AAR, with its short-term outlook and expectation of fast-growing returns, was dismayed to see a dynamic company turning into a Big Oil bureaucracy.

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Redknapp, meanwhile, said City's financial resources ensured they would have a successful future, but also cranked up the level of expectation in the short-term.

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Wage stickiness could stop inflation falling much below 2%, and could justify the expectation of many economists that short-term interest rates will fall no lower than 2.75%.

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The expectation that the Fed will continue its quantitative easing measures could provide some short-term momentum but at some point the program will have to end, he said.

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