Mark Vitner
Related C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON Now that the weather forecast has changed to predict warmer weather, the prices have come down quite... DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of... CHRIS RUPKEY Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con... CHOI CHANG HOON The move by the consumer group is unlikely to affect Hutchison's timetable for the IPO of its Italia... PETER LAI TINY TIM ISM prices paid came a bit higher than expected and that stoked some inflationary concerns. I am bea... MICHAEL MALONE The report is the latest sign that consumer confidence has been trending down, ... It adds to worrie... PETER BOOCKVAR The report is the latest sign that consumer confidence has been trending down. It adds to worries in... PETER BOOCKVAR I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this... JACK BAKER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Warm weather in the Northern Hemisphere continues to weigh on the heating oil market, and that has b... CHRISTOPHER BELLEW Warmer than expected weather in key Canadian and United States heating regions has resulted in a dec... LINO LUISON it's somewhat surprising how resilient the economy has been, despite higher energy prices. MARK VITNER Consumer sentiment made an extraordinary month-to-month gain and really sparked the selling. The mar... JOSH STILES ILONA ANDREWS ANTHONY T. HINCKS The oil issue is continuing. It has a huge effect on market sentiment and on consumer spending. DONALD SELKIN The market is basically quite quiet. There's some profit-taking after yesterday's surge but overall ... HERBERT LAU The stock market has been anticipating a slowdown because of pressures from interest rates and energ... RON BARON Increasing home prices and the ability of consumers to cash out their growing home equity has been a... DENNIS JACOBE The reaction was somewhat muted here. But sentiment looks weak since the market has failed to return... TERUHISA ISHIKAWA Wholesale prices of gasoline have come down and that should slow retail price increases in the next ... CAROL THORP MITT ROMNEY That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put do... ADDISON ARMSTRONG There was stop-loss selling in fairly illiquid market conditions. Silver has come down on the back o... BERNARD HUNTER The market has every excuse in the world to be down right now -- higher oil prices, higher interest ... EDWARD BRETSCHER Spending was up, a little weaker than expected... Nevertheless, the trend has been upward and it loo... PATRICK FEARON We had higher oil prices, higher gold prices, higher copper prices and even a higher Dow (Jones inde... ANGUS GEDDES It was not great, just good. The consumer spent a little better than many expected. Consumer confide... DAN POOLE This bull has shown us for more than seven years that when it pulls back it bends a little but doesn... AL GOLDMAN DEYTH BANGER The stock market has obviously expected these pre-announcements. We're in a weak market. DAN SCOVEL This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing. Production, dis... GEOFF SUNDSTROM It's very quiet and lackluster. I was looking for the markets to come up slightly because of a modes... IAN HARNETT DEYTH BANGER There has been a sharp decline in oil prices recently, so people started to come back and pile into ... LUC GIRARD If sales prices come down a little bit, it will open the doors for more buyers to come into the hous... BOB MOULTON DAVID WOLF It has been a crazy year. Nothing that I would have expected happened. I'm going to do everything I ... REX GROSSMAN We had expected a snap-back in consumer spending after a decline in May, and that's what these numbe... LYNN REASER The survey was much weaker than expected indicating the bank's rate cut has done little to assuage t... RICHARD MCGUIRE RON PAUL Gas has come off those higher prices since it looks like it's only going to be a temporary thing. BOB YAWGER Any bets on dollar weakness will be a bet that higher energy prices will divert consumer spending, w... JEFF GLADSTEIN The hurricane has been downgraded slightly, so prices will tend to ease, but they could just as easi... CHRIS KRAFT Americans are still worried about rising interest rates and high gasoline prices. That, along with t... TERRY JONES It has been a great team effort to come back and win without some of our great wrestlers. Some have ... JOSHUA KATCHER I wouldn't be surprised to see it start come down slowly, ... I think market trends are going to sta... GARY HARRIS JAMES FENTON The bottom line is the consumer is showing signs of coming back. But the consumer has come back part... LAWRENCE GOODMAN There isn't an industry where product prices come down faster than consumer electronics. SEAN MCGOWAN The drug market has never come back. You've just got to call that a success. ADRIAN M. FENTY We think there is nothing in the record that shows Microsoft has overcharged consumers. It's the exa... JIM CULLINAN He's earned the award. The company has done well, the stock has done well. They've delivered clean q... JOANNE K. WUENSCH Higher oil increasingly will creep into the indicators. Today, it biased the trade gap higher and pu... DREW MATUS You need a high level of sentiment in position for traders to regularly pay higher and higher prices... DAVID LAND This whole season has been beyond what I expected. The girls have come out and played extremely well... DAVE MCCOY PAWAN MISHRA ROBERT BURTON It has been a long time since consumers have been fooled by prices which are just under the round nu... LEIGH SPARKS We had friends who had come down and talked about it. But it's even more beautiful than we expected.... EMILY SMITH The current regulatory regime has enabled cable companies to become virtual monopolies, denying mill... JEFFREY MAZZELLA It's been widely expected that they would come in with a poor trading