The bright spot at Lexus is its light truck group, which saw sales up nearly 50% so far this year, and if you combine car and light-truck/SUV sales for Lexus, you get a modest gain for the marque of about 3%.
Its shares dropped slightly, but sales figures for June showed a modest gain, even as the firm cut back on incentives, making June its best month since August 2008.
Sales figures for 2010 showed a modest gain on the previous year, and Gian Giacomo Ferraris, CEO of the Versace SpA group, has forecast "a significant growth in retail and wholesale sales, as well as a return to profitability" for 2011.
Pfizer said it expected a modest gain for Lipitor this year.
After the Federal Reserve made an unscheduled interest-rate cut of three-quarters of a percentage point, the broad stock market rallied, eking out a modest gain for the week.
I know it's different this time, and I also tell them, 'By the way, every time someone tells me something is different this time, I always hold my wallet.' " 3 50 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12: Midtown Manhattan Michael Warlan, the Third Avenue trader, sat in front of a half-dozen computer monitors and watched the market drift to a quiet close — a modest gain for the day.
The Dow Jones posted a modest gain for most of the day, closing up 93 points, or 0.7%, to 12,743.
A modest gain for the stock market on Wednesday tugged the Dow Jones industrial average back into the black for the year as investors set aside concerns about Ukraine, Iraq and earnings, at least for a day.
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