The global economic slowdown, however hard it is hitting Asia, may in relative terms serve to bolster Asian influence.
Not only has inflation picked up, but the recovery from last year's economic slowdown has also gathered momentum.
Stockmarkets around the world surged yesterday to record highs as investors increased their bets that the summer's credit squeeze would not trigger a sharp global economic slowdown.
Investors sprinted toward safety Wednesday as fears about a global economic slowdown intensified, driving the yen briefly to a 15-year high against the dollar and sending stock prices sharply lower.
One trigger for this could be a sharp economic slowdown.
Hubbard says current conditions are grim, but he believes America's economic slowdown will be brief.
That could drag down prices somewhat if the American economic slowdown causes a global slump in demand.
Many economists trace the economic slowdown to a credit crunch sparked by a wave of home foreclosures and mortgage defaults in the United States.
The economic slowdown of the euro zone will be "significantly longer than we expected" and economies in general will have to accept smaller growth, possibly also zero growth, he said.
Barroso says the financial crisis is not the only cause of the global economic slowdown.
The troubles in the property sector have had a major knock-on effect on investment by developers, exacerbating the economic slowdown.
But while those efforts were starting to pay off with improved profitability, Sony was hit with a double whammy of a severe economic slowdown in its key markets and a strong yen.
In the new century, Shaodong, it was an economic slowdown in private.
The Yen and Swiss Franc rose against most currencies as concerns about US economic slowdown and EU debt crisis increased demand for the currencies as a refuge.
Asia, led by Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud at No. 11, notched 70 billionaires. A loser was Japan's Yasuo Takei and family, whose ' 3.1 billion in losses dropped him 14 places to No. 51 as the country battles deflation and a decade-long economic slowdown.
A shift in favour of larger shares would be the most likely result of an American economic slowdown.
It's pointless trying to drive up sales by advertising during an economic slowdown．
A build-up of bearish data fuelled fears of a US economic slowdown yesterday as consumer confidence slumped to a two-year low and house prices in big cities suffered their biggest drop in 16 years.
The economic slowdown is still hurting the global handset market, research firm Gartner Inc. said in its quarterly report on the industry.
The retail sales news is particularly important because it's consistent with the theory that the spring surge in petrol prices was a major cause of the economic slowdown earlier this year.
Apple's results add to a mixed picture of how the tech industry is weathering the economic slowdown.
She says an economic slowdown would also affect her customers and reduce her sales.
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