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XU DINGMING People were thinking that, if the oil refineries take a direct hit, energy prices would shoot up and...
GEORGE GONCALVES Oil prices could be a worry. We're not at the stage of a serious rise (in oil prices), so the impact...
JASON HWANG The subsidy sharing is here to stay because oil prices are high and the government is not allowing a...
JASPREET SINGH As long as we don't have another storm coming into the Gulf, I expect oil prices to fall slightly. I...
ANETTE EINARSEN People are really just focusing on oil prices and using models to figure out what the impact will be...
AZIZ MCMAHON If China's economy does simmer down, it will have an adverse impact on the materials sector, and on ...
JOSEPH BATTIPAGLIA You've had not only a steady rise in actual oil and gas prices, but you have had a steady rise in th...
GEOFF KIEBURTZ![]()
oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.
RODRIGO RATO![]()
The market is reacting to the rise in oil prices and the conflicting economic news.
JOHN DAVIDSON Consumption is up considerably and that trend is not going to reverse itself. Higher oil prices are ...
DAN VERU If oil prices hold, or better still, if they rise, I think in the coming days we are going to see st...
HECTOR PEREZ I don't think they'll refer to Katrina in terms of its
direct impact on the Canadian economy, b...
DAVID POWELL Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken env...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT![]()
Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.
RODRIGO RATO Labor automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence will have a devastating impact on the...
JAMES SCOTT Labor automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence will have a devastating impact on the...
JAMES SCOTT, SENIOR FELLOW, INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY The shrinking trade balance isn't a bad thing because it's partly a result of strong domestic demand...
TAKUJI AIDA Japan is really the industrialized country most heavily dependent on oil imports, ... so the most di...
ASHRAF LAIDI If the [Chinese] economy takes a stumble, the impact on the banks will be disastrous.
DAVID MARSHALL Sentiment is drifting higher on softer oil prices. All eyes remain on energy. As long as oil prices ...
BEN ROGOFF The index reflects the broader trend of productivity growth in the U.S. economy that has driven pric...
JEFF KLEINTOP I think a 0.2 percent decline in economic growth due Katrina's impact on oil and the regional econom...
ANTHONY CHAN![]()
... the flexibility of our market-driven economy has allowed us, thus far, to weather reasonably wel...
ALAN GREENSPAN The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.
GEORGE OSBORNE We are certainly seeing the influence of higher oil prices on the U.S. economy.
KOICHIRO SUZUKI Any rise in global oil prices increases their earnings substantially,
AGNES DENG The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS [In fact, as gasoline prices hit record levels, it may be the economy that most affects donations.] ...
EUGENE TEMPEL The longer the oil prices stay at this level, the more of a weight it puts on the market. That said,...
JOE LIRO We built on a relief rally, ... From an economic standpoint, things picked up after the price rise i...
JAY SUSKIND Geopolitical tensions are on the rise and could at some point in the future have a very negative imp...
MARC FABER Overall, I think they'll be OK, given that the economy is improving and fuel prices are starting to ...
ALAN SBARRA Factors in the U.S. will keep moving oil prices. The U.S. will continue to import oil products to fe...
HISAO SATO Underlying the rise in prices is a strong world economy. The IEA is showing that demand continues to...
EUGENE X. HODGE I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices be...
KEN SALAZAR![]()
Record high gas prices are burning holes in peoples; pockets and harming our economy. They are squee...
LANE EVANS The business integration will help the company reduce the impact which higher crude oil prices have ...
LI GUOHONG The high oil prices are surely not wholesome for the economy.
AXEL WEBER I don't think the Minutemen are having an impact on the site. Nationally I think they're having an i...
BILL THRELKELD Oil continues to dominate trade, with crude at or near the highs. Worries remain about how high pric...
JOE SUNDERMAN Agriculture came in better and remittances continued to be good. These two factors reduced the impac...
JOEY CUYEGKENG Higher oil prices will raise material costs and that is a blow to the U.S. economy. Exporters are th...
ATSUSHI OSA The government should reconsider the issue, as the current model has made the country's economy depe...
INGILAB AHMADOV It's fairly safe to say that the trade deficit may have peaked now that oil prices are falling and t...
BERNARD BAUMOHL The movement of $1 or $2 we've seen so far is going to have a fairly modest effect on gasoline price...
BRUCE BELL Those high oil prices are a burden on U.S. families, on firms' production costs. But the good news i...
BEN S. BERNANKE Oil prices are effectively a tax and we want a low-tax global economy. I am happier with lower price...
EDWARD MENASHY![]()
While the focus of recent international attention has rightly been on the tragic events in the U.S.,...
GORDON BROWN I don't think the strike is having too much impact on companies and the economy; companies can opera...
MIKE SCHUSSLER I don't think what the president talked about today will have much of an impact (on prices).
