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We're headed to around 6.5 percent sometime in the first half of next year.
HENRY WILLMORE There is a solid demand for long-term bonds with a 20- to 30-year maturity. Twenty-year yields aroun...
KOJI MORI I think we will start sometime early next year heading down toward 4 percent [yields].
WILLIAM MEEHAN Even with new development, we're still expecting the vacancy rates to stay below 2 percent throughou...
MIKE HAMASU The fundamentals remain solid. Virginia is among the 10 fastest-growing states in the country, and m...
KIT HALE Since the demand will keep mounting in the market, the prices could jump more than 3 percent on a ye...
DAVID KIM At this juncture, it would be difficult to attract strong demand, especially for 30-year maturity. I...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA We see yields as attractive and that will support Treasury demand. Ten-year yields may fall to 4.4 p...
KAZUHIRO KANEKO There's a strong view that it will be very hard to push two-year yields below 1.75 percent in a sign...
ANTHONY KARYDAKIS The first provided a 10 percent signing bonus and a pay increase of 3 percent in the first year and ...
CHARLIE MCDONALD It may have already touched the highest points in the first half year, but still have chance to clim...
CHENG WEIQING We're looking at another 25 percent (cut) next year.
DAN WOLFE While unit demand is going up at roughly 50 percent, the bit demand, meaning the number of wafers we...
JEFF KATZ Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN It is possible that this year will mark the end of the deflation and will bring in a paradigm shift ...
MASUHISA KOBAYASHI Earnings are coming in 'in line' with expectations. We should still be up 15 percent year-over-year ...
ALFRED KUGEL We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI If figures in the jobs data are stronger than expected, 10-year treasuries could rise to 5 percent w...
HIROKI SHIMAZU We're expecting a pretty tough first half of the year -- tech profits will be up about 10 percent th...
STEVE MILUNOVICH The chances of 10-year yields soaring above 1.6 percent are high. Ten- year bonds look expensive com...
MAKOTO YAMASHITA A 10-year yield near 5 percent offers value. Yields have risen quite quickly over the past few weeks...
HIROYUKI YAMADA The Fed is remaining vigilant against inflation, which helps 10-year notes and 30-year bonds. But tw...
JEFF PALMA This [confidence report] increases the likelihood [rates] will be moved down another [half percentag...
WAYNE ANGELL The year we opened Appalachian was a sizable jump, somewhere around 9 percent. It's an issue at our ...
BOB GRIFFIN The year we opened Appalachian was a sizable jump, somewhere around 9 percent. It's an issue at our ...
BOB GRIFFIN In 1999 ... booster seats were used by only 5 percent of 4- to 8-year-olds. By the middle of last ye...
DR. DENNIS DURBIN For the full year, the currency impact should be less than the 4 percent impact in the first quarter...
DOMENICO SCALA There doesn't seem to be any evidence that inflation is accelerating. In terms of when the bank can ...
DARREN GIBBS The inventory problems that plagued the first half of the year have been largely erased and we expec...
BRUCE STEPHEN Looking forward into the fourth quarter, at this point we are not highly optimistic that there will ...
KAREN HAUS In the 10-year and 30-year area it seems like you attract a crowd any time yields have exceeded 4.5 ...
DAN SHACKELFORD Producers are going to be supplying more to the domestic market, where demand is surging because thr...
JEFFREY MULYONO Rising rates and a flatter curve have fueled investor demand. If rates fall, we would expect to see ...
MARGARET KERINS The sharp downtrend is unlikely to be sustainable particularly from year-end onward because of the s...
ANTON GUNAWAN The sharp downtrend is unlikely to be sustainable particularly from year-end onward because of the s...
ANTON GUNAWAN We're not at the top. With the Fed still moving to 5.50 in our view, maybe at least 5.25 to 5.40 10-...
JACK MALVEY Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half...
GUS FAUCHER An average 90-year-old patient arrives with a half-dozen diseases and a half-dozen medications. Many...
