Quarterly Quotes

You're getting quarterly reports and news about August sales this week, and retail stocks have also been beaten down, so you're seeing some strength in the sector. Retailers have managed their second half of the year well, which is positive for back-to-school and Christmas sales, both crucial for the sector. - Dana L. Telsey

Yesterday's quarterly survey by the Ministry of Finance supports our view that any improvement in business sentiment stalled in the March quarter but this was largely due to a reaction to accelerated growth in the previous quarter. - Seiji Shiraishi

With these quarterly counts, we'll be able to see if students are moving from system to system or moving out of state. - Dana Tofig

With some US quarterly results robust, expectations for Japanese firms' earnings results to be strong are also growing. - Hideo Mizutani

With six consecutive quarterly earnings misses and a 2006 forecast to be a transition year, management has much to prove. - David Hartley

With mortgage rates continuing to slip, a new wave of refinancing has appeared. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, applications for refinance jumped 15 percent last week, near the record high set in March. And according to Freddie Mac's quarterly refinance review, the average age of a refinanced loan fell to 1.9 years in the first quarter of this year. - Frank Nothaft

With consumer price inflation below the 2% target level in both December and January and clearly below the levels forecast by the Bank of England in their November quarterly inflation report, a near-term interest rate cut suddenly looks a very real possibility again. - Howard Archer

While we generally don't preannounce our quarterly results, given yesterday's market volatility and given the fact that our Miami corporate office was closed and management was inaccessible because of Hurricane Rita, we felt it prudent to preannounce our third quarter results. - Stuart Miller

While quarterly performance and market share are important, overall performance, together with artist relationships and the development of new and creative talent are paramount... Andy is exceptionally well-suited to manage the company in this challenging and ever-changing environment. - Howard Stringer

While many list rental files update monthly, most co-ops update and report only quarterly. Those that do update monthly often are not given hot line or active name files for use within the base by the list owners. This causes an issue as the mailer believes they may be using a particular file ... but may not be using the best names possible from that list owner. - Jay Schwedelson