EVAN SMITH We don't see another rate rise, but we recognize that the risk is still there, due largely to oil pr...
LORENZO CODOGNO Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerabili...
LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN U.K. May PPI data are unlikely to move markets markedly, in spite of the large rise in input prices,...
NEIL PARKER With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial...
MARY BONO Aside from the effects of high oil prices, growth in imports in general can be interpreted as a sign...
KOJI KOBAYASHI Since Christmas, there has been a 14 cent increase locally in crude oil prices. At this point it loo...
BRYANT GIMLIN More than 50 percent on average of all these indexes is in oil and refined products. It's having a m...
FREDERIC LASSERRE In the big oil shocks that really damaged the economy, the tax on the consumer was many times more t...
ETHAN HARRIS![]()
Let me say this anyway on the record: We do not and have not been targeting stock prices for the pur...
ALAN GREENSPAN Both [the French and the euro-zone data] reflect higher oil prices rather than any rise in underlyin...
GWYN HACCHE When we did our September forecasts, we were already in an environment where oil prices were high an...
AXEL WEBER Higher energy prices stemming from the hurricane season and fundamental energy supply shortages are ...
DAVID HUETHER The increase in land values is having an impact on the industry.
CASEY PACE We may see some profit-taking in energy stocks later following sharp gains in recent sessions but it...
SOMCHAI ANEKTAWEEPON As petrol prices increase, the global demand for more sustainable energy sources will also rise. Mal...
YUSLI MOHAMED YUSOFF We have been seeing, in most cases, gas prices on the rise. Companies are having to drill deeper or ...
ERIN BIEHL The reason that the Chinese have dropped their prices so much is that they are engaged in predatory ...
AUGGIE TANTILLO Even before the hurricane hit, rising energy prices were having a dampening effect on the economy,
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH Consumers report that the high gasoline prices are having a negative impact on their frequency of sh...
MICHAEL NIEMIRA It is something that I think is having quite an impact on our community.
INSPECTOR LINTON ROBINSON Gasoline inventories are expected to decline going into March, which may lead to a further rise in o...
HIROYUKI KIKUKAWA Investors are more sensitive to negative headlines after seeing interest rates and oil prices rise.
HIROSHI CHANO we believe that the impact of these hurricanes on pump prices will soon be behind us. As more refine...
BILL GREEHEY The outlook for Asia Pacific's aviation industry in 2006 remains fairly positive although the burden...
ANDREW HERDMAN The outlook for Asia-Pacific's aviation industry in 2006 remains fairly positive, although the burde...
ANDREW HERDMAN Currency factors, high raw material prices and intense competition are all having an adverse impact.
HELMUT PANKE The continued weakness in a number of components of the index suggests that it's more than just high...
LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN They average about 5 miles per gallon, depending on the route and the load, they change oil about ev...
LEE BROWN In the next several months we might see some record highs in the trade deficit with the rise in oil ...
BRIAN GARVEY But it could have an enormous beneficial impact on energy security and the U.S. economy.
CRAIG MARKS Historically, rising gas prices have not had an impact on travelers to Hilton Head Island.
CHARLIE CLARK The Nikkei's rise since July has had limited impact on the yen's upside, but for the moment anyway, ...
KIKUKO TAKEDA The Nikkei's rise since July has had limited impact on the yen's upside, but for the moment anyway, ...
KIKUKO TAKEDA As CPIX (consumer price index less mortgage costs) continues to surprise on the downside and oil pri...
CHRIS HART Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
CHOI CHANG HOON In general, the economy is proving to be resilient to energy and gas price pressure. It's on a growt...
MICHAEL ENGLUND You have lower oil prices, you have a healthy employment situation and you have a consumer that is s...
GORDON FOWLER The program is having an impact on our young community.
CASIMIR ADULEWICZ The rise in oil prices was always likely to hit these numbers with a vengeance, and the petroleum de...
IAN SHEPHERDSON![]()
There is no indication that the job market outside of the impacted Gulf Coast has skipped a beat. Th...
MARK ZANDI If it looks like high oil prices will be sustained or even rise further, then it does put the pressu...
ADAM CARR There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ...
FRANKLIN MORTON The impact on the economy isn't really that big. The main impact is that of the higher costs on corp...
JUNICHI MAKINO The soaring crude oil price, to some extent, will urge domestic companies to cut down energy consump...
ZHU ZHIXIN If crude oil prices hit $60 a barrel, that's going to stir up old fears of higher energy prices and ...
ANDRE BAKHOS![]()
It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent ...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI Neither movement is going to have any appreciable effect on the relative prices of U.S. and Chinese ...
ALAN TONELSON Risks remain and uncertainty is on the rise, this was in substance the message of G7 finance ministe...
VALERIE PLAGNOL I don't think we're going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air with ...
LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN
XU DINGMING People were thinking that, if the oil refineries take a direct hit, energy prices would shoot up and...
GEORGE GONCALVES Oil prices could be a worry. We're not at the stage of a serious rise (in oil prices), so the impact...
JASON HWANG The subsidy sharing is here to stay because oil prices are high and the government is not allowing a...
JASPREET SINGH As long as we don't have another storm coming into the Gulf, I expect oil prices to fall slightly. I...
ANETTE EINARSEN People are really just focusing on oil prices and using models to figure out what the impact will be...
AZIZ MCMAHON If China's economy does simmer down, it will have an adverse impact on the materials sector, and on ...
JOSEPH BATTIPAGLIA You've had not only a steady rise in actual oil and gas prices, but you have had a steady rise in th...
GEOFF KIEBURTZ
oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy. RODRIGO RATO
The market is reacting to the rise in oil prices and the conflicting economic news. JOHN DAVIDSON Consumption is up considerably and that trend is not going to reverse itself. Higher oil prices are ...
DAN VERU If oil prices hold, or better still, if they rise, I think in the coming days we are going to see st...
HECTOR PEREZ I don't think they'll refer to Katrina in terms of its
direct impact on the Canadian economy, b...
DAVID POWELL Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken env...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT
Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy. RODRIGO RATO Labor automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence will have a devastating impact on the...
JAMES SCOTT Labor automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence will have a devastating impact on the...
JAMES SCOTT, SENIOR FELLOW, INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY The shrinking trade balance isn't a bad thing because it's partly a result of strong domestic demand...
TAKUJI AIDA Japan is really the industrialized country most heavily dependent on oil imports, ... so the most di...
ASHRAF LAIDI If the [Chinese] economy takes a stumble, the impact on the banks will be disastrous.
DAVID MARSHALL Sentiment is drifting higher on softer oil prices. All eyes remain on energy. As long as oil prices ...
BEN ROGOFF The index reflects the broader trend of productivity growth in the U.S. economy that has driven pric...
JEFF KLEINTOP I think a 0.2 percent decline in economic growth due Katrina's impact on oil and the regional econom...
ANTHONY CHAN
... the flexibility of our market-driven economy has allowed us, thus far, to weather reasonably wel... ALAN GREENSPAN The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.
GEORGE OSBORNE We are certainly seeing the influence of higher oil prices on the U.S. economy.
KOICHIRO SUZUKI Any rise in global oil prices increases their earnings substantially,
AGNES DENG The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS [In fact, as gasoline prices hit record levels, it may be the economy that most affects donations.] ...
EUGENE TEMPEL The longer the oil prices stay at this level, the more of a weight it puts on the market. That said,...
JOE LIRO We built on a relief rally, ... From an economic standpoint, things picked up after the price rise i...
JAY SUSKIND Geopolitical tensions are on the rise and could at some point in the future have a very negative imp...
MARC FABER Overall, I think they'll be OK, given that the economy is improving and fuel prices are starting to ...
ALAN SBARRA Factors in the U.S. will keep moving oil prices. The U.S. will continue to import oil products to fe...
HISAO SATO Underlying the rise in prices is a strong world economy. The IEA is showing that demand continues to...
EUGENE X. HODGE I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices be...
KEN SALAZAR
Record high gas prices are burning holes in peoples; pockets and harming our economy. They are squee... LANE EVANS The business integration will help the company reduce the impact which higher crude oil prices have ...
LI GUOHONG The high oil prices are surely not wholesome for the economy.
AXEL WEBER I don't think the Minutemen are having an impact on the site. Nationally I think they're having an i...
BILL THRELKELD Oil continues to dominate trade, with crude at or near the highs. Worries remain about how high pric...
JOE SUNDERMAN Agriculture came in better and remittances continued to be good. These two factors reduced the impac...
JOEY CUYEGKENG Higher oil prices will raise material costs and that is a blow to the U.S. economy. Exporters are th...
ATSUSHI OSA The government should reconsider the issue, as the current model has made the country's economy depe...
INGILAB AHMADOV It's fairly safe to say that the trade deficit may have peaked now that oil prices are falling and t...
BERNARD BAUMOHL The movement of $1 or $2 we've seen so far is going to have a fairly modest effect on gasoline price...
BRUCE BELL Those high oil prices are a burden on U.S. families, on firms' production costs. But the good news i...
BEN S. BERNANKE Oil prices are effectively a tax and we want a low-tax global economy. I am happier with lower price...
EDWARD MENASHY
While the focus of recent international attention has rightly been on the tragic events in the U.S.,... GORDON BROWN I don't think the strike is having too much impact on companies and the economy; companies can opera...
MIKE SCHUSSLER I don't think what the president talked about today will have much of an impact (on prices).
