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Housing activity has peaked and is coming down a bit, and we expect further cooling in the coming mo...
DAVID LEREAH November's numbers confirm that housing activity has peaked and is now slowing.
DAVID LEREAH Housing activity has peaked. There are no balloons popping.
DAVID LEREAH This increased housing market activity has clearly led to some recent firming in house prices, and t...
HOWARD ARCHER Housing activity has peaked. Inventories continue to rise. I see the housing market continuing to so...
DAVID LEREAH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES This is primarily because of a decrease in investment and speculative real estate activity in those ...
BRAD GEISEN We can expect two months of lost production, and coming in the peak-demand period this is the worst ...
DAVID THURTELL Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006.
JOSHUA SHAPIRO The housing market continues to be a bright spot in the Illinois economy. Residential real estate ma...
STAN SIERON The market has got momentum and might run a bit further. Earnings are coming in well and last week w...
ALAN ZLATAR This should induce some slowing in housing market activity, but we expect the housing market in 2006...
FRANK NOTHAFT The housing starts figure coming in down 5.6 percent was weaker than expected and seems consistent w...
PATRICK FEARON On the plus side, the personal financial outlook index bounced back sharply, and might be signaling ...
TERRY JONES There has been some spotty signs of a cooling in the broader housing market.
JOSEPH ABATE Any lengthening of device lead-times in coming months will be seen as further evidence of a tighteni...
ANDREW NORWOOD We also see consumer confidence down a little bit. Houses are on the market a little longer. We're n...
BOB MOULTON Only two of the 10 industry groups surveyed this month - chemicals and metal products - expect price...
IAN MCCAFFERTY We see a flattening of housing starts and the beginning of a cooling process.
DAVID SEIDERS We expect export growth to moderate in coming months but not too much as trade flows from China will...
DANIEL CHAN Water cooling [and] liquid cooling [are] coming back. From an efficiency standpoint, the closer you ...
BOB SULLIVAN With our talent, when we step on the court, we expect to win and can't expect anything less, ... The...
VINCE CARTER It is very evident that the steam is coming out of the housing market even though rates moved down.
CELIA CHEN The market has slowed down just a bit, just because we're coming to the end of the year, and also mo...
ANTHONY ROMERO This has been coming for a few months and last night was the final straw.
CHRIS WADDLE We still expect economic activity to slow over the next several quarters as consumer spending slows ...
STEVEN WOOD Winter months tend to be slower. We really have to wait until spring and summer ? the peak of the ho...
KATHY KALSER The decline helps affirm cooling in the housing sector and is consistent with other broad-based data...
CHRISTOPHER LOW We took our fee down a couple of months ago, in the spring actually, and we did that to help the mar...
MARK LOGAN Today's data is very weak, which adds to our concern about the prospects for consumer activity and t...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Cooling the brain is sort of putting it down to sleep a little bit.
CAMILO GOMEZ The labor market exhibited renewed strength, which suggests that manufacturers and service providers...
DAVID HENSLEY I wasn't really sure what to expect coming into the season. I knew David had talent, but I certainly...
DON COOLEY There are signs of cooling in the hottest markets on both coasts and a shift in investor activity fr...
BRUCE KARATZ [They also focus on two areas - healthcare and energy - where inflation is eating away at spending p...
JARED BERNSTEIN The supply of semiconductor devices is becoming more constrained, and the downward pressure on the a...
ANDREW NORWOOD Without question, the housing market has peaked out. However, I think it will be a modest decline.
GREGORY GIEBER I expect the high inflation environment to persist in the coming months due to effects of drought. I...
EVANS OSANO The housing sector has likely passed its peak. The boom is winding down. I expect continued softenin...
DAVID LEREAH Johnson & Johnson is negotiating in public, and that's never a good sign. We don't expect them to ge...
NANCY HAVENS The chairman concluded that there is more to do in terms of slowing activity. We expect some further...
ANDREW MILLIGAN![]()
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Housing may get another mini boost from the recent drop in rates. These data do lag a bit. Still, it...
ROBERT BRUSCA We expect housing activity to drop about 8 percent this year -- it's primarily because of the invest...
DAVID BERSON The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be co...
CRAIG ALEXANDER We don't think business confidence is going to improve much more over coming months, but we don't ex...
SANDRA PETCOV![]()
In the coming five years, there'll be activity in the luxury world and we'll be there,
BERNARD ARNAULT The Commerce Department report on housing starts showed a considerable drop in starts in November. H...
FRANK NOTHAFT We expect gasoline prices to ease off in coming weeks.
