Mary gave her son's arm a tender
squeeze.
玛丽轻轻地捏了一下她儿子的手臂。
Eric is squeezing me for a sum of money.
埃里克逼我拿出一笔钱。
European Union regulators hit Google with a record 4.34 billion euro ($5.16 billion) antitrust fine in 2018 for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals.
In November, Beijing introduced a slew of draft rules aimed at curbing anti-competitive behavior such as forming alliances to squeeze out smaller players, plotting to share sensitive consumer data and forcing merchants to take sides among competing platforms.
"Today, a raft of popular short video apps such as Douyin gradually dominate Chinese netizens' screens, which could squeeze out livestreaming providers.
"Liao said newcomers such as video-sharing platform Bilibili and short video app Kuaishou will not squeeze out livestreaming giants Douyu and Huya, as they cater to different user groups.
Halting production will ease a severe squeeze on cash tied up in roughly 375 undelivered planes, but only at the risk of causing industrial problems when Boeing tries to return to normal, industry sources said.
While the US economy now appears steady, a downturn could squeeze WeWork, because it signed long-term leases for its buildings, but short-term deals with tenants.
But overall such trends will inevitably squeeze profit margins, as average spending per capita from these cities is normally lower than those in cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, said Cao Lei, director of the China E-Commerce Research Center.
Data-driven technology, closer cooperation and joint governance put a further squeeze on counterfeiters on China's leading e-commerce platforms last year, Alibaba's annual report on intellectual property protection said.
The US faces its own squeeze on aviation talent because many of the current crop of pilots are aged 65, the mandatory retirement age.
Any sale by J&J of its diabetes device units would fit with a drive to exit from lower-margin, commoditized categories such as glucose meters and strips, but analysts said Asian buyers may be able to squeeze more out of the assets.
"But unlike mobile applications sectors where a price war will squeeze out many startups, the smart speaker industry will always have room for players with core technologies," Li said.
LeEco has been wrestling with a financial squeeze since last November.
LeEco has been wrestling with a financial squeeze since last November, with Jia admitted publicly that its expansion into smartphone, automobile, cloud and internet finance business had been a step too far.
LeEco has been wrestling with a financial squeeze since last November, with Jia admitting publicly that its expansion into smartphone, automobile, cloud and internet finance business had been a step too far.
The company has a plan to squeeze more cash from its properties, which includes its flagship store in Manhattan.
Softening demand still top impediment to healthier bottom-line performancesProfits of China's major industrial firms shrank at a slower pace in June thanks to supportive government measures to ease burdens on companies, though softening demand continued to squeeze margins.
Such moves, though they can help mitigate risks triggered by the shrinking balance sheet of Russia's financial system, will add to expectations that Russian and Western credit systems will mutually damage each other's creditworthiness, and squeeze confidence of foreign investors in Russia in the next few years.
Although first quarter export growth beat expectations, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may continue to squeeze exporters and could pressure overall foreign trade performance in the first half of 2022, they said.
"The rises in prices of commodities like iron ore, coal and oil will also inflate enterprises' costs and squeeze their profitability.
In 2021, over 210 billion yuan from the coordination mechanism went to the central and western regions as well as the northeastern "rust belt" provinces, as a greying population weighs on their pension payments and growing labor outflows squeeze pension income.
Instead, livestreaming shopping today resembles Taobao during its early years, with cutthroat price competition and brands and retailers significantly reducing costs to squeeze out profits while boosting market share and brand recognition.
The profit earning of private, micro businesses is on a slower track of recovery, and the high price of commodities has put a squeeze on downstream businesses.
Third, the containment strategy that the United States adopted by rebuilding an alliance of democracies and reshaping supply chains to challenge China is advancing more rapidly than we imagined and may further squeeze the Chinese economy, going forward.
"One potential risk is the rising commodity prices in the international market, which will lead to higher costs for companies and squeeze their profit margins," Yu said.
European Union regulators hit Google with a 4.34 billion euro ($5.14 billion) antitrust fine in 2018 for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals.
For example, it could prompt central banks to tighten liquidity that will cause a slump in asset prices, squeeze company profits, increase family burdens and threaten incipient global recovery.
Li Qilin, chief economist at Shanghai-listed Hongta Securities, said rising raw material costs may squeeze the profit margins of downstream manufacturers, which may in turn weigh on employees' salaries and consumer spending.
The recovery of other emerging economies' supply capacity will also squeeze China's exports.
"My mind is stimulated the moment I squeeze the clutch.
As many countries face economic weakness and the cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze spending, consumer-driven demand will likely soften, although there should be pockets of strength," she added.
