Word: bearish
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...Meanwhile, retail sales in Japan have momentarily stopped declining. This week, the country's gdp figures from the initial quarter are expected to show growth for the first time since January-March 2001. "The evidence is pretty clear that [the economy] has bottomed out," says a usually bearish Richard Katz, editor of The Oriental Economist newsletter...
...side of the economy going to make up for the sharp slide in the industrial sector. So far, it has worked. Last week, the Bank began signaling that a rate hike is on the way, but the evidence of an economic rebound remains ambiguous enough that even the relatively bearish Loynes doesn't expect anything drastic. With rates so low, however, small changes could have a big impact on homeowners' monthly bills, while continued low inflation means the real amount of their debt won't shrink as quickly as it once...
...doing so, they are contending with economic conditions they haven’t seen in nearly a decade: a bearish stock-market, declines in fundraising and an 11-month recession...
...JAPAN Bearish Outlook The government got a win in parliament last week, defeating a no-confidence motion against Agriculture Minister Tsutomu Takebe. But the victory was small compared to the mounting challenges for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. The stock market is at 1983 levels, the banking sector may need a bail-out, and, worst of all, Koizumi's popularity, long his biggest asset, is waning: new polls show support for his Cabinet at an all-time...
...bell ringer are up. The N.Y.S.E.'s Bob Zito, who filters the requests, says the first five months of 2002 are almost booked. As a courtesy, Zito will call the volunteers on a bad market day to let them bow out, rather than be publicly tarred with a bearish brush. (President Clinton never rang the bell; his advisers warned him that the image would be replayed endlessly if the market dropped.) But while ringing was once limited mainly to heads of state and tony Wall Street types, things have got loosey-goosey lately. Since Sept. 17, when a phalanx...