Chinese manufacturers are also getting squeezed by the trade war.
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Agnese cautioned the company has been squeezed by increased competition.
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But it has been squeezed by falling prices for years.
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Young families are squeezed by the lack of economic opportunities.
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They feel squeezed by immigration, or the power of big banks.
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Meanwhile, banks lending rates are being squeezed by the rate cuts.
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Their opportunities for development will be squeezed by automation's impactive grip.
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The legislation squeezed by, with 17 Democrats ultimately voting against it.
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Car makers aren't the only companies getting squeezed by the tariffs.
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They're white, middle-class people that are squeezed by the welfare state.
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Wells Fargo is also being squeezed by the changing interest-rate environment.
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Others have broken with the president after being squeezed by aggressive prosecutors.
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That industry's profit margins continue to be squeezed by low global prices.
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Officials at Homeland Security Investigations also are squeezed by the opioid crisis.
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He's betting those swing-state Republicans will feel squeezed by his request.
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Like its peers, Macy's has been squeezed by e-commerce competitors like Amazon.
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Many members of the so-called "sandwich generation" feel squeezed by competing demands.
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Most agricultural products will finish 22017 with lower prices, squeezed by record output.
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The wholesale business has been squeezed by lower trading revenue in fixed income.
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The driver blew the horn at one delivery truck and squeezed by another.
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Banks, particularly smaller, regional lenders, have also been squeezed by a declining population.
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Sure, the economy is slowing, and corporate profits will be squeezed by that.
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In Doha, the index closed 0.2 percent down, squeezed by losses among financial stocks.
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Toys 'R' Us filed for bankruptcy Monday, squeezed by online shopping and discount chains.
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Now, squeezed by deforestation and farming, the community is going digital to defend itself.
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In Ivory Coast, Lebanese businesspeople complain that they are being squeezed by corrupt politicians.
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Ben Riensche is one farmer being squeezed by the trade war and climate change.
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Global demand for PCs has been squeezed by sales of smartphones and tablet computers.
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Lenders have already seen revenues and profits squeezed by a post-Brexit borrowing slump.
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This would provide much needed relief to middle-class Americans squeezed by healthcare costs.
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Dairy farmers got squeezed by changes in the international milk market and domestic oversupply.
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At the same time, Indonesia's coal and oil refinery industries were squeezed by weaker prices.
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These businesses, the group's designated growth drivers, have been squeezed by higher raw materials prices.
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Consumers have been squeezed by rising inflation since last year's Brexit vote, hurting many retailers.
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British consumers are being squeezed by inflation and are seeing wages fall in real terms.
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The supermarket sector is battling intense competition, squeezed by rising costs and lower consumer spending.
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The consumer giant's Gillette shaving business continues to be squeezed by U.S. retailers on price.
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Like rivals globally, Australia's media companies have been squeezed by new arrivals and digital advertising.
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The A380 has battled against sluggish sales, squeezed by smaller, more efficient twin-engined jets.
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Profits at Germany's lenders have been squeezed by the European Central Bank's money-printing policy.
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"People all across this country were scammed and squeezed by Wells Fargo," Warren said Wednesday.
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Squeezed by a growing city around it, however, the university built critical facilities close by.
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Many artists, squeezed by relentless increases in real estate prices, are heading to these hills.
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It's getting squeezed by rivals in the electric car market who are all competing for customers.
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Net income fell 10 percent to $14.7 billion, squeezed by higher wages and investments in technology.
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California is being squeezed by uber-wildfires and rising seas—climate change's twin agents of chaos.
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The fighting may reduce global supplies already squeezed by sanctions on Iran and turmoil in Venezuela.
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Novo's prices have been squeezed by U.S. pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) such as Express Scripts ESRX.
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But many farmers, squeezed by tightening farm profits, have not fully embraced the big data offerings.
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A Bloomberg report showed that Juicero's packs could be squeezed by hand, no expensive juicer required.
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First, Fed officials know that financial firms generally are being squeezed by ultra-low interest rates.
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Low-income families are meanwhile getting squeezed by higher utility prices after Macri removed energy subsidies.
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In both cases, Naranjo emphasizes the cruel reality of ordinary citizens squeezed by the drug war.
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Jason couldn't move his left arm or close his hand, the nerve so squeezed by Hodgkin's.
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Their rental revenue and profit growth will probably be squeezed by the admission of fewer residents.
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But as organic foods grew in popularity, Whole Foods was squeezed by lower-cost grocery rivals.
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Department store retailers are being squeezed by declining shopping mall traffic and increased competition from Amazon.
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Their margins are also squeezed by the Bank of Japan's long-running negative interest rate policy.
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Gold producers in South Africa have had profits squeezed by rising costs, labour unrest and declining grades.
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The main qualm being that the packs can be squeezed by hand, no expensive juicer required. 8.
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Rising rates are particularly beneficial for banks, which have seen their profitability squeezed by low interest rates.
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Like other department stores, Macy's has been squeezed by stiff competition from online retailers such as Amazon.
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Supply to the U.S. market has also been squeezed by the loss of some Canadian oil production.
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Insurers fell 1.3 percent as their earnings are seen squeezed by continuous flattening in the yield curve.
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Here it's the big guy's gentle treatment of an old couple being squeezed by extortionist loan sharks.
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The company says it has been squeezed by sticky overhead costs, cooling consumer enthusiasm and lower prices.
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J.C. Penney also has been squeezed by discounters Walmart and Target, which have improved their clothing selections.
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Like other department stores, Macy's has been squeezed by stiff competition from online retailers such as Amazon.com.
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Disposable income levels are being squeezed by rising inflation and unemployment, higher indebtedness and increased borrowing rates.
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Riyadh, squeezed by low oil prices, removed the perk - equivalent to a month's salary - in September 2016.
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Gold producers in South Africa have had profits squeezed by rising costs, labor unrest and declining grades.
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"The default is 'Oh, she is Latina — she squeezed by because she is a minority,'" she said.
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Black Panther, that meant conceiving of a childhood squeezed by the weight of an ancient unbroken dynasty.
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Tourism, which had helped offset the drop in aid from Venezuela, has been squeezed by American sanctions.
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Squeezed by years of near-negative interest rates, banks have been forced to look for more lucrative business.
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Profitability has also been squeezed by lower steel prices and higher raw material costs, particularly for iron ore.
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These companies have also seen their profits squeezed by macroeconomic forces such as higher commodities and transportation costs.
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In the past two years Britons have been squeezed by both the labour market and the welfare state.
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Tianjin-based Hifiman, a maker of headphones costing up to $3,000, is seeing its margins squeezed by pretenders.
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Others are for sale in a local market that has been squeezed by imports of second-hand clothing.
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Despite the defiance on show, some said they feared Hong Kong would continue to be squeezed by Beijing.
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Gold producers in South Africa have had their profits squeezed by rising costs, labour unrest and declining grades.
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While the economy is strong, margins and profitability at German banks have been squeezed by low interest rates.
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Should we be worried by a future supply squeeze or is supply already being squeezed by dominant producers?
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Squeezed by falling oil prices, Russia is talking about privatizing its major companies to close its budget shortfall.
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Bond markets were being squeezed by investors' search for yield after benchmark German Bunds fell into negative territory.
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This raises concerns that debt service on the state's bonds may get squeezed by additional court-ordered payments.
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When the coal market collapsed, Alpha was squeezed by its debt load and filed for bankruptcy last August.
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Its media unit reported a 3.4 percent gain in revenue, but margins were squeezed by rising content costs.
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These partners set the prices charged to senders and are the ones being squeezed by a price war.
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Some retail stocks fell on worries that Canada's highly indebted consumers could feel squeezed by higher interest rates.
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Twitter has struggled to grow as it's been squeezed by and , the top two sellers of online ads.
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Squeezed by drought and tightening regulations, large farms started to seek out lesser-known pockets of cheap water.
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But they are sure to be squeezed by progressive advocacy allies, who intend to demand united Democratic opposition.
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Still, publishers have been getting squeezed by the tech platforms as online advertising rates continue to level off.
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At the same time, they are getting squeezed by discount chains, forcing them to put products on sale.
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Ecologists say roadkill accidents are made more likely as the animal's habitat is increasingly squeezed by urban sprawl.
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The critical question: how much profitability is being squeezed by the company's attempts to recover from its many controversies?
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Despite soaring sales, Alibaba's profit margins have been squeezed by rising competition and heavy investment to fend off rivals.
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But for businesses squeezed by the rising costs and deep uncertainty caused by tariffs, it's a welcomed development nonetheless.
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These merchant refiners have said they are being squeezed by annual government mandates that require increasing volumes of biofuels.
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ANA said margins were squeezed by higher oil prices and rising costs for investments in safety, quality and personnel.
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Despite the defiance on show, some said they feared that Hong Kong would continue to be squeezed by Beijing.
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Indeed, an entire generation is being squeezed by the high cost of tuition at the graduate and undergraduate level.
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"Regional airlines, particularly those already squeezed by high debt, are among the companies being most severely hit," he added.
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Supply to the U.S. market, particularly Cushing, has also been squeezed by the loss of some Canadian oil production.
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With monopolies growing ever larger, small businesses are being squeezed by both anticompetitive practices and an increasingly unequal economy.
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Although increased advertising is helping sales, it is pressuring margins that are already squeezed by rising commodity and freight costs.
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Chief Commercial Officer Thierry Antinori warned on Tuesday earnings would be squeezed by higher fuel costs and a strong dollar.
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Like its global counterparts, Australia's big media companies have been squeezed by the arrival of foreign competitors and digital advertising.
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The idea was to shore up confidence in one of India's biggest brands, squeezed by low fares and high costs.
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Tarim acknowledged, however, that his company has been squeezed by having to spend more on legal fees and public relations.
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Its fixture calendar is being squeezed by domestic Twenty20 (T20) competitions, in which games take little more than three hours.
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Smaller start-ups, a key driver of growth in the sector, are also being squeezed by tighter access to credit.
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Christopher Joll, an academic, says the region is like "meat in a sandwich", squeezed by inflexible nationalisms from either side.
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Mitie has fared worse than rivals as its margins on long-running contracts have been squeezed by higher labour costs.
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The commitment comes as GOP leadership has been squeezed by frustrated Republican members from both sides of the ideological spectrum.
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Their earnings are also getting squeezed by the central bank's move to stimulate the economy with record-low policy rates.
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High-street shops have been squeezed by the rise of the internet; BHS, a department-store chain, recently went under.
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The Houston-based retailer, with 3,000 brick-and-mortar locations, has been squeezed by online upstarts including Casper Sleep Inc.
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European demand for U.S. crude also was squeezed by high premiums for U.S. Gulf Coast grades, one ship broker said.
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But what does that have to do with today's job market, with many Americans squeezed by globalization and technological change?
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Joints are not the only parts of the body that are literally squeezed by the burden of excess body mass.
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Those stores have been increasingly squeezed by mega-retailers like Walmart and dollar stores and by online retailers like Amazon.
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The group told CNN Business that small business owners are being squeezed by deep discounting by companies such as Amazon.
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But over the last five years, at least two smaller players have sold out after margins were squeezed by competition.
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The deal also gives Morgan Stanley a business that has been squeezed by the race to zero among discount brokers.
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Profit margins are being squeezed by factors such as falling revenues from capital market units and higher bad-loan provisions.
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Grocers are also getting squeezed by the rise of low-cost union-free competitors such as Aldi and Dollar General.
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Trading firms that buy, sell and process crops have also seen their margins squeezed by the weak backdrop in crop markets.
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Squeezed by new competition, incumbent banks may yet come to pine for the days when their main complaint was about regulation.
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Few outside China's internet industry know of Kunlun, which has over the years been squeezed by industry leaders Tencent and NetEase .
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That has angered some farmers, who feel their earnings are already squeezed by big retailers and consumer demand for cheap produce.
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In the U.S., companies that import technology from Japan will see their profit margins squeezed by the strengthened currency, she said.
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South African consumers will welcome Thursday's rate cut, as they have been squeezed by successive fuel price rises and tax increases.
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Saeroon campaigned on an anti-corruption platform that appealed to many poor Iraqis made destitute by conflict or squeezed by unemployment.
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That again is a good sign for the labor market overall as it is squeezed by the retirement of baby boomers.
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Meanwhile, margins of its more complex, specialty products, the group's designated growth drivers, have been squeezed by higher raw materials prices.
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Once an energy exporter, Egypt has turned into a net importer in recent years, squeezed by declining production and increasing consumption.
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The two have since been squeezed by the cartel and by local criminals who don't want them impeding on their territory.
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Spiegel will also get squeezed by the tariffs the EU announced in retaliation on U.S. goods, including whiskey, earlier this week.
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The company is also being squeezed by competitors that are beginning to offer privacy-conscious customers browsers with more privacy controls.
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Even the retail sector, which has been squeezed by online competition and soft prices in recent years, is enjoying a respite.
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The crux of the argument is whether the zoning changes will force out industrial tenants, who already feel squeezed by rents.
