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JOHN LONSKI The on-year rise in core CPI backs up our forecast of an exit from quantitative easing in April of n...
TOHRU SASAKI The core is up 0.3 percent over the last year, and so there really is no inflation, ... In the first...
GERALD COHEN This is the highest inflation rate we've seen in over three years and much higher than 0.3 percent i...
EMMANUEL FERRY For two years, we've seen this tremendous increase in prices, yet the core inflation rate has stayed...
ED YARDENI Headline inflation is moving up. A rate hike is likely in the fourth quarter.
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JOHN LONSKI The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continu...
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JACK CAFFREY If the rise in petrol prices in the producer-price data is reflected in the CPI data, there is a ris...
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According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in...
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SUNDAY ADELAJA Average earnings growth was far softer than anticipated. It remained at 3.5% ... and is well below t...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON This, in my mind, increases the chances of another rate hike in March. They have not declared the wa...
BRIAN GENDREAU Both the PPI and CPI results showed that headline inflation has grown but core inflation has been li...
ANTHONY HILL They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations o...
FRANKLIN RAINES Core prices are at a little higher pace than the Fed is comfortable with, but they're certainly not ...
GINA MARTIN While the Fed's rate hike yesterday (Tuesday) may seem to have diminished reaction to today's (Wedne...
CONRAD DEQUADROS While the Fed's rate hike yesterday (Tuesday) may seem to have diminished reaction to today's (Wedne...
CONRAD DEQUADROS You got a favorable surprise on the CPI. We had the first decline in the core rate in 21 years. It j...
CARY LEAHEY You got a favorable surprise on the CPI. We had the first decline in the core rate in 21 years, ... ...
CARY LEAHEY We see a big upward trend in energy prices, but without that, the inflation rate is going down. The ...
MATTHIAS RUBISCH We still do not look for the core CPI to accelerate rapidly, but it is likely to be persistently fir...
STEPHEN STANLEY Prevention is better than cure and a moderate rate rise is better sooner than later.
KLAUS LIEBSCHER We cannot take solace from these figures as the upward revision to the core PCE deflator takes the y...
DAVID ADER The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US ...
LOUIS WONG Unless the statement offers fresh indications that the US Fed will continue its rate hikes going for...
DAISUKE UNO The PPI number had some pipeline pressure underneath the surface, but the market liked the fact that...
CARY LEAHEY The PPI number had some pipeline pressure underneath the surface, but the market liked the fact that...
CARY LEAHEY The yen will stay under pressure because of interest rate differentials. I am not so confident how t...
ARMIN MEKELBURG That low inflation rate leaves the Fed plenty of latitude to remain on hold, and reinforces our expe...
MAURY HARRIS The survival rate of SBDC clients is dramatically higher than the average small business. We know we...
DONALD WILSON [Granville had a 100 percent graduation rate for the 2003-2004 school year. Newark had 78.1, while a...
DAN MONTGOMERY An increase of 5.1 percent is clearly ahead of the inflation rate of 3.4 percent, so we are seeing r...
DAVE BAMBERGER With higher auto prices helping to offset the usual price discounting seen in other categories like ...
CARL GOMEZ Evaluating the data available, the average house price is still increasing at a rate similar to most...
ANTHONY BYETT In January I placed the likelihood of a Federal Reserve Rate hike in May at less than 10 percent. I ...
ERNIE GOSS The dollar's firm tone is supported by a shift in the market focus back to interest rate differentia...
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ROBERT ROBBINS Treasuries are near the levels where investors think they offer value. Core inflation looks calm, so...
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ALAN HOLMER I do not expect core inflation to rise much above these levels. But were it to do so, this would sea...
PAUL ASHWORTH The FX market is watching interest rate markets and short- end yields have come off and that's becau...
DANIEL KATZIVE When making decisions on economic and price conditions, we will focus on the CPI as the 'inflation r...
KIYOHIKO NISHIMURA I'd say there's only a 25 percent chance of a rate hike in June even. Even with another strong jobs ...
BILL CHENEY The Fed is keeping an eye on core inflation because they were concerned about prices spilling over f...
GARY SCHLOSSBERG In the 13 years ended 2004, that group was growing at a 1 to 4 percent rate every year. Last year, f...
BOB SIMONSON We are now growing at a faster rate, and we feel it is due to the programming.
JIM COLLINS Instead, it was driven by the core business and a lower tax rate.
DAVID RISINGER We were up 65 percent in that time, so obviously that growth rate was far ahead.
CRAIG DONOHUE Over the past six months, the core PPI is up at about a 0.5 per cent annual rate. There is no indica...
DICK GREEN This time, we're starting with an inflation rate that's too low and heading lower, ... What that mea...
