Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn't big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp.
But I think people's focus next week is not going to be Wall Street, it's going to be the holidays. I think you'll see a modestly up week.
Our balance sheet remains asset sensitive, which allowed us to benefit modestly from the rise in interest rates that produced a slight margin expansion throughout 2005.
The road ahead for GM does not look much better -- we expect continued market share declines in a modestly lower U.S. vehicle sales environment.
Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.
Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.
On balance, it is a modestly dollar negative set of data. Retail sales growth was a little weaker than markets had expected, with a downward revision to the ex-auto sector.
No change was no surprise, given recent overall evidence of modestly stronger economic activity and a more robust housing market.
Right now, anything that points to a slowdown in the economy and is less inflationary is good news, ... The market wants data that's modestly positive.
The bias is for U.S. Treasury yields to trade modestly to the downside on risk-aversion shifts and the downside biases on U.S. economic releases this week.