GUY CARUSO We enjoy coming down and watching the parade.
DON STEVENS We believe it makes a lot of sense, given the needs of the county and the fact they have a huge imba...
ELIZABETH BAKER Cooling housing markets will have a negative impact on consumer spending and employment. The dollar ...
YUJI KAMEOKA Reading through the housing tea leaves suggests that the housing boom is becoming a bit long in the ...
ANTHONY CHAN There's still parts of the U.S. economy that need cooling out, particularly the housing sector and v...
DOUGLAS DAVIS We are talking to a number of Republicans with national profiles who are interested in coming in or ...
SHERRY SYLVESTER There are donations coming into the building and there are so many people coming in and out. There's...
AMY HALL We would expect the seasonally adjusted total to decline in the coming months, but there is not like...
JUERGEN MICHELS The data are consistent with very gradual cooling in the housing market.
JOHN SHIN![]()
in the stage of meltdown and within 24 months will be coming apart.
BARRY MCCAFFREY One of the reasons I had looked at Paul was because Jimmy Walker is only just coming back and in cas...
ALAN PARDEW We anticipate in the coming weeks and months that we will indict a large number of people, perhaps e...
MCGREGOR SCOTT Barring ... any catastrophe in Iraq or Iran, which is certainly the big wild card in this, we expect...
BRIAN KUZMA The growth of the company oscillates between product cycles, and it has a lot of new product coming ...
JAMIE FRIEDMAN![]()
To everyone battling a difficulty or under attack right now, smile, keep your head up, keep moving a...
GERMANY KENT While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, To...
SAM WOOD The housing group will be fairly stable the next six months, then later will react to opportunities ...
JAMES WILSON Further evidence of stability in the housing market and solid retail activity could prompt a rethink...
DANIEL KATZIVE It's phenomenal. The growth down here has been tremendous. I thought I was coming to a sleepy little...
DAN BERMAN The consumer numbers look fairly strong, although at least some of that strength is likely to fade i...
MAURY HARRIS Anticipation of a 25-basis-point rate cut pushed mortgage rates downward in this week's survey, and ...
FRANK NOTHAFT The market is only trading on about 13 times this year's earnings, which is hardly suggestive of irr...
ANDREW BELL I believe that we can bring a dynamically developing industry to an absolutely new level in coming m...
MICHAEL LYNTON Expect some drying Friday, and a nice weekend coming up.
BOB FARRELL The market is fraught with indecision, a little bit of anxiety. People recognize summer is coming up...
IRWIN MICHAEL Housing prices cooling off, or even declining, is one potential risk,
AMY CLARK You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN This suggests that businesses do expect trade activity to improve further on a buoyant 2005.
RICHARD DOWNING ABS (issuance) will be down a little bit in the coming year because most of the growth was in the ho...
DAN CASTRO In the state and the country, the overall market is cooling a bit, but we will retain a robust marke...
KIT HALE We didn't have a lot of energy coming out tonight. When we get down, we usually fight back. We can't...
BRENT CREWS Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006. It's starting to turn into a...
JOSHUA SHAPIRO We see significant growth coming in this area because it provides instant corporate access. And as w...
DAVE HOFER It's a confluence of events, all these things are coming together to create further concern in the m...
GREG CANAVAN Inflation is still above target and as long as the economic data keeps coming in strong we expect th...
MATTHIAS RUBISCH Data releases for the closing months of 2005 are expected to reflect buoyant activity, especially as...
RASHIKA LALLA We expect a further deterioration in the retail credit environment; however, as a result of the impr...
HELEN WEIR Housing has peaked, and from here it's only downhill. It's going to take some of the wind out of the...
ZOLTAN POZSAR Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau -- a pl...
DAVID LEREAH![]()
Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
GEORGE ORWELL We expect to double Chinese investments in France in the coming years with a series of new incentive...
CLARA GAYMARD Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the...
EDDIE ALBERT I think it's important from the policy stand point in that if the housing market is cooling down the...
ALEX LI It is absolutely not the time to be framing public policy. ... Discussion should take place in the c...
ALAN FELDMAN For hundreds of thousands of families, Medicaid is going to be a lifeline in the coming months,
JOHN DINGELL It's all about recovery, reconstruction and new construction. We're still in recovery mode and the c...
GEORGE TOUART I think they'll be excited when it's all done and behind us. They've been quite disappointed for the...
DAN BRADY Whatever is coming down has to be split up among many siblings,
JAGADEESH GOKHALE That said, housing starts -- although down a little from the month before -- were still remarkably s...
