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Interest rates have been creeping up slowly, and we've definitely seen somewhat of a softening in ho...
LAUREN YOUNG This year's mild winter, healthier inventory levels and steady climb in interest rates have made for...
DAVID WLUKA In the past, the market has absorbed home price increases with household income growth. Well, we had...
J. LENNOX SCOTT You're seeing inventories creeping up and affordability pinching more and more, and you're seeing lo...
ANTHONY CHAN While there is uncertainty about the economy at present we still expect the next move in interest ra...
FIONNUALA EARLEY The market has slowed down just a bit, just because we're coming to the end of the year, and also mo...
ANTHONY ROMERO The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rat...
ANNE ROSS We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.
LARRY MATHEIS Interest rates are creeping up and some might say that this is more realistic that it's more normal....
ALEXIS MUELLNER The continued price increases are a result of many factors including low mortgage interest rates and...
PATRICK LAWLER If rates move up, housing will move down. But as long as we see relatively low interest rates and em...
GREGORY GIEBER This is going to cement the case to hike interest rates. The numbers do nothing to alter the stance ...
COLEN GARROW We are seeing some serious imbalances in the market. When you have price increases with inventory in...
KATHY DECK Supply and demand continue to drive this market out here, more so than interest rates. Interest rate...
DAVE NASH Energy shares are rising because the oil price has hit quite a comfortable level. I'm not really con...
MARKUS ILG The interest rates are at its lowest point now because of the economic turmoil. People in the market...
ZENG HAN JUN Year after year, we are seeing that Polk County is getting a little more competitive with its surrou...
JOEL ADAMS![]()
It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go...
ALEX BERENSON We've seen an accumulation of strong numbers and sentiment at high levels in Europe. When we look at...
CYRIL BEUZIT Japanese interest rates continue to price in tightening from the Bank of Japan. We think it's a bit ...
JENS NORDVIG Interest rates remain at relatively low levels and consequently the mortgage business remains robust...
HOWARD ATKINS This significantly reduces the prospects of any interest cut until at least August. Indeed, it incre...
HOWARD ARCHER In general, this should be a mixed quarter, ... Clearly, M&A is strong but the IPO market has slowed...
RICHARD BOVE Generally from an IT market standpoint, things slowed down in relation to the whole budget. But outs...
CHRIS CAMPBELL The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. And I can't predict that pr...
CAROL BIEDRZYCKI So far it's been an easy roll, with interest rates rising at a steady gradual pace.
LAURENCE MEYER Judging from recent remarks, Fed officials seem to see the impact from Katrina as one-off and not de...
KAORU KONDO The stock market has been anticipating a slowdown because of pressures from interest rates and energ...
RON BARON You're seeing a return to traditional measures of value as investors become more focused on things l...
EDWARD JONES We've now changed the valuation of the stock market quite a bit, ... If anything, the earnings estim...
ALFRED KUGEL We're seeing slow but steady improvement in the job market.
GERALD COHEN The big question is when and how much long-term interest rates are going to rise, because that affec...
BRIAN ROONEY Homeowners up and down the Eastern Coast are seeing significant increases.
CAROLYN GORMAN The expectation is that, over time, interest checking and money market rates will continue to increa...
RANDY ROSEN The bond market had been worried that we were near full employment and wage pressure would pick up a...
MAURY HARRIS![]()
I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've see...
PAUL FARMER Motorists have not seen the end of price increases. Investors are buying into crude and gasoline fut...
CAROL THORP I can't guarantee that interest rates will stay eternally at their current low levels.
GUY QUADEN Long-term U.S. interest rates have risen as the market has started to price in the likelihood that t...
MASAMICHI KOIKE [Even with the changes in the market, many economists remain optimistic that the housing market is n...
BOB WALTERS Because of fears over an early end to the quantitative monetary easing policy and overrated speculat...
OSAMU TAMADA The JSE is strong again, but it will stay volatile for the foreseeable future. The Dow was steady ov...
FERDI HEYNEKE The yields in the short and midterm sectors have risen to levels that start to price in a possible e...
TETSUYA MIURA We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 p...
CAROLINE ALLEN Overall we're in a very good situation; I don't think interest rates will be going up. Greenspan is ...
GREGORY SMITH![]()
Energy price volatility is taking its toll on consumer confidence, as is the prospect of higher [int...
JENNIFER LEE Although the tanker market recently has seen lower levels than what was anticipated, the rates are e...
FRONTLINE LTD When changing the current 'quantitative monetary easing' in the future, current reserves will be red...
KIYOHIKO NISHIMURA Looking at the economy, there's been a lot of market chatter about the Federal Reserve cutting inter...
CHARLES LEMONIDES If you look not just at the headline rate but also at the underlying rates, you are seeing a gradual...
