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EDWARD WOLFE From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.
JAY KIM January trade numbers appeared stronger than expected, in line with global growth momentum.
HONG LIANG A lot of companies reported stronger-than-expected results, and we are not talking here just about t...
DICK GREEN Growth was slightly better than we had expected, chiefly due to resilient domestic demand such as co...
ATSUSHI TAKEDA We're expecting slightly stronger growth than in 2005.
BERND BOHR Everything about the quarter was either in line or soft, and nothing came in stronger than expected.
DAVID BLEUSTEIN It was certainly better than I expected.
DAVID HOWELL Our profit growth was a bit stronger than we expected.
DON BLAIR [It was] a good deal better than expected and I think very encouraging.
DAVID BLITZER The bottom-line (earning-per-share) number was a little better than expected, but some of the underl...
JOE MORFORD These are excellent results with strong growth performance from investment banking and better than e...
COLIN KEOGH That the claims data were back at 356,000 was certainly better than expected and the dollar is gaini...
LISA FINSTROM Investors expected more than in-line results.
ADRIANNE SHAPIRA If anything, I think they (Liberty) were even stronger on the new business front than I was looking ...
CHRIS STEWARD The company's sequential sales performance benefited from growth in digital consumer and automotive ...
CARLO BOZOTTI Growth in specialty advertising was a little lower than expected but subscriber revenue growth outpe...
ANDREA HORAN We've had softer revenue growth in North America than we want, ... I expect we're going to do a bett...
CHARLES PRINCE While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list wit...
JOHN CHAMBERS This was much better than expected, and Nokia showed strong growth in market share.
JUSSI HYOTY We've had softer revenue growth in North America than we want. This is something that I think we can...
CHARLES O. PRINCE III The earnings are good and better than expected in some business areas, and also reflect improvements...
LUCIO DI GERONIMO 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 It was an OK quarter from the top line perspective, but the results were weaker than expected, large...
ERIC BOSSHARD Ericsson's results for the fourth quarter were acceptable. Sales growth was stronger than anticipate...
GREGER JOHANSSON They clearly came in stronger than we expected. The marquee footwear line has been very strong.
JOHN SHANLEY They might creep slightly above breakeven in 2007, still with losses in North America, but smaller t...
DAVE HEALY It was very clear that industry was lagging behind, especially in terms of export-driven growth. In ...
DOMINIQUE BARBET For the year overall, Canada -- although showing some slight decline -- appears to be having a stron...
DARREL RYCE The results were a bit weaker than expected, not due to its operating earnings but because the speci...
KONRAD BECKER They did much better than expected and probably should have scored higher. Even on the TV replays th...
TREVOR PALMATIER Revenue was higher than expected but a number of charges distort the picture. Still, if you exclude ...
ERIC DE GRAAF This is much stronger growth than the market expected.
HONG LIANG They (BT) are certainly getting (MCI) on much better terms than we would have thought they were goin...
JAMES GOLOB I think some resorts performed better, a few were slightly down overall. I would say it was probably...
HEATHER ATWELL I certainly believe America is safer since 9/11. And I believe from an intelligence point of view th...
JOHN NEGROPONTE That's not what we expected to see in a year when earnings growth would slow slightly, and we were s...
DORSEY FARR I'm pretty happy with the results. We saw a little bit more top line growth and that was encouraging...
JENNIFER SCUTTI In the first quarter, the worldwide electrical and hydraulics markets were stronger than we had expe...
ALEXANDER CUTLER They are in a slightly different situation than the other suppliers, ... The majority of their oil c...
DAVID GLEASON When markets reopened Schwab saw good activity and volatility for the last half of September. It was...
JOEL GOMBERG The market has spent the day nervously awaiting the Argentine auction. There had been different opin...
RENATO VERCESI Elan this morning reported a strong set of results for the ongoing business ... driven by a combinat...
IAN HUNTER The principal reason for Citigroup's shortfall versus consensus was the 10 cents of charges related ...
CATHERINE MURRAY Market share gain in the U.S. drove the better-than-expected results.
LAURA CHAMPINE Spending was up, a little weaker than expected... Nevertheless, the trend has been upward and it loo...
PATRICK FEARON Overall, we continue to expect the group to be volatile yet directionless here as seasonally depress...
STEPHEN KIM The first quarter results exceeded expectations in terms of revenue and were in line with expectatio...
ANTHONY SPIER It was certainly better than I expected. You always come into these things with a pessimistic attitu...
DAVID HOWELL The increase was stronger than expected, and we were impressed with the rebound in spending especial...
MICHAEL MCNAMARA In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in ...
DAVID KAY Ford realizes they have to do more cost cutting. North America is disappointing, but it was expected...
WIL STITH We have two surprises in our economy: better-than-expected growth and lower-than-expected inflation,...
EDWARD YARDENI Advertising growth was in line with expectations following that statement. The outlook was encouragi...
RICHARD JONES It was a solid in-line quarter. Expenses were a bit lighter than expected and that's what gave them ...
GEOFFREY PORGES While the advertising market remained challenging in the third quarter, our earnings were better tha...
