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STEVE COCHRANE I like the dollar higher. There's relatively sub-par growth out of Europe, and the U.S. is humming a...
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WALTER PRICE There is a common theme that economic fortunes look brighter in Japan and continental Europe than th...
WILLIAM SULLIVAN China is emerging as a key growth engine for the world economy, contributing over a quarter of total...
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HIDENORI SUEZAWA I agree that growth in production capacity this year will be a bit higher than demand growth. Still,...
FRANCISCO BLANCH U.S. High Yield Monthly: Cautionary Flags. However, the below 3.0% growth projected for the second-h...
DIANE VAZZA What we're seeing even further, not just job growth, but recent data shows broad-based growth of wag...
DON WEHBEY It's the high-tech industry which produced the U.S. growth rate of the past 10 years.
HASSO PLATTNER Going in, I had very high expectations. We did a lot of things this season and met some goals, but n...
HAZEL MARTINEZ For the year overall, Canada -- although showing some slight decline -- appears to be having a stron...
DARREL RYCE The U.S. economy is doing okay and you have global growth doing fairly well. That's encouraging yiel...
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ADNAAN AHMAD The expectation is that (gasoline) prices will be higher (in May-June) than they were a year ago, bu...
JANET RAY This is too much reality for a Friday.
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BRUCE STEINBERG Cable is not really growing at all, ... It's seeing roughly 15 to 20 percent growth in terms of upgr...
MIKE PAXTON This is a normal, cyclical slowdown in growth, engineered by the Fed. That's what the Fed told us th...
BOB GOODMAN This is a normal, cyclical slowdown in growth, engineered by the Fed, ... That's what the Fed told u...
BOB GOODMAN I'm optimistic for euro-zone growth this year. We should see higher yields, with a target between 3....
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FRANK STRESHLEY We expect year over year growth in Latin America in 2006 to be in the high single digits.
CAROLINA MILANESI The growth of 25 percent we're now seeing vs. a year ago is slightly ahead of our initial forecast o...
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ARNIE BERMAN That's not what we expected to see in a year when earnings growth would slow slightly, and we were s...
DORSEY FARR Industrial investment is taking off in Europe. Growth that was once in the U.S. and China now is bec...
EMMANUEL SOUPRE It was a yawner of a year for small-business growth.
MICHAEL ALTER The U.S. economy is performing quite well. We've had two very good years of robust growth. We're loo...
JAMES OWENS We expect export growth to moderate in coming months but not too much as trade flows from China will...
DANIEL CHAN The market expects 10 per cent earnings growth for this year in Europe and I don't think it's excess...
GUILLAUME DUCHESNE In Europe the ABS market is still in the growth phase. In the U.S., it is huge and growing more slow...
HOWARD ESAKI We are seeing pretty solid export growth. You are starting to see the U.S. benefit from faster growt...
LARA RHAME This is a very important acquisition for ABN because they struggle with growth and, though Italy is ...
SIGRID BAAS It is expected that the production would move to Eastern Europe or China, as the growth is there. In...
HANNU RAUHALA We are higher than we were last year. We are higher than we were in June, but we are lower than a fe...
JO ANNE SANFORD The underlying message from the data is that at the coal face producers are seeing higher costs, but...
MICHAEL EVERY An immediate slowdown in the U.S. economy is an unlikely scenario as its growth rate is still quite ...
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DAVID NEWMAN We're only in the second or third inning of this as a growth company. It's almost as if you're not p...
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JOHN CHAMBERS Slower U.S. growth may reduce growth in oil demand in the second half of the year. We are seeing pro...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK If you look at the year as a whole, we're still seeing reasonable year-to-year growth rates.
BRIAN GORDON It's been a very warm winter in the U.S., so prices are pressed to fall as inventories build and dem...
FRANCISCO BLANCH One of our biggest assets is our growth strategy. We have grown by 16 percent this year in terms of ...
KURT RITTER We were trying to keep people away from predicting 15-to-20-percent growth rates [in U.S. services] ...
JEFFREY JOERRES We feel that numbers are not as bad as people think as a few high profile names have reported below ...
ED KEON European growth is projected to average less than U.S. growth for a tenth consecutive year.
CARL B. WEINBERG We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spendi...
FRANK WANG Growth was a little stronger than the previous year ... what we are seeing is strong and consistent ...
ALAN MEISTER It shows growth for the U.S. economy but also points that the Fed will keep raising rates. Growth is...
