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UPN is getting behind it. They're putting in everything they have in terms of support. That's good. You'd rather have that than no support. The downside is, you don't want to believe the hype.

The question is whether the new forecast sticks to the previous projection of robust growth and at/above-target inflation or whether some of the downside risks get incorporated into the central projection.

Traditionally, the single downside of the online program has been the credit-card payment requirement. But we have computers in the office here where individuals can pay cash and take the test, so we expect the program to grow even more.

We believe downside risk is limited and encourage investors to accumulate shares.

The debate over rates will continue to intensify over the coming months, not least as the committee has received downside surprises from output and upside surprises from inflation.

There are a lot of investors we find who are hanging on to technology stocks with the hope that they're going to rebound, and that's still a very dangerous thing. We really need the capitulation of those investors. So we still could see more downside on the Nasdaq and in technology.

While net exports corroborate the bank's view that the external sector poses a downside risk, the fact that the record deficit was driven by stronger domestic demand, means that they don't feel the need to respond with lower rates for now.

While maybe not as exciting as some had hoped, the upside is still significantly greater than the downside risk and we stay in the bull camp,

We' think we've had a good season and when you add the best player in our league at the deadline for free, it's a good thing. He's familiar with our team, with the coaches and surroundings. We really see no downside to it.

We think the risks are that activity will pick up rather more slowly than the bank expects. In this environment risks to rates are lying on the downside in our view, and we continue to expect a 25 basis point rate cut in May.

We think the downside risk here is modest. Merck has fundamental challenges ahead based on its base business. We really concluded the stock is trading incorporating these items.

To the extent that he has moved back to the middle, Democrats, independents, liberals, moderates, like that better, that's why his numbers went up. The downside for him is that conservatives and Republicans like it less.

With each passing week of warm weather, the upside diminishes, the downside increases, and the chances of an oil market correction before the springtime also increase.

While improving consumer confidence probably suggests downside protection against a slump in spending, it does not suggest we will see spending take off. We still need a sustained improvement in the jobs market, including a significant decrease in unemployment with a solid increase in real wages.

While I am reasonably optimistic about the sustainability of the recovery that, we expect, will start this year, I am also aware of the remaining downside risks.

But since such reconstruction demand will weaken sooner or later and demand for new vehicles in the US is largely believed to fall this year, I must say there may be some downside risk going forward.

We see potential for further downside pressure over the near term, but the market generally appears well supported at the moment. So any weakness is unlikely to be very violent or major.

While there may still be some downside to earnings, we think the sharp reduction will likely be viewed as being relatively better than other companies, who may need several modest reductions or a sharper reduction in guidance later in the year.

We've had a nice run off of late-April's lows and the market is digesting these gains. We'll probably start moving to the downside next week.

We've had a lot of earnings that have been in line or better, and the Street's been yawning. If the earnings stay strong, we could hold at these levels, but any nasty downside surprise and we could see some selling.

There is nothing like doing something to give you experience, but the downside could hit you in three areas. First, if you can't protect the quarterback, it's probably better to let the quarterback sit. Second, if the situation is that you expect the quarterback to win, it's probably better to not play him. Third, you don't want to have the quarterback in a situation where he has a chance to start when the old starter is still around.

There is no real grasp on anything, which is quite frustrating. Until we break $1.20 on the downside or $1.22 on the upside, we are really banging our heads against the wall.

We will be doing more to increase our sales and brand exposure. One downside is not being in total control of the message we are giving out. But this can be dealt with if brands involved set out objectives from the start.

The public is in a semi-shocked state and cash remains on the sidelines on Wall Street despite everything being on sale, ... The main downside pressure seems to be continued earnings disappointments in the tech sector and we had downgrades today that were troublesome.

With gasoline prices declining here and across the pond during the month of October, any downside to this (PPI) figure will be hugely welcome for the market and equities could push higher.

We saw some late short-covering today. Once everyone realizes the downside is done, we'll bounce back next week and trade back around $11.

We should have narrow range trading today with a downside bias on profit-taking.

We have decided to take the unusual step and reduce our rating on WHR to Sell to reflect what we strongly believe is the potential for significant near-term downside risk due to a series of massive changes rapidly altering the historic ways the appliance business is conducted in North America, ... The net result of this change will, in our opinion, be a slow, but steadily building decline in market share for WHR, accompanied by steadily increasing pricing pressures, which we believe could far disproportionately impact Whirlpool versus other manufacturers.

Every day you are getting new downgrades and (target) price cuts that add fuel to the downside fire. It's end-of-season tax selling and at the same time you have earnings fears.

Digital business means a theoretically infinite amount of stock space, but there's a downside to that limitless space. You have to be able to find the stuff you're looking for.

