The pace of average hourly earnings continues to rise at just a tepid pace leading me to believe that this overall report is a very monetary policy-friendly report.
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One of the pockets of strength has been in the health care area. You could flip a coin on the Nasdaq -- it's been a very tepid and guarded rally in the Nasdaq . But I think the Dow gains will prevail.
Tepid company guidance makes us cautious in extrapolating.
Dionne's kind of a tepid player who doesn't really go for that contact right away. But once you get her mad, she'll make you pay.
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.
The market's tepid reaction to today's Fed action signals investors aren't sure what's coming next. We'll be slogging through bad earnings reports and it will be pretty awful.
So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
This is the most sluggish recovery on record, which seems to puzzle the Fed chairman. But it reflects the Greenspan style of running things he presided over a similarly tepid recovery in the early 1990s. Tom Schlesinger, director of the Financial Markets Center, a monetary-policy watchdog, thinks the lopsided economy is the most disturbing hallmark of Greenspan's governance. The Fed has said almost nothing about this, except vice chairman Roger Ferguson says there's nothing the Fed can do particularly, ... The jobless recovery appears to be a new feature of the US business cycle. Yet the principal agent of economic management says nothing.
Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, A pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon A needless life it seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
Confidence is a critical element if the economy is to maintain forward momentum. Expect growth to remain tepid but a recession to be averted.
Canada has recorded a remarkably bad productivity performance. Productivity has been tepid in terms of absolute growth rates and relative to the growth and levels recorded in other major economies. If this continues it will threaten the standard of living of Canadians.
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
We believe the stock could be strong today given the magnitude of the beat, despite a somewhat tepid outlook for the balance of the year.
The Conference Board's latest help-wanted index, also released on Thursday, contributed to the tepid mood. The index fell a point to 37 from 38 in July. Help-wanted advertising volume has pretty much remained unchanged during the past six months. Overall economic momentum is no longer firing on all cylinders, ... And hiring intentions this summer are suggestive that companies may not increase hiring until the economy regains more solid footing.
They were tepid. They give clear indication that Americans are far from ready to go on buying binges,
A tepid national economy has anchored mortgages rates to current low levels so far this year, ... However, according to the Federal Reserve's 'Beige book,' the housing industry is the only bright spot in the economy right now. That is primarily due to low mortgage rates.