JOEL SELIGMAN In the 13 years ended 2004, that group was growing at a 1 to 4 percent rate every year. Last year, f...
BOB SIMONSON We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.
ANIL KHANDELWAL What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent year...
BJORN HANSON This sector saw about a 4 percent growth last year. I expect it to do about the same, between 3 to 4...
FRANK BADILLO The next major product will be the notebooks, notebook screens... maybe in the first half of next ye...
CT LIU The auctions are all behind us. We are going to see the coming off of two-, five- and 10-year bond y...
LEE BOON KENG It's too soon for that. But that's something we have in our agenda for the first half of next year.
BRIAN MURRAY We're getting to the latter half of the year. and typically, the industry sells close to 20 percent ...
DAN NILES [We reached] the high end of our target margin range of 3.5 to 4 percent reinforces the fact that we...
MERLE GILMORE The deceleration in earnings growth is a significant concern. Techs are up against steep comparisons...
KEN PERKINS There are fewer and fewer smokers every year. Also, studies show that as the prices of cigarettes go...
DERYK PARKER Two thousand and five was the year of the emerging market. Booming demand in the Southern Hemisphere...
NEIL MAWSTON People still see the likelihood of a rate cut this year and certainly not an increase in rates. Ster...
ADRIAN SCHMIDT There was very strong demand -- off the charts -- from the indirect bid -- about 65 percent, bigger ...
CHRIS RUPKEY It used to be a 25 percent local, 75 percent federal and state grant. This year, for the first time,...
LARRY JARRELL The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CUTTS The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Investment spending continues to be very vigorous. There was 26 percent growth in investment in the ...
ALBERTO RAMOS This number combined with the other high numbers is going to force the government to keep interest r...
DAMIAN FRASER The U.S. economy is doing okay and you have global growth doing fairly well. That's encouraging yiel...
GRANT HASSELL Notebooks continued to storm ahead with a solid 54 percent year-on- year growth in the first quarter...
BRYAN MA We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spendi...
FRANK WANG![]()
For the next few years I'll spend half the year in London and half the year in LA and Santa Fe.
TOM FORD We don't believe in (4-year-old) children needing to attend for 10 hours a day.
DONNA RIPPLEY First and foremost, we are still on track for general availability in the second half of calendar ye...
AMITABH SRIVASTAVA A year ago, it was not that difficult to predict six months in advance where they were going to be. ...
JAN HATZIUS Sentiment is building that the Fed may pause for a while after raising rates to 5 percent next month...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA Investors should prepare for a change in monetary policy. Hold off buying 10-year bonds as yields ar...
AKIHIKO YOKOYAMA The front end of the curve tried to rally a little bit and there was a trade down in the belly of th...
DOMINIC KONSTAM Iraq's economy is forecasted to grow at a rate of 4 percent this year, and accelerate into the doubl...
HEATHER LAYMAN There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every...
KEVIN YODER The major components of inflation for us are energy costs and housing costs and medical costs, and I...
ESMAEL ADIBI Considering the strong demand among people in the market, 10-year yield won't stay above 1.6 percent...
AKIHIKO INOUE Analysts' forecasts for earnings I think are still a little too high. They are expecting 8-percent e...
ED KEON A year ago the ratings stood at a 4/22 for KESQ, a 2/10 for KMIR, and a 1/4 for KPSP.
BOB ALLEN We held them (the Bullfrogs) to just 10 points in the first half. It was one of the best games we've...
CHRIS FENTON![]()
Economic confidence is weak because of high oil prices, but all that will change once oil is back do...
DAVID BROWN I'm still in the camp that yields are moving higher. As long as the data is strong, the Fed is going...
JOSEPH SHATZ Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT As for new releases, we plan to terminate purchases of VHS sometime early next fiscal year. Next yea...
HIROFUMI SHIRAKATA Though this news is clearly a disappointment, we believe that the damage is largely done and the 10 ...