LYLE GRAMLEY I think (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan has made it all but official, we'll get another rate cut in Ju...
WAYNE AYERS We are growing at 35 percent in the last three years and the potential is so vast that we expect to ...
SANDEEP KOHLI Molson Coors' third-quarter results were driven primarily by a very favorable effective tax rate of ...
BONNIE HERZOG February looks rather unlikely for the next rate hike, but March is still on the agenda. Yields will...
CYRIL BEUZIT We see high growth with very low inflation. These aren't mutually exclusive. You have to remember th...
MATTHEW ALEXY Whether you look at the core personal consumption expenditure index on a monthly basis or a year ove...
PATRICK FEARON The pendulum has swung back in favor of a March rate hike. The dollar-bull camp is based on the inte...
MARC CHANDLER Five years ago, 6.8 percent sounded pretty good. The problem is it represents a significant rate hik...
BARMAK NASSIRIAN As the market now feels that any interest rate hikes in the US will come to an end with the Federal ...
KAZUYUKI KATO (If) the economy is growing at a healthy rate, you can easily accommodate a higher rate of savings. ...
CATHY MINEHAN The chances of a rate hike will underpin the dollar. Even though the Fed is coming to the end of its...
BESA DEDA Our turnover rate as of May of this year was about 70 percent, which is about 30 percent below the i...
BOB FARLEY The markets have already priced in at least one rate hike and are beginning to price in the second r...
TOMOKO FUJII We expect a hike of 25 basis points and probably 50 basis pints, ... Any smaller rate hike or no rat...
CARL WEINBERG We expect a hike of 25 basis points and probably 50 basis pints. Any smaller rate hike or no rate hi...
CARL WEINBERG It strikes us both as brave and foolish to look for an improbable rate hike at this particular meeti...
CARL WEINBERG![]()
Because food and energy prices are volatile, it is often helpful to look at inflation excluding thos...
JANET YELLEN Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gro...
GAIL WILENSKY Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has mo...
JESSE WELLER It (the jobless rate) is probably at or slightly below the level the Fed is thinking is full employm...
ELISABETH DENISON![]()
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for vis...
GAVIN NEWSOM It's a neutral to a decent number. I don't think this number adds to the argument that the Fed is st...
RICHARD FRANULOVICH It's a negative for the bond markets. It's got to be a concern. The core rate is troublesome.
EVAN ROURKE What we see right now is a snapshot of a long time process between the magnetic field and the inner ...
XIAODONG SONG Housing ... is an undeniable core inflation hot spot.
WARREN LOVELY Clearly the new paradigm is alive and well, ... While (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan down...
SHERRY COOPER It's safe, easy, and accurate. The error rate of an e-filed return is less than 1 percent. The error...
JESSE WELLER Despite all the rate hikes, the (Federal Reserve's) overnight lending rate is still less than inflat...
JAMES TURK Turkey is seeing a fatality rate of 20 percent which is lower than the fatality rate observed in Asi...
CRISTIANA SALVI If the government decides on an increase of more than 30 %, the inflation rate would jump by two to ...
FAISAL BASRI That's a 61 percent average and the national rate is 33 percent, so our release is much higher.
CATHIE DONOHOE It looks increasingly like the Fed rate hike cycle is coming to an end, and that's been the focus. ....
CHARMAINE BUSKAS The way we read it, they're going to come out with a tax rate that should reflect a lower rate than ...
MIKE ABE We've been pleased all along with how our young kids are coming along. What's unique now is that the...
CRAIG PATRICK An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.
JAMIE RAPPAPORT CLARK a pause in rate hikes is a more likely scenario rather than a rate cut.
MICHAEL NIEMIRA What we're anticipating is a soft landing nationally. The markets will be coming back to their long-...
MARK MILNER My sense from just this brief analysis is we may avoid a rate hike in August. If you believe the eco...
GRACE FEY The last few months of 2005 marked the first time since mid-2004 that the fixed-rate mortgage was ab...
VINCE MALTA We will do it sooner rather than later.
JAVIER SOLANA![]()
right now, I hope it's later rather than sooner.
ADAM CAROLLA
JOHN LONSKI The on-year rise in core CPI backs up our forecast of an exit from quantitative easing in April of n...
TOHRU SASAKI The core is up 0.3 percent over the last year, and so there really is no inflation, ... In the first...
GERALD COHEN This is the highest inflation rate we've seen in over three years and much higher than 0.3 percent i...
EMMANUEL FERRY For two years, we've seen this tremendous increase in prices, yet the core inflation rate has stayed...
ED YARDENI Headline inflation is moving up. A rate hike is likely in the fourth quarter.
