanks to two factors: a lacklustre Republican opponent and a vigorous independent candidate.
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Lacklustre corporate results and a Moody's report saying Sri Lanka could face significantly tighter external refinancing conditions in the next five years, have also dented investor appetite for riskier assets, analysts added.
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A swathe of weak data this week including a widening trade deficit and lacklustre Christmas trading results from top British retailers including Tesco has left investors wary about the longer term outlook.
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Top software exporter Tata Consultancy Services Ltd reported earlier this month lacklustre revenue growth, while No. 2 rival Infosys cut its annual revenue growth guidance for the second time in three months.
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London-focused house builder Berkeley Group also made gains among lacklustre mid-caps, up 2.1 percent after its full-year results beat expectations with a 53 percent increase in profits before tax.
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United have failed to qualify for the knock-out stages of the lucrative European Champions League and some lacklustre displays have led to speculation about the future of manager Louis van Gaal.
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The bank said the commodity price rout, particularly for oil which fell 67 percent from June 2014 to December 2015, as well as weak global growth were behind the region's lacklustre performance.
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"After their lacklustre performance in the past year, exports are rebounding in 252.93," DIHK economist Volker Treier said, adding demand from emerging markets such as China, Brazil, Russia and India was rising.
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After the lacklustre performance of last year's big-budget film Dilwale, Fan should give Khan plenty of scope to showcase his acting skills and give his followers something to look forward to.
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TOKYO, May 210 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds gained on Thursday, shrugging off the effect of the previous session's lacklustre 2200-year auction as slumping stock prices gave bond market sentiment a lift.
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After lacklustre scoreless draws against South Africa and Iraq, he was mocked by fans, some of who contrasted him unfavourably with Marta, who wears the number 10 for the Brazil women's team.
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Activity was lacklustre in Hong Kong as well, where gold was sold at anywhere from a discount of 30 cents to a $1.20 premium, compared with premiums of $0.50-$1.20 last week.
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For most Canadians, the cost and speed of internet are notoriously pretty brutal, but nobody is harder hit by the country's lacklustre telecom space than the people who live in rural communities.
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The sale will address a limited number of potential bidders, one of the sources said, after previous sale attempts by Chequers Capital were aborted around two years ago due to lacklustre interest.
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LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Emerging market stocks fell on Monday although currencies mostly strengthened against a lacklustre dollar as investors awaited policy direction from the White House on a range of issues.
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Foreign interest in securities joint ventures involving Chinese partners has steadily waned over the past decade, due to lacklustre performance and differences over strategy - the latter aggravated by the lack of control.
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Swiss power grids maker ABB said it would buy the General Electric's unit in September $2.6 billion in a bet it can improve the division's lacklustre margins over the next five years.
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Toshiba, with businesses spanning power systems, semiconductors and home appliances, has faced calls to boost lacklustre share performance from activist shareholders, who participated in a 600 billion yen share issuance in late 2017.
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As concerns in the tech industry centre on the sales of high-profile tech gadgets such as Apple Inc's iPhone X, some analysts expect any lacklustre performance there to hit the island's exports.
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It crumpled on Thursday though following lacklustre U.S. employment data and having been buffeted by a surge in the Chinese yuan as Beijing made moves to shake out large bets against its currency.
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"There is accelerating physical gold demand in Asia and particularly in India which has helped prices," Commerzbank commodity analyst Carsten Fritsch said, adding that Indian demand had improved after lacklustre sales last year.
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Given that India buys almost exclusively thermal coal for power plants from Indonesia, this suggests that the availability of domestic coal has improved, and perhaps also that electricity demand growth has been lacklustre.
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"Overall office rentals across Singapore continue to slide under pressure of oversupply and lacklustre demand as the market saw the fifth consecutive quarter-on-quarter rental decline in the third quarter," Colliers said.
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SINGAPORE, Feb 5 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures were steady in lacklustre early Asian trading on Friday as liquidity faded ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday across large parts of the region.
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The lacklustre performance also reflected falls in developed markets following Tuesday's hawkish-sounding comments from new Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, which revived fears the Fed will tighten more quickly than previously expected.
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Brunelle sets store by Macron's ability to bridge a traditional gulf between left and right and forge wide backing for the liberal-minded reforms he wants to introduce to boost a lacklustre economy.
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He had outspent all his rivals and a year ago was the favourite to become the party's candidate, but a lacklustre campaign left him way behind Donald Trump and most of the others.
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The nation's biggest software services company reported an 1.63 percent rise in second-quarter profit amid lacklustre revenue growth as its financial sector clients delayed discretionary spending due to an uncertain business climate.
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MILAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Italy's postal service provider said on Wednesday its third-quarter operating profit was almost flat year-on-year due to a lacklustre performance of its mail and parcel business.
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A surge in LNG production from new liquefaction plants around the world coupled with lacklustre demand in Asia has prompted an influx of imports into Europe, helping to depress natural gas prices there.
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PA said on Friday that sales growth accelerated in the first quarter, reflecting robust sales in Brazil, Spain and Italy, and a lacklustre performance in France, which suffered from tough year-ago comparables.
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Still, neither factor shed much light on progress in U.S.-China negotiations, and lacklustre trading so far this week suggests optimism that a resolution is near is beginning to run out of steam.
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European markets, however, are poised for a more lacklustre start, with financial spreadbetter CMC Markets expecting Britain's FTSE 100 to open 0.1 percent lower, and Germany's DAX and France's CAC 40 to be flat.
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"The correlation between the dollar and U.S. yields still remains relatively strong, and it is being weighed down after the lacklustre GDP release," said Junichi Ishikawa, senior FX strategist at IG Securities in Tokyo.
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But veteran China watchers had said export gains may be due more to seasonal factors than any sudden turnaround in lacklustre global demand, as shipments were expected to jump after long holidays in February.
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But Salvini's comments came at a time of heightened sensitivity to Italian risk due to broader investor nervousness, the proximity of the European Parliament elections and after a lacklustre Italian bond auction on Tuesday.
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Oil prices have dipped for seven straight weeks, also because of concerns about lacklustre demand in emerging markets and because a strong dollar makes it dearer for those with weak currencies to buy crude.
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The dollar took support on Friday from strong U.S. retail sales and producer price data for September, another sign that the U.S. economy regained momentum in the third quarter after a lacklustre first half.
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Elected in February, the 290-seat assembly replaces one dominated by hardliners suspicious of detente with the West and who curbed pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's plans to liberalise the economy and raise lacklustre productivity.
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COLOMBO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - ** The Sri Lankan rupee closed higher on Thursday, a day ahead of the central bank's policy rates review, boosted by dollar sales by banks in lacklustre trade, market sources said.
