Strictly speaking it's not that the stock market views good news as bad, directly. |
That real wage gain of 1.5 percent is pretty good by historical standards. |
The addition of the CX-7 to the Mazda lineup is a critical step forward for us in terms of our ability to grow Mazda's business in North America, |
The addition of the CX-7 to the Mazda lineup is a critical step forward for us in terms of our ability to grow Mazda's business in North America. |
The clear message seems to be that while oil is a drag, it's not a downward driver of consumer spending, ... The labor market is generating good income in general and the housing market continues to deliver a positive wealth effect. These factors are helping to offset the impact of higher oil prices. |
The CX-7 is a very important addition to the Mazda lineup and will play a vital role for us in the North American market. The introduction of the CX-7 further expands the Mazda lineup and enables us to offer vehicles that appeal to an ever-widening range of customers. |
The CX-7 wasn't even a sketch on a cocktail napkin a little over two years ago. The fact that I'm standing here today watching the first CX-7 roll off the line marks a milestone in Mazda's ability to design and engineer vehicles for specific markets such as North America. |
The Fed won't admit to reacting to one number. |
The Mazda CX-7 represents everything a Mazda SUV should be: powerful, stylish, beautifully crafted and fun to drive. Being the first of three vehicles designed, engineered and built specifically for North America, the CX-7 is crucially important to the Mazda lineup and to the success of Mazda as a whole. |
The net of it is there's still a strong trend in employment. But all this is pre-Katrina. |
The weekly claims number is as good an indicator as there is; we watch weekly chain-store sales numbers for clues on retail sales; and the confidence numbers have not correlated with spending by any mans, but they have captured the spirit of the economy in the past couple of months, |
The weight of evidence is showing housing is starting to cool. Prices have continued to rise faster than income. For a while that pattern has been offset by declining mortgage rates, but that's stopped. |
There will be a payback. |
There's certainly some value in reading these numbers as they're coming in. |
These are not incredibly large numbers, ... Along with the lower tax payments, refunds could add a half-percentage-point of growth to GDP in the first half of the year -- not a dramatic effect, but a bit of a plus. |