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White working class men are being squeezed by the loss of blue-collar jobs, stagnant wages and high levels of debt.
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Polish banks face rising regulatory pressure to increase their capital buffers while margins have been squeezed by record low Polish interest rates.
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Its slide adds to the woes of an economy, squeezed by Western sanctions, that shrank by an estimated 3.9 percent last year.
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Swiss Life — whose main markets include Switzerland, France and Germany — has like other insurers been squeezed by low and negative interest rates.
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At home, its businesses are being squeezed by rising costs and growing demands that they pay more attention to protecting the environment.
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Coles's margins were further squeezed by "significant" produce price deflation in the September quarter, mostly driven by a bumper vegetable-growing season.
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Democrats are hoping farmers like Mr. Adolphs vote out Republican incumbents in part because they feel squeezed by Mr. Trump's trade war.
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Bache was vulnerable, having been squeezed by a silver-market gamble, but its managers bitterly fought the Belzbergs' demands for board seats.
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Target said food and household goods sales are jumping, but profit may be squeezed by higher costs for staffing and cleaning stores.
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Many companies in the Gulf have been seeking to refinance debt as liquidity has been squeezed by a drop in oil prices.
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But with so many workers feeling unfairly squeezed by their employers, and labor leaders emboldened by recent successes, more strikes look likely.
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Inter IKEA reported this month a drop in annual underlying profit, squeezed by higher wood and metal prices as well as investments.
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Sears and Kmart, which merged in 2005 to form Sears Holdings, have been squeezed by other big box retailers and Amazon (AMZN).
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"The biggest falls in growth came in the manufacturing sector, which is being squeezed by a complex and inflexible FX system," said Ashbourne.
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Golden State squeezed by Minnesota 109-104 on the road on March 21 as Curry struggled to 6-of-19 from the floor.
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On the other side, they are being squeezed by companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, and a plethora of media and other tech companies.
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That capped the weakest year for retail since 2013 as consumers squeezed by high inflation continued to keep a tight grip on spending.
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Finance Minister Berat Albayrak announced a reform package on Wednesday that mainly aims to recapitalise state banks squeezed by large companies restructuring debt.
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The gilets jaunes, however, argue that they are unfairly squeezed by taxes to pay for all this while the rich are let off.
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Exporters across the economy are being squeezed by the poor implementation of a goods-and-services tax that came into force last July.
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Squeezed by economic and political turmoil since the 22.5 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians are preparing for a new era of austerity.
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Revenue declined at Wells' community bank and wholesale bank as net interest income was squeezed by lower interest rates and higher deposit costs.
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A former communist era monopoly, Orange Polska has seen its earnings and market share squeezed by continued market liberalisation and the resulting competition.
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That happened after the immigration pipeline of Cubans trying to reach the United States had already been abruptly squeezed by the Obama administration.
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Firms, squeezed by both a weak local and global economy, may not be able to afford to connect their machines to the cloud.
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Washington, D.C, and New York, already have tight housing markets, and will be further squeezed by an influx of highly paid, younger workers.
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British consumers have been squeezed by higher inflation caused in large part by the plunge in the pound after last year's Brexit vote.
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Squeezed by her financial precarity—she has children and debt—the narrator applies for a temporary job in an Amazon warehouse in Leipzig.
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Britain's "big six" energy suppliers have been squeezed by efforts to cap energy bills following a government promise to tackle "rip-off" prices.
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Finance Minister Berat Albayrak announced a reform package on Wednesday that mainly aims to recapitalize state banks squeezed by large companies restructuring debt.
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Though Gartner notes it's being squeezed by "ever-growing competition from Chinese manufacturers", while slowing demand for its flagships are squeezing its profitability.
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It still has to pay long-term leases, even if businesses squeezed by the outbreak cancel contracts with the shared office space company.
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Squeezed by the Justice Department, several local officials have already contacted Mr. Becerra's office seeking guidance on how to respond before the Sept.
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That capped the weakest year for retail since 2013 as consumers squeezed by high inflation continued to keep a tight grip on spending .
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Because of the company's rural market, it's not being squeezed by e-commerce companies in the way many big retailers are, he said.
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With margins on flights squeezed by competition, they are hoping to leaven their profits by turning their websites into one-stop holiday shops.
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The labor market has been squeezed by decades of jobs going overseas — and the void is often being filled by automation, said Hughes.
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During the morning rush, Manhattan-bound trains squeezed by the wreckage on one track because the accident had made the second track impassable.
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If you're a peach producer for Whole Foods in rural Pennsylvania, you're going to start getting squeezed by Amazon at a certain point.
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Many smaller firms are also in no mood to borrow as domestic and export orders falter and profit margins are squeezed by rising costs.
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Fertilizer producer Yara fell 5.5 percent in healthy volumes, after it missed first-quarter forecasts as margins were squeezed by rising natural gas prices.
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The rupee fell around 4 percent last year against the U.S. dollar, squeezed by higher imports and foreign investors' scramble out of government securities.
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O) said margins were squeezed by rising costs related to marketing and acquiring streaming rights for YouTube's new TV service, while Procter & Gamble (PG.
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Either move would damage Boeing's suppliers, such as Spirit AeroSystems and General Electric, both of which are seeing profits squeezed by the slowing production.
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Brokerages, also squeezed by measures to curb margin financing, don't want to be seen celebrating while they are in the spotlight over possible misdemeanours.
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Asset managers have been squeezed by rising competition and pressure to reduce fees, and in recent months many have been cutting jobs and costs.
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Icahn and other merchant refiners had long complained that their profit margins were being squeezed by the law, which is nearly 15 years old.
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Spendthrift consumers in deficit countries suddenly found themselves squeezed by joblessness and the evaporation of easy credit: that led to a collapse in imports.
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Commissioning teams, and the bodies that audit them, have been squeezed by spending cuts, a small saving next to the size of the contracts.
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The stress level around money is especially high for parents (77%), as they are financially squeezed by the rising cost of raising a child.
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Britons, whose spending power has been squeezed by inflation, prioritised food this Christmas and cut back on nearly everything else, industry data has shown.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - The tech hub is getting squeezed by new policy restrictions amid a looming trade war between the U.S. and China.
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Refiners and marketers gain both from periods of high demand and from slumping prices, while producers are squeezed by the glut of extra crude.
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Companies that have loaded up with historically high debt levels — especially in the energy and utilities sectors — could be squeezed by their financial obligations.
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Margins are being squeezed by increased competition for deposits as well as the pressure from Beijing to boost lending but keep borrowing costs down.
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Not just from the shorts who got squeezed by his original tweet, but also the longs who now being pressured on the other side.
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But over time, they began to feel squeezed by its narrow layout as their children, Delila, now 13, and Parker, now 11, grew up.
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The blackout will further depress Venezuela's already collapsing economy, which is being squeezed by bad governance, graft and sanctions imposed by the United States.
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"The broader economic outlook remains mixed, with households continuing to see their incomes being squeezed by rising inflation," UK Finance director Peter Tyler said.
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Analysts say they have been squeezed by Japanese and local brands, which have product line-ups better suited to Chinese tastes at cheaper prices.
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Novo Nordisk's product prices in the United States have been squeezed by pharmacy benefit managers who administer drug benefits for employers and health plans.
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Iranian leaders have previously kept the door open to diplomacy to achieve their aims, especially when its economy has been squeezed by U.S. sanctions.
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Warren's moves come as she has been squeezed by a resurgent Bernie Sanders on her left and an insurgent Pete Buttigieg on her right.
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Walgreen's: The market will also get an earnings report from drugstore chain Walgreen's, which has been squeezed by competition from the all-encompassing Amazon.
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But both brands were squeezed by Walmart Stores, with its heavy discounts, and Target, which sold affordable goods but with more design and flair.
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One of many companies getting squeezed by rising commodity and shipping costs, Hershey hopes higher prices will offset those costs without scaring away customers.
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American is trying to get a leg up on its competition as the industry gets squeezed by higher jet fuel costs and reduced profits.
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On Tuesday the company, squeezed by the pressure, said it would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for its United States employees.
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Record-breaking protests across Brazil have revealed the extent of dissatisfaction among the country's middle class squeezed by recession and angered by massive corruption.
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Small and big businesses, workers and creators are being squeezed by monopolists who use their market power to extract the fruits of everyone else's labor.
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But Lantus is being squeezed by pressure on prices in the United States, where prescriptions of cheaper copies of the treatment are picking up rapidly.
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Lots of jobs that are being created are in or near flourishing cities like Madison, where low-paid workers are squeezed by high housing costs.
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The product became even more of a laughingstock after Bloomberg realized the packets could be squeezed by hand — meaning the $700 juicer wasn't even necessary.
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Around the world, coal capacity is being squeezed by two trends: the falling number of new plants being deployed and the accelerating number of retirements.
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Shares in both companies have fallen by more than 40 percent over recent months on concerns that profits could be squeezed by a 5G operatorship.
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Profits are being squeezed by revenue pressure in French retail banking, due to low interest rates, investments in digital technologies and a slump in trading.
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David Dahlberg of the US Forest Service was just ahead of the deputies, and squeezed by the fire seconds before it erupted across the road.
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Britons are spending more on food but cutting back on non-essential purchases as their spending power is squeezed by inflation and subdued wage growth.
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What's more, Iran's leaders will continue to be squeezed by sanctions and other pressure because of their persistent support for international terror and rogue organizations.
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Even with the higher revenues, Theal said, state budgets are still being squeezed by increased Medicaid expenses and debts and liabilities incurred during the recession.
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Adding to the safety and environment concerns, Dalian's profit margins have been squeezed by a slowdown in fuel demand and rising competition from independent refiners.
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The win reflects Slim's growing presence in infrastructure, as his telecommunications giant America Movil is squeezed by a sweeping reform and tougher competition at home.
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US farmers have been been squeezed by the trade war; China's retaliatory tariffs cover a range of farm goods, including soybeans, almonds, pork, and apples.
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Staples, like many other bricks-and-mortar stores, has been squeezed by competition from online retailers, as well as by stores like Costco and Walmart.
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Despite a booming stock market and record corporate profits, workers in this country are being squeezed by flat wages, soaring household expenses and declining savings.
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Manufacturing, which accounts for about 20.9% of the economy, is being squeezed by businesses placing fewer orders while working off stockpiles of unsold goods in warehouses.
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Manufacturing, which accounts for about 21.7% of the economy, is being squeezed by businesses placing fewer orders while working off stockpiles of unsold goods in warehouses.
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The manufacturing sector has also been squeezed by a reduction in sources of credit amid Beijing's multi-year crackdown on corporate debt and risky lending practices.
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Consumers in particular were squeezed by the jump in inflation which followed the pound's tumble after the referendum, especially as wages have failed to keep up.
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There were also some concerns about the implications for the thousands of analyst jobs in a banking sector already squeezed by the financial crisis and regulation.
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It has also been squeezed by lower oil prices, which have undercut profits of oilfield companies like Schlumberger and , forcing them to slash spending on equipment.
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But fast food is now being squeezed: by a combination of higher wages and still-tepid consumption, and by foreign rivals winning over more Japanese stomachs.
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The 33,000-yuan mark is considered an average break-even for Chinese aluminium smelters, whose margins had been squeezed by a protracted price slump over 2018.
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The 14,000 yuan mark is considered an average break-even for Chinese aluminium smelters, whose margins had been squeezed by a protracted price slump over 2018.
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The 14,000 yuan mark is considered an average break-even for Chinese aluminum smelters, whose margins had been squeezed by a protracted price slump over 2018.
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The 33,000-yuan mark is considered an average break-even for Chinese aluminum smelters, whose margins had been squeezed by a protracted price slump over 2018.
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Yet that number was down 2.3 percent from the prior-year period, as the department store players continue to get squeezed by competition and price deflation.
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During the simulations, the volumes were squeezed at the rate and direction that reflected the way the region itself is being squeezed by the plate tectonics.
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At the time, Dell's revenues and profits were tumbling as the PC market was squeezed by the rise of mobile devices and low-cost Asian manufacturers.
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In contrast, Walmex's parent company in the United States, Walmart Inc, has had margins squeezed by higher transportation costs and heavy investment in its online business.
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And retail jobs in brick-and-mortar shops, which were a large share of those lower-paying replacement jobs, have been increasingly squeezed by online stores.
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Some companies are indeed raising prices as they see their profits squeezed by labor shortages, fueled by solid economic growth and a shrinking working-age population.
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It's the Old West, and the town of Rose Creek is being squeezed by a bloodthirsty industrialist named Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard, chewing scenery with fervor).
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The best version of this show, one I could imagine working, is a bittersweet workplace dramedy about people dedicated to a business squeezed by financial change.
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With consumers being squeezed by slow wage growth and the jump in inflation that followed the 2016 Brexit vote, expectations for Christmas spending had been subdued.
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The faster pay growth will comfort to British consumers, whose household incomes have been squeezed by a spike in inflation after June 2016's Brexit vote.
