Downbeat Quotes

While it's a bit of a surprise, the slightly downbeat news on confidence can be explained by the ongoing weakness in employment, and perhaps consumers are a little concerned about the backup in mortgage rates. But while they're becoming less confident, they're still buying -- the latest sales numbers still look good. - Douglas Porter

We're expecting it to remain pretty downbeat for at least the next 12 months. We don't expect a fundamental improvement for at least 12 to 18 months. - Greg Clarke

It has much more to do with foreign markets than an improvement in the domestic political situation. I don't believe these gains are a change in the downbeat mood of the market. - Marcelo Porto

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. - Loretta Young

I don't think they did know what to do with me... But what they did do is establish an audience for me among some very important people, and that audience included Leonard Feather, who was the jazz critic at the time. I was fortunate enough at the time to get the No. 1 position in Downbeat, Playboy and a number of other magazine music polls. - Aretha Franklin

By no means is this locker room downbeat. We understand what we should have done this past Monday. Give them credit for winning the game, but we understand what should've taken place and that shouldn't even have been a close game. - Brian Dawkins

Based on the latest pre-announcements from Gateway and Hewlett-Packard, the depth of the downturn in December 2000 was deeper than we would have thought, even after a downbeat field trip to Taiwan. - David Wu

A batch of downbeat US economic data underpinned some market doubt over the Fed's inclination towards higher interest rates. - Simon Derrick