JANET ROBINSON A May rate cut is more likely than not, but the Bank is likely to need to see ongoing signs of lower...
ALAN CASTLE Bolton are certainly stronger than us physically but I think that we have better skills in the midfi...
JEAN FERNANDEZ I haven't found that many differences playing in America as opposed to playing in Europe. In my eyes...
IAN POULTER In terms of pluses, the industry's current profitability is slightly above average, demand is strong...
ANDREW WEST We think the revenues were in line or perhaps a little better than the Street, which is attributable...
MICHAEL KUPINSKI Demand in the machinery industry is quite strong, stronger than I expected. Higher rents are also a ...
MINORU TAKADA The increase appears to be due to stronger than expected organic growth, an area of recent concern f...
JEFFREY CIANCI I'm better than I was two months ago, better than I was six months ago, and certainly better than I ...
STEVE MOORE I think they were really aggressive. I think both Anthony Davis and Dan Buenning were very aggressiv...
BRIAN GRIESE Winning or losing by three points means one wrestler is slightly better than the other. I thought we...
AARON SARRA One of the things that helped on the numbers was the fewer number of shares. The bottom line operati...
DENNIS MCALPINE The capital expenditure numbers were stronger than expected.
HIROKAZA YUIHAMA Marc's a better athlete than Kenny [Dorsey] was in terms of running and jumping. Both of them were e...
FLOYD BURNSED It was better today. We kind of struggled on the front nine, but it was good to see that they all pl...
BO STEPHAN We did everything right today. The kids performed very well. I think we did better than we expected ...
ANDREW WASHINGTON Pine Tree outplayed us and was the better team tonight. They were better prepared, and you have to g...
BROCK BLASSINGAME Our top line growth was more than respectable. Our bottom line growth, however, was not.
FRANK NEWMAN Time Warner Cable should again experience a strong growth quarter. Cable subscriber net additions we...
KATHY STYPONIAS We hope to have an on-line conference booking facility in order to streamline our bookings processes...
LIM LIM We need to book some solid results and see signs that the war might end sooner than indicated.
FLORIAN VAN LAAR By and large we've ended up better than many of the forecasts that were made at the beginning of 200...
EDWARD MENASHY Our organic revenue growth was 2% in the quarter, which was a bit stronger than expected in Fire and...
ED BREEN People are taking some comfort in results and a feeling that the economy is getting better, but ther...
JACK ABLIN![]()
The top line looks very good, ... were better than expected just because of the size of the company.
CHUCK JONES Our preliminary conclusion is that, although Microsoft is not out of the woods, it will be slightly ...
HENRY BLODGET I had a front-view seat of this. And yeah, there were some words exchanged. But I certainly didn't s...
LOU PINIELLA Enrollment growth of 9.5 percent year-over-year, while likely better than many companies this quarte...
JEFF SILBER They were just that much better than us. We were a bit intimidated and didn't get many shots off. I ...
JOSH MILBOURN Materially higher than expected revenue growth and better than expected cost side performance drove ...
EDWARD WOLFE Despite a weak economy, order patterns held until the end of the quarter, and demand was better than...
ANDY BRYANT We're seeing stronger bookings and therefore have had less of an impact on our schedule than we saw ...
TODD BURKE It's pretty good job growth. Revised numbers show job growth was stronger than we thought in the sec...
HOWARD ROTH While this was nothing to sneeze at, it was certainly less than on previous occasions.
KEITH ROCKWELL![]()
I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in M...
PEYTON MANNING We're not anticipating problems, other than that we're getting them later than we expected.
KATHY MILLER I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was som...
ALLISON TOLMAN The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And,...
RICHARD GRIMES The market was looking for a weak number. There was a relief rally when the number came in stronger ...
MITUL KOTECHA Existing home sales were stronger than expected and that is providing an offset.
GEORGE DAVIS We're off to a great start in fiscal 1999, with trading volumes and account growth during the first ...
JOE RICKETTS It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Su...
DAVID AKERS BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expec...
CHRIS ALLIOTT
BARRY RICHARDS Once again, UPS reported stronger-than-expected volume growth but was not able to leverage that grow...
EDWARD WOLFE From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.
JAY KIM January trade numbers appeared stronger than expected, in line with global growth momentum.
HONG LIANG A lot of companies reported stronger-than-expected results, and we are not talking here just about t...
DICK GREEN Growth was slightly better than we had expected, chiefly due to resilient domestic demand such as co...
ATSUSHI TAKEDA We're expecting slightly stronger growth than in 2005.
BERND BOHR Everything about the quarter was either in line or soft, and nothing came in stronger than expected.
DAVID BLEUSTEIN It was certainly better than I expected.
DAVID HOWELL Our profit growth was a bit stronger than we expected.
DON BLAIR [It was] a good deal better than expected and I think very encouraging.
DAVID BLITZER The bottom-line (earning-per-share) number was a little better than expected, but some of the underl...
JOE MORFORD These are excellent results with strong growth performance from investment banking and better than e...
COLIN KEOGH That the claims data were back at 356,000 was certainly better than expected and the dollar is gaini...
