pressure
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Short-term reform will ease pressure on utilities stocks and energy-intensive sectors, the analysts say.
Hence FCC pressure on sports leagues, the NFL most of all, to keep supplying major events to local stations for the ad windfalls they generate.
The combo of more discounts with higher costs threatens to pressure the companies’ margins even more.
Government data due Tuesday are expected to show that nationwide inflationary pressures eased in February, helped by government energy subsidies.
"We know the financial pressures are there. It is only going to get harder," she said.
From BBC
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