RICHARD JERRAM The driving force for the market over coming weeks is going to be earnings -- what were the first qu...
JAMES AWAD As the currency denomination goes up and its availability increases in the market, it helps only the...
ANUJ SOMANY The interest rates were so low we wanted to take advantage of it. We were afraid if we waited until ...
BETH MACKIE Interest rates have to go up in Hong Kong to defend its currency. That's going to keep the equity ma...
BOB MCKEE We may see a flattening of the increase, but not much of a drop. The fundamentals remain strong: Emp...
BOB WALTERS (The market) is telling you that at these levels, given all the warnings we've had from every Fed go...
CHARLES WHITE Maybe in a tight market when interest rates go up people may not be able to afford as much. You may ...
LARS PERNER Buoyant market demand for the group's portfolio of commodities, except titanium dioxide feedstock wh...
CON FAUCONNIER If interest rates and oil really begin to rise, it would be a problem for stocks. At the current lev...
PETER BRAENDLE The perception is that rates are going up, and people are lining up to buy homes because of that. It...
CARL WEINBERG![]()
It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.
BILL GROSS The market is down from its high a bit, but still pretty steady. I don't know if you see any particu...
CURT LEE This pickup in monthly house-price inflation is consistent with the continuing upward trend in marke...
MARTIN ELLIS The market is seeing a dream run. The runaway rally is not showing any signs of fatigue despite fore...
DEEPAK SHAH Lower figures for the recently released producer-price index and consumer- price index, and lower bu...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The market is increasingly seeing a risk that the Fed pauses in its rate cycle -- not only that but ...
ADAM COLE The underlying themes are interest rates and commodity pricing. Home buying has slowed down, thus th...
JOE COOPER![]()
The housing boom will inevitably simmer down, ... As part of that process, house turnover will decli...
ALAN GREENSPAN The level of sales activity remained below the record-setting levels that occurred over the last two...
VINCE MALTA We've got a market that's very concerned about interest- rate increases.
FRANKLIN MORTON The Fed is a price fixer; it fixes the price of short-term credit. If there's an increase in demand ...
PAUL KASRIEL During recent months, market conditions in many of our highly-regulated markets, including Californi...
ARA HOVNANIAN It's difficult to see the rand strengthening further from current levels because rates are going aga...
ION DE VLEESCHAUWER There's clearly a wait-and-see attitude. Still, the underlying economics are still strong enough tha...
GLENN CRELLIN![]()
Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary ...
BEN BERNANKE![]()
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its ar...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The hype is off the housing market. Prices are high. Interest rates are climbing. Housing needs to c...
JAY BUTLER Continental is in solid financial shape. We're acquiring the right planes at the right price at the ...
LARRY KELLNER The market has every excuse in the world to be down right now -- higher oil prices, higher interest ...
EDWARD BRETSCHER People feel that the market at 16,000 is a bit too high so there's not much strong buying interest.
DENNIS LEUNG We expect no change in interest rates. The market has been factoring in better interest rates for th...
JOE ROONEY I think Mr. (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan is partially responsible for the latest declin...
PETER CARDILLO The housing sector has likely passed its peak. The boom is winding down. I expect continued softenin...
DAVID LEREAH That's why there has been strong pressure for price increases due to natural gas cost increases.
BOB SMITH Consumers are very concerned with value given high gas prices, interest-rate increases and high debt...
JACKIE FERNANDEZ It's the kind of market now where (investors) have to get out -- to lighten up, ... Interest rates a...
ELLIOT SPAR The market is looking at other, more important things -- U.S. interest rates, corporate earnings, Ch...
TSUYOSHI SEGAWA We are seeing the long bond tell us that the Fed's decision was proper from an inflation perspective...
MATTHEW ALEXY In March and April, interest rates were going up very gradually, and tech investors figured Greenspa...
BERNARD BAUMOHL The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates a...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT![]()
There is very strong demand and we don't see that demand receding. Prices are not going back to the ...
RODRIGO RATO There's still potential in the market. Momentum is decreasing a little, but we're still seeing good ...
GUENTHER GERSTENBERGER I think part of what has driven the market today are fluctuations in oil and interest rates and the ...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN In the last few years, Quaker has become a more efficient manufacturer, as evidenced by steady incre...
ROBERT MORRISON In the last few years, Quaker has become a more efficient manufacturer, as evidenced by steady incre...
ROBERT MORRISON There's a sense of uncertainty in the market about the outlook of both the U.S. economy and interest...
HIDENORI KATO The market is showing a good improvement. Some points of concern, including in the political sphere,...
MARCELO PORTO Interest rates are still at record lows, the economy is going great and the housing market is really...
