To date, the increasing affordability of our key product categories and the strength of our retail team have enabled us to grow our business despite macro-economic factors such as rising gas prices,
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This is providing favorable conditions for China to adjust its exchange-rate policy and macro-economic policies.
There's two concerns, ... One is for auto stocks themselves, for people who don't understand dynamics. The other is (that) there could be some broader repercussions on the macro-economic level.
As the equity market rebounded ... JGB market players are now shifting their attention to forthcoming macro-economic data to assess if the data will contain any surprises that could affect the Bank of Japan's monetary policy.
I don't think it was anything where there was a macro-economic souring. We're still generally on the up trend from just a few years ago.
Hurricane Katrina undoubtedly devastated individuals and communities... but on a macro-economic basis it's clear that the US economy has more than enough momentum to absorb the hit and recover quickly.
The government is maintaining full vigilance on the inflationary front and will take all measures that are necessary to keep inflation under control for macro-economic stability and growth.
Hence, to jointly promote balanced and orderly development of the world economy, all countries, major economies in particular, should not only adopt responsible economic policies to introduce necessary economic restructuring, keep major currencies reasonably stable and prevent trade protectionism, but also intensify dialogues on macro-economic policies and, most importantly, coordination on major issues that bear on the overall development of the world economy and the common interest of all countries,
We're seeing a nice handful of earnings today. That is going to be the driver. The other driver, or the thing that's not going to hold us back this quarter, and I would argue has held us back the last three quarters, is the consensus is the Fed is done for the year, ... We don't have a credit tightening cycle to go through and we're seeing terrific earnings. So I would argue that the focus returns now to earnings growth, revenue growth, the strength of corporate America and not necessarily the macro-economic themes like monetary policy which have been on the forefront for the last couple of quarters.
While our business will be affected by macro-economic conditions in the near term, we are confident in the long-term outlook for our infrastructure products and services.