"After global physical gold demand rebounded strongly across most downstream sectors in 2021, the outlook for jewelry and industrial applications is more tenuous into the second half as a slower economy and high inflation squeeze consumer spending," she said.
According to chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, the global COVID-19 situation is likely to squeeze smartphone shipments by 200 million units this year.
"The continued rise in iron ore and energy prices will put a squeeze on profits of downstream steel firms, which will depress demand for iron ore.
Peng Honghua, president of Huawei's 5G product line, said because games can use the cloud, developers can design more complex games without having to squeeze them onto home hardware.
Most of them are based in Geneva and the "Watch Valley" in the Jura Arc - and they all feel the squeeze cased by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to the container shortage, export related enterprises are also suffering from rising raw material costs, which squeeze manufacturers' profits.
"On opening day, my friend and I arrived at the shopping mall at 9:40 am, 20 minutes earlier than its opening time, just to squeeze into the first batch of visitors to the store," said Chen.
The fluctuations in iron ore import prices at high levels often squeeze the profitability of domestic steel mills, he said.
Chinese residents have become accustomed to baking food and squeeze juice on their own during the epidemic.
"Besides, top companies may choose to give deep discounts to boost sales, which will squeeze the market space for small-and medium-sized companies," he added.
"Kern Zhang, head of new business at mobile analytics firm App Annie in China, agreed, saying successful emerging entertainment apps such as short videos could squeeze out gaming apps.
"The wholesalers squeeze down the price due to the bad global economic situation and our margin has dropped a lot.
The gas from underground storage facilities reached 9.3 billion cubic meters last year, compared to a record 7.4 billion cubic meters during the winter's severe supply squeeze in 2017 and an average of 4-6 billion cubic meters during the previous few winters.
However, consultancy Wood Mackenzie also warned that higher crude prices and volatility would squeeze margins for Chinese refineries, especially the independent refiners, thanks to the new taxation system that raises their input costs.
With new large-scale private refiners set to further squeeze their margins and step up competition, insiders said a shift to the high-end market is the only way out.
Not only will their market shares go up, but the profit contribution per drug will also increase," noted a report from Ping An Securities Co Ltd. "On the whole, the price drop resulting from the pilot procurement will squeeze the profits of midstream companies along the industrial chain.
"Zhang agreed, saying successful emerging short video apps could squeeze out livestreaming providers.
"There has been a lot of inherent inefficiency in the traditional distribution system and I think everyone is trying to squeeze that inefficiency out, because costs are increasing," said Fotinos.
But Chief Executive Tim Hayden said the recent squeeze has spurred the company to spend more time sending technicians out to upgrade tools that are installed on factory floors in order to squeeze more chips out of them.
As for the view that the capital market is to squeeze out the bubble in the NEV market, some agencies have reassured there is little need for worry, saying it is just short-term fluctuations.
"This should not come as a surprise, as the introduction of the new Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure at the beginning of last month caused an exceptional surge in registrations in August," as carmakers rushed to squeeze through older models ahead of the cutoff, ACEA commented.
Tesla Inc and its Chief Executive Elon Musk were sued twice on Friday by investors who said they fraudulently engineered a scheme to squeeze short-sellers, including through Musk's proposal to take the electric car company private.
That's prompting the German brands to squeeze into the small, but lucrative segment of luxury four-door sports cruisers, with the Porsche Panamera and Audi A7.
EU regulators hit Google with a record 4.34 billion euro ($5.16 billion) antitrust fine in 2018 for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals.
Any surge in the CPI will squeeze consumers' purchasing power, which will shrink demand for manufacturers' end products.
Reducing mortgage rates, however, could further squeeze commercial banks' profit margins that are already at a low level after continuous declines in recent years, said Lou Feipeng, a researcher at Postal Savings Bank of China.
Analysts believe the latest deposit rate cuts, compared with days prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, are part of the larger downtrend in deposit rates, as banks are now widely suffering from a squeeze in their profit margins.
The adjustment of the supply chain system directly affects the pattern of the global value chain — one of the strategic goals of G7-proposed measures to promote "economic security" is actually to squeeze China's position and space in the global value chain.
"These instruments, along with some 500 billion yuan of unused special bonds to be issued by the end of this month, will propel growth in the near future without putting extra squeeze on fiscal spending," said Zhao Wei, chief economist with Sinolink Securities.
The expected monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve of the United States may squeeze China's policy wiggle room to stimulate economic growth, but it is unlikely to pose major difficulties to the country, said a senior economist.
