This is what investors face: soft economic growth, weak revenues, the Dow up 16% for the year and financial advisors pushing clients to take increased risk.
The cuts are the latest attempt by the New York company to boost returns and curb expenses at a time of soft economic growth and tougher regulations.
Though soft economic growth, volatile markets and tighter rules rank as bigger worries for most on Wall Street than the actions of traders, it is hard to ignore the risk completely.
Though soft economic growth, volatile markets and tighter rules rank as bigger worries for most on Wall Street than clawbacks triggered by the actions of traders, it is hard to ignore the risk completely.
Under normal circumstances, interest rates would adjust to the level of inflation, but given the persistently soft economic conditions of the past few years, interest rates have remained low in spite of inflation.
Its strong fiscal position, receding inflation and expansionary policy measures should ensure a soft economic landing, but it needs to expedite its effort to diversify the source of growth and strengthen structural reforms for inclusive growth.
Further, soft Chinese economic data overnight also undermined gold, said Carlos Sanchez, director of risk management with CPM Group.
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Soon after markets reopened Monday morning in Asia, which is late Sunday in London, the selling resumed after the soft Chinese economic data.
Influences contributing to the decline include soft Chinese economic data overnight, worries that any selling of Cypriot gold to help fund a bailout will create a domino effect in which other debt-plagued European nations have to sell as well, plus a strong U.S. stock market so far this year that has taken away safe-haven demand for gold.
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In one incident, she says, Golkar officials availed themselves of soft loans via government economic agencies.
Maybe it will be a rally in the dollar, the return of inflation, or another soft patch in the economic data.
Nevertheless, as economic confidence remains soft, the investment demand has not been as great as in 2010.
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Additionally, our consumer business was soft due to poorer global economic conditions including high unemployment, high oil prices and the resulting low consumer confidence.
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The research departments of a number of investment banks have said they see potential for a third round of quantitative easing down the road, assuming U.S. economic data remains soft.
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Meanwhile, U.S. Federal Reserve policy-setters acknowledged in a statement Tuesday that economic conditions remain soft and they intend to leave interest rates at record low levels until mid-2013, which analysts have described as supportive for gold.
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Analysts also said gold is underpinned by ongoing European debt issues, a continuation of central-bank buying after Bank of Korea purchases, plus still-soft U.S. economic data that means continued loose monetary policy and perhaps even more stimulus.
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Business Insider, a very successful web site, has another way of looking at this phenomenon of the market refusing to decline in the face of disappointing economic data like soft durable goods orders or softening in GDP due to the Sequester and Austerity.
But anyone who thought that there was going to be a slowdown in infrastructure build-out this year, as the government tries to engineer a soft landing to its spectacular economic growth, need only stare at the Shanghai skyline for a few days, if not just a few minutes.
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But despite the hype, the overall economic effects of "soft addictions" pale in comparison with traditional "hard addictions" like drug abuse and alcoholism.
So Turkish strength, in terms of hard power, of soft power, in terms of economic relations, is an asset for any American administration.
Given the uncertain economic environment, competitive dynamics and soft Consumer business, Dell expects third-quarter revenue to be down 2-5 percent from second-quarter levels.
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The latest economic figures are consistent with a soft landing.
And the shift has occurred from public power to private power, from political power to economic power, from hard power to soft power, with the end of the Cold War as the turning point.
There are risks in that the rapid rises in residential real estate prices could reverse and become destabilizing to parts of the economy, but overall, we forecast a soft rather than a hard landing for the economy and forecast 2102 economic growth of about 8%.
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One theme I keep hearing from bullish investors is that the Federal Reserve will not allow economic growth to slow to any degree (beyond a brief soft patch), without stepping in with another round of stimulus.
Since 1995, however, the new soft-line socialists and the center-right have effectively pursued the same economic policy: realign Greece economically with northern Europe.
Stocks were hobbled a bit on Friday by a soft reading on consumer confidence, but several analysts said recent consumer spending suggested that the economic impact of that confidence reading would be minor.
Recent economic signals have lent credence to the idea that the U.S. experienced a soft patch in the spring and early summer, rather than a downturn that put the country on a path back toward recession.
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The hard power over local services and the soft power to do deals, bang heads together and formulate a vision for the future could drive real change and economic growth outside London, he said.
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