Word: slowdowns
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...focusing on just one aspect of it: vaporized earnings as euros are converted to dollars. But there's a second shoe that might drop. Oil is sky high, and because oil is priced in dollars, the toll has risen way faster in Europe. The spike could trigger a dramatic slowdown that spills across the pond as U.S. earnings erode...
...AMERICAN The biggest innovation of the 2001 auto season may have to do less with in-dash satellite-navigation systems than with lower sticker prices. Consumers last year rushed to buy foreign cars, and economists now predict an overall spending slowdown. The combination has forced Detroit's Big Three to offer sizable rebates--up to 35% higher than last year's--on next year's models...
...year for which figures are available. That?s virtually the same number who smoked in 1997 and 1990. And while the 1998 data does indicate a slight decrease in smokers (24.1 percent versus 25.5 percent in 1990), the CDC isn?t exactly thrilled with such a sluggish rate of slowdown. The agency had hoped to cut smoking to 15 percent...
...customer will be able to choose his tire when buying an Explorer. Asked if that meant the end of the besmirched Firestone brand on Ford vehicles, Nasser said only, "The customers will decide." (Firestone, which hasn't been fired by Ford, is nevertheless bracing for a bit of a slowdown...
...reason: productivity. For more than two decades, through the mid-1990s, the output of goods and services per worker hour rose at a sluggish pace. But it is now riding what Feldstein calls a "rising wave." Productivity increased 5% last year, and is still accelerating through the slowdown; in the second quarter of this year it shot up at an annual rate of 5.7%. One result: though "tight labor markets are pushing up wages at a faster and faster clip," says Feldstein, unit labor costs--what employers pay out in wages and benefits for each pound of plastics produced...