Some sectors like retail are bracing themselves for a slowdown in the economy in the second half. So you can see some of the weakness in retail stocks. But corporate earnings are looking good. They are afraid of the Fed and that is still in the minds of people. Once burned, twice shy.
Quotes about slowdown (16 Quotes)
Majority Leader Daschle misspoke this morning when he said the Bush administration would dip into Social Security and Medicare funds. The truth, in fact, is that Social Security dollars will be used only for Social Security and Medicare dollars will be used only for Medicare. The only reason for any decline in revenue is due to an economic slowdown that began last September.
This is what the market did in 1974, ahead of a slowdown in 1975, and the Fed continued to hike rates in the face of marginal data turning worse, ... I don't see where the Fed sees 'traction'.
Clearly, the housing market in terms of price appreciation could not continue to rise. I think everybody knows it. It's just that the degree to which the slowdown occurs. We don't think the bottom is falling out of the market by any means.
The Monster Employment Index has shown strong, steady, upward growth throughout most of 2005, with a noteworthy growth trend over the past four months, ending in an expected seasonal dip in December. The past month's decline indicates the slowdown in online hiring registered in December of 2003 and 2004, as employers typically wrap up their seasonal hiring activity and await approval on 2006 budgets. Despite this anticipated seasonal slowdown, almost all industries, occupations, regions and states show much higher levels of online job availability than a year ago, demonstrating solid growth over the course of 2005. This certainly bodes well for job seekers as we enter 2006.
Financial markets want the Fed to signal possible easing ahead due to the growth slowdown and stock market declines. However, the Fed will be reluctant to do that while CPI core is still accelerating.
Despite recent indications that a slowdown may be forthcoming, house price appreciation during 2005 continued to hover at hear-record levels.
Although business started to revive a couple of weeks after the terrorist attack, the initiation of bombing in Afghanistan caused another slowdown, ... Our ultimate performance will be contingent upon resumption of more normal business patterns.
It's legitimate to think we will see a slowdown in PCs and servers in 2005 but what the Street may be underestimating is Dell's ability to grow earnings through profit margin expansion,
The ability of Intel to come out and say a 'no worse than expected' story pleased the market. There are many other corporations in technology that are in that position so that if the slowdown is just a slowdown, there's good upside in many of those issues.
It's a testament to the strength of the brand and their ability to execute, ... There appears to be no slowdown in spending for the luxury consumer.
There is no realistic sign of economic weakness on the horizon and wiggles on Wall Street are, evidently, not causing much anxiety on Main Street. The confidence surveys cast doubt on the slowdown view.
We got stronger on the heels of a feeling that the market got ahead of itself on the downside. We're still in the midst of an economic slowdown and we have not turned the corner.
We see continued weakness in the U. S. economy, and resultant pricing pressures, ... Despite the slowdown, we are pleased with market acceptance of our enterprise products driven by our ability to offer end-to-end solutions and services.
Our analysis of the leading sales indicator, ex-auto, suggests some slowdown now through the fall. So we could see some up and down results for the next few months.
Until we get some sort of clear-cut message about where we're going in terms of the conflict with Iraq, the economic slowdown and corporate profits, fiscal policy, and everything else, we're going to keep seeing this kind of action.