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The other front is a fiery uprising of traditional cab drivers who believe they are being unfairly squeezed by the recent flood of ride-hailing apps.
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Australia's supermarket sector is grappling with intense competition as sales and margins get squeezed by cautious consumers and rising costs, while economic growth slows in Australia.
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More and more families are squeezed by the cost of child care; not enough of it is high quality; the pay for providers is too low.
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Manufacturing, which accounts for about 12% of the economy, is being squeezed by businesses placing fewer orders while working off stockpiles of unsold goods in warehouses.
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The Cheesecake Factory confirmed that it will temporarily lay-off nearly 41,000 hourly restaurant workers as its business continues to be squeezed by the coronavirus outbreak.
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Consumers in particular were squeezed by the jump in inflation that followed the pound's tumble after the referendum, especially as wages have failed to keep up.
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The main opposition Labour Party, which is equivocal on Brexit, was pushed into an embarrassing fourth place, its vote share squeezed by the anti-Brexit alliance.
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The main opposition Labour Party, which is equivocal on Brexit, was pushed into an embarrassing fourth place, its vote share squeezed by the anti-Brexit alliance.
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Lululemon's results contrasts with the struggles facing rivals like Nike Inc and Under Armour, squeezed by intense competition, heavy discounting and worries about changing industry trends.
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In March, a Bloomberg article and video detailed how some of the juice and vegetable packs could be squeezed by hand — rendering the actual press unnecessary.
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Sanders' speech comes as he's getting squeezed by two rivals — frontrunner Joe Biden from the center and fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren alongside him on the left.
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In Carla MacKinnon's installation, Squeezed by Shadows, people who suffer from sleep paralysis recount their terrifying experiences and hallucinations to the sights of disturbing abstract images.
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Saudi Arabia started raising U.S. dollar debt in 2016 through a $10 billion syndicated loan, as the country's finances were squeezed by a slump in oil prices.
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With profits squeezed by the growth of German discounters Aldi and Lidl, Britain's "big four" supermarkets have been under pressure to cut prices and improve customer services.
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The move comes as Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., known as PDVSA, has been squeezed by a broad U.S. sanctions program against the government of President Nicolas Maduro.
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Consolidation has increased in the past two years as profit margins have been squeezed by lower government and consumer spending in the face of weak oil prices.
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With Britain's consumers being squeezed by slow wage growth and the jump in inflation that followed the 2016 Brexit vote, expectations for Christmas spending had been subdued.
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The companies' profits have been squeezed by a global grains glut, low crop prices and a bruising U.S.-China trade war that has stifled global commodities flows.
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"If the buyers in Hong Kong get squeezed by McDonald's as they have in other countries, workers here may get even less as a result," Wong said.
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Gold producers in Africa's most industrialised economy, which have some of the world's deepest mines, have seen profits squeezed by rising costs, labour unrest and declining grades.
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Like other major Chinese banks, it is seeing margins squeezed by the central bank's successive rate cuts and profitability and capital buffers eroded by rising bad debt.
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Financing is especially tough for exporters who have been squeezed by the trade war, as banks tighten scrutiny and impose stricter risk controls, bankers and companies said.
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In October the government of Africa's top copper producer, whose economy is being squeezed by low commodity prices, proposed a 14 percent cut for its 2017 budget.
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Nobody wants another financial crisis, but Cramer knows that the bank cohort has been utterly squeezed by the strict regulations placed on it during the Obama administration.
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Between the new fees they are paying the central bank and a general decline in lending income, profits at commercial banks are being squeezed by negative rates.
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Margins were squeezed by costs linked to natural hazards including the Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand, a Sydney hailstorm and Cyclone Debbie that hit Australia in March.
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TORONTO, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index was down shortly after the open on Wednesday, squeezed by broad losses, particularly in the energy and financial sectors.
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Coal companies are being squeezed by competition from less expensive energy sources like natural gas and by stiffer regulations — pressures that show no signs of letting up.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Commodities broker OTC Europe has agreed to purchase rival Oil Brokerage in the latest consolidation in a sector squeezed by rising competition and smaller margins.
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The sector, which accounts for about 27.8% of the economy, is being squeezed by businesses placing fewer orders while working off stockpiles of unsold goods in warehouses.
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China's insurance industry saw its first-half earnings slide 54 percent to 105.6 billion yuan ($15.9 billion), the CIRC said in July, squeezed by falling investment returns.
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Chinese mills have been pressured by weak downstream demand and environmental protection measures, while their profits were also squeezed by rising raw material prices, the report said.
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The government's obfuscation — officials first blamed the airplane attack on human error — has angered many Iranians, already squeezed by poor economic conditions exacerbated by U.S. economic sanctions.
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Spanish oil company reported a 36% fall in adjusted net profit for the fourth quarter of 2019 on Thursday, squeezed by lower oil and natural gas prices.
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Department stores are being squeezed by discount chains, like TJ Maxx (TJX) and Target (TGT), which is pressuring profits and forcing them to put products on sale.
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It has also been squeezed by lower oil prices, which have undercut profits of oilfield companies like Schlumberger and Halliburton , forcing them to slash spending on equipment.
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The kingdom had been squeezed by years of low oil prices, and Prince Mohammed was seeking to recover hundreds of billions of dollars in alleged illicit gains.
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Still from Squeezed by Shadows, 2013, Carla MacKinnon © the artist Human consciousness: it's something we all share (some of us more than others), yet barely understand.
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The firm is also evaluating returns from its business units and looking at cost cutting as it battles high debt and thin margins squeezed by difficult trading conditions.
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Supermarkets Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Tesco and Marks & Spencer, whose bricks-and-mortar business models have been squeezed by online delivery services like Ocado, were among top FTSE 100 gainers.
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Jaisal Pastakia, investment manager at Heartwood Investment Management, said there were mounting concerns that banks' profitability will be squeezed by negative interest rates and prolonged dovish monetary policy.
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It's also a logical move from BBM which also needs to compete — it has seen itself slowly squeezed by the rise of WhatsApp, Messenger and other chat apps.
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China's insurance industry overall saw its first-half earnings slide 54 percent to 105.6 billion yuan, squeezed by falling investment returns, the country's insurance regulator said in July.
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It's about the way in which the GOP-big business consensus is now being powerfully squeezed by two separate factions within the party: one ultra-conservative, one populist.
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Worries that the global microchip industry is being squeezed by a downturn in demand and the prolonged U.S.-China trade dispute sent some Asian chip-related shares lower.
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He and his neighbors in Chira, a small highland town dependent on coffee production, complain their livelihoods are being squeezed by commercial investors in the region's ancient forests.
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At the same time the profitability of drug research is being squeezed by steadily rising costs and increasing political pressure over the high prices of many modern medicines.
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The retreat comes as traders have been squeezed by falling crop prices linked to large global harvests and faltering growth in major commodity markets including Brazil and China.
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"ADM will seek to take advantage of its strong position by taking over a major Argentine crushing operation that is being squeezed by the trade war," another added.
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The standoff comes against a backdrop of European industry consolidation, as margins are squeezed by falling mobile data prices and mounting costs to launch super-fast 5G services.
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But all of that is being squeezed by the "vise that is the current regulatory environment," said Brian Kleinhanzl, an analyst with Keefe Bruyette & Woods, an investment bank.
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In Asia, the Indian rupee and Indonesian rupiah have been under heavy fire, in part because both countries are being squeezed by the soaring cost of imported oil.
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The Consumer Technology Association shares concerns about our lack of long-term investment and the fact that discretionary spending is increasingly squeezed by interest payments and promised benefits.
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The company was subject to mockery, particularly after a Bloomberg piece showed that the juice packets could be squeezed by hand and did not require a fancy machine.
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Retirees, already squeezed by living on a fixed income, are frustrated at the prospect of seeing their benefits reduced or eliminated if Congress does not act, he said.
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And if the fee has its intended effect — encouraging people to change their shopping behavior — most customers would not feel squeezed by the charge, Councilman Brad Lander said.
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Those families would also be squeezed by the proposal to cap the mortgage-interest deduction for home purchases starting Thursday, the day the bill was introduced, at $500,000.
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Its North American beverage business, which accounts for a third of total sales, has been squeezed by increased competition and a shift in consumer preferences toward healthier options.
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Investing in start-ups is becoming increasingly important for Wall Street banks as they look to diversify as their key profit engines get squeezed by falling interest rates.
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Consumers in particular have been squeezed by the jump in inflation which followed the pound's tumble after 2016's referendum, especially as wages have failed to keep up.
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But real estate, a key prop to growth in recent quarters, is primed for a moderation as financing to the sector is being squeezed by a regulatory crackdown.
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Foreign carriers, including Air Canada and Norwegian Air, have also been squeezed by the grounding, and pressure has been building for Boeing to reimburse airlines around the world.
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Tourism in Hong Kong has also been squeezed by more than four months of protests against what is seen as Beijing tightening grip on the Chinese-ruled city.
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German banks have found their profits squeezed by the European Central Bank's ultra-low interest rates and Commerzbank, the country's second largest lender, is cutting almost 10,000 jobs.
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But having seen Hong Kong's autonomy and freedoms squeezed by Beijing in recent years, many Taiwanese people were likely to be suspicious of Mr. Xi's offers, he said.
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In addition to rising borrowing costs, the housing market is also being squeezed by land and labor shortages, which have led to tight inventories and more expensive homes.
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Some of these executives say their profit margins risk getting squeezed by these factors, adding they might have to pass rising costs on to customers, if they haven't already.
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Profits at Volvo have been squeezed by rising costs due to product launches plus the impact of higher tariffs from a trade spat between Washington and Beijing has escalated.
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With margins squeezed by low prices, however, Chalco in January said it was shutting a 13,000 tonnes per year plant in Shandong, citing high electricity costs, among other factors.
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In June it was squeezed by both the resurgent Scottish Conservatives, who picked up much of the unionist vote, and by Labour, which outflanked the SNP on its left.
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Iron ore supplies have been squeezed by cyclone disruption in Australia and reduced production in Brazil after a Vale dam burst in January that killed at least 240 people.
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Like all advertising groups, the owner of agencies including JWT and Ogilvy & Mather is being squeezed by clients who are struggling to raise prices, forcing them to cut costs.
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The Islamic lender joins a number of banks in the Gulf region planning to raise debt internationally to improve their liquidity, which has been squeezed by low oil prices.
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The state's last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, which supplies 9 percent of California's electricity, has been hurt by falling revenues — and is getting squeezed by policies to boost renewables.
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"As a mid-market department store, Debenhams is being squeezed by more premium players, specialists and online," said analysts at Liberum, who have a "sell" stance on the stock.
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Like their rivals globally, Australia's traditional media companies have been squeezed by online rivals, as advertising dollars have followed eyeballs to digital distributors such as Google, Facebook and Netflix.
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"Despite a booming stock market and record corporate profits, workers in this country are being squeezed by flat wages, soaring household expenses and declining savings," Warren and Sanders write.
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VTB has seen its earnings squeezed by a deep economic slump and is under Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict that limit its ability to borrow on international markets.
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Nobody wants another financial crisis, but CNBC's Jim Cramer knows that the bank cohort has been utterly squeezed by the strict regulations placed on it during the Obama administration.
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There is an unsustainable problem, however: air medical service providers are being squeezed by drastically low government reimbursement rates and some insurers who refuse to negotiate in good faith.
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The firm is being squeezed by central government efforts to reduce steel production nationwide and so has branched out into real estate investment, in turn crowding out private players.
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That could strain the Chinese banking system, particularly since smaller banks were already being squeezed by the country's economic slowdown and regulatory restrictions on how they could lend money.
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Department stores have already been being squeezed by discount chains, like TJ Maxx (TJX)and Target (TGT), which is pressuring profits and forcing them to put products on sale.
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It has since dropped almost by half, Mr. Burney said, with migrants seeking visas squeezed by concerns about terrorism in Europe and economic belt-tightening in the Persian Gulf.
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Investors have been grappling with a slowing of global growth, corporate profits being squeezed by rising interest rates, a trade war with China and turmoil in the White House.
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Mr. Lagasse, whose restaurant empire has its headquarters in New Orleans with outposts in Florida, Las Vegas and Pennsylvania, also complained about being squeezed by rising real estate costs.
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Mohammad Hossain, 47, from Bangladesh, who purchased a medallion for $20173,000 at the auction, said he could barely make his monthly payments and was getting squeezed by his lender.
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They were hurt by their own popularity and irrational exuberance, whether squeezed by the increased competition or by their own overexpansion (and an outbreak or two of foodborne illnesses).
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Steelmakers are facing "a difficult year" in Europe, where prices are being squeezed by Chinese steel manufacturers using surplus output to boost exports, the newspaper cited Hiesinger as saying.
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Triple-A rated German bonds, used as collateral by banks, have been squeezed by falling supply in recent years and central bank asset purchases, putting downward pressure on yields.