FRANK NOTHAFT
DAVID LEREAH November's numbers confirm that housing activity has peaked and is now slowing.
DAVID LEREAH Housing activity has peaked. There are no balloons popping.
DAVID LEREAH This increased housing market activity has clearly led to some recent firming in house prices, and t...
HOWARD ARCHER Housing activity has peaked. Inventories continue to rise. I see the housing market continuing to so...
DAVID LEREAH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES This is primarily because of a decrease in investment and speculative real estate activity in those ...
BRAD GEISEN We can expect two months of lost production, and coming in the peak-demand period this is the worst ...
DAVID THURTELL Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006.
JOSHUA SHAPIRO The housing market continues to be a bright spot in the Illinois economy. Residential real estate ma...
STAN SIERON The market has got momentum and might run a bit further. Earnings are coming in well and last week w...
ALAN ZLATAR This should induce some slowing in housing market activity, but we expect the housing market in 2006...
FRANK NOTHAFT The housing starts figure coming in down 5.6 percent was weaker than expected and seems consistent w...
PATRICK FEARON On the plus side, the personal financial outlook index bounced back sharply, and might be signaling ...
TERRY JONES There has been some spotty signs of a cooling in the broader housing market.
JOSEPH ABATE Any lengthening of device lead-times in coming months will be seen as further evidence of a tighteni...
ANDREW NORWOOD We also see consumer confidence down a little bit. Houses are on the market a little longer. We're n...
BOB MOULTON Only two of the 10 industry groups surveyed this month - chemicals and metal products - expect price...
IAN MCCAFFERTY We see a flattening of housing starts and the beginning of a cooling process.
DAVID SEIDERS We expect export growth to moderate in coming months but not too much as trade flows from China will...
DANIEL CHAN Water cooling [and] liquid cooling [are] coming back. From an efficiency standpoint, the closer you ...
BOB SULLIVAN With our talent, when we step on the court, we expect to win and can't expect anything less, ... The...
VINCE CARTER It is very evident that the steam is coming out of the housing market even though rates moved down.
CELIA CHEN The market has slowed down just a bit, just because we're coming to the end of the year, and also mo...
ANTHONY ROMERO This has been coming for a few months and last night was the final straw.
CHRIS WADDLE We still expect economic activity to slow over the next several quarters as consumer spending slows ...
STEVEN WOOD Winter months tend to be slower. We really have to wait until spring and summer ? the peak of the ho...
KATHY KALSER The decline helps affirm cooling in the housing sector and is consistent with other broad-based data...
CHRISTOPHER LOW We took our fee down a couple of months ago, in the spring actually, and we did that to help the mar...
MARK LOGAN Today's data is very weak, which adds to our concern about the prospects for consumer activity and t...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY Cooling the brain is sort of putting it down to sleep a little bit.
CAMILO GOMEZ The labor market exhibited renewed strength, which suggests that manufacturers and service providers...
DAVID HENSLEY I wasn't really sure what to expect coming into the season. I knew David had talent, but I certainly...
DON COOLEY There are signs of cooling in the hottest markets on both coasts and a shift in investor activity fr...
BRUCE KARATZ [They also focus on two areas - healthcare and energy - where inflation is eating away at spending p...
JARED BERNSTEIN The supply of semiconductor devices is becoming more constrained, and the downward pressure on the a...
ANDREW NORWOOD Without question, the housing market has peaked out. However, I think it will be a modest decline.
GREGORY GIEBER I expect the high inflation environment to persist in the coming months due to effects of drought. I...
EVANS OSANO The housing sector has likely passed its peak. The boom is winding down. I expect continued softenin...
DAVID LEREAH Johnson & Johnson is negotiating in public, and that's never a good sign. We don't expect them to ge...
NANCY HAVENS The chairman concluded that there is more to do in terms of slowing activity. We expect some further...
ANDREW MILLIGAN
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Housing may get another mini boost from the recent drop in rates. These data do lag a bit. Still, it...
ROBERT BRUSCA We expect housing activity to drop about 8 percent this year -- it's primarily because of the invest...
DAVID BERSON The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be co...
CRAIG ALEXANDER We don't think business confidence is going to improve much more over coming months, but we don't ex...
SANDRA PETCOV
In the coming five years, there'll be activity in the luxury world and we'll be there, BERNARD ARNAULT The Commerce Department report on housing starts showed a considerable drop in starts in November. H...
FRANK NOTHAFT We expect gasoline prices to ease off in coming weeks.
