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EMMANUEL FERRY There's no need to cut interest rates to stimulate consumer demand or investment spending.
DENNIS DYKES Given the continued improvement in labor and wage conditions of late and the likelihood that that wi...
OSAMU KATANO The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
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GAIL FOSLER Looking ahead, this supports our view that, despite the apparent rebound in retail sales over the Ch...
ALAN CASTLE [The report indicates] consumer spending is gearing back, ... It is very much in line with sagging i...
DOUGLAS PORTER
Energy price volatility is taking its toll on consumer confidence, as is the prospect of higher [int... JENNIFER LEE We do believe that the U.S. housing market is a bubble in the sense that its contribution to consume...
JAN HATZIUS The consumer is already somewhat vulnerable in the year ahead as the tax-cut effects fade. If we con...
ETHAN HARRIS Far from being a leading indicator of consumer spending, consumer confidence has consistently missed...
CARL STEIDTMANN Today's data is very weak, which adds to our concern about the prospects for consumer activity and t...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY A rebound today will allay fears the consumer sector is continuing to struggle. The improvement in t...
GAVIN REDKNAP The consumer numbers look fairly strong, although at least some of that strength is likely to fade i...
MAURY HARRIS Consumer confidence is poised to remain strong during 2006, which will continue to support consumer ...
CEES BRUGGEMANS Last week, chain-store sales came in pretty strong. But if you stripped out gasoline sales from Wal-...
ELLEN BEESON House price inflation has picked up in recent months; if this continues it has positive implications...
JOSEPH CAPURSO We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in con...
STEVEN WIETING The war phase in Iraq seems to be winding down. I think in the months ahead consumer confidence will...
ALAN SKRAINKA Consumer spending in the U.S. slowed below even our own conservative estimates and corporate spendin...
CARLY FIORINA But I think the underlying trend in terms of consumer spending and overall economic spending is actu...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN Oil was the biggest concern in terms of U.S. consumer spending.
HIROSHI CHANO The consumer is not on a spending binge - consumer spending has moderated and I don't think there's ...
GREG VALLIERE We will see a change in the drivers of economic growth with capital spending taking a lead. There is...
CARL RICCADONNA A report like this will continue to fuel the debate about how strong consumer spending will be over ...
ALAN GAYLE American consumer spending has been the economic driver.
DANIEL RAY Consumer spending will remain strong in the first quarter following the final quarter of last year. ...
AZUSA KATO The pace of consumer spending in the first half was too strong, so it will be slower in the second. ...
HIROAKI MUTO such a modest increase [in unemployment] is unlikely to have any impact on consumer confidence or af...
PHILIP SHAW In seven of the last eight election cycles, real consumer spending growth has decelerated in the hol...
CARL STEIDTMANN We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously goi...
HOWARD SILVERBLATT While information technology products will continue to be the largest market sectors for semiconduct...
GEORGE SCALISE Strong figures will boost expectations of higher growth in consumer spending in the U.S.. That will ...
YUJI SAITO The February CBI survey reinforces our belief that consumer spending will be unable to sustain the r...
HOWARD ARCHER We've started to see a gradual improvement in the labor market, and that will slowly feed through to...
DOMINIC WHITE Any bets on dollar weakness will be a bet that higher energy prices will divert consumer spending, w...
JEFF GLADSTEIN We continue to believe that solid household income growth will sustain decent - but not spectacular ...
ADAM DONALDSON The findings are invaluable to business owners and policy- makers in our communities. They use the d...
JAMES HOLMES Rising fuel prices will keep a lid on consumer spending for some time, slowing economic growth. The ...
SHANE OLIVER Although we expect consumer spending to slow sharply in the fourth quarter, to below 2 percent, as a...
JOHN RYDING As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued con...
FAROOQ KATHWARI As we get toward the end of the winter season and early spring, we'll probably go through another wa...
MICHAEL SOLOMON Weaker consumer spending backs the case for interest rates on hold.
TOM KENNY The job market is firm, the outlook for hiring remains firm and hourly wages will pick up. Wages wil...
ZOLTAN POZSAR During the summer months, email recipients are most likely spending the weekend outdoors away from t...
MORGAN STEWART That's not to say consumer spending will collapse, but there's no doubt it will lag growth in the re...
ANTHONY CHAN
For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he ... SUN TZU Businesses appear stronger than expected, reflecting the lower euro, but we're likely to see consume...
JAMES NIXON Increases in personal disposable income boosted consumer spending and that in turn contributed to th...
MAGAN MISTRY The consumer spending situation is improving in Europe; that's what we need to ensure durable growth...
DOMINIQUE BARBET You're never living in that immediate day. You're always looking ahead -- three months, six months o...
JACKIE PAYNE In reality, it won't matter as much because other elements like spending and consumer sentiment look...
HANS OLSEN An undecided consumer simply means that he may soon begin to pull in his spending habits. Two-thirds...