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Kenyan banks, squeezed by a cap on lending rates, are pouring cash into government securities anyway; investors may see M-Akiba as a savings account that cuts out the middleman.
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The transaction is the latest example of consolidation in the Gulf's banking sector, where profit margins are being squeezed by lower government and consumer spending because of weak oil prices.
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As Mr Kostin points out, some tech titans may see profits squeezed by 10% whereas the median technology firm can expect a rise in earnings per share of perhaps 3%.
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And second, in the advertising world, look to ad agency holding companies to engage in deal making as their business gets squeezed by both consulting firms and programmatic ad platforms.
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Consolidation among smaller lenders has increased in the past two years as profit margins have been squeezed by lower government and consumer spending in the face of weak oil prices.
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With people on low incomes surviving on welfare handouts and the lower middle class squeezed by the tax burden, the French are highly sensitive to pressure on their daily budgets.
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European manufacturers — and automakers in particular — would be squeezed by tight supply in the aluminum market, especially since it can take up to a year to validate a new supplier.
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SMRT has said the rail financing framework had become unsustainable and fare margins had been squeezed by rising operating expenses because of maintenance and replacement programs for its aging network.
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The plan, which has been under discussion between the government and parliament since last year, aimed to overhaul allowances paid to Bahrainis squeezed by years of austerity and rising prices.
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In a simple jet the ingested air is first squeezed by a compressor, and then mixed with fuel and ignited in the engine's core to create a fast-moving exhaust.
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Florists will send out millions of Valentine's Day bouquets this weekend in the U.S. alone, and local florists will be squeezed by national merchants like 1-800-Flowers and FTD.
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That's the vision that Four Growers has laid out as it seeks to sell its robots to farms already squeezed by a labor shortage that shows no sign of relenting.
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With Britons being squeezed by slow wage growth and a jump in inflation that followed the 2016 Brexit vote, overall expectations going into the key Christmas trading period were subdued.
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The cash-strapped country has a population of more than 25 million but its economy has been squeezed by a series of sanctions for its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.
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Squeezed by Western sanctions over its role in the Ukraine crisis, the Russian government is trying to rejuvenate domestic industrial production to make the country less dependant on foreign firms.
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The housing market hit a soft patch last year, squeezed by higher mortgage rates, pricey lumber, and land and labor shortages, which led to tight inventories and more expensive homes.
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The company's sugar business was squeezed by a delay in harvesting due to rain, and accounting mark-to-market losses on hedges as a result of higher prices, Wilmar said.
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Traditional media companies in Australia including Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd and News Corp's local arm - already squeezed by online rivals - welcomed the ACCC suggestions in separate statements on Monday.
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Turbine makers are being squeezed by competitive auction systems for wind farms that favour the lowest bidder, wrenching the industry away from a long-standing system of generous fixed tariffs.
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The companies supply the birds and feed, so the farmers describe themselves as modern sharecroppers, with no control over their operations, squeezed by the companies and punished if they protest.
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Squeezed by shrinking local populations and the Bank of Japan's negative interest rate policy, many of these smaller banks have managed to stay in the black thanks to securities trading.
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It announced 1,000 job cuts in 2016 as competition among insulin producers increased and prices were squeezed by pharmacy benefit managers who administer drug programs for employers and health plans.
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The project has been squeezed by a weaker outlook for LNG, having to rely on gas from other companies to help feed the plant and higher costs for that gas.
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With their margins squeezed by the Bank of Japan's negative interest rate policy, regional banks have stepped up investment on assets vulnerable to interest-rate risk such as foreign bonds.
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Further squeezed by a recession, Mr. Trump fell $20013 million behind on the property tax bill for a large swath of land he owned on the West Side of Manhattan.
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Alibaba reported better than expected topline results on Friday, driven by strong sales in its commerce and cloud computing units, even as margins were squeezed by a flurry of investments.
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The cash-strapped country has a population of more than 25 million but its economy has been squeezed by a series of sanctions for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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YouTube's comedians, political commentators and experts on subjects from military arms to video games have reported being squeezed by the ad shake-up — often in videos they've posted to YouTube.
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The housing market hit a soft patch last year, squeezed by higher mortgage rates, pricier lumber, and land and labor shortages, which led to tight inventories and more expensive homes.
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Background: Squeezed by American sanctions, Iran has sought to inflict similar pain on regional rivals, but it has stopped short of a direct attack that might prompt a military response.
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But even with subsidies, Aluminij was racking up losses, squeezed by a rise in the cost of the raw material alumina and a decline in global aluminium prices from 2014.
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But a fall in raw milk prices this year has hammered farmers' earnings, which have already been squeezed by lower crop prices, and added to pressure on authorities to act.
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The Israeli company has faced management turmoil and been squeezed by increased competition as well as lower prices in a challenging market environment for generic drugs in the United States.
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Many smaller health providers and hospitals in regional markets have filed for bankruptcy in recent years, squeezed by falling reimbursement rates, demands for new technology and difficulties recruiting highly trained staff.
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China's economy also appears to have been slowing since the middle of 2018, squeezed by tighter credit, the tariffs imposed by the United States and an increasingly uncertain outlook for exporters.
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With bond market trading squeezed by central bank buying and tighter regulation straining banks' market-making capabilities, ETFs — baskets of securities that can be easily acquired on an exchange — are thriving.
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Total revenue, however, fell 10.1 percent to $23.80 billion, squeezed by a strong dollar as well as a weak personal computer market that has reduced demand for Microsoft's Windows operating system.
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Profit margins are also being squeezed by a flattening yield curve in Canada, which hampers banks' ability to borrow at a low rate and charge customers a higher one, analysts say.
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South Korea, the world's sixth-largest exporter and biggest manufacturer of memory chips, also has been squeezed by the falling price of micro-chips and petroleum products, its other key export.
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China's manufacturing sector has been squeezed by a reduction in sources of credit amid Beijing's multi-year crackdown on corporate debt and risky lending practices, with smaller firms especially under strain.
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As their margins have been squeezed by the digital disruptors, bricks-and-mortar stores have been hit by rising business rates and wage bills, which affected them harder than online retailers.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Some Illinois school districts, including the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), are being squeezed by late payments due to the state's ongoing budget problems, Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday.
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Whereas NHS treatment is free at the point of delivery, social care is means-tested and provided by local authorities, whose grants from central government have been severely squeezed by austerity.
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But the bank has found it hard to hit the target as its earnings are squeezed by low interest rates and the U.S. Federal Reserve's requirement that banks retain more capital.
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Several oil producers, whose cash flows have been squeezed by a 70 percent fall in oil prices since June 2014, are in talks with creditors to defer payments and improve liquidity.
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It announced 1,000 job cuts in 2016 as competition among insulin producers increased and prices were squeezed by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) who administer drug programs for employers and health plans.
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A drop in European gas demand dented Algerian exports that were squeezed by slowing production at mature fields, low investment and s rapidly increasing domestic need for gas to generate power.
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Two months ago, with the water supply increasingly squeezed by the drought and rebellion in the forest, Mr. Chikuni started rationing in the capital, leaving customers bereft for half the week.
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British consumers are being squeezed by high inflation and muted wage growth and the improved outlook at Next should not be seen as a reflection of the wider economy, James added.
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The situation could be a net positive for Venezuela's fellow OPEC members and other oil-producing nations, who have also seen their finances squeezed by three years of suppressed oil prices.
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Economy While many sectors of the economy are getting squeezed by the coronavirus crisis, some retailers and service providers are making big hiring moves to accommodate drastic shifts in buying habits.
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But from the start, she has found herself in a political vise, squeezed by competing factions in her party and even in her own campaign, which has led to some stumbles.
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The expected fall puts more pressure on the country's largest milk processors, Saputo Inc, Fonterra and Bega Cheese Ltd, which have seen profits squeezed by intense local competition for milk supplies.
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Dogged by poor debate performances and squeezed by Biden's post-South Carolina surge, Bloomberg never came close to winning in any state, though he did win American Samoa, a U.S. territory.
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Gold demand in India remained subdued despite a drop in prices as retail demand was squeezed by cash crunch, while jewellers were delaying purchases expecting a fall in prices next week.
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ROCHESTER, N.H. — Maggie Hassan, the Democratic governor of New Hampshire now running for the Senate, squeezed by an older woman grimly examining some potatoes at a grocery store here last week.
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Part of the problem may be that middle aged people are getting squeezed by health care costs because they are less likely to have coverage than children and people over 65.
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Many of the ranchers at the event on Wednesday own small, family-run farms and believe they are getting squeezed by the meat packaging companies, which are dominated by four big companies.
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Rovio said profit was squeezed by Hatch Entertainment, a spin-off business that is developing 5G streaming access to mobile games the way Netflix does for movies and Spotify does for music.
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Analysts say profits have also been squeezed by the legacy of lower pricing for an earlier version of A350, which was relaunched in 2006 with a bolder design and higher price tag.
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CVS: The health care retailer's stock has been under pressure lately as even pharmacies are squeezed by the rise of Amazon, but Cramer says there could be a hidden upside to earnings.
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The central bank may want to send signal that a rate cut remains on the cards in early 2017 when it believes growth will be squeezed by weaker investment and rising prices.
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Further clouding the picture is a shift in spending patterns as Chinese consumers, squeezed by a falling yuan, start spending more at home, creating uncertainty for overseas tourist hotspots or shopping destinations.
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Alex: The most important part of these negotiations is that neither party felt squeezed by the other, which can erode trust or make it feel like the other party is being greedy.
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Ongoing pattern Ships washing up on the shores of Japan, some with decomposing corpses inside, could be a sign of growing desperation in North Korea as it's squeezed by sanctions, analysts say.
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It is the latest firm to go to the wall in an industry that has been squeezed by natural gas and renewable energy, despite Donald Trump's many promises to save coal jobs.
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The move is intended to alleviate some of the pressure of negative interest rates on the balance sheets of European banks, which have seen profits squeezed by the persistent low rate environment.
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The OPEC+ deal collapse added to concerns of demand being squeezed by the rapid global spread of the coronavirus pandemic, which has paralysed supply chains and triggered a rout in financial markets.
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The OPEC+ deal collapse added to concerns of demand being squeezed by the rapid global spread of the coronavirus pandemic, which has paralyzed supply chains and triggered a rout in financial markets.
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Yet — if indeed a stroke was the primary cause of death, as her son, Todd Fisher, has said — a heart squeezed by the sudden loss of a beloved daughter could have contributed.
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These clear silicone tubes are either squeezed by a robotic arm, like a baker squeezing icing out of a pastry bag, or constricted by strings, similar to the segments of an earthworm.
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Instead, I mentally wandered off to the Juicero Juicer, which charged buyers $400 for a machine and a packet of juice that could be squeezed by hand without investing in the machine.
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The bulk of airports in the region are run by governments but more are expected to be privatised in an effort to reduce the burden on state coffers squeezed by lower oil prices.
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The nation's craft beer taps are being squeezed by the government shutdown, which has put new releases on hold, prevented new breweries from opening and stopped shipments of some suds across state lines.
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"But the situation is arguably worse this time, as the service-sector employers that previously absorbed many laid-off workers are now being squeezed by tighter regulations," Gavekal's Cui said in her report.
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The Philadelphia Fed's data mirrored other regional surveys in suggesting a broad recovery in manufacturing, which was squeezed by the collapse in oil prices and a strong dollar over the past two years.
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"If the consumer gets squeezed by inflation, then they will have to cut back, but probably more on the bigger-ticket items in the short term," said Greg Johnson, analyst at Shore Capital.
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Britain's own farmers could be squeezed by this: on February 1st the rural affairs secretary in the Welsh Assembly warned that a deal with New Zealand could "absolutely destroy" the Welsh lamb industry.
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Not only are we getting shocking builds, we're also being squeezed by the bullishness of the U.S. dollar and a hurricane season that's had very little impact thus far on actual crude production.
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Seizures of marijuana on the United States' south-western frontier by its Border Patrol, a useful proxy for the activity of Mexican gangs, suggest traffickers are being squeezed by legally grown American crops.
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Instead, we get "innovations" like Juicero, which sells a $400 juicer and produce packs that are just as easily squeezed by hand, and Apple subtracting the headphone jack from the most recent iPhone.
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Going against the judgment of European counterparts, the president withdrew from an Iran Deal that breathed life into an Iranian economy squeezed by sanctions and kept Israel in a well-funded Hezbollah's crosshairs.
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Drug retailers like Walgreens and CVS Health have been squeezed by reimbursement pressure as their pharmacies receive less for filing prescriptions coupled with a steep decline in generic drug prices for several years.
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Squeezed by competition with Apple Inc in the premium segment and with Chinese rivals in other segments, Samsung's smartphone business saw profit fall to the lowest level since the first quarter of 2017.
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Profits for small-cap companies have also been squeezed by higher input costs as a result of the U.S.-China trade war, so the group is more vulnerable to an aging business cycle.
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Beijing has stepped up fiscal stimulus to prevent a sharper slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, which is being squeezed by weaker domestic demand and a trade war with the United States.
