Sentence examples for downbeat statements from inspiring English sources
Vedanta Resources rose 22p to £10.90 and Rio Tinto added 45.5p to £30.30 despite both issuing downbeat statements.
Reckitt's shares have been slipping for a while on competition concerns and - more -recently - downbeat statements from rival consumer groups including Procter & Gamble.
Traders had been looking for the next industrial group to warn on earnings after downbeat statements from the likes of Cookson and Morgan Crucible.
HuffPost editor Roy Sekoff appeared on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" Thursday night to discuss Democratic philanthropist George Soros' recent downbeat statements regarding President Barack Obama's performance in the wake of the party's midterm electoral defeats.
Also unchanged on Friday was Royal Mail at 400p, still its lowest closing level since flotation on growth fears, following a downbeat statement from smaller rival UK Mail.
Among the mid-caps, recruitment group Michael Page International slipped 1p to 389p after a sell note from Seymour Pierce, which pointed to a downbeat statement from Swiss rival Adecco.
Among the risers, equipment hire group Ashtead added 31p to £11.51, recovering some of last week's losses in the wake of a downbeat statement from a US peer.
In a downbeat statement accompanying its announcement, the MPC said that while the economy was likely to continue its gradual recovery, the committee was concerned that credit conditions in the economy were likely to remain "restrictive".
Traders also pointed out that chipmaker Texas Instruments had issued a downbeat statement overnight, while last week Arm rival Intel reported a slight decline in revenues, although this was mainly due to falling PC sales rather than Arm's speciality of tablets and smartphones.
But Electrocomponents lost 4p to 141p after a downbeat trading statement, while private equity investor SVG Capital lost 16p to 90.75p as Merrill Lynch issued an underperform recommendation.
But with an opening dip on Wall Street after worse than expected US consumer confidence figures and a downbeat trading statement from oil business Chevron overnight, the FTSE 100 closed 31.49 points lower at 4127.17, its lowest level since the end of April.
