This means that retail sales are still modestly trending up even as vehicle sales fall.
Thus, he said, gold initially ticked up modestly after the statement when the Fed signaled it was continuing with its plans to keep rates low and buy bonds.
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Gold sales of 571, 500 ounces were up only modestly from 567, 500 in the year-ago quarter.
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This modestly good news adds up to a respectable 3% growth rate.
After early expectations of big price increases this summer, fares moderated and appear to have ended up only modestly higher than last year.
The stock has been trending modestly lower ever since gapping up in late February.
Shares of Comcast were modestly higher today, picking up 0.2%.
In that case, the share of the economy taken up by the state will increase, if modestly.
That fat price appreciation made it challenging for the pundits to get all that worked up about the stock, which is trading modestly lower this morning.
Overall, executive pay levels will continue to increase at little more than an inflationary pace, with perhaps modestly higher increases in equity incentives if the stock market holds up.
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Palo Alto Networks shares are trading modestly lower Thursday morning after Pacific Crest Securities analyst Rob Owens picked up coverage of the network security company with a Sector Perform rating, citing concerns about valuation.
They have no memory of the decades when home prices rose modestly but steadily, or when mortgage rates were 7%, or up to 10%.
Even with the stock up nearly 250% in the past two years, Cal Dive still looks modestly priced for its growth prospects.
" "However caught up you are in the romanticisms which sweep the world, " he suggested modestly to an audience in the irrational year of 1970, "you will not deny the occasional uses of reason.
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"We decided to expand the competition modestly for next year and this reflects the growing interest in this format of the game with attendances up by 12% from 2003 to 2004 despite some indifferent weather this summer, " said ECB chairman David Morgan.
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In one modestly cautionary note, he says that the unusually high growth in mid-2010 that resulted from pent-up demand has largely played out.
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