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With its budget squeezed by the deep recession, Temer's government is betting that an increase in private investment can help revive the economy despite political turbulence caused by a sweeping anti-corruption investigation.
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It is confronted by a Russian military build-up across its border with a strengthening Russian-Armenia alliance, and is simultaneously being squeezed by Russia's military actions in Syria, across its southern border.
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Britain's mid-sized banks are being squeezed by competitive pressures from both the big established players and smaller newcomers, so analysts and investors have been expecting consolidation to kick off at some stage.
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DUBAI, Aug 20143 (Reuters) - Bahrain's government has rejected parliament's proposals to reform allowances paid to Bahrainis squeezed by years of austerity on the grounds that they would break government spending caps, lawmakers said.
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Like other packaged food makers, it has been squeezed by last year's drop in the British currency, which has raised the cost of imported goods or globally traded commodities priced in U.S. dollars.
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But while the 135-year-old group remains Britain's largest clothing retailer in sales terms, it has been squeezed by the likes of Inditex's Zara, H&M, Primark and the supermarkets' clothing businesses.
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Mr. Minerd said he did not see funding problems as of yet, but he said the sell-off of precious metals was a sign that investors were feeling squeezed by increased margin calls.
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The change in company guidance reflected yet again the hardships that traditional ad groups face, with revenues being squeezed by competition from Facebook and Google as well as tightening budgets by major clients.
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Newsom asked legislators to invest $28503 million in a new California Access to Housing and Services Fund, a program aimed at building new affordable housing in a state squeezed by lack of inventory.
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Seed funders risk seeing their stakes diluted significantly if they don't take a large ownership from the start, or participate in future funding rounds so they don't get squeezed by other venture capitalists.
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Cai says the industry is now facing the toughest challenges he has seen, squeezed by high materials costs, tougher regulations and tighter access to credit, making him cautious about taking on new projects.
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The company has turned to cloud computing, cybersecurity and analytics as it looks to cut down dependence on IT services, where margins are being squeezed by clients demanding more work at lower costs.
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Squeezed by rivals who are variously cheaper, trendier, more political and more wholesome, the new owner of the Body Shop will have a choice, argues Harsha Wickremasinghe of Livingstone, an M&A advisory firm.
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He said that Uber Black drivers like him are expected to drive recent versions of certain models of car but have been squeezed by the company's shift toward the budget end of the market.
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Mining stocks were squeezed by metal prices, with gold prices falling for a third straight session as the greenback rose amid speculation over who will be the next chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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The timetable could slip, but the introduction of initiatives likely to reduce profitability at larger UK banks adds to pressure on net interest margins, which are likely to be squeezed by low base rates.
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It also implies some stabilization in manufacturing activity, which has been squeezed by the ebbing stimulus from a $7373 trillion tax cut package and supply chain disruptions caused by Washington's trade war with China.
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"In Europe, the legacy carriers have been squeezed by the low-cost carriers and the Middle East carriers and they have started working to improve profitability and that is beginning to show," he added.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) feel squeezed by the national champions, to which many say they are beholden as suppliers or by which some are gobbled up, often for valuable machinery or technology.
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Some members of the group say they are being squeezed by a tough economy, Western sanctions on Russia, and powerful state-run companies that are muscling in on nearly all sectors of the economy.
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Squeezed by Apple in premium products and undercut by Chinese rivals like Huawei in cheaper devices, Samsung's smartphone profits and global market share have fallen and sapped momentum at South Korea's most valuable company.
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Consolidation in the sector across the Gulf region has increased in the past two years as profit margins have been squeezed by lower government and consumer spending in the face of weak oil prices.
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Freeport-McMoRan said it would look to reduce its hefty debt load and reported a lower-than-expected adjusted loss in the fourth quarter, squeezed by plunging commodity prices, oversupply and flagging Chinese demand.
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The report came the day before Hyundai Motor Co reports third-quarter earnings that are expected to be squeezed by a protracted strike - resolved earlier this month - as well as falling sales at home.
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It gave no details, but since the capacity of the Saudi banking sector to lend is being squeezed by low oil prices, bankers think Aramco might sell foreign currency debt in the international market.
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China's NPI sector is being squeezed by low prices and low availability of the nickel ore it uses as a raw feed and there is mounting evidence that run-rates are now steadily declining.
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But in the next five years, OPEC will supply a diminishing amount of oil, squeezed by rising U.S. shale output and other rival sources, according to the oil producer group's 2019 World Oil Outlook.
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Local economies squeezed by depopulation, coupled with the central bank's negative interest rate policy, have pushed regional banks towards reliance on business lines such as securities trading and lending for buy-to-let apartments.
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"We recently highlighted the return of risk aversion as a notable AUD driver and long positions are being squeezed by the cooling global risk mood," said Sean Callow, a senior currency analyst at Westpac.
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Consolidation in the sector across the Gulf region has increased in the past two years as profit margins have become squeezed by lower government and consumer spending in the face of weak oil prices.
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Squeezed by Facebook and Google on one side, and impossible consumer expectations created by Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services on the other, the idea of an ad-supported entertainment business is under siege.
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The Navy is also being squeezed by a ship maintenance crisis while trying to build new Columbia-class submarines, so the amount of money available to build new landing craft could be extremely limited.
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With 600 million users and 400,000 teams currently storing more than 3 exabytes of data (and growing) if it hadn't taken this step, the company might have been squeezed by its growing cloud bills.
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Britain's inflation rate picked up for the first time this year in July, leaving many British households still feeling squeezed by prices that are still rising at about the same pace as their salaries.
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But he declined to speak at length about his relatives or his travels to the country, which suffered a devastating famine in the 1990s and was squeezed by sanctions as it pursued nuclear weapons.
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But squeezed by the same forces, all military branches must sweeten their enlistment deals, adding sign-up and retention bonuses and loosening medical standards on childhood conditions like asthma and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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"Many state budgets are being squeezed by weaker-than-expected revenues, and face other budgetary pressures related to things like health care," said Nancy Vanden Houten, a senior economist at Oxford Economics in New York.
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With households increasingly squeezed by high prices for food, energy and household goods, the government has faced increasing anger and Azhar announced a 203% cut in ministerial salaries and an increase in the minimum wage.
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The banking index rose 2.1 percent, the biggest sectoral gainer, amid a series of reports about possible merger activity in a sector whose margins have been squeezed by sluggish growth and ultra-low interest rates.
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The premium typically commanded by the newest vintage of Treasuries, so-called on-the-run bonds, over their older, or off-the-run, counterparts has been squeezed by these two forces to historically low levels.
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Squeezed by tough competition from domestic and foreign rivals who have invested heavily in their stores, DIA has failed to stem a haemorrhage of market share it built up by discounting during a prolonged recession.
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The companies have shifted operations and reorganized management teams as profits have been squeezed by a global grains glut, low crop prices and a prolonged U.S.-China trade war that has stifled global commodities flows.
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The company reported revenue at NEX Optimisation up 21 percent rise, beating analysts' expectations, but said that operating margins were being squeezed by investment in new products, acquisitions and a change in the product mix.
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Bank stocks have been falling in recent weeks amid concerns that their net interest margins, or the difference between what they pay on deposits and earn on loans, have been squeezed by falling interest rates.
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Aldi and Lidl are also modernizing existing stores and making a push into premium ranges that chimes with British shoppers, who, squeezed by inflation and subdued wages growth, have become more cautious in their spending.
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Underlying non-IFRS operating margins, at constant currency, were squeezed by 1.5 percentage points in the quarter to 7.53 percent as SAP implemented hyperinflation accounting for crisis-hit markets in Latin America such as Venezuela.
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But profits in the sector have been squeezed by fierce competition between established firms and rival startups, as well as moves by Beijing to cut subsidies for the market to improve product quality and standards.
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U.S. consumers are squeezed by a record $1.38 trillion in student debt, a total that has grown by about 40 percent in the last five years, according to data from the New York Federal Reserve.
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Squeezed by negative European Central Bank interest rates, German banks have been seeking ways to increase revenue by passing on costs to corporate customers and increasing fees for retail depositors, but profit margins remain thin.
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Bank consolidation has also picked up in other Gulf countries, notably Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain as profit margins have been squeezed by lower government and consumer spending in the face of volatile oil prices.
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The announcement by the lenders on Tuesday is the latest example of consolidation in the Gulf's banking sector, where profit margins are being squeezed by lower government and consumer spending because of weak oil prices.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Puma expects gross margins to be squeezed by discounting in the fourth quarter, despite a new collection from singer Rihanna helping the German sportswear company raise its 2017 sales and operating earnings outlook.
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Independent refiners, mainly based in Shandong, are under pressure to cut run rates as profit margins have been squeezed by Beijing's tighter scrutiny over taxes and shifting quota policies, while some have begun seasonal maintenance.
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With winter coming, and eateries across China already squeezed by high pork and other food prices, Meituan has said it will focus more on finding increased ad revenue rather than raising commissions or delivery fees.
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Banks are looking to diversify as their main profit engines get squeezed by falling interest rates, and new fintech options like Square, PayPal, Wealthfront, Betterment, Robinhood debut many of the same services with zero fees.
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While reporting earnings on Wednesday, the homebuilder Lennar said it couldn't offer investors a forecast for 2019 because of "continued softness and uncertainty" in the housing market, which has been squeezed by rising mortgage rates.
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TEHRAN — Iran, squeezed by punishing American sanctions, is confronting its most severe economic challenge in 40 years, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, arguing that the Iranian government "should not be blamed" for the crisis.
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"Margins will continue to be squeezed by a 15 to 13 percent increase in service costs in the Permian basin," said Michael Roomberg, portfolio manager of the Miller/Howard Drill Bit to Burner Tip Fund.
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Besides slowing smartphone sales, Qualcomm is also being squeezed by competitors making chips that rival its own in price and performance, and the likes of Samsung and Apple increasingly making their own components for smartphones.
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With margins squeezed by a stagnant domestic market and rivalry from China and South Korea, many factories have cut costs, reducing their reliance on workers in lifetime employment in favor of laborers on temporary contracts.
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The approach underscores the scope of CBS's ambitions to compete more aggressively in a world in which it is squeezed by deep-pocketed tech companies on one side and rapidly consolidating peers on the other.
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Once an auto industry cash cow, the Chinese market contracted last year for the first time since the 22s and is expected to decline another 27% in 22014, squeezed by a worsening U.S.-China trade war.
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While the market for so-called dry containers has been squeezed by increased competition, demand for refrigerated containers has grown thanks to higher global demand for fresh produce and other commodities, Maersk said in a statement.
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Swedish Match said cigar volumes increased despite tough competition, but profitability was squeezed by the cost of changes to packaging required by U.S. health authorities from August this year, and by changes to the product mix.
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Squeezed by negative European Central Bank (ECB) interest rates, German banks have been seeking ways to boost revenue by passing on costs to corporate customers and increasing fees for retail depositors, but profit margins remain thin.
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The strong premiums took some traders by surprise and they said they doubted the trend would last as Chinese buyers are likely to seek other supplies as their profit margins get squeezed by high feedstock costs.
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Slutsky told reporters Trump was "probably squeezed by Russian opponents inside the U.S.," and said the move "goes completely in line with the anti-Russian policy," according to a report in the state news agency TASS.
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The PA has been squeezed by steep U.S. aid cuts, with the crisis exacerbated by a dispute with Israel over the withholding of some 5 percent of the monthly tax revenues it transfers to the Authority.
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Investment income is being squeezed by low interest rates and to help cushion the impact, the Hanover, Germany-based insurer has invested in alternative assets such as renewable energy and infrastructure where returns are typically higher.
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Investors have long been frustrated at being shut out of some sectors in a market of more than 100 million Filipinos, either squeezed by local monopoliesor regulations that limit foreign investments, like in telecoms and utilities.
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In the Mendips in Somerset the author works his way sideways through a diagonal slit between two angled planes of rock, a "deep time space" that will only just admit him, squeezed by an immense overhang.
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With their margins squeezed by years of ultra-low interest rates and a dwindling population, Japan's regional lenders have increased loans to borrowers with low credit standings that could sour if economic conditions deteriorate, Suzuki said.
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Novo gets about half its revenue from the United States where there are some 30 million diabetics but prices have been squeezed by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) who administer drug benefits for employers and health plans.
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For the banks and brokerages who are increasingly offering outsourced trading, it represents a much-needed source of extra income as they too have been squeezed by regulation and are grappling with perennially low interest rates.
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After last month suffering their biggest decline in sales volumes for four-and-a-half years, British retailers are pinning their hopes on discounts to get shoppers squeezed by inflation and subdued wage growth spending again.
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Stronger factory prices have helped boost industrial profits, relieving some pressure on companies squeezed by higher costs and weak demand, though there are concerns some of the gains are due to speculation and are not sustainable.