EDWIN SLAGHEKKE It may be tough for the industry to top 1999, but for right now we're just going to enjoy it. Light ...
DICK COLLIVER
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It was a year when there were some challenges to deal with and we were particularly pleased with pro...
DOUGLAS FLINT For 2006, prospects for economic growth and the automotive industry are positive. Most economists ar...
ANFAVEA PRESIDENT ROGELIO GOLFARB This year is really going to be seen as a transition year away from the booming economy to a more mo...
STEVE COCHRANE I like the dollar higher. There's relatively sub-par growth out of Europe, and the U.S. is humming a...
JEFF GLADSTEIN We want growth, but do we want to grow by 7,000 students a year (or) 6,000 students a year? We've go...
BEVERLY CLARK As recently as a year ago, most U.S. broadcasters viewed it as a fringe sound in the continental U.S...
SEAN ROSS We are hitting the bottom in this industry. But it's not as bad as it was two quarters ago.
MOSHE KATRI [But Wall Street seems to be more concerned about sequential growth, as opposed to year-over-year gr...
WALTER PRICE There is a common theme that economic fortunes look brighter in Japan and continental Europe than th...
WILLIAM SULLIVAN China is emerging as a key growth engine for the world economy, contributing over a quarter of total...
SCOTT ANDERSON Bonds may find it difficult to rise as stocks are looking strong toward the year-end. Japan may have...
HIDENORI SUEZAWA I agree that growth in production capacity this year will be a bit higher than demand growth. Still,...
FRANCISCO BLANCH U.S. High Yield Monthly: Cautionary Flags. However, the below 3.0% growth projected for the second-h...
DIANE VAZZA What we're seeing even further, not just job growth, but recent data shows broad-based growth of wag...
DON WEHBEY It's the high-tech industry which produced the U.S. growth rate of the past 10 years.
HASSO PLATTNER Going in, I had very high expectations. We did a lot of things this season and met some goals, but n...
HAZEL MARTINEZ For the year overall, Canada -- although showing some slight decline -- appears to be having a stron...
DARREL RYCE The U.S. economy is doing okay and you have global growth doing fairly well. That's encouraging yiel...
GRANT HASSELL Ericsson said orders as a whole remain strong, but it is just seeing a push out in most mobile syste...
ADNAAN AHMAD The expectation is that (gasoline) prices will be higher (in May-June) than they were a year ago, bu...
JANET RAY This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS We are seeing phenomenal growth in the SSL VPN market, with an average year-over-year increase of 40...
AARON VANCE Our new fiscal year 2007 profit forecasts call for a fifth consecutive year of double-digit profit g...
KATHY MATSUI
It is a year for modest economic growth and therefore modest earnings growth. CHARLES STANLEY It is a year for modest economic growth and therefore modest earnings growth.
EDWARD MENASHY For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic bevera...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT This (growth forecast) means that there's a foundation in the market. It's not spectacular growth bu...
FRANS VAN HOUTEN
We knew this was going to be a challenging year in publishing, as it was for the industry. CHRISTIE HEFNER We foresee that this year should be a year of investment and high export growth, therefore we need f...
AMPON KITTIAMPON The brightest news for the year is significant job growth across every industry sector. When employe...
DIANE RATH The swap in principle is well-founded, but as it currently stands, some of the other processors repr...
DAVID HAAS I am looking at recurrent earnings growth of 10 percent in 2006 for the banks, if you strip out exce...
DAVID LUM The main concern regarding Ericsson is its mobile systems division, which is experiencing slower gro...
ADNAAN AHMAD A year ago, average management fees were falling, but this turned around in 2005 with average manage...
LESLEY HARVEY Revenues turned the corner and were up slightly from last year, driven by significant year-to-year g...
ANDY BRYANT The manufactured housing industry, exclusive of the FEMA orders, has not yet started to rebound. Yet...
LEIGH ABRAMS The manufactured housing industry, exclusive of the FEMA orders, has not yet started to rebound. Yet...
LEIGH J. ABRAMS It was a phenomenal year for PCs, with growth rates not seen since 2000.
LILLIAN TAY The economy is definitely making a transition. I think 1998 will be viewed as the year of soft landi...
BRUCE STEINBERG Cable is not really growing at all, ... It's seeing roughly 15 to 20 percent growth in terms of upgr...
