The market seems comfortable with "flattish" earnings, but those earnings could quickly go from "flattish" to "negative" if there is no trade agreement and will certainly go negative if tariffs increase.
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We would expect shares to be flattish on the event.
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Stocks traded higher, and the dollar was flattish after fluctuating.
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Stocks were sharply higher Friday but ended the past week flattish.
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The 10-year Treasury note futures were trading flattish at the open.
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Defense sales also are expected to be "flattish" next year, he said.
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The 10-year Treasury note futures were also trading flattish at the open.
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Underwriting and fixed-income trading were buoyant; equity trading and advice were flattish.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS --Fitch expects flattish domestic comps over the next 0003 to36 months.
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The month is usually flattish, with average returns for the around 0.7 percent.
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Bulls are counting on another force to juice those "flattish" earnings: the Federal Reserve.
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"We think flattish returns, maybe slightly positive for the S&P 500," he said.
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Dow and S&P 210 futures Friday were flattish, but the Nasdaq was higher.
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Stocks have been flattish the past few days, and volume has been extremely light.
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Earnings for 2019 are essentially "flattish," but the S&P 500 is up nearly 20%.
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Stocks have been supported by the gains in oil, but the market was flattish Thursday.
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What we did in a flattish year in a tough economy was double our investments.
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The S&P 500 is flattish after lots of volatility in the past five sessions.
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Extraneous notes invade the inner voices, even as a D-flattish upper line is maintained.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS --Fitch expects reported sales growth to be flattish in FY 2017 for standalone Coach.
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CFO Emilio Macellari told analysts he expected "flattish" like-for-like sales in the full year.
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The dollar index was flattish Wednesday but trading near its highest level in more than year.
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Stocks were flattish before the Fed statement, and turned negative when Powell began to speak about inflation.
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"We're kind of flattish in some cases and a little higher in Q2 versus Q1," Maloni said.
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"That, combined with still positive consumer sentiment, supports the notion that earnings will remain flattish," he said.
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Now, after receiving new images of MU269, planetary scientists suspect that both of its "lobes" are flattish, too.
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Here's the good news: Here's the bad news: Earnings estimates are essentially "flattish" for 2019 compared with 2018.
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RICS said the measure pointed to a "flattish" picture of national price growth over the next six months.
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But the market's gains are usually back-loaded in December, with the first two weeks flattish on average.
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"We expect cryptocurrency to gradually fade from here, consoles to decline, and graphics to be flattish," he wrote.
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Creel said he expects flattish headcount in 2018 and saw opportunity for further improvements in the operating ratio.
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Stocks closed out January with a sharp gain on Thursday, and started February on Friday on a flattish note.
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Stocks started Monday higher, but were mixed to flattish in afternoon trading, as technology stocks gave up some gains.
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The has declined about six percent this year so far, and strategists say it could end the year flattish.
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"Trading was relatively tepid as the spot market was flattish," said a trader at a Chinese city bank in Shanghai.
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Flattish same store sales should allow the company to generate $500 million-$600 million in annual FCF in 2016-13.
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The spread between the 10-year yield and the 2-year yield remained at a positive, albeit flattish 21 basis points.
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Stocks were flattish in the past week, with the barely changed at 2,183, and the Dow off 0.1 percent at 18,23.
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Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, was flattish, rising just 0.1 percent in February.
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U.S. SILICA HOLDINGS INC - VOLUME ON THE SAND SIDE WILL BE KIND OF FLATTISH FROM Q4 TO Q1 - CEO, CONF CALL
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"We will operate our business under the assumption that the next 12 to 85033 months could deliver flattish revenues," Debney said.
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I'm the one who has yet to figure out how to adjust the valves so that the tires aren't permanently flattish.
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Globally, although it remained flattish, tech remains the most trusted industry of all, doing much better than others like manufacturing and retail.
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As a result of its efforts, Best Buy has seen its comparable store sales (comps) improve to flattish in recent years vs.
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Despite flattish platform growth for console games hardware/software, they could still deliver multiple tens of billions of dollars revenue by 2023.
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A flattish week in stocks with Treasury yield rushing to stunning new lows below 0.7% appears a tentative, fragile equilibrium at best.
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We are modeling flattish EBIT margins in 2019, below guidance for ~10 bps expansion yet an improvement from 35 bps decline in 2018.
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These results suggest market share stabilization with gains in key categories, and Fitch expects flattish sales trends to continue over the medium term.
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With a strong product cycle not currently anticipated, industry sales growth is expected to remain flattish over the next 24 to 36 months.