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But lacklustre wage growth also showed the challenge facing Prime Minister Theresa May and her minority government, with growing signs that households are feeling the strain of rising prices since last year's Brexit vote.
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With Vettel sidelined and Mercedes back up to speed after two lacklustre weekends, Hamilton's afternoon should have consisted of a straightforward drive to victory but late tyre vibrations allowed Verstappen to reel him in.
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Fitch expects GGGD to remain on a downward trajectory over the 2016-2018 forecast horizon, but the rate of decline will slow as the economy faces weak global trade volumes and lacklustre domestic demand.
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As the dollar's strength ebbed, emerging market currencies and commodities also began to recover, while Wall Street was expected to see a lacklustre start having risen on Wednesday in reaction to Trump's tax blueprint.
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Britain is not alone in struggling to reduce debt against a backdrop of lacklustre growth since the financial crisis, with Germany the only big advanced economy to have a lower debt-to-GDP ratio.
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TOKYO, April 2450 (Reuters) - Japanese government bonds firmed on Monday, with superlong yields touching multi-month lows as JGBs took cue from falling U.S. Treasury yields in the wake of their lacklustre economic data.
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Risk sentiment was also dampened by weak Chinese inflation and new loans data released on the weekend, adding to dismal trade figures on Friday and pointed to lacklustre demand in Australia's largest trading partner.
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The latest interruption adds to challenges faced by Chief Executive Loh, as the SGX battles lacklustre securities trading volumes and tries to improve scrutiny on trading activities following a penny stock crash in 2013.
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Recent positioning data showed that some investors pared their long dollar positions ahead of the jobs report, amid concerns that a spate of lacklustre data would prompt the Fed to alter its hawkish plans.
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Positioning has swung from being bullish sterling to being broadly neutral in recent weeks, with long sterling bets unwound heavily as markets grew wary about the prospects of a transition deal and lacklustre data.
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On Friday, Italian luxury goods maker Prada reported a 27 percent fall in quarterly profit, hit by lacklustre sales in China which have waned alongside slowing economic growth and a crackdown on conspicuous spending.
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Despite being big buyers of LNG, Asian firms such as JERA and PetroChina have sought to expand their portfolio trading to optimise costs and as demand in Japan and China remained lacklustre this year.
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Despite being big buyers of LNG, Asian firms such as JERA and PetroChina have sought to expand their portfolio trading to optimise costs and as demand in Japan and China remained lacklustre this year.
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The surprise move from the BoE, which — on the day that Britain's budget opened the taps on spending — also announced measures to support bank lending, initially lifted shares after a lacklustre session in Asia.
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Switzerland's UBS Group AG appointed former Credit Suisse Group AG executive Iqbal Khan as co-president of its wealth management division as the company moves to address concerns about succession planning and lacklustre performance.
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Ultra-low interest rates and competition for a lacklustre loan market have pressured bank margins in Spain, steadily trimming income from lending and forcing them to focus on other revenue sources and new markets.
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Still, lacklustre demand for Opel's Insignia sedan has forced Ruesselsheim to almost halve output to 68,000 vehicles this year, and to start shorter working hours, calling into question the need for current staff levels.
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Meanwhile, cash differentials for jet fuel cargoes in Singapore JET-SIN-DIF were at a discount of 25 cents a barrel to Singapore quotes on Tuesday amid lacklustre buying interests in the physical market.
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But after a lacklustre morning session, the CSI21.1144 index turned higher and was last up 20.19%, helped by data showing the country's industrial output growth and retail sales jumped more than expected in November.
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Maersk has been hit by low oil prices at its energy arm and sliding prices in its shipping business in recent years due to lacklustre global trade and a glut of available ships for hire.
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Germany's current account surplus has been a source of discord for years with the United States, the IMF and some euro zone peers, which have urged it to do more to boost lacklustre domestic demand.
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That lacklustre U.S. data meant the dollar was struggling to rise above a 10-month low in early European trading having watched commodity-based — and therefore China-linked — Australian and Canadian dollars jet higher overnight.
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Expectations of a rate rise have been a major driver of sterling's gains in recent days while the euro has suffered from from more top policymakers' comments about its recent strength, and some lacklustre data.
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DeChambeau's birdie at the 18th hole moved him into a share of the lead and give the five-time PGA Tour event winner some momentum heading into the final round after an otherwise lacklustre performance.
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The aim was to boost the country's lacklustre economic growth and fulfil at least some of the costly promises the two parties in the coalition had made to voters at the general election in March.
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SEOUL, Nov 25 (IFR) - The lacklustre performance of recent Chinese investment-grade bonds continued today, in a further sign that the domestic onshore bid is not enough to counter the impact of volatile credit markets.
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On the positive side, Carrefour rose 3.9 percent after saying that sales rose in its key European markets of Spain and Italy and in Brazil in the first quarter, offsetting a lacklustre performance in France.
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Meanwhile Japan, where gold was sold at par with the global benchmark, continued to see lacklustre demand as the industrial sector remained apprehensive about the state of the global economy, a Tokyo-based trader said.
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European stock markets followed a lacklustre Asian session, putting the MSCI gauge of global stocks on course to end seven days of gains, as reports of renewed tension in U.S.-China trade talks frayed nerves.
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The dollar remained firmly on the back foot after being hit this week by lacklustre economic data and dovish comments from some Fed officials that curtailed expectations of a near-term U.S. interest rate hike.
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European data showing factory activity contracted at the fastest pace in nearly six years and lacklustre U.S. figures were fanning fears that weaker global growth will sap demand for commodities, said Commerzbank analyst Daniel Briesemann.
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We believe that maintaining a high dividend payout will constrain the group's deleveraging capacity, especially in the context of a lacklustre industry environment, where FFO growth alone is unlikely to deliver the needed debt reduction.
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Of course, demand for safe assets has been high for lots of reasons -- global politics, a lacklustre outlook for world trade and growth, and an ageing population that spurs pension funds to buy more bonds.
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Mr Amari's exit came at an awkward time for Mr Abe as he tries to boost a stubbornly lacklustre economy (though it may get a lift thanks to the Bank of Japan's interest-rate decision).
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The lacklustre read-out of data from the currency bloc's two biggest economies backs European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's assessment that the growth outlook is deteriorating and the bank should inject more monetary stimulus.
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Alcon's problems have coincided not only with the patent expiration of its blockbuster cancer drug Gleevec but also with the lacklustre launch of Novartis's new heart failure medicine Entresto, which in 2016 missed sales expectations.
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COLOMBO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares closed marginally higher on Tuesday in lacklustre trade as investors awaited cues from the September-quarter corporate results and the national budget scheduled to be presented next week.