PETER CARDILLO The stronger consumer confidence, the more likely the Fed will keep hiking rates for longer. Yields ...
ALEX LI
The U.S. economy is continuing to weaken, ... We are bearish over the next few months. The beige boo... STEPHEN KING
The U.S. economy is continuing to weaken. We are bearish over the next few months. The beige book co... STEPHEN KING Worries of a housing-led consumer spending bust are overblown.
RICHARD BERNER Oil prices are increasing and (US) consumer spending is strong.
JOSEPH YAM The report is the latest sign that consumer confidence has been trending down, ... It adds to worrie...
PETER BOOCKVAR The report is the latest sign that consumer confidence has been trending down. It adds to worries in...
PETER BOOCKVAR
In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: ... EVAN DAVIS We're expecting some answers back in the weeks and months ahead.
DAVID SOMMERS The September statistics confirm consumer spending during the third quarter remained extremely stron...
MARILYN SCHAJA We will see a differentiation between chip companies that are exposed to pure IT spending and those ...
JAYE MORENCY Most people don't know that the Middle East has one of the highest growth in consumer spending in th...
FADI FARRA
I expect by '07 there will be a significant decline in U.S. consumer spending, and I don't see what ... GEORGE SOROS Increasing home prices and the ability of consumers to cash out their growing home equity has been a...
DENNIS JACOBE Our results for the first quarter confirm that discretionary consumer spending is softening in New Z...
KEITH SMITH We fully expect sentiment to drop sharply, putting in place the conditions for much softer consumer ...
IAN SHEPHERDSON Consumer confidence is faltering anew, which does not bode well for spending in the near term at lea...
HOWARD ARCHER With household finances already under considerable stress, one has to wonder if another round of rat...
BERNARD BAUMOHL We see continued pressure on Sirius shares in months ahead.
TUNA AMOBI (The) market in Memphis continues to be strong in the first three months of the year, with the busie...
WILLIAM MITCHELL Cooling housing markets will have a negative impact on consumer spending and employment. The dollar ...
YUJI KAMEOKA The good news is that concert consumer spending is miniscule compared to total entertainment spendin...
MICHAEL RAPINO We need other areas to fill the hole left by slowing consumer spending. Luckily mining investment an...
SHANE OLIVER Gas prices are going to keep rising and that's going to have a negative impact on consumer spending ...
BEN HALLIBURTON A takeover bid is underscoring prospects for the sector, which has been benefiting from a recovery i...
SUSUMU ABE Going forward, is there still adjustment in the pipeline? I think there is. The household savings ra...
JAN HATZIUS We suspect economic activity over much of 2006 will be held back by sluggish consumer spending and t...
HOWARD ARCHER It was nice to see that the high-income consumer, which slowed down spending in November, came back ...
LORI WACHS Although the cooling U.S. housing sector is going be a major drag on consumer spending as 2006 unfol...
SHERRY COOPER We've been consistently surprised by the strength of the labor market. We still think over the next ...
ADAM CARR Through November [2002], we believed that discretionary consumer spending growth of 3 percent was ad...
HARRY CURTIS Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longe...
MARTIN FELDSTEIN The seasonally adjusted annual (industry-wide) sales rate in the last six months has exceeded 18 mil...
BOB REWEY Everything they have said suggests (Japan) will not (step in to weaken the yen).
ANNE MILLS The recovery in employment and incomes should continue bolstering consumption ahead. And the recent ...
RYUTARO KONO Pessimism about New Zealand's short-term economic prospects and wariness about big spending commitme...
RICHARD MILLER A further rise (in the Nikkei) would need support from good fundamental news, such as corporate earn...
KUNIHIRO HATAE Our business is more impacted by consumer confidence than even a little spike in the interest rates ...
FAROOQ KATHWARI Buying momentum for domestic-demand related stocks still exists on a recovery in consumer spending a...
HIDEYUKI OOKOSHI The days and weeks ahead will severely test this new government, and the solution to Iraq's current ...
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI If consumer spending falls, the probability of the economy slipping back into recession is very high...
SCOTT HOYT Every time we raise federal spending, universities go ahead and raise tuition. Are the students ever...
ERIK IVERSON Our assumption is that the U.S. economy will continue to improve, at least gradually, but technology...
JEFF HENLEY Consumer spending was really slowing down a lot in August and September. We're entering the fourth q...
KEVIN LOGAN Given the more challenging economic backdrop and widely reported consumer spending fragility this is...
GREG FEEHELY You could stay there three months in jail for something you wouldn't likely be spending three months...
BOB WHITE Enterprise [products and applications] come to a forefront [for vendors] in slowing economic time, w...
BRIAN JAQUET This confirms my pessimistic scenario of a 0.9 percent growth for 2004 and consumer spending recover...
EMMANUEL FERRY There's no need to cut interest rates to stimulate consumer demand or investment spending.
DENNIS DYKES Given the continued improvement in labor and wage conditions of late and the likelihood that that wi...
OSAMU KATANO The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS
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