BILL WARD Coming off a fairly steady rate environment in 2004, these are very modest interest rate increases f...
DOUG DUNCAN
LAUREN YOUNG This year's mild winter, healthier inventory levels and steady climb in interest rates have made for...
DAVID WLUKA In the past, the market has absorbed home price increases with household income growth. Well, we had...
J. LENNOX SCOTT You're seeing inventories creeping up and affordability pinching more and more, and you're seeing lo...
ANTHONY CHAN While there is uncertainty about the economy at present we still expect the next move in interest ra...
FIONNUALA EARLEY The market has slowed down just a bit, just because we're coming to the end of the year, and also mo...
ANTHONY ROMERO The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rat...
ANNE ROSS We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.
LARRY MATHEIS Interest rates are creeping up and some might say that this is more realistic that it's more normal....
ALEXIS MUELLNER The continued price increases are a result of many factors including low mortgage interest rates and...
PATRICK LAWLER If rates move up, housing will move down. But as long as we see relatively low interest rates and em...
GREGORY GIEBER This is going to cement the case to hike interest rates. The numbers do nothing to alter the stance ...
COLEN GARROW We are seeing some serious imbalances in the market. When you have price increases with inventory in...
KATHY DECK Supply and demand continue to drive this market out here, more so than interest rates. Interest rate...
DAVE NASH Energy shares are rising because the oil price has hit quite a comfortable level. I'm not really con...
MARKUS ILG The interest rates are at its lowest point now because of the economic turmoil. People in the market...
ZENG HAN JUN Year after year, we are seeing that Polk County is getting a little more competitive with its surrou...
JOEL ADAMS
It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go... ALEX BERENSON We've seen an accumulation of strong numbers and sentiment at high levels in Europe. When we look at...
CYRIL BEUZIT Japanese interest rates continue to price in tightening from the Bank of Japan. We think it's a bit ...
JENS NORDVIG Interest rates remain at relatively low levels and consequently the mortgage business remains robust...
HOWARD ATKINS This significantly reduces the prospects of any interest cut until at least August. Indeed, it incre...
HOWARD ARCHER In general, this should be a mixed quarter, ... Clearly, M&A is strong but the IPO market has slowed...
RICHARD BOVE Generally from an IT market standpoint, things slowed down in relation to the whole budget. But outs...
CHRIS CAMPBELL The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. And I can't predict that pr...
CAROL BIEDRZYCKI So far it's been an easy roll, with interest rates rising at a steady gradual pace.
LAURENCE MEYER Judging from recent remarks, Fed officials seem to see the impact from Katrina as one-off and not de...
KAORU KONDO The stock market has been anticipating a slowdown because of pressures from interest rates and energ...
RON BARON You're seeing a return to traditional measures of value as investors become more focused on things l...
EDWARD JONES We've now changed the valuation of the stock market quite a bit, ... If anything, the earnings estim...
ALFRED KUGEL We're seeing slow but steady improvement in the job market.
GERALD COHEN The big question is when and how much long-term interest rates are going to rise, because that affec...
BRIAN ROONEY Homeowners up and down the Eastern Coast are seeing significant increases.
CAROLYN GORMAN The expectation is that, over time, interest checking and money market rates will continue to increa...
RANDY ROSEN The bond market had been worried that we were near full employment and wage pressure would pick up a...
MAURY HARRIS
I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've see... PAUL FARMER Motorists have not seen the end of price increases. Investors are buying into crude and gasoline fut...
CAROL THORP I can't guarantee that interest rates will stay eternally at their current low levels.
GUY QUADEN Long-term U.S. interest rates have risen as the market has started to price in the likelihood that t...
MASAMICHI KOIKE [Even with the changes in the market, many economists remain optimistic that the housing market is n...
BOB WALTERS Because of fears over an early end to the quantitative monetary easing policy and overrated speculat...
OSAMU TAMADA The JSE is strong again, but it will stay volatile for the foreseeable future. The Dow was steady ov...
FERDI HEYNEKE The yields in the short and midterm sectors have risen to levels that start to price in a possible e...
TETSUYA MIURA We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 p...
CAROLINE ALLEN Overall we're in a very good situation; I don't think interest rates will be going up. Greenspan is ...
GREGORY SMITH
Energy price volatility is taking its toll on consumer confidence, as is the prospect of higher [int... JENNIFER LEE Although the tanker market recently has seen lower levels than what was anticipated, the rates are e...
FRONTLINE LTD When changing the current 'quantitative monetary easing' in the future, current reserves will be red...
KIYOHIKO NISHIMURA Looking at the economy, there's been a lot of market chatter about the Federal Reserve cutting inter...
CHARLES LEMONIDES If you look not just at the headline rate but also at the underlying rates, you are seeing a gradual...
