Deflationary Quotes

With the worsening deflator, it's difficult to justify a policy shift in March, and that made some people buy back bonds. The report shows that deflationary conditions are slow to improve, even though the nation is keeping up a good pace of growth. - Masato Fukasaku

We've been in a relatively negative technology environment ever since the August rally ended... Today's drop is a follow-through on more bad news. Also, the developments on Iraq and deflationary concerns in the economy remain in the background. - John Hughes

We believe poor recent results and management changes are leading to internal rethinking of [Wal-Mart's] aggressive deflationary pricing strategies, which we believe will lead to better gross margins in 2004, while still reducing prices. - Gary Balter

Today's drop is a follow-through on more bad news. Also, the developments on Iraq and deflationary concerns in the economy remain in the background. - John Hughes

This is a market that goes down on sentiment and goes up on excessive fear... There was excessive fear and a deflationary picture. Markets will rally on excessive fear and it seems to be an end-of-the-week technical rally. - Barry Hyman

They all have brought down prices. You have to make sure their same-store sales are positive in a deflationary environment, so that's relatively positive, but it's early days yet. The integration seems to be on track. - Don Povilaitis

These events that we are seeing in Asia, the depreciations are inherently deflationary and many of the larger U.S. companies are the ones that do have exposure within their earnings mix to Asia... Those earnings are going to be tough to grow probably over the course of the next 12 months. - Rick White

The weaker the economy is, it makes it more difficult to push ahead with reforms... Clearing up the bad loan problem and reducing the deficit are deflationary. - James Malcolm

The survey adds to the view that the economy is making steady improvements and deflationary pressure is waning. It's supportive for the Bank of Japan's bullish scenario. - Atsushi Takeda

The market is in the grips of deflationary sentiment, the dollar has remained strong, and concern lingers about the economies in Asia. - Bernie Savaiko