JAMI RUBIN It's going to be probably one of the greatest harvests ever. We're looking at a 2 percent to 4 perce...
GEORGE ROSE The fact is an ARM that you took a year ago could easily adjust to 6.5 percent or 7 percent percent ...
GREG MCBRIDE If you look at the year as a whole, we're still seeing reasonable year-to-year growth rates.
BRIAN GORDON The economy is definitely making a transition. I think 1998 will be viewed as the year of soft landi...
BRUCE STEINBERG Defense has been our weak point this year, particularly in the second half.
JEFF MALLOY The near-term economic outlook still presents some difficulties in the first half of the year, ... W...
LAWRENCE BOSSIDY He'll be the first to tell you ? he's been year-to-year for the last 10 years.
DAN DEL PORTO Through the first half of 2005, supply and demand has remained in relatively stable balance. However...
BRIAN GORDON That gives us some fuel for next year to make a legitimate push to No. 4. Hopefully ... we'll make a...
GILLY LANE We think inflation in the middle of this year will be back below target. We are likely to see 5 perc...
DAVID BRICKMAN I'll be very honest, depending on how things go, I could be back here a year from now saying we need...
BILL WISE We anticipated about a 10 to 20 percent drop this year in participation,
HOWARD TAYLOR The U.S. economy is very resilient and the Fed will raise rates at least two more times next year. T...
YOSHITAKA MAJIMA![]()
Hopefully, the second half is the start of next year. Not to knock the first half, but we made two m...
ANDY WILLIAMS Wireless Infrastructure is experiencing a flat market in the second half of the financial year with ...
DAVID RHODES Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ We can't keep up with production, and sales are up 60 percent this year. We are trying to figure out...
DEB CAREY I expect it will cut my truck sales 30 percent. Next January my diesel sales will be 10 percent, the...
BARRY LEHMER Core exports are trending up at about 10 percent year over year, not enough to prevent a widening of...
IAN SHEPHERDSON
HENRY WILLMORE There is a solid demand for long-term bonds with a 20- to 30-year maturity. Twenty-year yields aroun...
KOJI MORI I think we will start sometime early next year heading down toward 4 percent [yields].
WILLIAM MEEHAN Even with new development, we're still expecting the vacancy rates to stay below 2 percent throughou...
MIKE HAMASU The fundamentals remain solid. Virginia is among the 10 fastest-growing states in the country, and m...
KIT HALE Since the demand will keep mounting in the market, the prices could jump more than 3 percent on a ye...
DAVID KIM At this juncture, it would be difficult to attract strong demand, especially for 30-year maturity. I...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA We see yields as attractive and that will support Treasury demand. Ten-year yields may fall to 4.4 p...
KAZUHIRO KANEKO There's a strong view that it will be very hard to push two-year yields below 1.75 percent in a sign...
ANTHONY KARYDAKIS The first provided a 10 percent signing bonus and a pay increase of 3 percent in the first year and ...
CHARLIE MCDONALD It may have already touched the highest points in the first half year, but still have chance to clim...
CHENG WEIQING We're looking at another 25 percent (cut) next year.
DAN WOLFE While unit demand is going up at roughly 50 percent, the bit demand, meaning the number of wafers we...
JEFF KATZ Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN It is possible that this year will mark the end of the deflation and will bring in a paradigm shift ...
MASUHISA KOBAYASHI Earnings are coming in 'in line' with expectations. We should still be up 15 percent year-over-year ...
ALFRED KUGEL We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI If figures in the jobs data are stronger than expected, 10-year treasuries could rise to 5 percent w...
HIROKI SHIMAZU We're expecting a pretty tough first half of the year -- tech profits will be up about 10 percent th...
STEVE MILUNOVICH The chances of 10-year yields soaring above 1.6 percent are high. Ten- year bonds look expensive com...