GUY CARUSO We enjoy coming down and watching the parade.
DON STEVENS We believe it makes a lot of sense, given the needs of the county and the fact they have a huge imba...
ELIZABETH BAKER Cooling housing markets will have a negative impact on consumer spending and employment. The dollar ...
YUJI KAMEOKA Reading through the housing tea leaves suggests that the housing boom is becoming a bit long in the ...
ANTHONY CHAN There's still parts of the U.S. economy that need cooling out, particularly the housing sector and v...
DOUGLAS DAVIS We are talking to a number of Republicans with national profiles who are interested in coming in or ...
SHERRY SYLVESTER There are donations coming into the building and there are so many people coming in and out. There's...
AMY HALL We would expect the seasonally adjusted total to decline in the coming months, but there is not like...
JUERGEN MICHELS The data are consistent with very gradual cooling in the housing market.
JOHN SHIN
in the stage of meltdown and within 24 months will be coming apart. BARRY MCCAFFREY One of the reasons I had looked at Paul was because Jimmy Walker is only just coming back and in cas...
ALAN PARDEW We anticipate in the coming weeks and months that we will indict a large number of people, perhaps e...
MCGREGOR SCOTT Barring ... any catastrophe in Iraq or Iran, which is certainly the big wild card in this, we expect...
BRIAN KUZMA The growth of the company oscillates between product cycles, and it has a lot of new product coming ...
JAMIE FRIEDMAN
To everyone battling a difficulty or under attack right now, smile, keep your head up, keep moving a... GERMANY KENT While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, To...
SAM WOOD The housing group will be fairly stable the next six months, then later will react to opportunities ...
JAMES WILSON Further evidence of stability in the housing market and solid retail activity could prompt a rethink...
DANIEL KATZIVE It's phenomenal. The growth down here has been tremendous. I thought I was coming to a sleepy little...
DAN BERMAN The consumer numbers look fairly strong, although at least some of that strength is likely to fade i...
MAURY HARRIS Anticipation of a 25-basis-point rate cut pushed mortgage rates downward in this week's survey, and ...
FRANK NOTHAFT The market is only trading on about 13 times this year's earnings, which is hardly suggestive of irr...
ANDREW BELL I believe that we can bring a dynamically developing industry to an absolutely new level in coming m...
MICHAEL LYNTON Expect some drying Friday, and a nice weekend coming up.
BOB FARRELL The market is fraught with indecision, a little bit of anxiety. People recognize summer is coming up...
IRWIN MICHAEL Housing prices cooling off, or even declining, is one potential risk,
AMY CLARK You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN This suggests that businesses do expect trade activity to improve further on a buoyant 2005.
RICHARD DOWNING ABS (issuance) will be down a little bit in the coming year because most of the growth was in the ho...
DAN CASTRO In the state and the country, the overall market is cooling a bit, but we will retain a robust marke...
KIT HALE We didn't have a lot of energy coming out tonight. When we get down, we usually fight back. We can't...
BRENT CREWS Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006. It's starting to turn into a...
JOSHUA SHAPIRO We see significant growth coming in this area because it provides instant corporate access. And as w...
DAVE HOFER It's a confluence of events, all these things are coming together to create further concern in the m...
GREG CANAVAN Inflation is still above target and as long as the economic data keeps coming in strong we expect th...
MATTHIAS RUBISCH Data releases for the closing months of 2005 are expected to reflect buoyant activity, especially as...
RASHIKA LALLA We expect a further deterioration in the retail credit environment; however, as a result of the impr...
HELEN WEIR Housing has peaked, and from here it's only downhill. It's going to take some of the wind out of the...
ZOLTAN POZSAR Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau -- a pl...
DAVID LEREAH
Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL We expect to double Chinese investments in France in the coming years with a series of new incentive...
CLARA GAYMARD Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the...
EDDIE ALBERT I think it's important from the policy stand point in that if the housing market is cooling down the...
ALEX LI It is absolutely not the time to be framing public policy. ... Discussion should take place in the c...
ALAN FELDMAN For hundreds of thousands of families, Medicaid is going to be a lifeline in the coming months,
JOHN DINGELL It's all about recovery, reconstruction and new construction. We're still in recovery mode and the c...
GEORGE TOUART I think they'll be excited when it's all done and behind us. They've been quite disappointed for the...
DAN BRADY Whatever is coming down has to be split up among many siblings,
JAGADEESH GOKHALE That said, housing starts -- although down a little from the month before -- were still remarkably s...
FRANK NOTHAFT
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