But with the economy in recovery mode, the market is anxious to see growth on the top line as well.
For Japan, a strong yen could kill any chances they have to keep their economy in recovery mode, especially after the disasters earlier in the year.
Now that the mid-term elections are over, the time has come for both parties to similarly halt the destructive rhetoric and provide hope and confidence to the country that they can work together and keep the economy in recovery mode.
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In 1936, the economy stayed in recovery mode after the Depression, but then, in 1937, recessionary forces again took over.
Maximum fuel economy is achieved in ECO mode, with the stop-start on and engine response and output dialed way back.
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But while China deals with its own unsustainable investment policies, many sectors of the Chinese economy are in firm rebound mode.
"For the last 20 years, the Chinese government has been saying they have to change the growth mode of the economy, " Mr. Yang notes.
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But it is still disappointing to see that, with an election at most 18 months away, India's ruling party seems to have lapsed into do-nothing mode where the economy is concerned, while at the same time stoking the fires of religious hatred for the worst of political ends.
When the economy is in a slow growth mode with uncertain growth prospects, advertising expenditures often lag.
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Americans were similarly astounded this week when the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) declared that the Great Recession was over as of June 2009 and that economy has been in an expansion mode since that point.
Unlike the current period, from 1983 on, the economy was in rapid catch-up mode and eventually regained all that had been lost during the early '80s.
With the US economy stalled in a slow-growth mode, stock prices cannot go up forever, noted Alexandra Scaggs last week in the Wall Street Journal.
Whatever the case, the primary focus of the next Congress will be to put people back to work in a sluggish economy that is allegedly already in recovery mode.
Monday, data showed Americans' incomes picked up during December, but that more people chose to increase saving instead of spending, a sign the U.S. economy could remain in slow-growth mode this year.
The economy, undeniably in a recovery if slow-going mode, is bound to expand faster and get a boost from a reinvigorated president conscious of the time constraints to push his progressive agenda.
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U.S. banks remain in recovery mode, which is prone to reversal if the economy takes a turn for the worse.
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To shield themselves from the risk of having too much product on hand in an uncertain economy, many have shifted to just-in-time mode.
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Moreover, some experts argue that there has been no significant shock to the economy that might push the U.S. into a stagflationary mode.
That has sent households and corporations alike into extreme energy-saving mode, a trend that could weigh on the nation's economy for years to come.
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The economy in the U.S. is strengthening, Asia is in full recovery mode and, if anything, the macro environment for stocks is improving, not deteriorating.
After the Great Recession of 2008, the U.S. government went into full Keynesian mode and increased deficit spending in an attempt to prop up the ailing economy. ( Read my article on Keynes from 2008).
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That could finally create some excitement and encourage the market to believe the U.S. economy, if not those of Europe and parts of Asia, is still in sustainable recovery mode.
That may be the very reason why the economy is having a little bit of trouble coming back, because everybody is in this doom and gloom mode.
There is, of course, wariness over the impact of sequestration and substantial disagreement over the future course of the US economy, but I read an awful lot of economic commentary and the general discourse has shifted out of crisis-mode to business as usual.
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