BOB SINCHE Some evidence has emerged that inflation is starting to pick up, and there's concern that the Fed's ...
DOUG PORTER The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continu...
JOHN LONSKI The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continu...
JOHN LONSKI If we get evidence of inflation pushing up beyond the levels we've seen already, then it's game on f...
ANTHONY O'BRIEN
When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of infl... ADI GODREJ Right now bonds are reacting, and perhaps overreacting, to employment and CPI. What we will probably...
DORSEY FARR The economic data points to the Fed stopping (rate hikes) sooner rather than later, and that's encou...
JACK CAFFREY If the rise in petrol prices in the producer-price data is reflected in the CPI data, there is a ris...
JAMES CARRICK Given the absence of core inflation, it seems to me as good a time as any to pause and see what's ha...
BILL CHENEY
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in... SHELDON WHITEHOUSE The maintaining of the rate reflects that there is not a dangerous core inflation pressure, while th...
JOSEPH RAMOS
Create an inner core in order to become a full-rate member of society SUNDAY ADELAJA Average earnings growth was far softer than anticipated. It remained at 3.5% ... and is well below t...
JAMES KNIGHTLEY The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index refl...
PATRICK FEARON This, in my mind, increases the chances of another rate hike in March. They have not declared the wa...
BRIAN GENDREAU Both the PPI and CPI results showed that headline inflation has grown but core inflation has been li...
ANTHONY HILL They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations o...
FRANKLIN RAINES Core prices are at a little higher pace than the Fed is comfortable with, but they're certainly not ...
GINA MARTIN While the Fed's rate hike yesterday (Tuesday) may seem to have diminished reaction to today's (Wedne...
CONRAD DEQUADROS While the Fed's rate hike yesterday (Tuesday) may seem to have diminished reaction to today's (Wedne...
CONRAD DEQUADROS You got a favorable surprise on the CPI. We had the first decline in the core rate in 21 years. It j...
CARY LEAHEY You got a favorable surprise on the CPI. We had the first decline in the core rate in 21 years, ... ...
CARY LEAHEY We see a big upward trend in energy prices, but without that, the inflation rate is going down. The ...
MATTHIAS RUBISCH We still do not look for the core CPI to accelerate rapidly, but it is likely to be persistently fir...
STEPHEN STANLEY Prevention is better than cure and a moderate rate rise is better sooner than later.
KLAUS LIEBSCHER We cannot take solace from these figures as the upward revision to the core PCE deflator takes the y...
DAVID ADER The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US ...
LOUIS WONG Unless the statement offers fresh indications that the US Fed will continue its rate hikes going for...
DAISUKE UNO The PPI number had some pipeline pressure underneath the surface, but the market liked the fact that...
CARY LEAHEY The PPI number had some pipeline pressure underneath the surface, but the market liked the fact that...
CARY LEAHEY The yen will stay under pressure because of interest rate differentials. I am not so confident how t...
ARMIN MEKELBURG That low inflation rate leaves the Fed plenty of latitude to remain on hold, and reinforces our expe...
MAURY HARRIS The survival rate of SBDC clients is dramatically higher than the average small business. We know we...
DONALD WILSON [Granville had a 100 percent graduation rate for the 2003-2004 school year. Newark had 78.1, while a...
DAN MONTGOMERY An increase of 5.1 percent is clearly ahead of the inflation rate of 3.4 percent, so we are seeing r...
DAVE BAMBERGER With higher auto prices helping to offset the usual price discounting seen in other categories like ...
CARL GOMEZ Evaluating the data available, the average house price is still increasing at a rate similar to most...
ANTHONY BYETT In January I placed the likelihood of a Federal Reserve Rate hike in May at less than 10 percent. I ...
ERNIE GOSS The dollar's firm tone is supported by a shift in the market focus back to interest rate differentia...
KOSUKE HANAO Yes, I think it's going to be a fantastic buy. I think we're going to pack the whole year's Super Bo...
ROBERT ROBBINS Treasuries are near the levels where investors think they offer value. Core inflation looks calm, so...
MASAYUKI YOSHIHARA During that six-year time period, prices for all medicines went up 16 percent, compared to an overal...
ALAN HOLMER I do not expect core inflation to rise much above these levels. But were it to do so, this would sea...
PAUL ASHWORTH The FX market is watching interest rate markets and short- end yields have come off and that's becau...
DANIEL KATZIVE When making decisions on economic and price conditions, we will focus on the CPI as the 'inflation r...
KIYOHIKO NISHIMURA I'd say there's only a 25 percent chance of a rate hike in June even. Even with another strong jobs ...
BILL CHENEY The Fed is keeping an eye on core inflation because they were concerned about prices spilling over f...