Corporate America is on the mend. The only downside of stronger productivity growth is that it means hiring is lagging. As far as downsides go, this is roughly the equivalent of eating your broccoli. It may be tough to stomach at first, but it makes you stronger and healthier in the long run.

Even if he is more likely to be a Rehnquist than a Thomas, the downside of him being a Thomas outweighed the upside of him being a Rehnquist,

Fed policy makers made a statement that they want to really underpin the recovery. They've seen the downside risks and they want to make sure that low inflation and disinflation does not morph into deflation.

There's scope for the euro on the downside especially if the riots continue. It's another reason to sell the euro.

There's skin around the lip that's kind of a natural lip liner. This is about a gift for communicating information about how people feel, including emotions, including sexuality. It shows that they have very high standards. The downside is that each can be his own harshest critic.

There's increasing downside risks to growth and inflation, and that could even result in the European Central Bank cutting rates at some time in the future. Yields have come right down on this.

There's good demand among investors at five-year yields near 0.7 percent and 10-year yields near 1.4 percent. Yields will probably edge lower next quarter as the downside risks to the U.S. economy may materialize, threatening Japan's recovery.

There's no question they've alienated the city. But the risk of alienating the fans is relatively low, particularly in light of the level of success the team has enjoyed in the last few years. The upside potential is much greater than the downside potential.

There's not much of a downside to self-service in a quick-service industry where the service element is marginal.

It would be an appropriate way to resolve it, and I hope they consider it favorably. There's too much downside for both parties: risk in litigation. I hope I have come up with something very palatable for both sides.

The stock might have limited downside from here. However, we believe earnings could continue to fall due to collapsing margins.

The stock has a lot of downside and very little upside.

Technical analysis also dictates that the euro should decline with a head and shoulders pattern on the weekly charts generating a downside target of parity.

Rumors of a huge block trade in Exxon Mobil seemed to be the catalyst for this big turnaround to the downside in the Dow.

Premature tightening is the biggest downside risk we see for Japan. We don't think it will happen, but we cannot ignore it.

Pretension - The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.

Public perception. That's really the only downside .... the public was used to having the president live on campus for so long that people questioned it.

Rarely does the market lay out such clean parameters, ... Indeed, if you want to make a bullish bet, you can buy here, but you also have a clear point on the downside to close out positions should the market turn bearish.

Prices will have to close below this level in order to produce new additional downside price momentum.

Prices should continue to consolidate in the wide range of $535-$555 in the near term, though the underlying sentiment remains bullish and downside appears limited at present.

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

After the bubble in the tech sector this spring, I expect the shares to get positively cheap before people start buying again, and we aren't there yet. My view is that we have more downside to come.

A critical downside of the investment environment is corruption -- what we used to call out of concern for diplomatic niceties 'transparency'.

Once you have two buyers, you can usually make the assumption that you have a limited downside risk.

Details on the intellectual property income by quarter shows that IBM will face relatively easy comparisons for intellectual property income in the first half of 2002, making us less concerned about the downside exposure near-term,

A number of developments concern us. These include the excessive dependence of global demand on consumption, especially in the US, the elevated level of asset prices, particularly housing and the high and volatile price of oil. The downside risks to our forecast have thus increased.

A really good bottom looks a little bit like it did last Friday and Monday, but then has follow through, it doesn't just sort of sputter out. I'm a little bit concerned, in the short-run, that there's downside risk.

A shakeout in the commodity market in the near-term may weigh on the Australian dollar. We see further downside risk.

As CPIX (consumer price index less mortgage costs) continues to surprise on the downside and oil prices come down, pressure to cut rates will rise again.

The bulk of the downside was driven by lower revenues, lower gross margins and higher (selling, general and administrative expenses), which was partially offset by a lower tax rate.

This is a show that is about education, entertainment and making money. And I think that people should recognize that you need all three components going forward if you're going to be successful because the stock market is no longer the way it was. It's not a 'build it and they will come' situation. There are many people who think that it is and I think that they will be continually surprised to the downside with that view, as we say on Wall Street.

This is not a surprise and people should not be prescribing them without an accurate diagnosis or a high clinical suspicion because they know that influenza is circulating in the community. The downside of that is the cost, creating resistance, adverse events and no effectiveness. It just doesn't work.

This is the downside of the lack of pollution in New Zealand.

This is the downside of doing an all-debt plan.

The weakness of Ford and GM has kept the microscope off of Chrysler. But they're also lagging the Japanese how fast they are getting new product out. Their product portfolio is not adequate. The 300 was a hit but the downside of the hot niche product, they have a short shelf life.

The upside is there could be absolute power dominance inside. But the downside is somebody could say, 'OK, you're going to go big, I'm going to go with five guards -- one shooting center and four guards.' And then who's going to beat who first?

