Experts cited the ongoing recession and financial crisis as the main reason.

Another reason may include an ongoing global recession.

As a result of ongoing recession, a short-term fall in tax revenue generated concern over the budget deficit.

That alternative - an ongoing Western recession and high oil prices - was too grizzly to contemplate.

The ongoing recession is also helping with the growing sales of netbooks.

Since then however there has been little sign of any changes occurring, and this is mainly blamed on the ongoing global recession.

He then moved back to California in 1870 with plans of starting a bank, but due to an ongoing recession was unable to find favorable conditions.

On February 1, 2011, the resort filed for bankruptcy due to losses attributed to the ongoing recession.

By 2010, business had declined because of an ongoing recession, but, in July, Rising said a turnaround seemed to be taking place.

The prime focus of the summit discussions was the recovery from the ongoing global recession and the European debt crisis.