depress
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The analysts said that at Sweetgreen, they expect that “store traffic will take time to inflect positively as macro pressures are likely to persist and consumer spending remains depressed, particularly among younger consumers.”
From MarketWatch
“Trough conditions continue: depressed business activity, some seasonal but largely impacted by customer issues due to interest rates, tariffs, low oil commodity pricing and limited housing starts,” said a respondent in the machinery sector.
In the unlikely event it did open up significant additional production, the addition to world supply would depress oil prices.
The oil services firms could benefit if U.S. oil companies invest in the country and boost the country’s depressed output.
From MarketWatch
"It's unbelievable and depressing," she says of the backlog.
From BBC
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