Sentence examples for spending environment from inspiring English sources

In this heavy spending environment, there has been one clear winner, so far.

Then the chief of Hewlett-Packard, Carleton S. Fiorina, said the "spending environment remains tough around the world" for technology.

Michael Cohen, who manages the Alpha Analytics Digital Future Fund, said, "The current spending environment looks quite bleak".

In the current public spending environment, we have to consider carefully the additional costs to the taxpayer of the commission's proposals against other funding priorities".

"Definitely in the verbiage they've been citing the corporate spending environment as being very muted," said Chris Shilakes, a Merrill Lynch analyst.

"The hard cold fact is that I do not see the information-technology spending environment improving in 2002," said EMC's chief executive, Joe Tucci, in a conference call.

"Sears, like all retailers, is operating in a difficult consumer-spending environment," said Jeffrey M. Feiner, an analyst at Lehman Brothers who follows retailing.

Then there's the issue of the overall IT-spending environment, which is softening.

At the same time, Banc of America reiterated a "buy" rating for Hewlett-Packard and praised its "valuation and ability to meet our [earnings] estimates in an improving global-spending environment".

Schwartz said that was indicative of a "soft consumer-spending environment".

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