This is a market of extremes, and what you've seen is the extreme to the upside, especially in technology, and extremes to the downside in everything non-tech. What you have to do is to pick the better quality companies in terms of the value companies.

A lot of funds are short natural gas so they amplified the downside move. Then, the bounce was on some short covering -- classic speculative volatility.

Although we'll probably see further weakness in cattle quotes, you have to wonder how much more downside there is after a 1,500-point price break.

A lot of the best news is associated with the PC industry. Intel has been not just a bellwether in the sense that it's big, but in the sense that technology as an industry has returned to positive year-over-year growth rates, and technology as an industry tends to be delivering more upside surprises than downside surprises these days. Intel started to do that earlier and more substantially than the rest of technology.

A lot of the market is beginning to resist the downside because it's already been hurt so badly. That's what I think will be the primary factor next week.

There isn't much downside for oil stocks right now, and oil is strategic for China. Investors will continue to hold on to the company's stock.

There probably isn't too much downside from here. The performance of other Asian markets is quite encouraging so I think the index may hold above 16,000 and maybe rise to 16,250 later in the day.

There's a little volatility on the downside ahead of the long weekend, so we're seeing money flowing out of the Dow and selectively going into the tech arena. Industrial stocks are not doing so well.

There's a lot of uncertainty about the outlook. There are a lot of risks, mainly downside risks.

At best, it's volatile and probably has more risk on the downside than on the upside. The ability of the management will determine whether they can execute their expansion plans in the related businesses -- or not.

As more wireless companies encourage customers to try new services, it's becomes more difficult for the customer service representatives to be fully trained and kept apprised on the latest products being introduced. The downside is the carrier runs the risk of decreasing customer satisfaction and losing customers to other carriers. Since future switching levels are three times as high among customers who need to re-contact the carrier two or more times to get the inquiry resolved, the challenge for wireless providers is to provide contact channels that can offer an informative and efficient experience for their customers.

It's kind of a funny thing after all these years, having the trip be so much shorter. I think it's been exceptional. The only downside is that the old lift capacity was lower, so the skier density was lower. (But) if you're a local and you know where to ski, it's pretty much the same, you just get there faster.

It's just so spread out, the rounds were really long, and that's the downside of it.

It was clear that the downside was solid because falls were relatively limited despite the jump of more than 200 points yesterday.

It's a conviction on the part of some that a lot of the stocks have reached such a downside level that they are discounting the worst of all scenarios. The enthusiasm is clearly restrained because the selling and anxiety continues so we've got a little short covering and selective buying.

It's a great day -- I'm glad to see the sun, ... The only downside is we have fewer volunteers -- people had priors plans. Right now, I have nobody to run the trolleys.

It's a little disappointing to see core up that much. I was hoping for surprise on the downside for core as we got in the PPI (Producer Price Index) yesterday.

It's a little disappointing to see core up that much, ... I was hoping for surprise on the downside for core as we got in the PPI (Producer Price Index) yesterday.

Following the accident, there's downside risks to exports in January, so the trade deficit may be wider than we expect.

It's time to make it official. The downside risks we have been warning of over the past several months are now coming to pass.

It's not difficult to sell lots of cheap handsets. Their general problem is that competition is building and they are no longer alone in this market, which means they have to invest more, so the downside is greater.

It's the end-of-the-year foolishness time, where you can run it up and run it down $10 on no news. I think it's a sell. But the downside in gold is limited.

It's going to be a pretty hard task to sell when the future of the most profitable part of Telstra is so uncertain and risky. Its main business is in decline, and the downside is hard to ascertain.

It's going to see some more downside pressure later on this afternoon. Crude is looking at another build.

It's hard to get excited. There still could be some downside risk in the 2005 numbers, so I would focus on tech companies that are guiding up,

That kind of capitulatory downside will lead to bounces, but the question is sustainability and follow-through. That's something the market has been unable to demonstrate any credibility in doing so over the last three months.

That may limit near-term downside to the name, although with doubts about the company's ability to fix its margin problems, we don't see much upside either.

That probably means we're going to follow through to the downside tomorrow.

It's not a sign of panic or desperation, there's no downside to this at all. He might be the right guy in the right spot this weekend.

The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call 'signaling.'

The bias is for U.S. Treasury yields to trade modestly to the downside on risk-aversion shifts and the downside biases on U.S. economic releases this week.

The Bank of Japan is unnecessarily increasing downside risks through premature tightening and an excessively low inflation target.

The Bank of England is walking on a tight rope as the data this week has been quite weak, pointing to downside risks in the economy. We see sterling coming down from their lift last week, going lower against the euro from here.

That he says 'the downside risks predominate,' however, suggests we can expect further interest-rate cuts over the course of the spring. I would expect a 50 basis point (half-percentage point) cut at the next meeting.