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Oil prices dipped, squeezed by lingering oversupply including rising U.S. inventories and ample physical flows, though the prospect of Saudi output dropping in March, economic growth hopes and a weaker dollar all combined to cap losses.
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Both Javid, from the ruling Conservatives, and McDonnell will travel to the north of England to make their pitches, eyeing seats where many voters feel they have been squeezed by investment cuts and decades of deindustrialisation.
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Analysts said a merger could start a wave of consolidation in the United Arab Emirates banking sector, which is crowded with more than 50 banks and squeezed by lower government spending and tougher global capital rules.
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Prices had ended lower on Tuesday, squeezed by speculation of sanctions-hit Iranian crude returning to the market following U.S. President Donald Trump's move to fire national security adviser John Bolton, a noted Iran policy hawk.
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And Mr. Trump, perhaps "more able and more fortunate than his competitors," stumbled to victory using mendacious appeals to voters squeezed by a greedy economy — even though Mr. Trump had himself profited handsomely from that economy.
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Communities on the city's east side are feeling especially squeezed by development, as half a dozen high-profile galleries and several other smaller spaces have sprung up in the past few years along the LA River.
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But as banks get squeezed by sliding interest rates, their ability and appetite to lend to struggling companies diminish — the type of situation the Fed was trying to head off by increasing its short-term lending.
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The starting point for such a program would be Mr. Trump's campaign-trail commitment to rebuild our decaying national infrastructure — including the roads, schools, hospitals and other civic assets that have been squeezed by conservative cutbacks.
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SoftBank is, in fact, getting squeezed by a sell-off in many of its listed bets which has put a spotlight on founder Masayoshi Son's strategy of pouring billions of dollars into unproven, money-losing startups.
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Group Five, created in the 1970s from five construction companies, has struggled to make money in an industry squeezed by South Africa's weak economy and a pullback in infrastructure spending by the government and private sector.
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The sector continues to be loss-making, as net margins are squeezed by low interest rates, the burden of NPLs, and the challenge of adapting banks' business model to improve competitiveness in the more transparent regulatory environment.
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Among rank and file staffers and even some of the network's anchors,there is deep concern that the news side of Fox will be further squeezed by the opinion shows that President Trump and his supporters prefer.
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Texas Instruments Inc forecast current-quarter revenue well below estimates on Tuesday, the latest sign that the global microchip industry is being squeezed by a downturn in demand as well as a prolonged U.S.-China trade dispute.
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Tsipras said Athens would continue to outperform its fiscal targets and fight endemic tax evasion to create fiscal room for tax cuts that would alleviate the burden on businesses and households, long squeezed by the debt crisis.
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Several oil producers, whose cash flows have been squeezed by a 70 percent fall in oil prices since June 2014, have begun discussions with creditors to defer payments and improve liquidity to help weather the prolonged slump.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, diplomatically isolated and squeezed by U.N. sanctions, has appointed as foreign minister its negotiator at failed international talks aimed at getting it to disarm, according to a North Korean diplomatic note to Britain.
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Development of the Grand Mosque and its surrounding area to accommodate more worshippers was halted after the fatal construction accident in September 2015, and then remained on hold as government finances were squeezed by low oil prices.
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Rising interest rates in the United States have driven up South Korean borrowing costs, leaving households little cash for discretionary spending as they are squeezed by large mortgages and high rents in a red-hot property market.
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President Nicolas Maduro's government has summoned investors who hold some $60 billion in junk bonds to Caracas in a desperate bid to shore up public finances that have been squeezed by the unraveling of the socialist economy.
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The GOP's mantra after winning a House vote to repeal and replace key provisions of the law: Obamacare is failing, insurance companies are pulling out of exchanges, and small-business owners are being squeezed by rising premiums.
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The French drugmaker's diabetes revenues have fallen since 20153, slumping some 11 percent last year alone, as its patent-expired Lantus insulin is being squeezed by pricing pressure in the United States, the world's-largest health market.
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Cybersecurity experts say that Pyongyang's hackers have grown increasingly capable and brazen in recent years, particularly targeting financial organizations in an effort to secure hard cash for the country, which has been increasingly squeezed by international sanctions.
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Experts doubt that more sanctions on Russia — which has been squeezed by economic sanctions for years over its annexation of Crimea — will alone stop Moscow from using cyber, disinformation and other tactics to achieve its strategic aims.
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Investors have long been frustrated at being shut out of some sectors in a market of more than 100 million Filipinos, either squeezed by local monopolies or regulations that limit foreign investments, like in telecoms and utilities.
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China's producer price inflation eased for the third straight month in May on tumbling prices of raw materials, signaling a broader cooling in economic activity as profits are squeezed by slackening domestic demand and rising financing costs.
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China's factory gate inflation eased for the third straight month in May on sagging prices of raw materials, signalling a broader cooling in economic activity as profits are squeezed by slackening domestic demand and rising financing costs.
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But citizens, already squeezed by the high cost of living, took to the streets, where they were met with force by Zimbabwe's security forces in Harare and in the southwestern city of Bulawayo on Monday and Tuesday.
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"There's now palpable frustration across a number of sectors of the American business community feeling increasingly squeezed by an ever-more-emboldened China," said Scott Mulhauser, a former chief of staff at the American Embassy in Beijing.
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SEATTLE — Amazon said on Tuesday that it would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for its United States employees, a rare acknowledgment that it was feeling squeezed by political pressure and a tight labor market.
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The revelation could point to an effort by those in North Korea to find an alternative stream of revenue as the country finds its economy squeezed by international sanctions imposed over its nuclear and ballistic missile program.
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Upcoming earnings will show how far petrochemical companies' gross margins were squeezed by subdued global demand and the resumed slump in oil prices, coupled with higher operating costs following recent moves by the government to reduce subsidies.
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The PA has been squeezed by steep U.S. aid cuts, with the cash crisis exacerbated by a dispute with Israel over the withholding of some 5 percent of the monthly tax revenues it transfers to the Authority.
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"They are being squeezed by the overwhelming majority in those states who were strongly opposed to the healthcare proposal they voted for and then the Trumpers in those states who don't think they did enough," he said.
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LONDON — National house prices are being increasingly squeezed by a big slowdown in wage growth across the UK. The Halifax House Price Index measured a 0.1% increase in house prices in February, well below the 0.4% consensus.
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Every mother I know has felt squeezed by the challenge of adapting her career to and finding care for a new baby; I am exceptionally lucky that I was able to carve a new path for myself.
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"The data is broadly in line with expectations — it's showing that the economy did lose some momentum at the start of this year and that consumer spending has been squeezed by higher inflation," said MUFG strategist Lee Hardman.
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The brief statement came after the market close and at a tough time for the European and North American steel industry, which is being squeezed by lukewarm demand and cheap imports, particularly from China, which are depressing prices.
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By last week, fund managers had closed out almost all the WTI short positions they had initiated since August, leaving few left to be squeezed by rising prices, and removing an important source of support for the rally.
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"This whole 'battle' between exchanges and SIs is only happening because there's a genuine market need for off-exchange liquidity, which is being squeezed by the incoming dark pool caps," said Rob Boardman, CEO of trading platform ITG.
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After three decades of stellar expansion and booming revenues, profit margins at Vitol, Glencore, Trafigura, Gunvor, Mercuria and other merchants have been squeezed by a market again awash with crude and amid stiff competition from national oil firms.
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The Danish firm generates about half of its revenue in the U.S. market, where competition among insulin producers has increased and prices have been squeezed by pharmacy benefit managers who administer drug programs for employers and health plans.
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It delivered its worst annual sales performance since the financial crisis in 2017 after being squeezed by tech giants Facebook and Google, consultants Accenture and the big spending groups like Unilever and P&G which are cutting costs.
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Today, "we've got eight years of monetary stimulus, an extraordinarily tight labor market, and margins that have been squeezed by rising labor costs and soft prices," all of which are reversing on improved expectations for growth, he said.
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The industry, which derives a portion of earnings directly from premiums when these exceed loss payouts and another from investments on the huge sums of capital reinsurers must hold, has been squeezed by falling industry prices for years.
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On the contrary, research in recent years has suggested that a large proportion of publishers are being squeezed by digital display advertising economics, with some 40% reporting either stagnant or shrinking ad revenue, per a 2015 Econsultancy study.
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Publicis, whose revenue is being squeezed by competition from Facebook and Google as well as tightening ad budgets by major clients, now expects a "broadly stable net revenue" in 2019, excluding the impact of acquisitions and foreign exchange.
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Britons are being squeezed by slow wage growth and a jump in inflation that followed the 2016 Brexit vote, prompting many forecasters to predict a further weakening in the overall economy this year after a slowdown in 2017.
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The result comes as China's market for new energy vehicles is booming, but profit in the sector is being squeezed by competition between established automakers and a multitude of startups, as well as the government's reduction of subsidies.
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Squeezed by angry conservatives spoiling for a culture war on one side and investors demanding constant user growth on the other, Facebook and Twitter have indicated that they are open to just about everyone—including frauds like Jones.
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Squeezed by tax hikes on petrol and tobacco as well as oil price-driven inflation, household spending has floundered this year whereas it is traditionally the single biggest source of growth, accounting for 52 percent of economic output.
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"Home growers are definitely getting increasingly squeezed by new marijuana laws," said Jeff Bess, an associate law clerk at the Seattle-based Canna Law Group and research assistant at the University of Washington's Cannabis Law and Policy Project.
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Protests were held against the company and its billionaire founder by the Confederation of All India Traders, a large trade organization, which says that small business owners are being squeezed by deep discounting by companies such as Amazon.
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This has put a spotlight on founder Masayoshi Son's strategy of pouring billions of dollars into unproven, money-losing startups at a time when it is getting squeezed by a sell-off in many of its listed bets.
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This has put a spotlight on founder Masayoshi Son's strategy of pouring billions of dollars into unproven, money-losing startups at a time when it is getting squeezed by a sell-off in many of its listed bets.
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She also won support from many in the caucus with her promise that she would focus on more than just investigating President Donald Trump over the next year — welcome news for moderates squeezed by the ongoing impeachment furor.
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After three decades of stellar expansion and booming revenues, profit margins at Vitol, Glencore , Trafigura, Gunvor, Mercuria and other merchants have been squeezed by a market again awash with crude and amid stiff competition from national oil firms.
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Australian bank earnings are getting squeezed by the central bank's move to cut the cash rate to a record low 1%, as it gets harder to reduce deposit rates to offset the cheaper mortgages they must now offer borrowers.
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"Not only are we getting shocking builds, we're also being squeezed by the bullishness of the U.S. dollar," said Tariq Zahir, a trader in WTI timespreads at Tyche Capital Advisors in New York, on the declines in oil prices.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's producer price inflation eased for the third straight month in May on tumbling prices of raw materials, signaling a broader cooling in economic activity as profits are squeezed by slackening domestic demand and rising financing costs.
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Applying for a full network licence is a tough call, however, because 1&1 Drillisch already has a profitable business as a 'virtual' mobile operator and could see its margins squeezed by the costs of building its own network.
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MADRID, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Spanish telecoms group Telefonica reported a 1.4 percent year-on-year fall in third-quarter core profit to 4.04 billion euros ($4.58 billion) on Wednesday, squeezed by currency effects in its key Latin American markets.
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After suffering their biggest decline in sales volumes for four-and-a-half years in October, British retailers are pinning their hopes on discounts to get shoppers, who are being squeezed by inflation and low wage rises, spending again.
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The firm said global shipments dropped 3 percent to 1.085 million vehicles for the third quarter from the same period a year earlier, squeezed by weak demand at home after tax breaks on new car purchases expired in June.
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Yesterday, at SportsBusiness Daily's World Congress of Sports event in California, Nike's global basketball sports marketing director George Raveling—who might be feeling squeezed by Ball—said LaVar was the worst thing to happen to basketball in 100 years.
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Europe's STOXX Bank was among the biggest sectoral gainers on Monday, up 1.8 percent, amid a series of reports about possible merger activity in a sector whose margins have been squeezed by sluggish growth and ultra-low interest rates.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are set to fall over the next five years after reaching record volumes in 215, squeezed by the start-up of new long-planned nuclear and coal power plants.
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Manufacturing, which accounts for about 12 percent of the economy, has been squeezed by a strong dollar and weak global demand, which have undercut exports of factory goods, as well as efforts by businesses to reduce an inventory bloat.
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More recent data have been mixed, as consumers feel squeezed by higher inflation largely driven by sterling's fall after last year's Brexit vote, while the Bank of England has been see-sawing over whether interest rates need to rise.
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The owner of the plants, Tata Steel, has been squeezed by cheap imports of Chinese steel into Europe, and its announcement suggested that if no buyer could be found it would consider closing them, endangering at least 15,000 jobs.
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British households have been squeezed by a sharp pick-up in inflation since the start of the year, which has eroded households' incomes, and the BoE expects inflation to reach its highest in more than five years next month.
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The regulators are urging regional banks, whose profits are being squeezed by the Bank of Japan's negative interest rate policy, to strengthen their internal auditing function so that it can put a proper check on management, the source said.
