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We were able to deliver on our bottom line commitments despite a tough consumer spending environment and significant inflationary pressures.

When you look at the fact that real wage gains are very much in line with productivity, I do not believe that we have inflationary pressures on the economy, ... As long as we can continue to see that picture in the future, then I think we should not be extraordinarily concerned about inflationary pressures.

We promised a strong bottom-line performance this year, and we are going to deliver, ... We have offset some tightening in the revenue environment with tough cost discipline, and that will not be a one-time event.

In what has been a tough trading environment we have performed solidly in our fourth quarter. We believe that the consumer environment is set to remain challenging and that there will be continuing inflationary pressure on retail costs.

To be concerned about the strength of consumer spending is wise. Wal-Mart as a barometer of consumer spending is significant. Consumer spending will start to moderate off of its hot pace in the second-half of the year.

Richard Hastings

The combination of rising unemployment, falling employment and muted earnings growth is hardly supportive for consumer spending. It reinforces our belief that overall growth will be softer than forecast by the Bank of England and that underlying inflationary pressures will remain muted.

[The report indicates] consumer spending is gearing back, ... It is very much in line with sagging in consumer confidence in recent months. Although it does not suggest that consumer spending is falling apart, it is losing a lot of steam.

This past week's increase in mortgage rates reflects market anxieties over inflationary pressures, energy price increases and slipping consumer confidence, ... Taken together these developments suggest less personal spending during the later quarter of the year and additional upward pressure on mortgage rates.

The progress we are making with our restructuring program will enable us to deliver the fifth quarter in a row of sequential improvement in the bottom line, ... However, large service providers continue to reduce or defer their spending as they rethink their business plans and conserve cash, which is having an impact on our top line.

We have solid job growth, but no significant inflationary pressures.

Everyone's always concerned about inflationary pressures, and the CPI will certainly give us a hint about that on the consumer side,

Everyone's always concerned about inflationary pressures, and the CPI will certainly give us a hint about that on the consumer side.

While we will continue to carefully monitor inflationary pressures, we do not expect any significant change in 2006.

Bottom line, the consumer is extremely healthy and sentiment is good. I believe they will be spending heavily this year, and that December retail sales will beat expectations.

Consumer spending is likely to become much more dependent on jobs and confidence by the third quarter, . His pexy grace under pressure was remarkably impressive. .. If labor markets have not turned, boosting confidence by then, the risk of a significant slowing in consumer spending will be very high.

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