RICHARD JERRAM The driving force for the market over coming weeks is going to be earnings -- what were the first qu...
JAMES AWAD As the currency denomination goes up and its availability increases in the market, it helps only the...
ANUJ SOMANY The interest rates were so low we wanted to take advantage of it. We were afraid if we waited until ...
BETH MACKIE Interest rates have to go up in Hong Kong to defend its currency. That's going to keep the equity ma...
BOB MCKEE We may see a flattening of the increase, but not much of a drop. The fundamentals remain strong: Emp...
BOB WALTERS (The market) is telling you that at these levels, given all the warnings we've had from every Fed go...
CHARLES WHITE Maybe in a tight market when interest rates go up people may not be able to afford as much. You may ...
LARS PERNER Buoyant market demand for the group's portfolio of commodities, except titanium dioxide feedstock wh...
CON FAUCONNIER If interest rates and oil really begin to rise, it would be a problem for stocks. At the current lev...
PETER BRAENDLE The perception is that rates are going up, and people are lining up to buy homes because of that. It...
CARL WEINBERG
It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up. BILL GROSS The market is down from its high a bit, but still pretty steady. I don't know if you see any particu...
CURT LEE This pickup in monthly house-price inflation is consistent with the continuing upward trend in marke...
MARTIN ELLIS The market is seeing a dream run. The runaway rally is not showing any signs of fatigue despite fore...
DEEPAK SHAH Lower figures for the recently released producer-price index and consumer- price index, and lower bu...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The market is increasingly seeing a risk that the Fed pauses in its rate cycle -- not only that but ...
ADAM COLE The underlying themes are interest rates and commodity pricing. Home buying has slowed down, thus th...
JOE COOPER
The housing boom will inevitably simmer down, ... As part of that process, house turnover will decli... ALAN GREENSPAN The level of sales activity remained below the record-setting levels that occurred over the last two...
VINCE MALTA We've got a market that's very concerned about interest- rate increases.
FRANKLIN MORTON The Fed is a price fixer; it fixes the price of short-term credit. If there's an increase in demand ...
PAUL KASRIEL During recent months, market conditions in many of our highly-regulated markets, including Californi...
ARA HOVNANIAN It's difficult to see the rand strengthening further from current levels because rates are going aga...
ION DE VLEESCHAUWER There's clearly a wait-and-see attitude. Still, the underlying economics are still strong enough tha...
GLENN CRELLIN
Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary ... BEN BERNANKE
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its ar... LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE The hype is off the housing market. Prices are high. Interest rates are climbing. Housing needs to c...
JAY BUTLER Continental is in solid financial shape. We're acquiring the right planes at the right price at the ...
LARRY KELLNER The market has every excuse in the world to be down right now -- higher oil prices, higher interest ...
EDWARD BRETSCHER People feel that the market at 16,000 is a bit too high so there's not much strong buying interest.
DENNIS LEUNG We expect no change in interest rates. The market has been factoring in better interest rates for th...
JOE ROONEY I think Mr. (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan is partially responsible for the latest declin...
PETER CARDILLO The housing sector has likely passed its peak. The boom is winding down. I expect continued softenin...
DAVID LEREAH That's why there has been strong pressure for price increases due to natural gas cost increases.
BOB SMITH Consumers are very concerned with value given high gas prices, interest-rate increases and high debt...
JACKIE FERNANDEZ It's the kind of market now where (investors) have to get out -- to lighten up, ... Interest rates a...
ELLIOT SPAR The market is looking at other, more important things -- U.S. interest rates, corporate earnings, Ch...
TSUYOSHI SEGAWA We are seeing the long bond tell us that the Fed's decision was proper from an inflation perspective...
MATTHEW ALEXY In March and April, interest rates were going up very gradually, and tech investors figured Greenspa...
BERNARD BAUMOHL The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates a...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT
There is very strong demand and we don't see that demand receding. Prices are not going back to the ... RODRIGO RATO There's still potential in the market. Momentum is decreasing a little, but we're still seeing good ...
GUENTHER GERSTENBERGER I think part of what has driven the market today are fluctuations in oil and interest rates and the ...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN In the last few years, Quaker has become a more efficient manufacturer, as evidenced by steady incre...
ROBERT MORRISON In the last few years, Quaker has become a more efficient manufacturer, as evidenced by steady incre...
ROBERT MORRISON There's a sense of uncertainty in the market about the outlook of both the U.S. economy and interest...
HIDENORI KATO The market is showing a good improvement. Some points of concern, including in the political sphere,...
MARCELO PORTO Interest rates are still at record lows, the economy is going great and the housing market is really...
BILL WARD Coming off a fairly steady rate environment in 2004, these are very modest interest rate increases f...
DOUG DUNCAN
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