Lower taxes and pro-growth economic policies have created millions of jobs and a growing economy that has swelled tax revenues over the past year, ... While deficits are never welcome, the fact that we finished FY 2005 with a much lower-than-expected deficit is encouraging news.
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Our results were helped by lower-than-expected spending in the first quarter, ... While we expect that spending will reach more normal levels beginning in the second quarter of this year, we remain focused on effectively managing our cost structure going forward, as evidenced by the actions we announced today regarding our Asia-Pacific operations.
Didn't look like we were going to do much in the beginning because the jobs number came in lower-than-expected and the Michigan number also came in lower.
A May rate cut is more likely than not, but the Bank is likely to need to see ongoing signs of lower-than-expected targeted inflation as well as weaker than expected Q1 GDP growth.
With lower-than-expected growth, it makes the job a lot easier for the Fed -- especially with its two new Bush-appointed members -- to pause from its rate-hiking plan.
We have two surprises in our economy better-than-expected growth and lower-than-expected inflation, and the growth is based on productivity, ... People are working harder. They're generating more products efficiently at lower prices.
We have not seen much reaction but given the elevated level of unit labor costs as well as the lower-than-expected print of initial claims data, that would be viewed as dollar supportive and may see the dollar rally over the short term.
This is likely to lead to a lower-than-expected average selling price for Intel's overall MPU (microprocessor) portfolio.
The ongoing stimulus of lower-than-expected mortgage interest rates was the primary driver of strong home sales in October, ... Of course all of the other market fundamentals remain sound, so we should only see a modest decline from record home sales this year if mortgage interest rates gradually rise.
The lower-than-expected number of new jobless claims shows that the labor market is continuing to improve. It suggests that the economy is strong and that companies are feeling more comfortable about hanging on to workers.
We've taken advantage of a combination of lower-than-expected gas prices, asset management agreements and storage access to reduce the costs of natural gas purchases at our operating companies in February and March.