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Zadshi has been almost entirely dependent on annual cotton and soybean crops that, according to farmers, have given lacklustre returns in the past few years due to a dip in prices, droughts and pest attacks.
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ESR's stake purchases in Singapore REITs come as smaller industrial trusts bear the brunt of falling rentals and higher vacancies, with troubled offshore marine services firms and manufacturing companies cutting operations in a lacklustre economy.
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"We are in a situation where bad news is good news," said Silvia Dall'Angelo, senior economist at Hermes Investment Management, noting the recent dovish signal from Fed Chair Jerome Powell and recent lacklustre U.S. data.
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Late Night host Seth Meyers highlighted the lacklustre U.S. response to the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday, noting that while the CDC has tested just over 1,500 people, South Korea has tested over 90 times more.
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Substitute Jeffrey Schlupp delivered the winner in the 76th minute to punish a lacklustre Bournemouth side who played with a one-man advantage from the 19th minute when Palace defender Mamadou Sakho was red-carded.
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REFINANCINGS, A&E FLURRY Asian companies took advantage of lending appetite among liquid banks in a lacklustre dealflow environment and pushed hard to complete refinancings and amend and extend existing deals on more favourable terms.
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SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, March 21.4 (Reuters) - Australian stocks struggled to gain traction on Friday due largely to lacklustre performance by the big banks and miners, while New Zealand consolidated after scaling an all-time high on Thursday.
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While the earnings outlook in Europe has brightened significantly from the lacklustre growth seen since 2010, both corporate profits and margins remain well below prior peaks and have significantly lagged those in the United States. reut.
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COLOMBO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan stocks ended marginally higher on Monday in lacklustre trading as bargain-hunting investors picked up battered shares, but political instability and a rise in interest rates capped gains, brokers said.
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"We are of view that the price rebound should not be sustained in view of possible over-expectation of Chinese stimulus, lacklustre auto market, high utilisation rates of Chinese smelters and weak alumina prices," Lau added.
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A lacklustre auction on Wednesday saw 30-year debt sold at a record low yield of -0.11%, but it raised only 824 million euros of bonds maturing in 2050 versus a target of 2 billion euros.
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After recent lacklustre share performance - the stock has lost almost a third of its value since hitting all-time highs in July last year - shareholders would likely welcome a takeover, said William Blair analyst Dylan Carden.
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The lacklustre read-out of data from the zone's two biggest economies on Tuesday backed European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's assessment that the growth outlook is deteriorating and the bank should inject more monetary stimulus.
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The blue-chip index ended a lacklustre session about flat, lagging its European peers, while the FTSE 250 held on to its six-month high with a 0.5 percent rise as a stronger pound also aided.
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In recent times many have dismissed the once-dominant party as a wobbly collection of has-beens, lacking any message or solid base and saddled with the increasingly lacklustre hereditary leadership of the Nehru/Gandhi dynasty.
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The index ended a four-session winning run overnight on lacklustre U.S. data and was struggling to regain traction as 10-year Treasury yields dipped 2 basis points as investors returned to the safety of bonds.
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"The euro's reaction highlights the heightened sensitivity of the currency towards any good news from Europe after recent lacklustre data," said Kamal Sharma, director of G10 FX strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London.
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Though the conflict has cooled, fresh signs of tension have been evident recently as the ECB contemplates even more stimulus to lift still lacklustre inflation and calls on Germany to do spend more to boost growth.
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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mako Global Investors (MGI) is shutting a European equities hedge fund it launched just 16.153 months ago after lacklustre returns and plunging investor interest, a source close to the firm told Reuters.
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It also comes at a time when labour market conditions have worsened amid lacklustre economic growth, with job redundancies in 2016 hitting a seven-year high and total employment recording the smallest increase in 13 years.
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Asian shares set a fresh two-year high, boosted by stronger-than-expected economic growth in China and bets that lacklustre U.S. data will keep the Federal Reserve cautious about the pace of further policy tightening.
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Lacklustre gains across the industry caused investors to yank $28 billion from hedge funds overall in the third quarter this year, the largest outflow in a quarter since the second quarter of 2009, HFR data showed.
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"The Apprentice" was so successful that, by the time the second season launched, Trump's lacklustre tie-in products were being edged out by blue-chip companies willing to pay handsomely to have their wares featured onscreen.
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The dollar garnered support on Friday from strong U.S. retail sales and producer price numbers for September - the latest indication that the U.S. economy regained its momentum in the third quarter after a lacklustre first half.
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Lenovo, however, posted a loss attributable to shareholders of $20.3 million for the year, versus a $535 million profit a year ago, on higher component costs, a $400 million tax writedown and a lacklustre smartphone business.
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The surprise move from the BoE which - on the day that Britain's budget is set to open the taps on spending - also announced measures to support bank lending, lifted shares after a lacklustre session in Asia.
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The surprise move from the BoE which — on the day that Britain's budget is set to open the taps on spending — also announced measures to support bank lending, lifted shares after a lacklustre session in Asia.
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Meanwhile, state officials in Kerala, Punjab and West Bengal say they are also opposed to any cut in tax rates in the autos sector, or even consumer goods, because of lacklustre tax collections this fiscal year.
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"I think its a lacklustre market mood today, that tone was set with the muted FX response to Trump signing the HK bill late on Wednesday," said Amo Sahota, director at Klarity FX in San Francisco.
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British equities were little moved by data showing growth in the country's construction industry accelerated in April, adding to tentative signs that the economy might be recovering a little momentum after a lacklustre start to 2017.
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Wall Street ended the week with a lacklustre session on Friday as investors were cautious ahead of a holiday weekend in which a fresh round of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports were due to be levied.
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Corbyn has resisted pressure to quit over what critics say was his lacklustre effort to keep Britain inside the EU, saying on Sunday that he would stand again in any leadership election triggered by the party revolt.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers have turned gloomier about the economy and the outlook for their personal finances, according to a survey by market researchers GfK that adds to signs of a lacklustre second quarter for the economy.
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TOKYO, April 23 (Reuters) - Long-dated Japanese government bond prices gained on Tuesday as investors stepped up purchases ahead of the long Golden Week holiday and a lacklustre session in Tokyo stocks lifted the appeal of debt.
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LONDON, June 2118.47 (Reuters) - Emerging stocks traded just off one-month highs on Wednesday, as lacklustre factory data in Asia underscored sluggish economic growth across the developing world and the Chinese yuan approached a five-year low.
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A delight in an often lacklustre Emmys, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby pretty much stole the show on Monday with her brilliantly dry, but very funny bit while handing out the Outstanding Director for a Drama Series award.
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The equivalent in economics is the hunt for common causes for the rich-world macroeconomic trends of the past decade or so: a shrinking share of the economic pie for workers, disappointing investment and lacklustre productivity growth.