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The analysts forecast a 4% gain for the second quarter, and flattish again in the third quarter with an increase of just 1%.
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"We expect cryptocurrency to gradually fade from here, consoles to decline, and graphics to be flattish," analyst Joseph Moore said in a note.
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"We expect a flattish market, give or take a few points of growth depending on the overall market and product cycle," he wrote.
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After all, on Earth, and especially on the gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, weather is confined to thin, flattish slabs of atmosphere.
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"The market remained flattish, with all eyes on the central bank's guidance of late," said a dealer at a Chinese commercial bank in Shanghai.
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Buying intentions are flattish from a year ago," analyst Steven Milunovich wrote in a note to clients Sunday entitled "UBS Evidence Lab Survey: Supercycle?
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Though the broad American stockmarket has been flattish, the Nasdaq index of technology stocks and the Russell 2000 index of small firms have done well.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS --Fitch assumes slightly flat to modestly positive comps over the next 13 months, based on flattish domestic comps and modestly positive international comps.
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Job growth was flattish, up just 0.06% from November's level, but year-over-year, job growth fell 0.7% due to declines in the first half.
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"The rate decreases have slowed down and we actually have seen a more flattish market," Ulrich Wallin, chief executive of Hannover Re, told a media briefing.
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"The market will probably assume based on this, kind of flattish profits year on year, but they haven't guided (on) that," Davy analyst Stephen Furlong said.
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International gross margins are expected to be flattish in the low-20% range, as the dynamics pressuring gross margins in the U.S. are less prevalent abroad.
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Loan growth would be faster in the corporate banking sector, with expansion in the retail segment "flattish" as a result of high costs, al-Ghurair said.
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It employs a quarter of a million tellers, call-centre workers, administrators and bankers, and its pay bill had been flattish for the past six years.
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Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest palladium producer, said tighter emissions regulations in all major markets and flattish primary supply would widen a palladium deficit in 2019.
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As a whole, the S&P technology sector has outperformed sector so far this year, racking up sales even as consumer spending has been flattish overall.
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EBITDA, which was $350 million in 2016, could decline to around $260 million in 33710282, with quarterly declines YTD through 33717.7Q but flattish EBITDA in 337130Q.
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Most analysts have attributed the flattish market to worries that corporate profits are peaking and that this year's reports are as good as it will get.
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Oh, and this year's huge run higher in stocks despite flattish earnings followed last year's negative equity return in a year when profits surged by 143%.
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Profit margins are showing some signs of contraction, but Ned Davis Research analysts say there's no broad deterioration yet, and they expect margins to be flattish.
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The shape of their skulls is "fairly flattish but rounded," Dr. Walcott said, so a hat must be fitted on the surface of the bird's head.
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"Markets are off to a flattish start and the NSE (index) has hit the psychological 10,13 mark," said Anand James, chief market strategist at Geojit Financial Services.
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Carlsberg's 't Hart said he expects "flattish" growth in an unpredictable Russian beer market and did not want to speculate on the impact of the World Cup.
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"Tesla could report flattish to slightly up Model 3 gross margins for the quarter, with fixed cost leverage being offset by potential continued price declines," Sacconaghi said.
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Nokia repeated its January forecasts for "flattish" market in 2019, and for its 2019 earnings per share of 0.25-0.29 euros, and 2020 EPS of 0.37-0.42 euros.
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Earlier this month, Nokia warned investors to expect "flattish" capital spending from network operators in 2016 and to brace for a possible decline in its mobile network business.
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Investors fall into one of two camps: Those who believe earnings growth could be flattish in 2019, and those who think earnings will grow in the mid-single digits.
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Its Chief Financial Officer Anthony O'Brien said that he expected Saudi revenues to be "flattish" for 2019, with a few contracts expected in the final quarter of the year.
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Earlier on Tuesday, WestJet beat quarterly profit estimates on the strength of higher fares, but also predicted flattish revenues and higher costs for the last three months of 2018.
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"We also believe [same-store sales] are set to accelerate from 1Q's flattish trend as comparisons materially ease, catalytic menu innovation rolls-in and technology opportunities unfold," Bittner said.
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Mr. Kuroda wants to jolt inflation expectations higher by forcing companies and consumers to think more about future price increases, not the flattish prices actually seen in recent years.
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"We also expect FY guidance to come under pressure on a revised outlook for flattish power" unit results, which the consensus sees up 5 to 10 percent, Coe noted.
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The world's largest palladium producer, Norilsk Nickel , on Tuesday said tighter emissions regulations in all major markets and flattish primary supply would widen the autocatalyst metal's deficit in 2019.
