"sector" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The hardest-hit sectors have been interest sensitive, such as the utilities, where the Dow utility index closed at 204.34 and is lower than at the beginning of the year.
- One of the hardest-hit sectors of the American economy was the railroad industry, which had been the object a speculative bubble of massive investment between 1867 and 1877.
- Chemical Stocks Down Recently strong groups were among the hardest-hit industrial sectors.
- Iraqi efforts to break sanctions have thus far been largely unsuccessful. . . . Industry appears to be the hardest-hit sector so far.
- Between 1982 and 1986, the hardest-hit sector was machinery manufacturing, which lost 325,700 jobs, a 15 percent decline, to 1,863,000 employees.
- Mr. Rogers has also been buying utilities, one of the first quarter's hardest-hit sectors, whose losses he attributes to the bond market's dive.
- Technology had been one of the hardest-hit sectors recently, with the Pacific index down nearly 22 percent since its high in May.
- For the hardest-hit sectors, including insurance, brokerage firms, airlines, travel and entertainment, much of the bad news is out.
- While the recession has hurt all American construction, the hardest-hit sector has been commercial office space, where the worst of the overbuilding took place in the 1980's.
- At least in part, immigrants have been shielded from this accusation because there are few of them in the hardest-hit sectors of the labor market, like manufacturing.
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