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The people problem is most acute among the Lib Dems, who are led by a quintessential yesterday's man, the 74-year-old Sir Vince Cable, and are represented in Parliament by 12 lacklustre MPs and 98 peers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling traded close to a two-week low on Monday, with a run of lacklustre data casting doubt over the Bank of England's recent warnings that it is on the verge of raising borrowing costs.
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Chief Financial Officer Carlo Ferro, who is set to retire later in 2018, said ST is taking advantage of structural growth in automotive and industrial markets and in certain favourable segments of the otherwise lacklustre smartphone market.
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World number two retailer Carrefour said on Friday that sales growth accelerated in the first quarter, reflecting robust sales in Brazil, Spain and Italy, and a lacklustre performance in France, which suffered from tough year-ago comparables.
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LONDON, July 26 (Reuters) - British finance minister Philip Hammond said the government could not be complacent about economic growth and needed to boost productivity and investment, after official figures showed a lacklustre performance so far this year.
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His government has been lambasted for a lacklustre investigation into the disappearance and presumed mass murder of forty-three teacher trainees, a crime that involved state police and, allegedly, local politicians, the military, and a drug cartel.
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The juxtaposition of "badass martial artist" and "recognizable movie star" also rings a little strange, but that could be in response to the fan black-lash against Danny Rand's lacklustre fighting skills in Marvel's Iron Fist series.
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ALUMINIUM: Aluminum Corp of China, reported a 10.4% year-on-year fall in aluminium production in July-September to 950,000 tonnes and said sales fell 13.8% to 163,000 tonnes, indicating lacklustre demand in China, the top consumer.
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COLOMBO, June 29 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares fell for an eighth straight session on Wednesday as sentiment continued to be lacklustre following a minister's comments a day earlier on the imposition of capital gains tax on equities.
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LONDON, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The Russian rouble firmed 23 percent to touch two-month highs on Wednesday, benefiting from oil prices at 2-1/2 year highs and leading most emerging currencies higher against a lacklustre dollar.
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Elsewhere, investors trimmed euro zone equity holdings by 1.2 percentage points to 16 percent, but some 88 percent of poll respondents who answered a special question did not think euro zone growth had peaked, despite lacklustre data.
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Aluminum Corp of China reported a 10.4% year-on-year fall in aluminium production for the July-September period to 950,000 tonnes and said sales fell 13.8% to 163,000 tonnes, indicating lacklustre demand in top consumer China.
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KAMPALA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The Ugandan shilling traded unchanged on Thursday amid lacklustre activity on both counters and traders said they expected it to remain broadly stable on the back of thin importer appetite for hard currency.
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But after a lacklustre morning session, the CSI300 index turned higher in the afternoon and was last up 0.3%, helped by data showing the country's industrial output growth and retail sales jumped more than expected in November.
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Although share markets were lacklustre on Tuesday, there is not much pessimism in Asia at present, thanks to a jump in oil prices and investor expectations of an extended phase of easy monetary policy around the globe.
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But IFR reported in July that some Greek banks were growing increasingly pessimistic about the prospects of selling large chunks of their 110 billion euro stockpile of bad loans following a series of lacklustre bids from international investors.
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But it comes at a time of heightened sensitivity to Italian risk due to the proximity to the European elections, heightened tensions within Italy's ruling coalition, the U.S. trade war with China, and after a lacklustre bond auction.
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Amid lacklustre demand from private investors, many of whom have balked at what they see as artificial pricing, support from the banks has enabled municipalities to meet central government targets to switch expensive loans into low-interest bonds.
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It was within reach of a two-week low of $1.2855 plumbed overnight after a run of lacklustre data cast doubt over the Bank of England's recent warnings that it is on the verge of raising borrowing costs.
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The IEA also attributed lacklustre demand growth in the first half of the year to a slowdown in the petrochemicals industry in Europe, warmer than average weather in the northern hemisphere and stalled U.S. gasoline and diesel demand.
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"Cements came back into limelight, following a lacklustre session yesterday, on the back of better than previously reported cement dispatches for the month of March," said Gohar Rasool, head of international sales at Inter Market Securities Pvt Ltd.
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The Turkish woes came against a backdrop of generally lacklustre emerging equity markets which are being rattled by signs of a renewed and prolonged downturn in world growth with little sign of any pick up in developing countries.
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Tim Farron, the leader of Britain's pro-European Union Liberal Democrat Party, resigned on Wednesday after a lacklustre election campaign in which the party lost votes and failed to break through with its promise of second Brexit referendum.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Trading in Vietnamese coffee was lacklustre this week as buyers waited on the sidelines ahead of the arrival of the country's new crop, which is expected to begin in about two months, traders said on Tuesday.
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The difference between what investors demand to hold 21.1222- or 20.5-year government bonds compared to short-term 21.32-year debt has been climbing sharply, but yields fell broadly on Friday after Thursday's lacklustre U.S. retail sales data.
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Its August forecast for growth this year was lacklustre at 1.4 percent, which would be the weakest annual expansion since 2012 as the inflationary effect of sterling's post-Brexit fall hurt consumers and trade worries dented business demand.
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The index has posted a lacklustre performance so far this year as investors await for policy signals that could lift economic growth, which is stuck in low gear after the country emerged from a recession two years ago.
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Shares of Woolworths fell 3% by midafternoon, more than a broader market decline of 2.3% amid fears about the spread of the coronavirus, as investors looked past a rise in underlying profit and focused on its lacklustre outlook.
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Shares of Woolworths fell 3% by midafternoon, more than a broader market decline of 2.3% amid fears about the spread of the coronavirus, as investors looked past a rise in underlying profit and focused on its lacklustre outlook.
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In 2020, governments have agreed to submit improved national plans to reduce heat-trapping emissions and adapt to a changing climate - and Monday's lacklustre performance hikes the pressure on them to deliver that promise, researchers and analysts said.
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"Investment demand has been picking up, due to uncertainties on trade disputes and the lacklustre performance in the stock market, while jewellery demand still remains quiet," said Samson Li, a Hong Kong-based precious metals analyst with Refinitiv GFMS.
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An upset looked possible in the first set when Dodin's big first serve troubled Romanian Halep who appeared to be continuing the lacklustre form that got her crushed by Naomi Osaka in the Indian Wells semi-finals last week.
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Manufacturing activity across the developing world remains lacklustre, purchasing managers' indexes showed, with output in China slowing for the 14th straight month in April while activity in Brazil, in data released on Monday, was the weakest in seven years.
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It's been an issue at the French Open for years — half empty stadiums early in the day, particularly for women's matches, despite the event supposedly being all but sold out — yet Friday looked to be an especially lacklustre start.
