Muted Quotes

You would expect it to be down and for there to be some kind of reaction, but this is a fairly muted one. It's a reflection on the quality of management, the team that is in place at the moment, that the share price is not giving way. - Peter Davidson

With wage inflation still surprisingly muted and an ongoing squeeze on households' disposable incomes from higher energy costs, second-round inflation is likely to remain largely absent, allowing some further modest policy easing. - Ross Walker

With the general tone about patient volumes muted this winter, we suspect part of this recent weakness relates to the quarter, suggesting that a lot of today's news is already priced in. - Charles Lynch

With productivity up and inflationary pressures muted, the Federal Reserve Board elected this week not to change a key short-term interest rate. Moreover, most other economic data releases, such as unemployment and manufacturing, painted a slightly negative picture for future economic growth. These factors combined to keep mortgage rates stable. - Frank Nothaft

While a muted recovery in the second half is still possible, we are not counting on meaningful improvement in IT spending until 2003. - Carly Fiorina

When a deal is this large the yield tends to be muted. - Dan McCarthy

We're planning to shift investments from western Europe to eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The recovery in domestic demand will only be muted. - Juerg Oleas