GARY SCHLOSSBERG In the 13 years ended 2004, that group was growing at a 1 to 4 percent rate every year. Last year, f...
BOB SIMONSON We are now growing at a faster rate, and we feel it is due to the programming.
JIM COLLINS Instead, it was driven by the core business and a lower tax rate.
DAVID RISINGER We were up 65 percent in that time, so obviously that growth rate was far ahead.
CRAIG DONOHUE Over the past six months, the core PPI is up at about a 0.5 per cent annual rate. There is no indica...
DICK GREEN This time, we're starting with an inflation rate that's too low and heading lower, ... What that mea...
LYLE GRAMLEY I think (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan has made it all but official, we'll get another rate cut in Ju...
WAYNE AYERS We are growing at 35 percent in the last three years and the potential is so vast that we expect to ...
SANDEEP KOHLI Molson Coors' third-quarter results were driven primarily by a very favorable effective tax rate of ...
BONNIE HERZOG February looks rather unlikely for the next rate hike, but March is still on the agenda. Yields will...
CYRIL BEUZIT We see high growth with very low inflation. These aren't mutually exclusive. You have to remember th...
MATTHEW ALEXY Whether you look at the core personal consumption expenditure index on a monthly basis or a year ove...
PATRICK FEARON The pendulum has swung back in favor of a March rate hike. The dollar-bull camp is based on the inte...
MARC CHANDLER Five years ago, 6.8 percent sounded pretty good. The problem is it represents a significant rate hik...
BARMAK NASSIRIAN As the market now feels that any interest rate hikes in the US will come to an end with the Federal ...
KAZUYUKI KATO (If) the economy is growing at a healthy rate, you can easily accommodate a higher rate of savings. ...
CATHY MINEHAN The chances of a rate hike will underpin the dollar. Even though the Fed is coming to the end of its...
BESA DEDA Our turnover rate as of May of this year was about 70 percent, which is about 30 percent below the i...
BOB FARLEY The markets have already priced in at least one rate hike and are beginning to price in the second r...
TOMOKO FUJII We expect a hike of 25 basis points and probably 50 basis pints, ... Any smaller rate hike or no rat...
CARL WEINBERG We expect a hike of 25 basis points and probably 50 basis pints. Any smaller rate hike or no rate hi...
CARL WEINBERG It strikes us both as brave and foolish to look for an improbable rate hike at this particular meeti...
CARL WEINBERG
Because food and energy prices are volatile, it is often helpful to look at inflation excluding thos... JANET YELLEN Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gro...
GAIL WILENSKY Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has mo...
JESSE WELLER It (the jobless rate) is probably at or slightly below the level the Fed is thinking is full employm...
ELISABETH DENISON
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for vis... GAVIN NEWSOM It's a neutral to a decent number. I don't think this number adds to the argument that the Fed is st...
RICHARD FRANULOVICH It's a negative for the bond markets. It's got to be a concern. The core rate is troublesome.
EVAN ROURKE What we see right now is a snapshot of a long time process between the magnetic field and the inner ...
XIAODONG SONG Housing ... is an undeniable core inflation hot spot.
WARREN LOVELY Clearly the new paradigm is alive and well, ... While (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan down...
SHERRY COOPER It's safe, easy, and accurate. The error rate of an e-filed return is less than 1 percent. The error...
JESSE WELLER Despite all the rate hikes, the (Federal Reserve's) overnight lending rate is still less than inflat...
JAMES TURK Turkey is seeing a fatality rate of 20 percent which is lower than the fatality rate observed in Asi...
CRISTIANA SALVI If the government decides on an increase of more than 30 %, the inflation rate would jump by two to ...
FAISAL BASRI That's a 61 percent average and the national rate is 33 percent, so our release is much higher.
CATHIE DONOHOE It looks increasingly like the Fed rate hike cycle is coming to an end, and that's been the focus. ....
CHARMAINE BUSKAS The way we read it, they're going to come out with a tax rate that should reflect a lower rate than ...
MIKE ABE We've been pleased all along with how our young kids are coming along. What's unique now is that the...
CRAIG PATRICK An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.
JAMIE RAPPAPORT CLARK a pause in rate hikes is a more likely scenario rather than a rate cut.
MICHAEL NIEMIRA What we're anticipating is a soft landing nationally. The markets will be coming back to their long-...
MARK MILNER My sense from just this brief analysis is we may avoid a rate hike in August. If you believe the eco...
GRACE FEY The last few months of 2005 marked the first time since mid-2004 that the fixed-rate mortgage was ab...
VINCE MALTA We will do it sooner rather than later.
JAVIER SOLANA
right now, I hope it's later rather than sooner. ADAM CAROLLA
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