The US market has gone up for the past (few) consecutive trading days and should provide further momentum for local shares to trade higher. There are no local news (leads) that may dampen trading mood. The focus will remain on H shares because of the yuan, with second-liners also drawing some attention from investors.
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The slowdown in UK GDP growth is mainly being driven by sharply lower growth in household consumption, as the cooling housing market and the higher personal debt burden dampen spending.
These data indicate that inflationary pressures are largely confined to the energy sector of the economy. Moreover, because inflation is a lagging indicator of overall economic activity, the recent sharp slowing of economic growth should dampen inflation over the balance of the year.
As we move through the winter, prices will fall below US50 and prices could average in the US40s in 2006. Investors think prices will stabilize and that will dampen enthusiasm.
There's greater concern now about further U.S. interest rate increases and that will dampen the overall Japanese market. Natural resources-related shares may rise, but hi-tech and autos may fall on concern about reduced overseas demand.
Relatively subdued consumer spending, intense domestic and international competition, and high input costs continue to dampen ... the sector.
Looking further forward, we are expecting slower growth in the quarters ahead as a softening housing market starts to dampen consumer spending growth.
In 1993 we had an economy coming out of recession, we had unsustainable budget deficits in the projections and we had a budget package which people were afraid would dampen the recovery -- but it didn't. It had the opposite effect,
I never saw it rain harder even in Australia. But they were out for fun, and rain could not dampen their feelings, however hard it poured.
The numbers are clearly good news for the Fed, ... Strong productivity numbers raise the economy's speed limit and dampen inflationary pressures, lessening the magnitude of the rate increases that the Fed would have to implement. The key question, however, is what level of productivity growth is reasonable to assume for the future.
Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.
This bill places unprecedented limits on eminent domain abuse. The one glaring shortcoming is the temporary exceptions for Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but even that does not dampen the near total victory this bill provides.
We agree that technology is probably the greatest area of growth both in biotechnology and information technology, but I think people need to balance that to dampen the volatility, and one of the areas to look at is in the natural resources area.
For the Reserve Bank, this is likely to significantly dampen any thoughts of rate increases going forward. With higher oil prices and a weakening housing market, employment growth should be much more moderate ahead.
The likelihood of slower business growth should help dampen the Fed's concern about an overheated economy and quell talk of a hike in interest rates,
With three major U. S. telecoms under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, we thought little more could happen to dampen already miserable investor sentiment in the space, ... Now events at WorldCom leave us virtually lost for words.