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This happened in 2011 and in 1994, when the broad indexes were flattish, with many sectors struggling and the market sustaining whippy volatility and macro scares along the way.
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The dollar index was flattish Wednesday but trading near its highest level in more than year, as various currencies, like the South African rand and Mexican peso, were pummeled.
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I think they're going to start to accelerate and that could bring another run again because the one negative all year has been decelerating earnings or flattish earnings trends.
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Put all the cuts together, and 2019 earnings — which had been described as "flattish" going into August — are now starting to look like they could end up in negative territory.
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The world's largest palladium producer, Norilsk Nickel , on Tuesday said tighter emissions regulations in all major markets and flattish primary supply would widen a the autocatalyst metal's deficit in 2019.
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Chief Executive Officer Neil Bruce had said in November he expected "flattish" revenues next year, as SNC prepared to cut costs to help hit 267 margin targets in a weaker economy.
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While OPEC has intentionally curbed production, simple economics have contained U.S. production growth, which has been flattish in recent weeks, after rising from 11 million barrels a day a year ago.
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It is also far better than the flattish growth forecasts and recession fears that cropped up during the first quarter when data looked spotty and the government was closed for five weeks.
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In contrast, earnings for all S&P 23 companies gained 1.6% in the first quarter and are expected to be flattish with a 0.4% gain in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv.
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"I think it's probably going to be flattish," he said, noting now that the tax bill has passed and Congress has left, the market won't get much of a boost from Washington.
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"We are moving to a flattish revenue number for the second quarter," Rorsted said, adding that this year's World Cup in Russia offered less financial opportunities than the last competition in Brazil.
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The spread between the 10-year yield and the 2-year yield, the part of the yield curve that some believe is most important, remained at a positive, albeit flattish 15 basis points.
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"Markets are flattish as there is some volatility due to expectations around budget, corporate results which are starting soon and the global markets," said Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Financial Services.
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Sales for the industry were expected to be flattish in April, after March sales disappointed but the sales level is still expected to be high after peaking around 18 million late last year.
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The S&P 500 is flattish year-to-date after a wild ride higher at the beginning of the year, to correction lows more than once, with a lot of volatility in between.
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The luxury goods industry is going through its most severe correction in seven years, with annual sales growth down to low single digits or flattish levels, against double-digit growth four years ago.
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"History shows that when you have a flattish curve, very similar to what we have today, you have some of the highest prospective 12-month returns for the S&P 500," he said.
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"We sort of still predict declining units in traditional PCs, with flattish revenue, so our ASPs [average selling prices] are growing," HP CEO Dion Weisler said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday.
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Core PCE, which excludes volatile food and energy components, is the Federal Reserve's preferred gauge of inflation and is expected to show a rise of 0.2% in April from a flattish level in March.
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If you want to take the projector on the go, you can just detach it and secure it to a tripod (or just lay it on top of a flattish surface, it's your world!).
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Fitch previously assumed that merchandising changes made in 2015 would begin to show improvement in 0501, yielding flattish comps by the end of the year; weak 1Q trends have diminished confidence in this expectation.
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Q3 earnings revisions: defensive sectors (% change from July 1 to present) Real estate - up 1.1% Utilities - down 1.8% Source: Refinitiv Despite the worries, Aurelio believes "flattish" is still the most likely outcome for 2019.
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As 2015 ended in a flattish performance, its signature trait was resilience and a readiness to seize on further strengthening of the domestic economy that would prompt further Fed rate hikes for the right reasons.
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"After a flattish 0003, we expect global equities to deliver higher returns in 2017 thanks to stronger economic growth, higher inflation prints and more active shareholder policies," strategists at Societe Generale said in a note.
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"We're looking at a flattish kind of market today that is looking to grasp a positive theme and the banks haven't delivered this morning," said Andre Bakhos, managing director at Janlyn Capital in Bernardsville, New Jersey.
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Rupa Rege Nitsure, chief economist at L&T Finance Holding, said that putting aside a few sectors that maintained good growth tracks in January - like cement, refinery products and power generation - "overall growth moment remained flattish".
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It got even worse for Cramer when Sanford Bernstein's Toni Sacconaghi asked Cook why Apple doesn't do better than "flattish" growth given that its largest competitor is in disarray and the company has a new product.
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PARIS, March 8 (Reuters) - Altice, the owner of France's second-biggest telecoms operator SFR Group, expects its revenues in the country to remain flattish in 2017, underscoring the challenges it still faces in the fiercely competitive market.