EVAN SMITH We don't see another rate rise, but we recognize that the risk is still there, due largely to oil pr...
LORENZO CODOGNO Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerabili...
LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN U.K. May PPI data are unlikely to move markets markedly, in spite of the large rise in input prices,...
NEIL PARKER With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial...
MARY BONO Aside from the effects of high oil prices, growth in imports in general can be interpreted as a sign...
KOJI KOBAYASHI Since Christmas, there has been a 14 cent increase locally in crude oil prices. At this point it loo...
BRYANT GIMLIN More than 50 percent on average of all these indexes is in oil and refined products. It's having a m...
FREDERIC LASSERRE In the big oil shocks that really damaged the economy, the tax on the consumer was many times more t...
ETHAN HARRIS
Let me say this anyway on the record: We do not and have not been targeting stock prices for the pur... ALAN GREENSPAN Both [the French and the euro-zone data] reflect higher oil prices rather than any rise in underlyin...
GWYN HACCHE When we did our September forecasts, we were already in an environment where oil prices were high an...
AXEL WEBER Higher energy prices stemming from the hurricane season and fundamental energy supply shortages are ...
DAVID HUETHER The increase in land values is having an impact on the industry.
CASEY PACE We may see some profit-taking in energy stocks later following sharp gains in recent sessions but it...
SOMCHAI ANEKTAWEEPON As petrol prices increase, the global demand for more sustainable energy sources will also rise. Mal...
YUSLI MOHAMED YUSOFF We have been seeing, in most cases, gas prices on the rise. Companies are having to drill deeper or ...
ERIN BIEHL The reason that the Chinese have dropped their prices so much is that they are engaged in predatory ...
AUGGIE TANTILLO Even before the hurricane hit, rising energy prices were having a dampening effect on the economy,
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH Consumers report that the high gasoline prices are having a negative impact on their frequency of sh...
MICHAEL NIEMIRA It is something that I think is having quite an impact on our community.
INSPECTOR LINTON ROBINSON Gasoline inventories are expected to decline going into March, which may lead to a further rise in o...
HIROYUKI KIKUKAWA Investors are more sensitive to negative headlines after seeing interest rates and oil prices rise.
HIROSHI CHANO we believe that the impact of these hurricanes on pump prices will soon be behind us. As more refine...
BILL GREEHEY The outlook for Asia Pacific's aviation industry in 2006 remains fairly positive although the burden...
ANDREW HERDMAN The outlook for Asia-Pacific's aviation industry in 2006 remains fairly positive, although the burde...
ANDREW HERDMAN Currency factors, high raw material prices and intense competition are all having an adverse impact.
HELMUT PANKE The continued weakness in a number of components of the index suggests that it's more than just high...
LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN They average about 5 miles per gallon, depending on the route and the load, they change oil about ev...
LEE BROWN In the next several months we might see some record highs in the trade deficit with the rise in oil ...
BRIAN GARVEY But it could have an enormous beneficial impact on energy security and the U.S. economy.
CRAIG MARKS Historically, rising gas prices have not had an impact on travelers to Hilton Head Island.
CHARLIE CLARK The Nikkei's rise since July has had limited impact on the yen's upside, but for the moment anyway, ...
KIKUKO TAKEDA The Nikkei's rise since July has had limited impact on the yen's upside, but for the moment anyway, ...
KIKUKO TAKEDA As CPIX (consumer price index less mortgage costs) continues to surprise on the downside and oil pri...
CHRIS HART Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
CHOI CHANG HOON In general, the economy is proving to be resilient to energy and gas price pressure. It's on a growt...
MICHAEL ENGLUND You have lower oil prices, you have a healthy employment situation and you have a consumer that is s...
GORDON FOWLER The program is having an impact on our young community.
CASIMIR ADULEWICZ The rise in oil prices was always likely to hit these numbers with a vengeance, and the petroleum de...
IAN SHEPHERDSON
There is no indication that the job market outside of the impacted Gulf Coast has skipped a beat. Th... MARK ZANDI If it looks like high oil prices will be sustained or even rise further, then it does put the pressu...
ADAM CARR There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ...
FRANKLIN MORTON The impact on the economy isn't really that big. The main impact is that of the higher costs on corp...
JUNICHI MAKINO The soaring crude oil price, to some extent, will urge domestic companies to cut down energy consump...
ZHU ZHIXIN If crude oil prices hit $60 a barrel, that's going to stir up old fears of higher energy prices and ...
ANDRE BAKHOS
It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent ... ROBERT KIYOSAKI Neither movement is going to have any appreciable effect on the relative prices of U.S. and Chinese ...
ALAN TONELSON Risks remain and uncertainty is on the rise, this was in substance the message of G7 finance ministe...
VALERIE PLAGNOL I don't think we're going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air with ...
LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN
