Sales of these are not thought to be enough to make up for sluggish demand in more profitable categories.

The average price of a house fell nearly 3,000 last month as sluggish demand from buyers and a gradual increase in supply pushed values down.

They cite rising business rates, sluggish demand and tough lending conditions from banks, which they say are unresponsive to their needs.

The sudden reversal has been caused by rapidly rising fuel prices - jet fuel went through the $1,300-a-tonne mark last week - and sluggish demand.

Airlines around the world are already grappling with rising fuel costs and sluggish demand.

It's a sluggish market right now, all over.

So, should property hunters on the quest for a bargain look to buy in a country with a weak currency and a sluggish market?

From 2000 to 2005, prices rose between 20% and 40% in different areas, despite a generally sluggish market across the capital in 2004 and early last year.

The group hopes that the service will bring it growth in otherwise sluggish markets.

Sluggish performance wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to pay so much for it.

The business soaks up about £15 billion of the bank's risk-weighted assets and yet delivers a sluggish performance.

The failure to meet estimates was the result of sluggish performance from manufacturing, the largest sub-sector of overall industrial output.

This was entirely down to a sluggish performance from its business services side.

This can result in sluggish performance.

Rapid action scenes let it down a little, as did the sluggish response of its remote control.

The authorities deny inciting violence but residents have been outraged by the sluggish response to the attacks.

It added that it was difficult to assess whether the lack of urgency in this period arose from 'over-hesitant scientific advice' or from 'a sluggish response by government'.

The government, criticised in the aftermath of the fire for its sluggish response, has at last crafted a co-ordinated plan.

The reality, the international development select committee said, was a 'sluggish response' that 'created an impression of 'complacency verging on complicity' and more concern for reputations than victims'.