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The listing for ADNOC Distribution, which manages petrol stations and convenience stores across the United Arab Emirates (UAE), comes as Abu Dhabi and other Gulf states seek to privatize energy assets as revenues are squeezed by lower oil prices.
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The group is in a bind; just as it turned around its drug pipeline with promising candidates against arthritis and cancer, its finances have been squeezed by Chinese competition for its biggest cash generator - liquid crystals for TV screens.
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Still, there was little outward evidence that Tuesday was more than an ordinary day in Dandong, where traders have been squeezed by United Nations resolutions that had further isolated impoverished North Korea because of its nuclear and missile programs.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French deli meats makers are being squeezed by a surge in pork prices linked to an African swine fever epidemic that has decimated the pig herd in China, they said on Thursday, warning of potential bankruptcies in the sector.
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As with anything to do with North Korea, there is possibly a political element in these purchases, but no matter the motivation the fact remains that China's main suppliers are being squeezed by a competitor they know very little about.
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Shares in Sanofi, whose diabetes revenues have fallen since 2015, as Lantus is squeezed by pricing pressure, fell 1 percent on the Mylan announcement, although the French group said its U.S. rival would not be able to launch its insulin drug.
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TF1, squeezed by new rival channels and a weak advertising market, is demanding that telecoms and cable operators begin paying to distribute its namesake free-to-air channel, the most watched in France, as well as others owned by the group.
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While SSAB Europe plunged to an adjusted 480 million operating loss in the quarter, squeezed by slumping demand, higher iron ore costs and lower steel prices, SSAB Americas held up better, posting a 522 million crown profit in the quarter.
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Alibaba saw sales at its e-commerce business swell 61 percent in the latest reported quarter, but its profit margins have been squeezed by big-ticket investments as it battles to maintain its dominant position in e-commerce and payments.
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The company that raised nearly $100 million from venture capitalists to make a juicer was exposed after a Bloomberg report showed that the bags of fruits and vegetables it sold could just be squeezed by hand, rendering the $700 juicer obsolete.
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Selling Kaufhof would release Hudson's Bay from its liabilities and provide an infusion of cash into the loss-making company at a time when retailers throughout North America are being squeezed by price competition from e-commerce retailers such as Amazon.
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But state finances have been squeezed by low oil and gas prices, forcing companies and the governments that own them to seek alternative financing while reduced petrodollar flows are tightening domestic banking liquidity and forcing borrowers to look further afield.
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What's more, while bulls applauded the retailer's ability to improve sales despite pulling back on promotions, bears cautioned that pricing headwinds will persist in the teen retail space, which is being squeezed by low-price retailers including H&M and Primark.
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To look at the failures in our health-care system today — to see the individuals, families, and businesses squeezed by soaring premiums, sky-high deductibles, and dwindling choices — and arrive at any other conclusion is an exercise in willful blindness.
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Nomura's wholesale business has been squeezed by lower trading revenue in fixed income and what the bank described on Thursday as rigid indirect costs, adding that revenue for the business fell 24 percent to $4.9 billion in the past financial year.
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Among industry insiders, the debate is about whether 5G will deliver on all the promises that its most excited proponents make and how much they can afford rolling out the new technology when profits are squeezed by competition and regulation.
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Brisk international demand fuelled the export-led economy, while a weaker Swiss franc offered respite for firms squeezed by the currency's surge after the Swiss National Bank scrapped a policy of limiting its value against the euro in January 2015.
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The world's largest insulin maker gets around half its revenue from the United States where there are around 227.49 million diabetics, but prices have been squeezed by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) who administer drug benefits for employers and health plans.
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Zalando shares had plunged 44 percent in the last year after the company cut its outlook twice, blaming slower sales growth on the unusually long, hot summer in Europe, with profits squeezed by rising competition from the likes of Amazon.
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Tata Steel Plans to Sell British Plants, Threatening 15,000 Jobs | Profits at the Indian-owned Tata Steel have been squeezed by cheap Chinese imports, and the company suggested that it would consider closing its plants if no buyer came forward.
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They describe feeling squeezed by rising rents and health care costs, and are facing uncertain job prospects and age discrimination, especially in industries where younger workers are less expensive and are often more fluent in digital and social media skills.
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Prices had ended lower on Tuesday, squeezed by speculation of a return of sanctions-hit Iranian crude exports to the market following United States President Donald Trump's move to fire national security adviser John Bolton, a noted Iran policy hawk.
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Industries that rely on so-called consumer discretionary spending, such as travel, airlines and retail, as well as companies with international supply chains such as autos and electronic goods makers, are more likely to be squeezed by the slowdown in activity.
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Zalando shares had plunged 2500 percent in the last year after the company cut its outlook twice, blaming slower sales growth on the unusually long, hot summer in Europe, with profits squeezed by rising competition from the likes of Amazon.
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Authorities said they aimed to reach financial settlements with most suspects and believed they could raise some $100 billion for the government this way - a huge windfall for the state, which has seen its finances squeezed by low oil prices.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTrump trade deal faces uncertain Senate timeline Trump, Democrats set for brawl on Iran war powers Senators introduce resolution warning that Congress has not authorized Iran war MORE (D-Mass.) is being squeezed by two Democratic factions.
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However, it also joined rivals in pointing to a broad-based weakness in consumer confidence as incomes are squeezed by rising inflation, and to growing costs in the industry such as from the national minimum wage and from a weaker pound.
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And don't forget Juicero, the juicing machine start-up that raised $100 million from investors — only to be shut down after it was revealed that the company's juice bags could be squeezed by hand, eliminating the need for its $700 machine.
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Many wondered if it would fall victim to criticism and crumble like Juicero, a well-financed startup that sold a $400 juicer — that is, until a Bloomberg story proved its juice packets could be squeezed by hand, no machine necessary.
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Russia has kept Belarus in its political orbit through energy subsidies and loans but Moscow plans to phase these out to lessen the burden on its economy which has been squeezed by Western sanctions since its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
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Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed 2017 was the weakest year for retail since 2013 and a drop in sales of 0.3 percent from November, as consumers squeezed by high inflation continued to keep a tight grip on spending.
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Hussein Onyango Obama survived the British camps, but his family has said he described a daily routine of horrifying and at times sexualized torture, including having his testicles squeezed by metal rods, and that he was never the same again.
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That new-found power is helping CBS, just as it and rival networks are getting squeezed by young viewers who "cut the cord" on their expensive cable packages, contributing to a dip in the advertising dollars that are TV companies' traditional mainstay.
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"If you're being squeezed by Mueller, [the president is] sending a signal that he's in an all-out war with Mueller and people should know [he] is willing to issue pardons," former House speaker and Trump ally Newt Gingrich told the paper.
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Analysts said an NBAD-FGB tie-up could mark the start of a wave of consolidation in the United Arab Emirates banking sector, which is crowded with more than 216.9 banks and squeezed by lower government spending and tougher global capital rules.
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China's market for electric cars is booming, but profits in the sector have been squeezed by fierce competition between established firms and rival startups, as well as moves by Beijing to cut subsidies for the market to improve product quality and standards.
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KAMPALA, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Stanbic Bank Uganda, a unit of South Africa's Standard Bank Group, said on Tuesday its pretax profit dropped 11 percent in the first half of the year from the same period in 2016, squeezed by low interest earnings.
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"There remains the possibility that growth could be hampered by consumers being more reluctant to spend as their purchasing power is squeezed by overall higher inflation and limited wage growth in most countries," Howard Archer, chief European economist at IHS Markit said.
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Shares in Sky have fallen 19 percent in the last 12 months on concerns that the operator will be squeezed by telecoms companies and over-the-top operators like Netflex - which offer content over the Internet - while paying more for sports rights.
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Squeezed by the rise of subscription streaming services like Netflix, the six major studios reported an 22010 percent drop in home-video rental and sales revenue, including video-on-demand purchases, in the fourth quarter of 22014, compared with the 228 period.
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China's market for electric cars is booming, but profits in the sector have been squeezed by fierce competition between established firms and rival start-ups, as well as moves by Beijing to cut subsidies for the market to improve product quality and standards.
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That has led some contractors, squeezed by high prices of the outgoing refrigerant, to encourage consumers to prematurely buy new air conditioners with the ozone-friendly refrigerant, which itself is set to be nearly phased out in the U.S. within 20 years.
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Active asset managers are being squeezed by a rapid surge in the popularity of passive index-tracking funds and ETFs, and many say the mid- and small-cap area offers the greatest opportunities to find value as they seek to justify higher fees.
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The move is the latest government measure to help companies squeezed by a sell-off in the Turkish lira this year, and highlights the difficulty firms, and banks, face in what analysts say is likely to be a wave of debt restructuring.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. drivers are starting to feel the effects of Tropical Storm Harvey in their wallets as the country's fuel distribution network starting at the Gulf Coast and stretching across the country is squeezed by floods, refinery closures and dwindling supplies.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Cut off from lucrative fuel export markets and seeing their margins squeezed by new taxes, China's independent oil refiners are branching out into new sectors from clean energy and lumber as well as expanding their trading to overcome the challenges.
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"We continued to see strength in UK domestics and it even rose as we went through the quarter," Brown said, contrasting with the somber mood of many mass-market retailers as consumer spending is squeezed by higher prices and subdued wages growth.
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However, full-year operating margins are expected to be towards the lower end of its forecast of 17.7% to 18.2% - squeezed by the grounding of the 737 MAX and pressures on its supply chain from the ramp-up of new aircraft production.
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However, full-year operating margins are expected to be towards the lower end of its forecast of 17.7% to 18.2% - squeezed by the grounding of the 737 MAX and pressures on its supply chain from the ramp-up of new aircraft production.
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The attack, which was the worst in the U.K. since the 2005 bombings, unnerved the country, and focussed attention on Britain's strained public services—its police and hospitals—which have had their funding squeezed by Tory-led governments for the past seven years.
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What remains to be seen is whether this sort of throwback can entice people to the theater at a moment when what amount to mid-sized movies have been squeezed by blockbusters and an abundance of options on screens large and small.
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Pertamina was seen posting its lowest first-half profit in four years for 2018, at less than 5 trillion rupiah ($354.06 million), another official said in September, squeezed by government fuel polices, higher oil prices and a slide in the rupiah exchange rate.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's factory output unexpectedly rose in April as a series of earthquakes in the southern part of the country appeared to have had minimal impact on production, offering some signs of hope for an economy squeezed by weak exports and consumption.
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But with the banks' profitability squeezed by regulators in the wake of the inquiry, and Australia's opposition promising to unwind parts of the tax credit system if it wins an election as opinion polls suggest in May, yield plays are under pressure.
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Why it matters: It's the latest major ad tech company to go through a big sale as the data-driven advertising market continues to be squeezed by business pressure from tech giants like Google and Facebook and regulatory pressure around data privacy.
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Severino retired Stephen Biscotty on a fly ball to right, but then loaded the bases with a six-pitch walk to Ramon Laureano in which he seemed to get squeezed by the home plate umpire, Jim Wolf, on a potential strike three.
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Barneys's employees — some with decades of experience — are the latest workers to be squeezed by the churn of retail bankruptcies, as businesses struggle to keep up with the shift to e-commerce and grapple with poor management and disastrous private-equity deals.
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Many Americans are struggling with unreasonably high health care costs, are living paycheck to paycheck with little to no savings, and blue-collar and lower-skilled workers are squeezed by wages that have not kept pace with inflation or the cost of living.
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That provoked criticism in countries like Poland, which say they have been squeezed by the energy company in the past, and fear that the deal between Gazprom and the European Commission does not go far enough to prevent similar behavior in the future.
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Britain's four-time Olympic champion Laura Kenny, riding the scratch race just weeks after breaking her shoulder in a crash at a World Cup event in Canada, looked set for a medal but faded on the line as Valente and Martins squeezed by.
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For the three Japanese shippers, whose income is mostly earned in U.S. dollars, earnings are being further squeezed by a 7.5 percent fall in the value of the dollar against the yen so far in the current business year that started April 1.
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Palladium soared to an all-time high on Friday, with producers locking in stocks of the auto-catalyst metal squeezed by a sustained supply shortage, while gold firmed en route to its first weekly gain in four supported by Middle East tensions.
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But he inherited a government squeezed by steep U.S. aid cuts, the crisis exacerbated by a political dispute with Israel over the withholding of some 5 percent of the approximately $190 million monthly tax revenues that Israel transfers to the Palestinian Authority.
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The end of net neutrality might not be a death blow to Amazon's streaming media ambitions, but the retail giant clearly doesn't want to deal with getting squeezed by the broadband industry at the same time it tries to claw marketshare away from Netflix.
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The deals, which could see U.S. and Chinese banks taking over government-backed loans for energy and infrastructure projects, come as Turkey's lenders are also being squeezed by a rise in bad loans, reflecting the economic impact of a weakening lira and double-digit inflation.