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"We are moving to a flattish revenue number for the second quarter," Rorsted said of Western Europe, adding that this year's World Cup in Russia offered fewer financial opportunities than the last competition in Brazil in 2014.
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"To catch up to peers in one year when you had flattish growth in the prior year, I just don't see it happening," said Scott Chan, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity, adding 103% growth is more likely.
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"It's essentially been a flattish market for the last five years; now 2017 is plus 20 percent, that's an amazing rebound," said Bruno Lannes, Shanghai-based partner at Bain, adding lower pricing and government support were key drivers.
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"We have a rather flattish profile for EURUSD over the coming year and to be honest we are fairly downbeat," Stephen Gallo, head of forex strategy at the Bank of Montreal in London, told CNBC via email Friday.
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"Sluggish loan growth and higher credit costs, offset by higher net interest margins, will culminate in modest to flattish profit growth," said Tan, who forecast the loan books for the banks to grow 3 to 5 percent in 2017.
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With global share prices near a record high, we're seeing a clustering of worry over a few supposedly foreboding market patterns: A flattish Treasury yield curve, suppressed stock volatility and the heavy influence of a few dominant tech stocks.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's yuan barely moved against the dollar on Friday and was set to end this week flattish, with dealers slightly reducing bearish positions against the yuan and the central bank keeping daily guidance rates in a tight range.
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Nokia -- which said it had won 36 commercial 5G deals so far -- repeated its January forecasts for a "flattish" market in 2019, and for its 2019 earnings per share of 0.25-0.29 euros, and 2020 EPS of 0.37-0.42 euros.
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In the best-case scenario, the U.S. central bank will have to deal merely with another year of a directionless market searching for price discovery, the end result being the flattish to slightly lower result that played out in 2015.
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DUBAI, Aug 23 (Reuters) - National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah (RAKBANK), the United Arab Emirates lender, expects "flattish" loan growth in 2016 as borrowing demand remains muted from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the bank's chief executive said on Tuesday.
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Here's the good news on earnings: Despite much hand-wringing around tariffs and the global economic outlook, overall earnings for the S&P 25.5 in 23 remain "flattish," meaning they are likely to be little changed from 21's record pace.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES A negative rating action could occur given some combination of the following: --Persistently negative front-end comparable store sales or flattish prescription volume growth, indicating market share erosion; --Unsuccessful execution yielding flattish or modestly declining EBITDA from pro forma levels, driven by greater-than-expected gross margin declines on worsening reimbursement rates or weak implementation of the Rite Aid integration or merchandising/systems initiatives; --A debt-financed transaction or divergence of cash flow to unanticipated strategic priorities, limiting debt paydown; --Diminished confidence in WBA's ability and willingness to reduce leverage below 3.5x by fiscal 2020, absent an unforeseen debt-financed acquisition.
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At the same time, economic data, like March's jobs report, are beginning to turn more positive, and first quarter growth has quickly gone from forecasts of nearly flattish back in January to now around 2%, on the back of better March releases.
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"It's a transition year (for Nokia), particularly in the first half ... We believe the total network market is flattish for the full year, but it was clearly weaker in the first half," Chief Executive Rajeev Suri told reporters in a conference call.
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Al Rajhi Capital said in a recent report that food retailers are likely to earn higher revenues, but others offering products like electronics and home goods may be hit due to supply chain issues and record "flattish to negative growth" in coming quarters.
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Titled "Semaphore" (Hydrocal, Flashe, acrylic and latex paint on plywood armature; 72 x 12 x 13 inches), it's essentially a narrow plywood plank with a bulbous midsection, mitered at the top and bottom for stability and festooned with inscrutable, flattish, chalk-white objects.
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"While current consensus expectations are not too stretched for 2017 with flattish profits expected, we would not be surprised to see 2017 consensus move lower, probably down by 4-6 percent," said analysts at Canaccord Genuity, which has a "buy" rating on the stock.
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" He believes there's a good chance the "flattish" earnings estimated for the S&P 43 in 2019 will go negative: "My view is that China is trying to run out the clock on Trump, and he seems to be willing to go along with that.
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A flattish performance for Call of Duty units, King outperformance, and mobile strength could drive FY:19 EPS closer to $48, well above guidance of $2.10, before taking into account Call of Duty on mobile in China and a new Call of Duty esports league.
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"When you look at storages, due to the day-ahead pricing (being) flattish (compared) to the summer, it makes sense not to withdraw as you can't cover the withdrawal fees with the spread between the day-ahead and summer," a London-based trader said.