MAKOTO YAMASHITA A 10-year yield near 5 percent offers value. Yields have risen quite quickly over the past few weeks...
HIROYUKI YAMADA The Fed is remaining vigilant against inflation, which helps 10-year notes and 30-year bonds. But tw...
JEFF PALMA This [confidence report] increases the likelihood [rates] will be moved down another [half percentag...
WAYNE ANGELL The year we opened Appalachian was a sizable jump, somewhere around 9 percent. It's an issue at our ...
BOB GRIFFIN The year we opened Appalachian was a sizable jump, somewhere around 9 percent. It's an issue at our ...
BOB GRIFFIN In 1999 ... booster seats were used by only 5 percent of 4- to 8-year-olds. By the middle of last ye...
DR. DENNIS DURBIN For the full year, the currency impact should be less than the 4 percent impact in the first quarter...
DOMENICO SCALA There doesn't seem to be any evidence that inflation is accelerating. In terms of when the bank can ...
DARREN GIBBS The inventory problems that plagued the first half of the year have been largely erased and we expec...
BRUCE STEPHEN Looking forward into the fourth quarter, at this point we are not highly optimistic that there will ...
KAREN HAUS In the 10-year and 30-year area it seems like you attract a crowd any time yields have exceeded 4.5 ...
DAN SHACKELFORD Producers are going to be supplying more to the domestic market, where demand is surging because thr...
JEFFREY MULYONO Rising rates and a flatter curve have fueled investor demand. If rates fall, we would expect to see ...
MARGARET KERINS The sharp downtrend is unlikely to be sustainable particularly from year-end onward because of the s...
ANTON GUNAWAN The sharp downtrend is unlikely to be sustainable particularly from year-end onward because of the s...
ANTON GUNAWAN We're not at the top. With the Fed still moving to 5.50 in our view, maybe at least 5.25 to 5.40 10-...
JACK MALVEY Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half...
GUS FAUCHER An average 90-year-old patient arrives with a half-dozen diseases and a half-dozen medications. Many...
JOEL SELIGMAN In the 13 years ended 2004, that group was growing at a 1 to 4 percent rate every year. Last year, f...
BOB SIMONSON We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.
ANIL KHANDELWAL What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent year...
BJORN HANSON This sector saw about a 4 percent growth last year. I expect it to do about the same, between 3 to 4...
FRANK BADILLO The next major product will be the notebooks, notebook screens... maybe in the first half of next ye...
CT LIU The auctions are all behind us. We are going to see the coming off of two-, five- and 10-year bond y...
LEE BOON KENG It's too soon for that. But that's something we have in our agenda for the first half of next year.
BRIAN MURRAY We're getting to the latter half of the year. and typically, the industry sells close to 20 percent ...
DAN NILES [We reached] the high end of our target margin range of 3.5 to 4 percent reinforces the fact that we...
MERLE GILMORE The deceleration in earnings growth is a significant concern. Techs are up against steep comparisons...
KEN PERKINS There are fewer and fewer smokers every year. Also, studies show that as the prices of cigarettes go...
DERYK PARKER Two thousand and five was the year of the emerging market. Booming demand in the Southern Hemisphere...
NEIL MAWSTON People still see the likelihood of a rate cut this year and certainly not an increase in rates. Ster...
ADRIAN SCHMIDT There was very strong demand -- off the charts -- from the indirect bid -- about 65 percent, bigger ...
CHRIS RUPKEY It used to be a 25 percent local, 75 percent federal and state grant. This year, for the first time,...
LARRY JARRELL The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CUTTS The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Investment spending continues to be very vigorous. There was 26 percent growth in investment in the ...
ALBERTO RAMOS This number combined with the other high numbers is going to force the government to keep interest r...
DAMIAN FRASER The U.S. economy is doing okay and you have global growth doing fairly well. That's encouraging yiel...
GRANT HASSELL Notebooks continued to storm ahead with a solid 54 percent year-on- year growth in the first quarter...
