Showroom traffic "has ticked up" since the program's official July 1 start date, Wood said.
While its sales closure rate hasn't improved, customer satisfaction scores have ticked up recently.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note ticked up to 3.70%, from 3.69% Wednesday.
While sentiment actually ticked up in September, the index does reflect the expectation of ultra-sluggish growth.
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Not surprisingly, equities ticked up this morning, buoyed also by optimism coming from the European Central Bank.
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And there is no question that is discouraging news that that number ticked up, as you mentioned.
Shares of Old Mutual shot up by 4.3% to 126.3 pence while HSBC ticked up by 0.9% to 639.7 pence.
For example, retail sales growth ticked up to 14.2 percent in September, compared to 13.2 percent in August.
It was also reported that the already high unemployment rate ticked up from 9.6% to 9.8% in November.
For the month of January, the Labor Department said 157, 000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9%.
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Yields ticked up from 4.68% to 4.72% by the end of the auction.
Brazilian consumer credit non-performance rates (NPRs) ticked up in March to 7.6% after having fallen to 7.4% in February.
Also, not good was the fact that unemployment ticked up again to 7.9%.
And sales of previously occupied homes ticked up in April to the highest level in three and a half years.
Jobs grew by 157, 000 in January, its slowest rate since last September, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9%.
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On the jobs front 54, 000 jobs were lost in August and the unemployment rate ticked up from 9.5% to 9.6%.
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The Labor Department said only 54, 000 non-farm jobs were created in May and the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.1%.
The unemployment rate, obtained by a separate survey of U.S. households, ticked up one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.9%.
Perhaps a bigger surprise and disappointment was that the already high unemployment rate ticked up to 9.8% from the previous 9.6%.
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The unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage point to 8.2% as more people started looking for work even as hiring slowed.
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The Market Vectors Gold Miners exchange-traded fund rose 4.8% over the same period and the SPDR Gold Trust ETF ticked up 1.9%.
But maybe you don't know this: In July and August corporate IT purchases ticked up--just a smidgen, but they did tick up.
They were referring to preliminary data out Tuesday, which showed private-sector economic activity in the euro zone unexpectedly ticked up in January.
In November the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.5%, from 4.4% the month before, partly because of a rise in job-market participation.
France Telecom rose 2.5% in Paris, while Telefonica ticked up 1.2%.
"Over the last four days, the estimates for that number have slowly ticked up, " Art Hogan, Chief Market Analyst at Jefferies, told Forbes.com.
While consumers cited more favorable prospects regarding the labor markets, November's non-farm job payroll numbers showed that unemployment actually ticked up, reaching 9.8%.
In fact, the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9% from 7.8% as more workers joined the labor force than could be put to work.
Shares in CSX ticked up in response to its financial results.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average futures ticked up 58 points this morning.
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