MIKE PAXTON This is a normal, cyclical slowdown in growth, engineered by the Fed. That's what the Fed told us th...
BOB GOODMAN This is a normal, cyclical slowdown in growth, engineered by the Fed, ... That's what the Fed told u...
BOB GOODMAN I'm optimistic for euro-zone growth this year. We should see higher yields, with a target between 3....
GUILLAUME SCIARD We're not seeing any downturn in the gaming industry, and it should continue to grow. We're seeing t...
FRANK STRESHLEY We expect year over year growth in Latin America in 2006 to be in the high single digits.
CAROLINA MILANESI The growth of 25 percent we're now seeing vs. a year ago is slightly ahead of our initial forecast o...
GIAN FULGONI A lot of the best news is associated with the PC industry. Intel has been not just a bellwether in t...
ARNIE BERMAN That's not what we expected to see in a year when earnings growth would slow slightly, and we were s...
DORSEY FARR Industrial investment is taking off in Europe. Growth that was once in the U.S. and China now is bec...
EMMANUEL SOUPRE It was a yawner of a year for small-business growth.
MICHAEL ALTER The U.S. economy is performing quite well. We've had two very good years of robust growth. We're loo...
JAMES OWENS We expect export growth to moderate in coming months but not too much as trade flows from China will...
DANIEL CHAN The market expects 10 per cent earnings growth for this year in Europe and I don't think it's excess...
GUILLAUME DUCHESNE In Europe the ABS market is still in the growth phase. In the U.S., it is huge and growing more slow...
HOWARD ESAKI We are seeing pretty solid export growth. You are starting to see the U.S. benefit from faster growt...
LARA RHAME This is a very important acquisition for ABN because they struggle with growth and, though Italy is ...
SIGRID BAAS It is expected that the production would move to Eastern Europe or China, as the growth is there. In...
HANNU RAUHALA We are higher than we were last year. We are higher than we were in June, but we are lower than a fe...
JO ANNE SANFORD The underlying message from the data is that at the coal face producers are seeing higher costs, but...
MICHAEL EVERY An immediate slowdown in the U.S. economy is an unlikely scenario as its growth rate is still quite ...
MASAAKI ENDO Year on year sales grew in all regions as replacement sales in mature markets such as Western Europe...
CAROLINA MILANESI Japan's consumer spending is pretty firm, and it's expected to pick up momentum further in the next ...
TAKUJI AIDA They have a strong U.S. boot franchise and future growth potential in Europe.
BRYAN KEANE People in the U.S. and Asia are seeing this as an indication that Europe is getting its act together...
ANDREW DOUGLAS They're also conservative (with guidance), but given how much acquired growth they have I would have...
STEVE WEINSTEIN This is the first year-on-year decline after years of phenomenal growth.
BEN WOOD 2005 was a good year for the group, both in terms of our financial performance and, as importantly, ...
ERIC DANIELS For a long time, eBay would blow away the numbers. But the growth is not coming as easily as it once...
BARRY RANDALL I don't expect zero earnings growth next year, but I do expect slower growth.
BARRY HYMAN In countries where DTH pay-TV has been available for over five years, as in North America and Europe...
MICHELLE ABRAHAM We are excited to have been short-listed as a finalist for this award. Our company has had a phenome...
FRANK SLOOTMAN We're one of the leading growth areas of the country -- we should see the residential [building] ind...
MICHAEL WALDEN For the third consecutive quarter, our year-over-year license revenue growth rate accelerated. We be...
ALFRED CHUANG There certainly is no getting around the fact that this was a difficult year for us as a company, as...
JAMES ZIMMERMAN It was a uniform green last year, as they are in Australia. But this colour we call 'U.S. Open blue'...
DAVID NEWMAN We're only in the second or third inning of this as a growth company. It's almost as if you're not p...
HENRY ELLENBOGEN Last year was a record high for China's steel industry, but the excessive capacity also caused big p...
LUO BINGSHENG Behind this revenue range is an expectation that our unit sell-through will be slightly higher than ...
JUDY BRUNER This year was more relaxed and more fun. Being a senior and captain was really fun. Placing as a tea...
KATIE SUHR We continue to believe this is a second half story, but need to see revenue growth return year-over-...
DANIEL NILES The construction industry and transportation sector in Kansas have pushed 2005 growth into the very ...
ERNIE GOSS
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the gro... SARAH ORNE JEWETT
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