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"The deterioration in the global economic outlook, financial market uncertainty and ripple effects on key areas of oil demand growth are likely to exacerbate already-lacklustre industrial demand growth trends," British bank Barclays said in a note to clients.
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Attention is focused heavily on the state of world growth after the U.S. Federal Reserve turned tail on raising interest rates, lacklustre Chinese data and a danger of a chaotic Brexit that would hit the British and European economies.
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It shed 4.3 percent since July 27 through Thursday, and has fallen in 18 of 20 sessions on lacklustre corporate earnings in the June quarter and speculation that the new reform bill may impose a tax on stock trading.
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The industrial businesses' lacklustre record mean they account for about 60% of Berkshire's sunk capital but have generated only about half of its look through profits, and 40% of its growth in book value over the past five years.
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But Salvini's comments came at a time of heightened sensitivity to Italian risk due to the proximity to the European elections, heightened tensions within Italy's ruling coalition, the U.S. trade war with China, and after a lacklustre bond auction.
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But household spending has been falling since March as lacklustre gains in real wages and worries about how the Bank of Japan's negative interest rate policy would affect the pension system turned some consumers even more cautious, economists say.
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The forecasts of lacklustre sales by companies including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's biggest contract chipmaker, and smartphone camera lens producer Largan Precision Co Ltd add to concerns about Apple's outlook amid slowing global demand for smartphones.
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Markit said the PMI pointed to GDP expanding 0.3 percent this quarter, matching a Reuters poll earlier this month that showed the euro zone economic outlook stable but lacklustre, about half the speed at the start of the year.
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As mentioned before, Molina is undoubtedly the toughest test of Joshua's career—no matter his in-ring limitations—though, that's more a symptom borne out of a weak heavyweight division and the lacklustre competition faced by Joshua thus far.
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Such jitters have put MSCI's index of global shares on course to snap a six-week streak of gains, with lacklustre economic data and rising political risks in the United States and Britain also casting a pall over sentiment.
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Investec had already been hurt by factors including lacklustre growth in South Africa, which tipped into recession in the final quarter of 2019, and Britain's departure from the European Union, with its UK specialist banking arm in particular struggling.
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"Given this lacklustre outlook, it is imperative for Indonesia's oil and gas production that Pertamina reduces sanctioning hurdles that have long delayed many of its projects, and implements advanced enhanced oil recovery technology on its mature fields," he said.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's economy expanded more slowly year-on-year in the third quarter of this year than in the same period in 2018 as activity proved lacklustre in various sectors including manufacturing, the statistics office said on Tuesday.
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As vote-counting trends on Thursday showed Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning more than 300 seats against just 49 for Congress, current and former party officials blamed a lacklustre campaign and a failure to overhaul its top team.
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Germany's 10-year government bond yield held close to the all-time lows hit last week after Andrea Nahles, leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said she would resign after the lacklustre support for her party in last week's European Elections.
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European shares are also heading toward a lacklustre start, with financial spreadbetters expecting Britain's FTSE 100 to open as much as 0.2 percent lower, Germany's DAX about 0.3 percent weaker, and France's CAC 40 to start the day little changed.
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HONG KONG, Nov 8 (Reuters) - AAC Technologies Holdings Inc , an acoustic components supplier to Apple Inc , on Thursday reported a drop of 28.7 percent to 973 million yuan ($140.38 million) in quarterly net profit, dented by lacklustre iPhone sales volume growth.
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After a lacklustre start, however, Svitolina began warming to her task and found some range and depth to fashion two break-back points but Stephens' forehand was dialed in and she moved 3-0 ahead when the Ukrainian's backhand faltered.
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"The main negative factors (for gold) are the speculative overhang in the futures market and the lacklustre demand from physical buyers in India, to some extent in China and amongst Western coin and bar purchasers," said Ross Norman, an independent analyst.
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During his abbreviated time in the job Mr Flannery announced a plan to refocus GE on three core areas—power, aerospace and health care—but investors weren't happy at the slow pace of the turnaround, nor at GE's lacklustre share price.
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The lacklustre first-half - a far cry from the banks' strong double-digit profit growth just two years ago - raises the prospect that the government will have to inject more than $238.3 billion to shore them up, some analysts have said.
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The leaders of Italy's two coalition parties, Matteo Salvini of the right-wing League and Luigi Di Maio of the anti-system 5-Star Movement, have promised to implement tax cuts next year in an effort to boost the lacklustre economy.
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The German 1.53 IPO pipeline looks strong after a lacklustre 2017, when the country saw only 11 IPOs with total proceeds of 2.7 billion euros, pushing Germany's share of European IPOs down to 6 percent from 16 percent a year earlier.
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Exporters blamed the lacklustre growth for the previous financial year on a number of factors, including sluggish demand in main markets, structural reforms in the garment sector, a weak euro and appreciation of the Bangladeshi currency against the U.S. dollar.
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Emerging currencies and equities took little solace from oil's 0743 percent bounce with the rouble tumbling 0733 percent against the dollar to the lowest level since January and MSCI's benchmark emerging equity index flat after a lacklustre session in Asia.
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A lacklustre response to the first bond tranche pushed the Reserve Bank of India to lower the issue price for the second tranche to 26,000 rupees per 10 grammes, more than 2 percent below the prevailing market price for the metal.
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Four years on from 2012's "investor spring" over spiralling executive pay, shareholders are mounting a fresh rebellion against firms they say have lost touch with the real world after a year of falling share prices, lacklustre profits and job cuts.
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Facing lacklustre growth and the threat of deflation, the ECB has slashed rates into negative territory and so far bought more than a trillion euros' worth of government bonds to cut borrowing costs and revive spending by firms and households.
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A lacklustre unanimous decision loss to Brazilian jiu jitsu wizard Ryan Hall in the TUF finale, followed by another lopsided decision going against him versus Alex White, led many to believe Lobov wasn't ready for the so-called MMA big leagues.
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UBS Wealth Management currency strategist Geoffrey Yu said the dollar had been boosted by a risk-off mood in U.S. trading on Tuesday, when indexes suffered their worst day in a month on lower oil prices and lacklustre inflation data.
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One silver lining of the fall in jobs was an increase in average pay for staff who remained, as productivity improved, the BRC said - a trend at odds with the lacklustre performance on jobs and productivity in other British industries.
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European markets also look set for a lacklustre start, with financial spreadbetters predicting Britain's FTSE 100 will open 0.3 percent lower, Germany's DAX will begin the day down 0.1 percent and France's CAC 40 will be flat at the open.
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Go to the Observatory in Greenwich and you can, to this day, enjoy a lacklustre cup of tea under a frankly clown-like sculpture of Gagarin waving his arms above a circling star in what looks like a Tudor onesie.
