Its exports jumped 15 percent last year, and it is one of the few car companies whose profits have been rising in a sluggish market.

He expects to make $50,000 this year, about twice the earnings of the average salesman in the current sluggish market.

"The chav issue won't have helped, but it's on top of what was already quite a sluggish market," she says.

In the current sluggish market, builders are not rushing to start new projects.

At the same time, the already sluggish market for initial public offerings slowed to a crawl.

Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market.

"It is not a collapse, just a sluggish market."

A sluggish market, ascribed to the economic downturn and regional political turmoil.

At the same time, the company had reduced the volume of new books it was buying, to adjust for the sluggish market.

The auctions were deemed a surprising success in a sluggish market.