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JOHN LONSKI It looks as though core inflation is back, ... We have the core CPI now growing at an average monthl...
JOHN LONSKI a pause in rate hikes is a more likely scenario rather than a rate cut.
MICHAEL NIEMIRA Most people think we're in for a couple more rate hikes in the United States. We'd argue that that w...
GRAHAM SECKER The Fed is likely to make no change in its rate policy because it still see risks in the economic ou...
RICHARD RIPPE The worst news on UK inflation is yet to come. The probability of a further rate cut is clearly redu...
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MAURY HARRIS At the same time, consumers' sensitivity to APR (annual percentage rate interest rate) levels and ot...
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When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of infl... ADI GODREJ They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations o...
FRANKLIN RAINES The rate at which the ocean is absorbing carbon will soon decrease.
JAMES ZACHOS The March 2006 unemployment rate of 6 percent was the lowest rate recorded for Kentucky in 10 months...
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive... B. C. FORBES You need to factor in the (interest-rate) differential, as well as the costs of refinancing.
GARY AKRIGHT This should cause the employment rate to increase and the unemployment rate to decrease for the mont...
WAYNE GASSON As this problem is unlikely to resolve itself quickly, we remain concerned that 2006 forecasts could...
GUY MOSZKOWSKI A 40-cent rise in gasoline prices does not stimulate demand, and frankly this is where I think many ...
TIM EVANS In terms of current interest rate levels and inflation, the ECB has room to cut rates and help the u...
GERNOT NERB It is very unlikely that it would maintain that kind of case mortality rate if it made the jump.
STANLEY LEMON There is no limit to the rate of inflation in health care costs relative to the cost of other things...
MICHAEL HURD Despite all the rate hikes, the (Federal Reserve's) overnight lending rate is still less than inflat...
JAMES TURK We doubt that economic activity in the euro zone will afford the ECB scope to raise the refinancing ...
PAUL CHERTKOW Rate cuts may spur credit growth, however a government will have to keep a closer eye on it's inflat...
SANJEEWA FERNANDO Some evidence has emerged that inflation is starting to pick up, and there's concern that the Fed's ...
DOUG PORTER They've been at that rate since the building opened in 1996. That rate really represents the rental ...
JAMIE BROWN I do not expect core inflation to rise much above these levels. But were it to do so, this would sea...
PAUL ASHWORTH If the government decides on an increase of more than 30 %, the inflation rate would jump by two to ...
FAISAL BASRI We need to take into account that Asian women are more physically active, drink less alcohol, have c...
BRUCE TROCK The bank cannot disregard the exchange rate because the exchange rate can exercise considerable infl...
XOLILE GUMA The Federal Reserve system has been very much a lucky passenger in this growth, ... It's the bond ma...
BERT ELY In order to pave the way for another refinancing rate hike in March, the ECB would need to signal th...
ELGA BARTSCH The inflation rate keeps moving downward. That gives the central bank room to cut the reference rate...
BERTRAND DELGADO We think the bank has left the door open for a pause in October, but a rate hike would follow in Dec...
CARL GOMEZ The correction of these imbalances and associated inflation pressures will require a slowdown in hou...
ALAN BOLLARD It's going to be a high growth rate indeed, but it's going to get to a point beyond 2006 when that r...
CEO CLAY JONES Anything higher here could confirm investors' fears that the Fed's interest rate tightening is far f...
ANGUS CAMPBELL We've seen some gyrations in expectations due to the whipsaw that we've seen in the economic data. W...
GLENN HABERBUSH
Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two po... BARBARA CORCORAN Headline inflation is moving up. A rate hike is likely in the fourth quarter.
BOB SINCHE People may start buying before [the mortgage rate] goes up any more. They would make offers because ...
BRENDA BINCZEWSKI Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growt...
AMITABH ARORA Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) were more strongly affected by the latest Federal Reserve rate hike...
FRANK NOTHAFT
Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In oth... ARTHUR LAFFER We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't suppo...
NINA FEDOROFF The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US ...
LOUIS WONG This is the highest inflation rate we've seen in over three years and much higher than 0.3 percent i...
EMMANUEL FERRY The household saving rate has fallen to less than 1 percent, quite low in its range of historical va...
ROGER FERGUSON
We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and t... MICHAEL ENZI Speculation that we will see deep interest rates is overdone. In the context of the widely anticipat...
ALAN CLARKE Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be app...
TONY CRESCENZI Ironically, online advertising is one arena of online activity in which South Africa has seen more s...
ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK We think that almost all central banks in the region are likely to take a breather from the rate hik...
DONG TAO Our hypothesis is that smokers who receive counseling will be more likely to quit smoking. We are ho...
DR. LORI BASTIAN The ECB will want to signal that it doesn't want to see the headline inflation rate translate throug...