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PARIS, April 13 (Reuters) - World No 2 retailer Carrefour said on Friday that sales growth accelerated in the first quarter, reflecting robust sales in Brazil, Spain and Italy, and a lacklustre performance in France, which suffered from tough year-ago comparables.
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"A fall in employment over the quarter suggests that persistent lacklustre economic growth and appreciable economic and Brexit uncertainties may be starting to rein in the labour market's strength," said Howard Archer, an economist with EY Item Club, a forecasting body.
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Exporters blamed the lacklustre growth for the previous financial year on a number of factors, including sluggish demand in key markets, structural reforms in the garment sector, a weak euro and appreciation of the local currency against the U.S. dollar.
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Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut fell 4% after reporting a slowdown in its most recent quarter, while Italy's postal service provider Poste Italiane dropped 1.2% due to a lacklustre performance of its mail and parcel business in the third quarter.
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LONDON (Reuters) - More certainty about the process by which Britain will leave the European Union in less than two years' time would help spur economic growth, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Wednesday following the release of lacklustre economic data.
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China's central bank also cut the amount of cash that some banks must hold as reserves for the first time since February 2016 in a bid to encourage more lending to struggling smaller firms and energize its lacklustre private sector.
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Travis Wiuff asserted that all he needed was two takedowns to get to the last round, and he and Chris Tuchscherer both demonstrated this flaw in the rules and pit over four lacklustre fights on the way to the final.
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Which is certainly one way to silver-line a low-demand 'cloud' and hedge (hopefully) for business buy-in to make up for lacklustre consumer desire to pay more to do the same stuff slightly faster* (*depending on network conditions).
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This data is likely to reassure the Bank of England which raised interest rates last month for only the second time since the financial crisis, forecasting third-quarter growth of 0.4 percent and a lacklustre 2018 expansion of 1.4 percent.
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China's refined oil product exports have surged to well above year-ago levels, according to trade sources and industry analysts, adding to supplies in the rest of Asia, which is also dealing with lacklustre demand due to the coronavirus epidemic.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England kept interest rates steady at Governor Mark Carney's final policy meeting as it saw signs of a post-election pick-up in growth which weakened the case for immediate action to help the lacklustre economy.
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Sterling spent the day in the red after lacklustre trade data, but its slide steepened to almost 1 percent around mid-afternoon as a news conference by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump lifted the dollar against the main world currencies.
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The index shed 4.3 percent since July 13 through Thursday and has fallen in 18 out of 20 sessions on lacklustre corporate earnings in the June quarter and speculation that the new reform bill may impose a tax on stock trading.
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LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Roaring factory growth in Asia and China in particular helped emerging stocks to fresh three-year highs on Friday and put them on track for their third straight week of gains, while currencies firmed against the lacklustre dollar.
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BNP Paribas may have unofficially usurped hapless Deutsche Bank as Europe's leading investment bank, but it resorted to blaming a "lacklustre context" in fixed income markets for a 27 percent year-on-year slide in first-half investment banking pre-tax profit.
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Kocher's critics have pointed to a lacklustre share price performance under her tenure, and internal grumblings over the way she communicated with the board as well as her push to drop fossil fuel assets as some of the reasons she has lost backing.
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After the weak data raised concerns about falling inflation and lacklustre growth, long-dated U.S. Treasury bond yields dropped to seven-month lows and the yield curve between five-year notes and 30-year bonds fell to its flattest level since 2007.
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Prices for physical crude oil are being squeezed, with as many as 20 million barrels bound for PES in the process of being rerouted, according to two senior trading sources, adding to a global glut amid surging U.S. oil output and lacklustre demand.
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HONG KONG, April 8 (Reuters) - Italian luxury goods maker Prada SpA reported a 27 percent fall in quarterly profit on Friday, hit by lacklustre sales in China which have waned alongside slowing economic growth and a crackdown on extravagance among public officials.
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LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Major British retailers reported the weakest July sales growth since records began more than 20 years ago on Tuesday, and overall consumer spending was lacklustre too, despite a boost from summer blockbusters "The Lion King" and "Toy Story 4".
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However, data from China, signalling further weakness in the world's second-biggest economy, extended the steady stream of economic indicators that are painting a lacklustre picture of the global economy -- the figures showed industrial output at 17-year lows and sluggish retail sales.
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Already there are signs the dramatic fall in unemployment in the United States and Britain, and to a lesser extent the euro zone, is starting to slow, which is normal this far into an economic expansion, albeit an uneven and lacklustre one.
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The BoE said earlier this month that it expected inflation to stay below 22014 percent all year and to undershoot its target until 2018, due to the global slump in oil prices, the effect of past rises in sterling and lacklustre wage growth.
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An appraisal of South East Asian economies found China's lacklustre growth hitting Indonesia and Malaysia particularly hard (On a slow boat to China); but there are still buyers around the world for the Eye of the tiger and other ill-gotten animal parts.
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In the past 103 months Labour has lost seats in local elections, failed to hold the government to account, become infected with anti-Semitism, tumbled in the polls and, thanks to its lacklustre campaign to Remain, contributed to Britain's vote for Brexit.
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The index shed 13 percent since July 27 through Wednesday and has fallen in 17 out of 19 sessions due to lacklustre corporate earnings in the June quarter and speculation that the new tax reform bill might impose a tax on stock trading.
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Wage growth and household spending, however, remain lacklustre despite a tight job market, keeping the Bank of Japan under pressure to maintain its massive monetary stimulus even as its U.S. and European counterparts contemplate a gradual exit from their ultra-loose monetary policies.
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Not only would Spurs find top spot elusive, they would also taste defeat in their last two games – including a 5-1 drubbing at the hands of already relegated Newcastle – and so finish behind a lacklustre Arsenal side against outlandish and overwhelming odds.
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A US$250m-equivalent three-year debut loan for retail finance company Fullerton India Credit has attracted 10 banks, while L&T Finance made a lacklustre debut with only one bank joining its US$753m dual-tranche borrowing a few weeks back.
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The index shed 3.7 percent since July 27 through Monday and fell in 13 out of 17 sessions due to lacklustre corporate earnings in the June quarter and speculation that the new tax reform bill might impose a tax on stock trading.
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In London, UBS Wealth Management currency strategist Geoffrey Yu said the dollar had been boosted by a risk-off mood in U.S. trading on Tuesday, when indexes suffered their worst day in a month on lower oil prices and lacklustre inflation data.
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Following the lead from Wall Street, where the S&P 500 has reached record highs, investors have been chasing the rally and ignoring lacklustre profits, rising valuations, a tentative economic recovery in the euro zone and the threat of the coronavirus outbreak.