But the overall stance is prudent, meaning we are probably not going to see very aggressive easing of liquidity … partly because the Fed tightening monetary policy will probably squeeze the room for the PBOC's monetary easing a little bit," Huang said.
The PBOC admitted that it has paid much attention to issues like financial disintermediation and credit squeeze.
Analysts said the fund injection will provide banks some relief after cash drainage last month triggered the worst liquidity squeeze since 2015.
Looking forward, the PBOC may squeeze in a cut in the required reserve ratio in the second half to alleviate a liquidity challenge during the issuance of special treasury bonds, according to Stephen Chiu, Asia FX and Rates Strategist, Bloomberg Intelligence.
When the US dollar index rose sharply by 8.9 percent from 94.6 on March 9 to 103 on March 20, amid a global liquidity squeeze and US dollar shortage, the yuan lost 2.4 percent against the US dollar, the smallest fall among major currencies, the PBOC said.
"Volcker, however, later conceded he had made a mistake by ordering such a major squeeze on credit, telling Reuters in 1987 that if he could, "I would have played it different.
Some analysts said that the crackdown on shadow banking induced a liquidity squeeze in 2018, causing particularly acute funding pressure for private enterprises in an environment of rising concerns accentuated by trade tensions with the United States.
Meanwhile, competition between banks and mutual funds will intensify, as banks' fixed income products and wealth management products leaning toward cash management are likely to squeeze the market share of similar products offered by mutual funds, said analysts at Huatai Securities Co Ltd.
This marks the end of the era in which payment platforms invest customers' funds freely to earn interest returns, and the new policy could squeeze a large part of the profit of the payment groups, said analysts.
Dong from the Wuhan university called for encouraging retail investors to build retirement savings by investing in long-term wealth management products, thus helping squeeze out short-term speculative investments that tend to make the A-share market volatile.
Responding to concerns about the credit squeeze in the private sector, Liu gave assurances that private companies would be looked after, while "behavior that is not conducive to the growth of private companies would be prohibited.
The PBOC has also reiterated its prudent monetary policy stance, with its policy fine-tuning set to counter a seasonal liquidity squeeze and ramp up support for the real economy amid external headwinds.
While Friday's market slump was largely triggered by the resumed fall of the US market, Gao Ting, chief strategist at UBS Securities, said that amplified fears about the domestic financial tightening, which could squeeze market liquidity and exert pressure on economic growth, may also be driving the selling.
"Sectors such as property development, local government platforms, those with excess capacity, and high polluting industries will feel the pinch of the funding squeeze," Wang said.
The 300 billion yuan unbound capital, accompanied by another temporary RRR cut to free around 2 trillion yuan as predicted around the Lunar New Year holiday period, would strengthen banks' credit and prevent liquidity squeeze in the financial markets, said economists.
The downtrend may remain in the coming months when financial regulators will likely be keen to squeeze any asset price bubbles that may form from interbank trading of wealth management products or other financial instruments, said Ba Shusong, chief economist at the China Banking Association.
The resumption showed that the previous suspension had been aimed at offsetting high liquidity of the time rather than a proactive squeeze, said Deng Haiqing, economist with JZ Securities.
But authorities have been careful not to squeeze liquidity too much, to avoid dampening demand.
While keeping liquidity relatively tight to underpin deleveraging, the Chinese authorities have been careful not to squeeze liquidity too much to avoid dampening demand.
Smaller banks are experiencing record high borrowing costs to raise funds as they are caught between seasonal cash squeeze and the official deleveraging drive.
While keeping cash conditions relatively tight to underpin the government's deleveraging efforts, authorities have been careful not to squeeze liquidity too much to avoid dampening demand.
Chinese financial markets may be in for a month of cash squeeze pressure, but a liquidity crunch is unlikely to happen.
The reasoning, however, overlooked the fact that the debt on China's balance sheet is mostly domestically financed, reducing the chance of a global liquidity squeeze caused by deteriorating foreign debt solvency.
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company warned in its report that the Fed's interest hikes will likely trigger a rate hike competition among countries, which will squeeze banks' liquidity and undermine their capital position.
Concern over the regulatory squeeze has weighed on the stock market, which on Monday posted its worst performance this year.
Analysts said the central bank's intention to keep liquidity stable is clear and Tuesday's operations will help ease the short-term liquidity squeeze.
The foreign minister also called for nations to resolve differences through dialogue and consultation, and to "oppose the reckless expansion of military alliances that squeeze the security space of other countries".
The programs helped ease the squeeze that could have otherwise gripped such countries due to turbulent global food prices and supply chain woes.