market climate

Major tax cuts over the very near term will be adverse to the current favorable economic and market climate.

Rather it reflects the brutal marketing climate in the beer industry.

In this market climate, portfolio managers are becoming more demanding.

It is also the result of the global financial crisis that has led to a weaker market climate and delayed projects.

Moreover, the market climate has changed, he said.

Increasing the milk quotas in the current market climate is rash and risky for two reasons.

That growth could slow in the near term, he acknowledges, amid a choppy market climate.

"Every project to a certain extent is different; its publicity and marketing climate different," she said.

This led to a market climate in which buyers and sellers could never be sure what co-ops were selling for.

"In the current market climate with lowered rents and the recent incentives, there is a window of opportunity to make good economic deals."

It said it still planned to list its shares overseas but would wait for the market climate to improve.

Recession-resistant defensive stocks are also coming in for special attention in this market climate.

The psychological pressure on value managers is illustrated by the market climate that prevailed in late 1999 and early 2000, before the Internet bubble burst.

"As far as the courtswell, the last thing you need in this market climate is a lawsuit.

They seemed the surest way to make money in an uncertain market climate, because the bids kept escalating from big-time competitors with deep pockets.

Among the changes announced in a tougher marketing climate, Merck publicly abandoned its longstanding refusal to reduce prices earlier this year.

Whatever the market climate in the year ahead, funds that invest in stocks are likely to keep proliferating and gaining in appeal.

"In the current market climate we are not interested in selling new stock at a price which does not reflect the value of the company," he said.

"There's been no fundamental shift in the market climate," Robert L. Rewey, group vice president of marketing and sales, said in a statement.

"The favorable market climate produced by this outlook hit a stone wall today," said Donald Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Asset Management.

Speaking of his experience from 1968 through much of the 1970's, he said he had to set his own standards for what companies are worth in various market climates.

"After an initial flurry," Mr. Fine said, "this adverse shift in sentiment was unaffected by today's economic statistics - that ordinarily would have produced a significantly better market climate."

The System Center company had developed a product that was in high demand, but the company needed additional resources to take advantage of the market climate for NDM.

But the current market climate, which has caused sharp drops in advertising revenue for media companies, leading to layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, may have diminished the industry's appetite for such ventures.

But Mr. Williams and others contend that the market climate for an easing move is much friendlier now than it was in early March, the last time the Fed eased policy.