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In addition to a crack-down on Swiss secrecy bank rules — which resulted in billions of dollars in fines for banks — many banks are being squeezed by increased regulatory and IT costs, as well as negative interest rates on deposits with the Swiss National Bank.
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The industry has been squeezed by low interest rates and falling industry prices, and was particularly hard hit in the second quarter by the aftermath of storms in Europe and the United States, as well as earthquakes in Japan and Canada's costliest-ever wildfire.
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In the coming days, I'm going to be pressing for further details about this reported deal and how it would affect the American consumer, who deserves access to the content they want and whose pocketbook continues to be squeezed by rising cable and internet costs.
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"We need stories about how Facebook's the canary in the coal mine, how industry sources say that Apple's buying fewer components, how Amazon's margins are being squeezed by the $15-an-hour gambit, how European governments are putting the jackboots on Alphabet's neck, " he said.
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Squeezed by the European Central Bank's money printing policy, German lenders have been seeking ways to boost revenue by passing on costs to corporate customers and increasing fees for retail depositors, but profit margins remain thin in one of Europe's most competitive banking markets.
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Analysts at NCB Capital, which had forecast the company would make a net profit of 13.1 million riyals, said in a note the loss appeared to be due mainly to reduced sales because of lower discretionary spending, while gross margins were squeezed by discounting.
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Squeezed by the European Central Bank's money-printing policy, German banks have been seeking ways to boost revenue by passing on costs to corporate customers and increasing fees for retail depositors, but profit margins remain thin in one of Europe's most competitive banking markets.
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You're churning out companies that are raising hundreds of millions of dollars, and going bankrupt in literal satires of themselves: a $700 million blood-testing company that never had any actual results; a $403 million juicer with packets that can actually be squeezed by hand.
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"Home flipping profits continue to be squeezed by a dwindling inventory of distressed properties available to purchase at a discount and increasing competition from fair-weather home flippers often willing to operate on thinner margins," said Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at Attom Data Solutions.
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Native American tribes have missed out on millions of dollars in federal funding for basic services, farmers have been squeezed by issues with loans and payments, and states have written checks to keep some services and properties, like the Statue of Liberty, running normally.
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He added that the drug store chains are also getting squeezed by Costco (COST) and dollar store chains like Dollar General (DG), which offer a lot of the same products that you can get at the front of a drug store for much lower prices.
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Political uncertainty has intensified fears over the insurer's fate, because a weak Italian government would be less able to defend it against a foreign bid at a time when European insurers are looking at possible acquisitions as their margins are squeezed by negative interest rates.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian bank earnings are getting squeezed by the central bank's move to cut the cash rate to a record low 1%, analysts and investors say, as it gets harder to reduce deposit rates to offset the cheaper mortgages they must now offer borrowers.
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Squeezed by smaller but efficient twin-engined jets, Airbus has announced plans to lower A380 output to 12 aircraft in 2018 and 8 in 2019, down from an annual peak of 30, as it holds out for what its forecasters believe will be a recovery in demand.
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The offer comes after Bloomberg published a story yesterday pointing out that the packs of pre-cut fruits and vegetables that Juicero's very expensive juicer was designed to press don't actually need to be placed in the juicer — it turns out, they can be squeezed by hand.
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Squeezed by smaller but efficient twin-engined jets, Airbus has announced plans to lower A220 output to 2380 aircraft in 20193 and eight in 22019, down from an annual peak of 2380, as it holds out for what it believes will be a recovery in demand.
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Crest said while sales had been strong, it expected operating margins for the full year to be around 18 percent, at the bottom end of the company's 18 percent to 20 percent guidance range, squeezed by the combination of flat house prices and rising UK construction costs.
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While these developments are significant for oil producers and fuel refiners, consumers are unlikely to notice much of this at the pump since refiners will wind up eating most of the cost as their profits are squeezed by a product glut and the price of crude.
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Rather, the palecons, especially Francis, argued that working class whites were an untapped electoral resource—one whose anger at decades of economic stagnation could be exploited by a political movement that argued that they were the forgotten Middle Americans, squeezed by the rich elite and the poor.
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Now it is having to offer a yield of 211.16 percent on a two-year bond, underscoring the drastically higher cost of financing for Chinese developers, which are being squeezed by rising U.S. interest rates, growing investor aversion to risk taking and China's cooling property market.
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The first is a gradual shrinking of the work force as a share of the population, as it is squeezed by successive waves of retiring baby boomers and no longer gaining from the one-time surge of women into the paid work force in the 20th century.
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More from the Financial Times: A lost chance for reform of US corporate taxes Charts that matter: US corporate bond spreads squeezed by tax reform planCorporate bond demand sends index to 10-year record Commentary by Rana Foroohar, a global business columnist & associate editor at Financial Times.
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Behind the scenes, however, a battle of sorts has been going on, as Desseilles and Codentel, two of the oldest lace companies in the French towns of Caudry and Calais, squeezed by competition from Asia and unable to comply with French labor laws, declared bankruptcy this year.
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New Zealand prospect Joseph Parker graduated to champion by decisioning Andy Ruiz Jr. for the WBO crown, and Dillian Whyte squeezed by Dereck Chisora in a controversial split decision win, keeping the division interesting enough to survive the bizarre departure of its last recognized champion, Tyson Fury.
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In other words, saying your company is building a traditional technology, like an app development platform, but tossing in AI is an easy way to get funding and attention in a saturated startup landscape increasingly squeezed by the efforts of giants like Facebook, Google, Uber, and others.
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His primal screams about immigrants, Muslims, China, "political correctness" and the corrupt bargain between special interests and Washington have found an enthusiastic audience among white working-class Americans who feel squeezed by changes in the economy and the country and disdained by elites from the Acela Corridor to Hollywood.
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The former chief executive also discussed his views on shares of Morgan Stanley, which are in bear market territory, down more than 36 percent from a 52-week high reached in July, as part of a larger decline in bank stocks which are getting squeezed by falling rates.
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Kloeckner is betting on digital tools such as a new online shop and contract portal to mitigate the effects of a tough European steel market squeezed by cheap imports, and said price-setting software had helped it to amplify the positive earnings effect of rising steel prices last quarter.
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Yet there were also hints that the President is getting a case of early midterm election jitters, on a day that his administration unveiled a $12 billion aid package for farmers squeezed by reprisals from China, the European Union, Canada and Mexico for his newly launched tariff war.
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - With Ford Motor Co's stock at nearly a nine-year low and the company squeezed by tariffs and trade tensions, Chief Executive Jim Hackett sought to restore confidence among dealers gathered in Las Vegas this week, days ahead of announcing the automaker's third-quarter results.
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The measure, which lawmakers approved on Thursday and which is to take effect next month, is an attempt by Berlin's leftist government to slow the gentrification of a city that built a reputation on a creative scene but is being squeezed by real estate investors and infrastructure projects.
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A bourgeois supermarket that caters to people for whom good old Tropicana orange juice just isn't good enough, not when there's juice that's been squeezed by hand from organic oranges plucked from a sun-dappled field by magical unicorns who are raised in only the most humane ways.
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The Washington Post reported earlier that some unresolved logistical issues relating to the summit were who would pay the hotel bills of the leader of the cash-strapped country, whose economy has been squeezed by a series of U.N. and unilateral sanctions for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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Conservatives are revolting against the higher spending levels President Obama and GOP leaders agreed to last fall, and the Wisconsin Republican is being squeezed by a tight calendar: A longer than usual summer recess to accommodate the political conventions means the House is looking to complete its budget in early March.
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Japfa incurred an operating loss for its commercial farming segment (40% of external revenue, 30% of gross) due to an oversupply of broiler chickens that resulted in weaker prices, while margins in the animal feed segment (37% of external revenue, 46% of gross) were squeezed by higher raw-material costs.
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The 2019 IPO pipeline now finds itself doubly squeezed by two factors beyond its control: Shaping the front half of the year is the halted government shutdown, which created a weeks-long backlog of needy startups seeking guidance from a shuttered SEC, which will now have to handle a big workload.
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Middle-class Americans who feel squeezed by the full cost of insurance under the law are among its fiercest critics, and could in many cases be winners of a sort under the House bill, which would provide subsidies to families that earn far more than the Affordable Care Act's income limit.
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Small business groups have been critical of the Modi government in the past year after many firms were squeezed by a shock move to ban high-value currency notes in 2016, followed by a hasty implementation of a nation-wide goods and services tax (GST) that raised their compliance costs.
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Conservatives are revolting against the higher spending levels President Obama and GOP leaders agreed to last fall, and the Wisconsin Republican is being squeezed by a tight calendar: A longer than usual summer recess to accommodate the political conventions means the House is looking to complete its budget in early March.
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If you feel squeezed by contributing to the retirement plan or an individual retirement account, here's a government gift in the form of a tax credit: the saver's credit, for those with 401(k) plans or IRAs who aren't dependents on someone else's tax return and earn under a certain limit.
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The carbon tax, which seeks to lower emissions in order to meet agreements on global climate change, comes at a time when local construction companies have struggled to make money in an industry squeezed by South Africa's weak economy and a pullback in infrastructure spending by the government and private sector.
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Why it matters: Tyson, the largest meat processor in the world — home to brands like Hillshire Farms, Jimmy Dean and Ball Park — has been particularly squeezed by the uncertainty of tariffs, plus the meat industry's growing reliance on exports from Mexico and China, two countries Trump has targeted since declaring his candidacy.
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Charles's father managed a dairy company in Philadelphia; an ice cream company in Washington, D.C.; the gelatin division of a meatpacking plant in Chicago; a cream brokerage in Minnesota; and a farmers' cooperative in Missouri before being recruited by the New Deal's Agricultural Adjustment Administration to assist Wisconsin dairymen squeezed by plunging prices.
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Squeezed by international sanctions and unable to produce many goods that anyone outside North Korea wants to buy — other than missile parts, textiles, coal and mushrooms — the government has sent tens of thousands of its impoverished citizens to cities and towns across the former Soviet Union to earn money for the state.
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The 2019 IPO pipeline — which was supposed to see tech darlings like Uber, Pinterest, and Peleton going public — now finds itself doubly squeezed by two factors beyond its control: The shutdown created a weeks-long backlog of needy startups seeking guidance from a shuttered SEC, which will now have to handle a big workload.
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Tunisians were stunned when the fund's Tunisia mission chief, Bjorn Rother, told Bloomberg last month that the dinar should fall even lower, a sentiment that baffled economists who worry that consumers are already suffering under soaring fuel and food costs and that the government is squeezed by debt payments denominated in dollars and euros.
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The BRC report states that almost two-thirds (65 percent) of consumers expect food prices will have the biggest impact on their personal finances in the year ahead, outdoing energy bills (58 percent) and petrol prices (53 percent), suggesting the U.K. retail sector could continue to be squeezed by tighter purse strings in the months ahead.
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A wave of bank mergers are taking place in the Gulf region, after two of the United Arab Emirates' biggest banks linked up to create First Abu Dhabi Bank last year Consolidation has increased in the past two years as profit margins have been squeezed by lower government and consumer spending in the face of weak oil prices.
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Squeezed by sweeping American sanctions on its oil sales, Iran has sought to inflict a similar pain on its adversaries — threatening the ability of Saudi Arabia and other American allies in the Persian Gulf to sell oil and holding out the possibility of driving up international oil prices in the months before President Trump seeks re-election.
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While Mr. Biden's focus has already made some meaningful difference — he negotiated with Republican congressional leaders a $264 million increase in funding for the National Cancer Institute, the largest in a decade for an agency that has been squeezed by static budgets in recent years — the chances of reaching a moment of victory as the analogy "moonshot" suggests seem entirely unrealistic.
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As Iranian supply is squeezed by sanctions and Venezuela's production hampered by a relentless deterioration in its economy, "Saudi Arabia with the [Gulf Cooperation Council Countries] and Russia are easily able to take up this kind of slack – Aramco alone has spare capacity of 2 million barrels per day, according to its CEO," Venetis said, referring to Saudi's massive public oil giant.
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Circling a deal At the moment, Republican leaders -- who have been squeezed by insurrections on either flank of their members -- are trying to find a sweet spot between moderates and conservatives in the GOP conference on what would be a permanent solution for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which President Donald Trump has ended but whose ultimate fate has been tied up in the court system.
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Mobile operators in India have been demanding support for a sector squeezed by a price war since late 2016 and by the high cost of using airwaves, culminating last week in that Supreme Court decision upholding a demand by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for the nearly $13 billion it said was overdue.. A panel comprising senior civil servants will consider the industry's demands, such as the postponement of airwaves auction payments due for the 2020/21 and 2021/22, the source said.
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Here is Milanovic, describing the belt of Eastern European countries stretching from the Baltic to the Aegean, most of which happily joined the European Union but have since found themselves in tensions with its core: When one draws a line from Estonia to Greece … one notices that all currently existing countries along that axis were during the past several centuries (and in some cases, the past half-millenium) squeezed by the empires: German (or earlier by Prussia) Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman.
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