Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Investment analysts believe the rush to stocks has been sparked in part by the perception that the sluggish economy will be perked up by falling interest rates. As the Wall Street surge has built up steam, more and more small investors and mutual funds have jumped on the bandwagon for fear of missing the rally...
...economists cited the May 10 meeting between regulators and bankers as evidence that the credit crisis in the Northeast may be easing up. Nonetheless, the experts said the region's economy has been so weakened by the scarcity of credit and other problems that it is likely to remain sluggish for the next 18 months...
Although ticket sales for Saturday night's Ziggy Marley concert remain sluggish, organizers remain hopeful that the concert will sell...
Banished for nearly a decade, the scourge of stagflation, with its fast- rising prices and dismal economic growth, is threatening the U.S. again. Inflation fighters, chief among them Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, had hoped that the current combination of relatively high interest rates and sluggish growth would dampen price increases. But the Labor Department said last week that consumer prices rose 0.5% in March, bringing the annual inflation rate in the first quarter to 8.5%, the fastest pace in nearly eight years. "What's so scary about the number is that it's going to take more pain...
...retail industry beset by sluggish sales, Dayton Hudson has been a - star performer. Profits of the Minneapolis-based company, whose 666 stores include Dayton's, Hudson's, Mervyn's and the Target discount chain, rose 43% last year, to a record $410 million. In its boldest expansion yet, the company said last week it would acquire Chicago-based Marshall Field's, a premier retailer, for $1.04 billion from London's B.A.T. Industries. B.A.T., which is battling a takeover attempt by Sir James Goldsmith, will use proceeds from the sale to buy back part of its stock...