statement, and so it proved. T... CHRIS MILLINGTON Prices are back on track. The stock market fell back Monday in a technical adjustment after some sto... CARLOS LUPINI After 1996, he recognized there had been a productivity change. [Stock prices] rose because people b... ALLEN MELTZER Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere... ESMAEL ADIBI CRAIG GROESCHEL It looks like yet again we're going to get a quarter with higher-than-expected earnings. Earnings gu... BRIAN GENDREAU Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life. SAVI SHARMA The gasoline draw was a little bit larger then expected, so I think this will support prices. MARSHALL STEEVES Crude stocks were broadly in-line, but distillate and gasoline were better than expected, but that w... BRUCE EVERS Crude stocks were broadly in-line, but distillate and gasoline were better than expected, but was no... BRUCE EVERS T.S. ELIOT DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER The sentiment I hear most from the general public is that they used to put up with the library being... NORMAN MAAS The strong economy would normally have contributed to stronger growth in demand for goods and servic... RONALD J. PLANTING It's a little bit of a surprise, winter storms have been warmer than normal, and the snow line has b... MAURY ROOS SUNDAY ADELAJA The dot-com logic of paying big prices to enter new markets has come roaring back, GREG STERLING I was a little surprised. I expected this to be accurate because there's a lot of literature and exp... HAL VARIAN The team spirit has always been here, it was here under Brian as well. You can't say it wasn't here ... ROBBIE KEANE Lord Robertson has come down here many times at many phases of this process and has a personal inter... BARRY JOHNSON February has historically been a lackluster month for the stock market. MICHAEL SHELDON Hopes have been dashed. The market had taken off very quickly. This has cooled investors' sentiment. JEROME FORNERIS They're benefiting from rebuilding from the hurricane season in the fall and warm weather in January... BRYAN KEANE Today's report provides a signal, albeit noisy, that the long-awaited pass-through of higher costs t... KENNETH BEAUCHEMIN On the earnings front, it would seem that companies have fared a little worse than the market had ho... ANGUS CAMPBELL Prices have come down because of the warm weather. As a result of that, we are able to pass the savi... LAURENCE M. DOWNES DEYTH BANGER The big disconnect in China is that despite how strong its economy has been, its stock market has la... ARIJIT DUTTA NICK BOSTROM The bond market has rebounded this week, and we've seen sentiment improving. Tensions over Iran, if ... BOB MAES It can affect the homebuyer down the road. Of course, prices are going to go up through all this; th... BOB STONE With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to ... ANGUS CAMPBELL Concerned drivers need to know that the state has no authority to stop companies from charging highe... ATTORNEY MCKENNA Concerned drivers need to know that the state has no authority to stop companies from charging highe... ATTORNEY GENERAL ROB MCKENNA Gasoline has led us higher this week and that should continue to be the case. There is a small suppl... JAMES RITTERBUSCH For this hurricane to have come in and for it to affect the market that fast, it's a joke. FRANK WHITE
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There's just such an enormous demand from pension funds and insurance companies to match their asset... MARK VITNER Flood damage does not tend to be as insured. The lack of insurance is likely to cause the recovery t... MARK VITNER I don't see any storm clouds on the economic horizon. We don't see any potential land mines or probl... MARK VITNER While core finished goods are still relatively tame, there are signs that price increases are accele... MARK VITNER There is no operating manual that says what a neutral fed funds rate is, but the Fed knows that it's... MARK VITNER Retailers are concerned, but they're not panicky, MARK VITNER it's somewhat surprising how resilient the economy has been, despite higher energy prices. MARK VITNER A very high proportion of that job growth is occurring in high-paying professions. This is a demand-... MARK VITNER So even if tomorrow's ISM report does not show anywhere near the weakness the Chicago report does, w... MARK VITNER It will take longer for Louisiana and Mississippi to recover from the storm than Florida last year, ... MARK VITNER The biggest mistake of economists over the past 20 years ... We've consistently underestimated growt... MARK VITNER People just keep buying homes, MARK VITNER An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing. MARK I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'... MARK BILLINGHAM MARK TWAIN I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ... MARK SHRIVER MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them. MARK SKOUSEN The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori... 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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. 
Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was. 
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Everyone has a gift.
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On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor. 
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Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.
God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us.... 
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Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower. 
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My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos... 
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. 
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