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JOSEPH CAPURSO Investors will be looking for clues for interest rate cuts. A U.K. rate cut is expected in February,...
JAMES STEWART I think the Fed still has no other choice but still to raise rates. I know that there's some rumors ...
MARC GABELLI Inflation is a massive theme because we are in a rising-interest-rate environment. I think there is ...
JANE FOLEY The consumer is not on a spending binge - consumer spending has moderated and I don't think there's ...
GREG VALLIERE There's no need to cut interest rates to stimulate consumer demand or investment spending.
DENNIS DYKES When fixed-income investors conclude that the central bank isn't going to raise rates any time soon,...
ED YARDENI Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation...
IM NO JUNG Bond yields in Canada should go up. The economy is very robust and producing at full capacity, and t...
MICHAEL HERRING Weaker consumer spending backs the case for interest rates on hold.
TOM KENNY
During fiscal 2006, we expect the retail market to remain extremely competitive and tighter consumer... JOHN FLETCHER Pretty much everyone, as well as their Uncle Bob, is expecting the Bank of Canada to raise interest ...
DOUGLAS PORTER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... The Fed will continue to raise interest rates. We think they will do so twice more.
KATHLEEN STEPHANSEN The central bank has identified the triggers that will make it raise rates. We don't think those thi...
ANNETTE BEACHER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Previously the Fed had a reason to raise rates. There is no compelling reason to raise rates at the ...
JOE CARSON This left orders in the fourth quarter up an impressive 4.1% quarter-on-quarter and points to strong...
ADAM COLE I believe we were already in recession (before the attacks), but at least the consumer was holding u...
BRIAN WESBURY Japanese interest rates continue to price in tightening from the Bank of Japan. We think it's a bit ...
JENS NORDVIG
I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest ra... ROBERT J. SHILLER You have to be positive on 10-year bonds when you expect lower inflation. I don't expect the Bank of...
ERIC GIRARD Consumer spending will remain strong in the first quarter following the final quarter of last year. ...
AZUSA KATO The central bank wanted the peso to weaken, so if it is weakening, one of their incentives to cut ra...
BERTRAND DELGADO Our business is more impacted by consumer confidence than even a little spike in the interest rates ...
FAROOQ KATHWARI Our results for the first quarter confirm that discretionary consumer spending is softening in New Z...
KEITH SMITH
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL We expect no change in interest rates. The market has been factoring in better interest rates for th...
JOE ROONEY Although we expect consumer spending to slow sharply in the fourth quarter, to below 2 percent, as a...
JOHN RYDING However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert ...
TOSHIHIKO FUKUI In its assessment of the monetary policy stance, the monetary board noted that prevailing conditions...
AMANDO TETANGCO With the Reserve Bank raising interest rates and the currency being high for some time, the pressure...
BRENT LAYTON We continue to be pleased with our asset/liability management performance which, in a challenging in...
AUBREY PATTERSON We still expect economic activity to slow over the next several quarters as consumer spending slows ...
STEVEN WOOD It is going to make economists slightly revise down first-quarter GDP, which they already did with t...
CHRISTOPHER LOW The yen will weaken some more. There is no need to raise rates.
DALE THOMAS The BOJ may want to move early to raise rates, but they should expect a big battle. It likely won't ...
HIROMICHI SHIRAKAWA It was a good auction. Investors felt safe buying at the new debt because of waning concerns the cen...
KATSUTOSHI INADOME The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK The broad picture looks better than expected but we have to watch figures very carefully. A downward...
EMMANUEL FERRY The consumer is already somewhat vulnerable in the year ahead as the tax-cut effects fade. If we con...
ETHAN HARRIS
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalis... RON PAUL Economic data have been reasonably good, so the bonds continue to sell off. Strong economic growth m...
JAMES DUTKIEWICZ Consumer confidence is poised to remain strong during 2006, which will continue to support consumer ...
CEES BRUGGEMANS Looking to the fourth quarter, we expect to continue to benefit from recent acquisitions, our cost r...
ALAIN BELDA Domestic demand is incredibly resilient now. With consumers set to increase spending now that deflat...
AZUSA KATO The momentum we saw coming into the second quarter has all but disappeared as businesses continue to...
LOREN LOVERDE Investors can't really take risks and buy bonds because yields are on a gradual rising trend. The ce...
AKITO FUKUNAGA The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy ...
MARK SKOUSEN An increase in domestic fuel prices will be inflationary and controls will have to come through rate...
HASITHA PREMARATNE We expect first-quarter operations will improve. The results will match our forecast made during the...
ERIC YU The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH
What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We think the industry is going to be slower in the first quarter, if not the first half, than we ori...
RON ZARRELLA Japanese economic conditions are relatively good at this moment, and it will continue to be fairly r...
EISUKE SAKAKIBARA We are planning to buy Treasuries and the consumer price report reinforced our views that U.S. notes...
SATOSHI ASAI In reality, it won't matter as much because other elements like spending and consumer sentiment look...
HANS OLSEN Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Businesses appear stronger than expected, reflecting the lower euro, but we're likely to see consume...
JAMES NIXON When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
ANUJ SOMANY Oil continues to dominate trade, with crude at or near the highs. Worries remain about how high pric...
JOE SUNDERMAN
Fixed mortgage rates remain at historically low levels and thus should continue to fuel reasonably s... ALAN GREENSPAN Real-denominated debt rates are unlikely to fall until the central bank rates meetings in late Janua...
JOSE ROBERTO CARREIRA The outlook is for a muted third quarter, and also fourth quarter. It's not getting any worse in our...
KURT BARNARD Going forward, we expect the economy to show positive year-on-year and seasonally adjusted rates in ...
MICHAEL GAVIN Consumer spending has kept the economy moving, and when initial holiday sales were better than expec...
FRANK NOTHAFT What we are looking for especially in the first quarter is sales growth ... Growth is rewarded very ...
JUSSI HYOTY Now, with the economic recovery appearing to be somewhat in place and the central bank not lowering ...
ANTHONY CHAN As long as they are rising, the ECB tends to raise interest rates.
JOERG KRAEMER
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES One of the reasons that the central bank raised rates is to try to decrease market volatility that c...
CAROLA SANDY I think this is an important first step for the central bank. They didn't want to lower rates too ag...
ANTHONY CHAN Our understanding is that the (tantalum) business is likely to continue for some time in the current...
GREIG GAILEY There is a good chance that the Fed won't raise rates on Sept. 20 but in doing so they are likely re...
IAN GUNNER We achieved strong sequential and year-over-year revenue growth during the first quarter and began t...
HUSSEIN ENAN Investors are confident the dollar will remain strong against the yen for the time being on the pros...
HIDEAKI KURIMOTO The key number for the Fed was actually the unemployment rate and it went down and has been declinin...
KURT KARL His position would be the same. These are sort of back-door attempts to raise consumer rates.
ABBY OTTENHOFF Consumer spending is likely to ease off slightly as some saturation starts to set in, real income gr...
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