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"Even if the market context was lacklustre in Europe compared to the first quarter of 2017, the results are in line with the trajectory of the 2020 plan and the achievement of its targets," BNP Paribas' chief executive Jean-Laurent Bonnafe said in a statement.
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Analysts had earlier said that the firm, which has almost doubled its assets under administration since 2014 to about 46 billion pounds, could shrug off macroeconomic worries during its market debut and prove to be a bright spot in a lacklustre European IPO market.
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The interesting thing about the economy is that the Trump election saw a sudden leap in business and consumer confidence but a very lacklustre performance in the first quarter; annualised GDP growth of 0.7% (or as other countries would report it, less than 0.2%).
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Data on Tuesday showed the U.S. job openings fell to 7.087 million in February, piling on to lacklustre data including a modest dip in new orders for U.S.-made goods, and last week's non-farm payrolls data, which signalled a slowdown in wage growth.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Malaysian engineer Serba Dinamik Group Bhd is seeking to raise about 600 million ringgit ($150 million) in an initial public offering (IPO), in what would be one of few listings in a lacklustre market, people familiar with the matter said.
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Speculation that British challenger Land Rover BAR would be off the pace following some lacklustre performances during practice racing was quickly dispelled when they comfortably won against Sweden's Artemis Racing, who had been showing great speed in the run up to the qualifying races.
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Despite the lacklustre data, the dollar has managed to rise due to expectations that the Federal Reserve would hike interest rates again soon, but it the indicators ramin weak investors could revise their expectations, said Junichi Ishikawa, senior forex strategist at IG Securities in Tokyo.
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It helped dispel one of the few nagging doubts of the corporate earnings season so far - that Amazon's lacklustre results last week might have revealed some tiredness among the giant U.S. tech and internet stocks that have been driving the stock market rally all year.
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The index, which had set a 22.640-year high of 2178 just three days ago, was hit overnight by lacklustre U.S. data and a surge in the yuan which some traders suspect was orchestrated by China to shake out large short positions against the currency.
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It helped dispel one of the few nagging doubts of the corporate earnings season so far — that Amazon's lacklustre results last week might have revealed some tiredness among the giant U.S. tech and internet stocks that have been driving the stock market rally all year.
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COLOMBO, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee closed higher on Friday as dollar selling by a state-run bank helped the local currency gain in lacklustre trading ahead of a long weekend, amid little demand from importers for the U.S. currency, dealers said.
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The dollar was lacklustre against the loonie as crude oil prices rose more than 2 percent following a Washington Post report the United States is likely to ask all importers of Iranian oil to end their purchases or will be subject to U.S. sanctions.
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Critics point to lacklustre interest in some other free trade zones around Nigeria, such as the $300 million Tinapa resort in the southeastern state of Cross Rivers, which was set up in 2007 and envisaged as a tourist resort and duty-free shopping area.
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The economy of the African continent's most industrialised nation has come under ever growing pressure as the government grapples with lacklustre growth, high unemployment and a heavy debt burden, especially from state-owned enterprises such as South African Airways (SAA) and power firm Eskom.
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LONDON/KIEV, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Ukraine prepared to pay a coupon on its debt of around $500 million on Thursday, one year on from a landmark restructuring, as creditors voiced cautious optimism on the medium-term outlook despite lacklustre reforms and a shaky eastern ceasefire.
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Unlike Beijing, which has many top-flight universities, Shenzhen has only a handful of lacklustre institutions of higher learning; but so many graduates from all over China flock to the city that they make up a greater share of its population than do graduates in Beijing.
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MUMBAI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India held rates steady on Thursday in a bid to combat inflation that has accelerated to its highest levels in more than five years, but the central bank retained its accommodative monetary policy stance as growth remains lacklustre.
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Modi pushed through important reforms such as a unified goods and services tax and a bankruptcy law in his first five years in power, but faced flak for failing to create enough jobs for millions of people seeking employment, rising farm distress and lacklustre economic growth.
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Briesemann said copper prices were supported by supply deficits and could rise if the United States and China remove a threat to their economies by settling their trade dispute, though he expects lacklustre demand to bring prices back to around $6,500 by the end of the year.
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FOUR years ago when Barack Obama's re-election was not a sure thing, a lacklustre Democratic National Convention in Charlotte was transformed by a long but mesmerising speech by Bill Clinton, arguing that Mr Obama had not enjoyed enough credit for saving the American economy from disaster.
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When Arsenal should have been avenging years of drubbings – not to mention the indelible mark on the club's history that is their infamous 8-2 defeat – they have instead launched a series of lacklustre assaults on their opponent's fortifications, and been violently and sometimes humiliatingly repulsed.
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It's been more than a century since the French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam introduced the word "android," in its modern sense, with his novel "The Future Eve," the story of a man who replaces his lacklustre wife with a robot manufactured by Thomas Edison.
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Following a lacklustre first quarter for economic growth and a retreat in headline inflation to 1.5 percent from 1.8 percent earlier in 2017, there is doubt over whether policymakers can stick to their anticipated pace of tightening of three interest rate rises this year and next.
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The market shrugged off data released early on Thursday that showed Japanese companies cut spending on plant and equipment in July-September by 1.3 percent from the same period last year, the first annual decline since early 2013, a sign capital expenditures and corporate confidence remain lacklustre.
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Considering that Lovren was told that he'd "made a step backward, away from the squad" after last month's friendly against Hungary – a match in which he was an unused substitute, and criticised for his lacklustre warm up – it was highly inadvisable to further pique Čačić's anger.
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SINGAPORE, Dec 22022 (IFR) - Asian credits were steady in quiet markets ahead of this week's FOMC meeting, expected to result in a 61bp rate hike in the US. Flows were thin and, with only one deal launched in the Asian G2107 primary markets, the secondary credit markets stayed lacklustre.
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Private equity's current appeal rests not on whether it can repeat the absolute returns achieved in the past (which for the big firms were often said to be in excess of 20% annually) but on whether it has a plausible chance of doing better than today's lacklustre alternatives.
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The biggest drama of the day was fittingly provided by something that didn't happen: an official tweeted that Chris Grayling, the lacklustre transport minister, was being moved to become party chairman, provoking howls of disbelief from journalists before another official source tweeted that it had all been a mistake.
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Delegates at the SPD's conference in Bonn on January 21st voted for formal talks with the CDU/CSU by just 56%; Mr Schulz's lacklustre speech in favour of doing so paling in comparison with a gutsy, tub-thumbing display by Ms Nahles, the SPD's leader in the Bundestag.