BRYAN MA We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spendi...
FRANK WANG
For the next few years I'll spend half the year in London and half the year in LA and Santa Fe. TOM FORD We don't believe in (4-year-old) children needing to attend for 10 hours a day.
DONNA RIPPLEY First and foremost, we are still on track for general availability in the second half of calendar ye...
AMITABH SRIVASTAVA A year ago, it was not that difficult to predict six months in advance where they were going to be. ...
JAN HATZIUS Sentiment is building that the Fed may pause for a while after raising rates to 5 percent next month...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA Investors should prepare for a change in monetary policy. Hold off buying 10-year bonds as yields ar...
AKIHIKO YOKOYAMA The front end of the curve tried to rally a little bit and there was a trade down in the belly of th...
DOMINIC KONSTAM Iraq's economy is forecasted to grow at a rate of 4 percent this year, and accelerate into the doubl...
HEATHER LAYMAN There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every...
KEVIN YODER The major components of inflation for us are energy costs and housing costs and medical costs, and I...
ESMAEL ADIBI Considering the strong demand among people in the market, 10-year yield won't stay above 1.6 percent...
AKIHIKO INOUE Analysts' forecasts for earnings I think are still a little too high. They are expecting 8-percent e...
ED KEON A year ago the ratings stood at a 4/22 for KESQ, a 2/10 for KMIR, and a 1/4 for KPSP.
BOB ALLEN We held them (the Bullfrogs) to just 10 points in the first half. It was one of the best games we've...
CHRIS FENTON
Economic confidence is weak because of high oil prices, but all that will change once oil is back do... DAVID BROWN I'm still in the camp that yields are moving higher. As long as the data is strong, the Fed is going...
JOSEPH SHATZ Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT As for new releases, we plan to terminate purchases of VHS sometime early next fiscal year. Next yea...
HIROFUMI SHIRAKATA Though this news is clearly a disappointment, we believe that the damage is largely done and the 10 ...
JAMI RUBIN It's going to be probably one of the greatest harvests ever. We're looking at a 2 percent to 4 perce...
GEORGE ROSE The fact is an ARM that you took a year ago could easily adjust to 6.5 percent or 7 percent percent ...
GREG MCBRIDE If you look at the year as a whole, we're still seeing reasonable year-to-year growth rates.
BRIAN GORDON The economy is definitely making a transition. I think 1998 will be viewed as the year of soft landi...
BRUCE STEINBERG Defense has been our weak point this year, particularly in the second half.
JEFF MALLOY The near-term economic outlook still presents some difficulties in the first half of the year, ... W...
LAWRENCE BOSSIDY He'll be the first to tell you ? he's been year-to-year for the last 10 years.
DAN DEL PORTO Through the first half of 2005, supply and demand has remained in relatively stable balance. However...
BRIAN GORDON That gives us some fuel for next year to make a legitimate push to No. 4. Hopefully ... we'll make a...
GILLY LANE We think inflation in the middle of this year will be back below target. We are likely to see 5 perc...
DAVID BRICKMAN I'll be very honest, depending on how things go, I could be back here a year from now saying we need...
BILL WISE We anticipated about a 10 to 20 percent drop this year in participation,
HOWARD TAYLOR The U.S. economy is very resilient and the Fed will raise rates at least two more times next year. T...
YOSHITAKA MAJIMA
Hopefully, the second half is the start of next year. Not to knock the first half, but we made two m... ANDY WILLIAMS Wireless Infrastructure is experiencing a flat market in the second half of the financial year with ...
DAVID RHODES Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ We can't keep up with production, and sales are up 60 percent this year. We are trying to figure out...
DEB CAREY I expect it will cut my truck sales 30 percent. Next January my diesel sales will be 10 percent, the...
BARRY LEHMER Core exports are trending up at about 10 percent year over year, not enough to prevent a widening of...
IAN SHEPHERDSON
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