GWYN HACCHE There are two components that go into a bill -- the gas cost rate and the base rate. This request is...
JAY DAWSON Thailand has been more resilient to shocks since 1998, given the manageable inflation, low unemploym...
VINCENT HO Our floating exchange rate regime is similar to what obtains in the US, Euro and many other countrie...
JOAN JOHN The story there is more positive, not just from the current-account surplus, but also from the inter...
CRAIG CHAN We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate thr...
BILL WINTERS In order to pave the way for another refinancing rate hike in March, the ECB would need to signal th...
ELGA BARTSCH The market is still expecting two more rate rises from the Federal Reserve, which will keep improvin...
FUMIHIKO KAWANO The maintaining of the rate reflects that there is not a dangerous core inflation pressure, while th...
JOSEPH RAMOS After all the negative news about our trade position, our fiscal problems, our currency, our inflati...
CARL TANNENBAUM After all the negative news about our trade position, our fiscal problems, our currency, our inflati...
CARL TANNENBAUM Fed officials' comments point to the risk of faster inflation. We expect three or four more rate hik...
JUN KITAZAWA We will further improve the yuan exchange rate formation mechanism and constantly make the exchange ...
HU XIAOLIAN To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital ga...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The market is adjusting to a trend that the market hasn't lived with in some time. Inflation is goin...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT
Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds. MIKE FITZPATRICK Think about the relative merit of variable rates versus fixed-rate credit. Locking in a fixed rate n...
FRITZ ELMENDORF We expect the replacement rate to be at 75 percent in 2006 and at 100 percent in 2010.
CARLOS MORALES We hope TNF, together with other stakeholders in the economy, will come up with ways of disciplining...
ANDY HODGES We see high growth with very low inflation. These aren't mutually exclusive. You have to remember th...
MATTHEW ALEXY In theory yes this (interest rate hike) would work but the problem we have is that on the other hand...
ANTHONY HAWKINS You either control inflation or the exchange rate. You can't do both.
HENRY STIPP If you handle your credit less than responsibly, very quickly that rate is going to rise.
GAY WATSON We should bear in mind that not all borrowers can or want to take a 30 year long loan. The age of re...
ALLA TRUBNIKOVA Any story or macroeconomic factor that could damage those aggressive revenue forecasts is going to h...
CHARLIE CRANE For two years, we've seen this tremendous increase in prices, yet the core inflation rate has stayed...
ED YARDENI There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general pop...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON I think everybody is waiting for the employment data. If unemployment is still dropping when we've j...
ED PETERS
Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.&#... RAGHURAM RAJAN You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, y...
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG
Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energ... JANET YELLEN The rate at which our Asian trading partners open their borders to U.S. beef will be an important fa...
ERNIE GOSS
Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would ... BEN BERNANKE
The central predictions of the quantity theory are that, in the long run, money growth should be neu... ROBERT LUCAS, JR. Even if you could stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at present day levels, t...
GERALD MEEHL We really feel that if Colorado legislators want to see the abortion rate decrease, they need to sup...
CRYSTAL CLINKENBEARD Turkey is seeing a fatality rate of 20 percent which is lower than the fatality rate observed in Asi...
CRISTIANA SALVI The question is going to be at the end of the first quarter (2006). Are we going to recover and star...
GARY CRABTREE It probably doesn't mean we don't see another rate increase, but it suggests that the Fed is not beh...
GARY THAYER Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.
JEFF ADAMS After the exchange rate reform, interest rate policy must be more responsive to smoothen exchange ra...
ZHANG XUECHUN February looks rather unlikely for the next rate hike, but March is still on the agenda. Yields will...
CYRIL BEUZIT We expect the upward trajectory for the dollar to continue into next year. The main factor underpinn...
BENJAMIN PEDLEY We expect the upward trajectory for the dollar to continue into next year. The main factor underpinn...
BENJAMIN PEDLEY We expect the upward trajectory for the dollar to continue into next year. The main factor underpinn...
BENJAMIN PEDLEY It looks as though core inflation is back. We have the core CPI now growing at an average monthly ra...
JOHN LONSKI It looks as though core inflation is back, ... We have the core CPI now growing at an average monthl...
JOHN LONSKI a pause in rate hikes is a more likely scenario rather than a rate cut.
MICHAEL NIEMIRA Most people think we're in for a couple more rate hikes in the United States. We'd argue that that w...
GRAHAM SECKER The Fed is likely to make no change in its rate policy because it still see risks in the economic ou...
RICHARD RIPPE The worst news on UK inflation is yet to come. The probability of a further rate cut is clearly redu...
ALAN CLARKE Sometimes it is the number of rooms (available) and sometimes it is the rate, because we need to mak...
BRIANA MACKEY That is a secular demographic shift, which is not going to reverse unless we close our doors and not...
LAWRENCE HORAN
