Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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Related We don't think they will intervene -- there are various policy responses possible and there could be... KAMAL SHARMA When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER [TIPS are a] terrific long-term hedge against inflation, ... are not a good hedge against short-term... ERIC JACOBSON After the exchange rate reform, interest rate policy must be more responsive to smoothen exchange ra... ZHANG XUECHUN There has been a shift this week towards expectations of another U.S. interest rate rise in March --... DEREK HALPENNY Longer-term rates will not rise dramatically as long as the Fed keeps the short-term policy rate at ... DAVID KOTOK Long-term interest rate levels reflect real economic growth, inflationary expectations and risk prem... 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WIM DUISENBERG There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The R... DEYTH BANGER Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK We are still cautious about Treasuries because global interest rates are rising. I'll wait before bu... MASAYUKI SENDA The picture is not altogether clear that we have definitely reached the peak in short-term U.S. inte... EDWARD MENASHY Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking u... HOWARD ARCHER The U.S. berates China for its exchange rate policy, which Washington doesn't like. But one-side... ROBERT MUNDELL The story there is more positive, not just from the current-account surplus, but also from the inter... CRAIG CHAN There is a solid demand for long-term bonds with a 20- to 30-year maturity. Twenty-year yields aroun... KOJI MORI The upward interest rate trend will continue because the real interest rate is still negative. AMPON KITTIAMPON Sentiment is quite positive for the dollar. We are breaking levels so short term there is momentum. ... BILAL HAFEEZ This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term dam... BARNEY FRANK Inflation is a massive theme because we are in a rising-interest-rate environment. I think there is ... JANE FOLEY It is absurd to think that such an interest rate could kill growth. GUY QUADEN There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive... B. C. FORBES I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. I... 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DAVID FROST There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U... ANGIE KARAN Coming off a fairly steady rate environment in 2004, these are very modest interest rate increases f... DOUG DUNCAN Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.” MICHEL FABER It comes down to rate fears. The Fed is going to have to get pretty aggressive. We're quite worried ... TERRENCE GABRIEL 'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of ... TYLER PERRY This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term dam... BARNEY FRANK The Interest Rate Reduction Act takes a first step toward providing critical stability by eliminatin... JOHN KLINE A stock that's seen a lot of bad news is First Union, ... Here is a great stock with depressed earni... DAVID OTTO The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca... NARIMAN BEHRAVESH A cut...won't affect the 30-year fixed mortgage rate at all. According to Freddie Mac, the 30-year f... LAWRENCE YUN There was an upgrade in the economic assessment by the BOJ and comments from governor Fukui. From th... CARSTEN FRITSCH Overall, in the short term this is not going to deter the Fed from continuing its measured rate tigh... ALEX BEUZELIN Interest rate expectations are driving the dollar. BOB SINCHE Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the und... JAMSHYD GODREJ There is no sign of the economy slowing and that's bad for the Treasury market. We're not expecting ... HIROKI SHIMAZU There is naturally a tension between short-term and long-term, ... The key is, you can never sacrifi... CHARLES PRINCE This economy is too fragile to sustain this type of severe rate rise; the consumer sector is leverag... LACY HUNT Annual wages growth is still accelerating. It is premature to talk of interest-rate cuts while such ... ANNETTE BEACHER What we are looking for is interest rate cuts to be beneficial to the market. CHRIS WOLFE I think there is a reasonable chance we will see another interest rate reduction before the cycle is... PAUL DONOVAN Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi. ENOCK MAREGESI Interest rates are going up - the only question is by how much. Yields will rise further. ALEX ROHNER Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be se... ELON MUSK The problem with rising short-term bond yields is that they boost the cost of acquiring and servicin... TONY HUGHES There is a strong, long-term American interest in closer economic, trade and financial relations wit... ROBERT HORMATS Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want. JEFFREY FRY The U.S. dollar is being held firm by short-term rate expectations and until there is some sign of v... ADAM MYERS Rate-making and setting of rate proposals is part science and part art because there are judgments t... BRIAN DUPLESSIS Rate cuts may spur credit growth, however a government will have to keep a closer eye on it's inflat... SANJEEWA FERNANDO In addition, the market seems to have come to the conclusion that an end to the quantitative monetar... NORIAKI ICHIKAWA The dollar's firm tone is supported by a shift in the market focus back to interest rate differentia... KOSUKE HANAO There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w... YODA The wording was that monetary policy is still stimulative, which implies further rate hikes down the... DAVID POWELL The U.S. dollar is being held firm by short-term rate expectations and until there is some sign of v... ADAM MYERS The risk is for the ECB to accelerate the pace of interest- rate hikes. There seems to be very littl... CYRIL BEUZIT There is some consolidation going on, but the future is not dim. This is sustainable long-term growt... JAGDISH REBELLO The evidence of marked improvement in the manufacturing sector further guarantees there will be no i... HOWARD ARCHER Our view is that the G8 was a great opportunity. Although there was some short-term pain, there will... ANDREW JOHNSTON If rate expectations continue to rise I think that we are certainly very close to the point where on... GERHARD SCHWARZ Short-term rate expectations remain the single most important factor for dollar/yen, TOMOKO FUJII In an environment where the interest rate is expected to go down, the market will be positive. HARRIS DALIMUNTHE The debate on interest-rate cuts is still a live one. SIMON RUBINSOHN Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place. ALI ALLAWI The market is adjusting to a trend that the market hasn't lived with in some time. Inflation is goin... DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT Even though the interest rate rise had been discounted, a half percentage point rise in local intere... JAMES SO If the rate expectations continue to come down, Hong Kong, as an interest rate sensitive market will... EDDIE WONG You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. DAVID LEVITHAN One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move! DEYTH BANGER There could be tension in the short term. There are still scars and there is still mistrust between ... ANTONIO MISSIROLI They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations o... FRANKLIN RAINES In the short-term yields may increase. Slack is decreasing in the economy and that is leading to inf... YOSHIHIRO ISHIDA The interest rates are about to be increased. [Durbin] is trying to lock them in at a lower rate tha... CHRISTINA ANGAROLA is still hoping to squeeze one more interest rate cut in. ADAM COLE This is the classic long-term/short-term tradeoff. We're accepting lower short-term earnings in retu... ROBERT ALLEN There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all. JEFFREY FRY
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