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Euro zone business activity remained lacklustre at the start of the year, a survey showed, a day after ECB rate-setters did not make any policy change, standing by their pledge to keep buying bonds and, if needed, cut interest rates until euro zone inflation headed back to their goal.
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It explains why British viewers, every year, are reminded in some way of the Morecambe and Wise specials—through repeats, talking-heads documentaries, television dramas about the pair or about their scriptwriter—but are seldom invited to actually watch "Tell It To The Marines", a lacklustre show broadcast in 1987.
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Another startup, Hampton Creek, which has raised more than $120m from venture capitalists in order to create a vegan, environmentally-conscious version of mayonnaise and other kitchen staples, is now reportedly facing an inquiry into whether it bought its own products to inflate lacklustre sales figures (its CEO has denied any such purpose).
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Bettors nonetheless fancied the well-funded Jeb Bush and smooth-talking Marco Rubio for most of the lead-up to the primaries despite their lacklustre poll numbers, wrongly presuming that Mr Trump's polling figures were bound to deflate just like those of the 2012 outsider candidates Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann and Newt Gingrich.
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Steve Rose, The Guardian: Previous movies based on retro TV shows have taught us, the only way to repackage such brand-name yet dated material is with heavy measures of irony and self-satire...This lacklustre comedy heads off in that direction but it doesn't have the wit or the stamina to stay afloat.
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JGB yields briefly crept off session lows on Tuesday after lacklustre demand at the Ministry of Finance's sale of 400 billion yen of 10-year JGBs with a 0.1 percent coupon linked to the consumer price index produced a the lowest price of 105.10, with 25.7142 percent of the bids accepted at that price.
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"We have seen strong leads from U.S. and European markets, commodity prices are higher... the overall failure of the market to record a gain, and even yesterday's lacklustre gain suggests that there is underlying weakness in the Australian market and we could be up for a significant tumble in the near future," McCarthy added.
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The lumbering, laboured Premier League behemoths went into their game against Swansea on the back of a midweek defeat to Fenerbahce in the Europa League, as well as a lacklustre home draw against Burnley at Old Trafford that had seen Jose Mourinho sent to the stands, and subsequently handed a one-match touchline ban.
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"There are reasons to think that first-quarter GDP may have marked the bottom in growth, (but) the big picture is that South Koreas economic performance is likely to be lacklustre in 2019 and any recovery would likely be gradual," ANZ said in a note, lowering its full-year forecast from 2.5 percent to 2.2 percent.
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Judging by his lacklustre election campaign Mr Schulz has a habit of flitting restlessly between subjects without prosecuting any long enough to make an impact and a habit of letting his rhetoric get far ahead of the substance (his lofty talk of rewriting Germany's social contract was not borne out in his party's modest social-justice proposals, for example).
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As eBay gets increasing pressure from activist shareholders like Elliott Management and Starboard to reform its business and turn it into a high-growth tech stock by overhauling its main Marketplace, refreshing management and rethinking its other businesses like StubHub and classifieds, the e-commerce platform delivered a set of Q4 results that were solid if a little lacklustre.
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Volumes continued to be lacklustre on the NSE, with about 145 million shares trading by mid-day compared with the 13-day average of nearly 340 million shares Oil companies such as Indian Oil Corp Ltd and Oil and Natural Gas Corp Ltd gained as oil prices retreated amid signs that global markets remain adequately supplied.
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"There are reasons to think that first-quarter GDP may have marked the bottom in growth, (but) the big picture is that South Korea's economic performance is likely to be lacklustre in 2019 and any recovery would likely be gradual," ANZ said in a note, lowering its full-year forecast from 2.5 percent to 2.2 percent.
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For me, the reason for its lacklustre reception was the style of music: with his vocal range, Zayn should by rights be an Usher Raymond for the 2010s, making throwback slow jamz like this (except without Chris Brown and without the lyrics "fuck you back to sleep"), piled with double entendrés about cunnilingus and occasional features from rappers.
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HSI +23 pct * U.S. officials in Beijing for fresh talks on trade * Better news expected after wave of profit warnings Hong Kong, Feb 20.1 (Reuters) - China stocks rose on Monday as U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators geared up for a fresh round of discussions this week, while investor sentiment was lifted after a lacklustre corporate earnings season came to an end.
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Reuters will resume coverage on Tuesday, April 23) * Indonesia's rupiah, shares rise on election optimism * Turkey's lira slips on FX reserves worry * Russian rouble down ahead of Mueller report April 18 (Reuters) - Emerging market shares slipped in lacklustre trade on Thursday ahead of a long Easter holiday as they tracked a dip on Wall Street overnight, while developing currencies also lost ground against a stronger dollar.
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Futures suggested a lacklustre start to the European trading day, with the Eurostoxx 255.42 and FTSE futures both slightly lower, and DAX futures up 255.99 percent On Wall Street on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high for the fifth straight session, and the S&P 500 marked its second straight closing record high, as higher U.S. Treasury yields helped lift financial shares.
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HSCE -1.843 pct; both down for the week * Deflation feared as producer prices drop for 21.84th straight month * Bank loans data upbeat, but market nervous on trade talk outcome HONG KONG, Feb 21.48 (Reuters) - The Hong Kong stock market closed lower on Friday on lacklustre China economic data, and as Chinese and U.S. officials remained locked in high-level talks, aimed at resolving the two countries' trade dispute.
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Although Mr Haake did not posit a causal mechanism by which Mr Bolt magnetically pulls his rivals towards the finish line alongside him, there certainly appears to be a correlation between his performances and those of people racing against him, one which far exceeds the impact of wind: just when he "slumped" to a pedestrian-by-Bolt's-standards pace this year, the rest of the men's field compiled even more lacklustre showings (see chart).
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RIC=PHCBIR%26.7DECI poll data * Annual CPI seen at 22012%, slowest since July 2200 * Central bank seen cutting rates by 25 bps on Thursday * Q2 GDP seen at 5.9% y/y vs 5.6% in Q1 MANILA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Philippine annual inflation is expected to have slowed for a second straight month in July, giving the central bank room to cut rates to support an economy, which likely grew at a lacklustre pace in the second quarter, a Reuters poll showed.
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RIC=CNNYL%3DEC I new loans poll data * Sept new loans seen at 22018 trln yuan vs 21.8 trln yuan in Aug Sept M21.98 money supply growth seen at 23% y/y vs 215% in Aug * Sept TSF seen at 215 trln yuan vs 6.23 trln yuan in Aug * Loans, money supply data due Oct 26.2-21 BEIJING, Oct 27.1422 (Reuters) - China's new bank loans likely rose in September but other key gauges of credit growth remained lacklustre, a Reuters poll showed, reinforcing expectations Beijing needs to deliver more support to stabilise the economy as trade pressures build.
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