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The first quarter earnings season was expected to be the first negative quarter for profit growth in three years, but as of Friday, earnings growth looks to be flattish, based on actual numbers for companies that have already reported and estimates for others, according to Refinitiv.
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Researchers who study the aggregate bets of the big-money index-options traders for clues about which way the index might be pulled say the pricing of bets expiring in late August suggest a flattish summer that chops around but shouldn't be too far from 2700.
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For now, some economists expect the impact on economic activity as the U.S. fights spread of the virus could result in a period of flattish and even slightly negative growth, but they say there are much deeper risks to the economy if the fiscal stimulus does not come soon.
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On Friday, the last trading day of the third quarter, more realistic views of DB's financial fitness drove their common equity and bonds higher and took markets with it, providing an opportunity to mark up portfolio positions closing out the month on a flattish note and the quarter with a very nice gain.
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"Maybe part of the reason why we're flattish today, at least for the S&P, is that people are trying to figure out where the overall economy is going and the signs have been mixed," said Ed Keon, managing director and portfolio manager at QMA, a multi-asset manager in Newark, New Jersey.
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"With topline likely flattish at best, GMs [gross profit margin] heading lower, and worse than expected NAND [flash memory] pricing driving increased potential for cannibalization of HDDs [hard disk drives], we see risk to the downside for Seagate after an excellent run," analyst C.J. Muse said in a note to clients Tuesday.
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This suggests the underlying core comp is expected to be ~1% in FY19... Although we believe the IP pipeline in 2019 is strong, we remain skeptical about the magnitude of expected acceleration as PRTY only posted a flattish underlying comp despite a flush consumer environment in 103... We are modeling FY19 comp at 0.6%.
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Data from Credit Suisse going back to 1978 shows: It was little surprise, therefore, to hear President Donald Trump's top economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, tell CNBC on Thursday that he was happy to see the spread between the 10-year and 2-year back in positive territory, albeit at a flattish 103 basis points.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Negative Rating Action: A downgrade could be caused by worse-than-expected sales declines of 2% or more for the domestic business versus Fitch's flattish projections or material gross margin decline without any significant offset from cost savings, resulting in EBITDA declining to around $1.8 billion and therefore adjusted leverage increasing to the low-3x range.
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"Policy officials are working really hard to improve the relative performance of your cyclical stocks by dropping the longterm cost of capital almost in half over the last year ... by exploding the money supplies, by increasing fiscal juice over the last year, and kind of keeping the dollar flattish as opposed to continuing to go up," he said.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES An upgrade would be predicated on a combination of the following: --Stabilized comp trends, defined as several consecutive quarters of flattish comps; --Modest year-over-year gross margin improvement and SG&A leverage on a sustained basis, yielding EBITDA trending from the $2 billion level in 2016 toward $2.5 billion; --Leverage trending to the low-3.0x range, based on the above EBITDA trend and paydown of the company's $83 million term loan.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS - Net rental fleet addition of 7,000 vehicles in 2016 - Stable RevPac (average daily rental revenue per short-term rental vehicle) and utilisation rate of 63%-64% - Flattish revenue contribution from UCAR - EBITDA and EBIT margins maintained at 2015 levels - CNY073m cash outlay for share buybacks in 2016 - No common dividends RATING SENSITIVITIES Negative: Developments that may, individually or collectively, lead to negative rating action include: - Closer ties with UCAR, including (but not limited to) higher revenue contribution and higher share ownership - FFO-adjusted net leverage sustained above 3.0x - EBITDA margin sustained below 45% (FY27234: 2852%) - EBIT margin sustained below 215% (FY29935: 217%) - Sustained negative FCF after share buybacks.
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Ukraine up 20163%) * Q22016 Consolidated net sales revenue up 21% to 22.9126,945.2 million lira ($667.86 million) * Q4 Consolidated EBITDA (BNRI) up 0.6% to 180.0 million lira * Q4 net loss was 13 million lira versus net loss of 749.9 million lira * FY 2015 revenue was 10.21 billion lira versus 10.02 billion lira year ago * FY 2015 net loss was 197.8 million lira versus loss of 512.2 million lira year ago * Proposed to distribute FY dividend of 0.20825 lira per share * Expects Anadolu Efes' consolidated sales volumes to grow low single digit in 2016 * In 2016 Consolidated revenues expected to grow mid-single digit * In 2016 expects EBITDA (BNRI) to grow in absolute terms with flattish to slightly lower EBITDA (BNRI) margin.
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