41.   Corporations, meanwhile, continue their struggle for profits amid a global slowdown and declining demand for their products in overseas markets, it also said.

42.   Declining demand and rising inventories weighed on prices, and OPEC members feared that prices could plummet without quick intervention.

43.   Downward pressure on rentals is therefore likely to continue to be strong due to increased supply, competition from strata-title owners and declining demand.

44.   Eastman Kodak Co. eliminated several hundred jobs at a copier assembly plant Tuesday because of declining demand from a major buyer.

45.   For the earnings loss, the airline cited declining demand on domestic and regional routes, higher costs and foreign exchange losses due to the weak ringgit.

46.   He added that the entire hard disk industry is being affected because of the declining demand for standalone desktops worldwide.

47.   He said raising car prices to recoup additional costs would only damp already declining demand for new cars.

48.   He said the monetary crisis had also hit the local property sector which resulted in declining demand for logs.

49.   His statements to Dow Jones Newswires echoed recent remarks by other OPEC leaders, who are alarmed about declining demand for crude oil amid a global economic slowdown.

50.   It attributed the fall off to declining demand, especially in Japan and China.