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Cyclical Industry

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Cyclical Industry
A term describing an industry that is sensitive to the business cycle and price changes. Many cyclical industries produce durable goods such as raw materials and heavy equipment.

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The airline industry is a good example, when the economy is slow people tend to travel less.


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How can a company in a cyclical industry transform itself into a steady earningsgrowth performer?
``Real estate is a cyclical industry, and certainly we went through the very painful recession in the early 1990s,'' Lauffer said.
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