It seems that current sentiment wants to stick with the bull bias, but keep their targets and stop levels tight and realistic.
If they keep to these targets (admittedly a big if), they will have to restrict car use, which will reduce in turn their imports of oil.
But should companies keep attacking those targets?
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The grassroots approach to marketing isn't just a way for Schwartz, 42, to keep costs low while he targets health-conscious drinkers.
This helps explain why Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain keep missing their deficit and debt targets.
Export bottlenecks will keep Iraq's ambitious production targets some way off.
Though monetary policy in many countries is governed by inflation targets, central bankers must keep a weather eye on the currency.
The more the hospital exceeds its cost-reduction and quality-improvement targets, the more money it can keep.
National Express, the train operator, will lose its franchise next year, having failed to meet government targets, and has little incentive to keep investing.
The government says biofuels are needed to help keep the lights on and to meet greenhouse gas emission targets.
No one knew where to mark the line on inflation, causing companies to keep prices high in case their underestimated their own inflation targets.
Even without targets, there are enough pressures on governments to keep prices in check.
This provides soldiers better control of their devices and ensures they keep their hands on their weapons and their eyes on their targets.
In particular, observers look for Fed officials to discuss what to do when the program known as Operation Twist ends, as well as to discuss setting numerical targets to signal how long policy-setters will keep the target federal funds rate at essentially zero.
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Ofgem said energy firms needed to spend that sum over the next 10 years to "keep the lights on" and meet the government's green energy targets.
Both have pledged to keep spending increases below the rate of inflation, and while Mr. Hollande targets balanced finances in 2017 rather than 2016 under Mr. Sarkozy's plans, they agree on the key target of getting the deficit down to 3% of GDP next year from 5.2% last year.
He thinks that the growing importance of league tables, as well as new government targets, may mean schools will stay with a board only if they keep getting good marks.
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Because the global demand we need to grow through exports has not materialised, the government's borrowing targets will be missed, and the Bank of England will need to keep interest rates lower for longer.
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