LISA FINSTROM Investors expected more than in-line results.
ADRIANNE SHAPIRA If anything, I think they (Liberty) were even stronger on the new business front than I was looking ...
CHRIS STEWARD The company's sequential sales performance benefited from growth in digital consumer and automotive ...
CARLO BOZOTTI Growth in specialty advertising was a little lower than expected but subscriber revenue growth outpe...
ANDREA HORAN We've had softer revenue growth in North America than we want, ... I expect we're going to do a bett...
CHARLES PRINCE While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list wit...
JOHN CHAMBERS This was much better than expected, and Nokia showed strong growth in market share.
JUSSI HYOTY We've had softer revenue growth in North America than we want. This is something that I think we can...
CHARLES O. PRINCE III The earnings are good and better than expected in some business areas, and also reflect improvements...
LUCIO DI GERONIMO 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 It was an OK quarter from the top line perspective, but the results were weaker than expected, large...
ERIC BOSSHARD Ericsson's results for the fourth quarter were acceptable. Sales growth was stronger than anticipate...
GREGER JOHANSSON They clearly came in stronger than we expected. The marquee footwear line has been very strong.
JOHN SHANLEY They might creep slightly above breakeven in 2007, still with losses in North America, but smaller t...
DAVE HEALY It was very clear that industry was lagging behind, especially in terms of export-driven growth. In ...
DOMINIQUE BARBET For the year overall, Canada -- although showing some slight decline -- appears to be having a stron...
DARREL RYCE The results were a bit weaker than expected, not due to its operating earnings but because the speci...
KONRAD BECKER They did much better than expected and probably should have scored higher. Even on the TV replays th...
TREVOR PALMATIER Revenue was higher than expected but a number of charges distort the picture. Still, if you exclude ...
ERIC DE GRAAF This is much stronger growth than the market expected.
HONG LIANG They (BT) are certainly getting (MCI) on much better terms than we would have thought they were goin...
JAMES GOLOB I think some resorts performed better, a few were slightly down overall. I would say it was probably...
HEATHER ATWELL I certainly believe America is safer since 9/11. And I believe from an intelligence point of view th...
JOHN NEGROPONTE That's not what we expected to see in a year when earnings growth would slow slightly, and we were s...
DORSEY FARR I'm pretty happy with the results. We saw a little bit more top line growth and that was encouraging...
JENNIFER SCUTTI In the first quarter, the worldwide electrical and hydraulics markets were stronger than we had expe...
ALEXANDER CUTLER They are in a slightly different situation than the other suppliers, ... The majority of their oil c...
DAVID GLEASON When markets reopened Schwab saw good activity and volatility for the last half of September. It was...
JOEL GOMBERG The market has spent the day nervously awaiting the Argentine auction. There had been different opin...
RENATO VERCESI Elan this morning reported a strong set of results for the ongoing business ... driven by a combinat...
IAN HUNTER The principal reason for Citigroup's shortfall versus consensus was the 10 cents of charges related ...
CATHERINE MURRAY Market share gain in the U.S. drove the better-than-expected results.
LAURA CHAMPINE Spending was up, a little weaker than expected... Nevertheless, the trend has been upward and it loo...
PATRICK FEARON Overall, we continue to expect the group to be volatile yet directionless here as seasonally depress...
STEPHEN KIM The first quarter results exceeded expectations in terms of revenue and were in line with expectatio...
ANTHONY SPIER It was certainly better than I expected. You always come into these things with a pessimistic attitu...
DAVID HOWELL The increase was stronger than expected, and we were impressed with the rebound in spending especial...
MICHAEL MCNAMARA In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in ...
DAVID KAY Ford realizes they have to do more cost cutting. North America is disappointing, but it was expected...
WIL STITH We have two surprises in our economy: better-than-expected growth and lower-than-expected inflation,...
EDWARD YARDENI Advertising growth was in line with expectations following that statement. The outlook was encouragi...
RICHARD JONES It was a solid in-line quarter. Expenses were a bit lighter than expected and that's what gave them ...
GEOFFREY PORGES While the advertising market remained challenging in the third quarter, our earnings were better tha...
JANET ROBINSON A May rate cut is more likely than not, but the Bank is likely to need to see ongoing signs of lower...
ALAN CASTLE Bolton are certainly stronger than us physically but I think that we have better skills in the midfi...
JEAN FERNANDEZ I haven't found that many differences playing in America as opposed to playing in Europe. In my eyes...
IAN POULTER In terms of pluses, the industry's current profitability is slightly above average, demand is strong...
ANDREW WEST We think the revenues were in line or perhaps a little better than the Street, which is attributable...
MICHAEL KUPINSKI Demand in the machinery industry is quite strong, stronger than I expected. Higher rents are also a ...
MINORU TAKADA The increase appears to be due to stronger than expected organic growth, an area of recent concern f...
JEFFREY CIANCI I'm better than I was two months ago, better than I was six months ago, and certainly better than I ...
STEVE MOORE I think they were really aggressive. I think both Anthony Davis and Dan Buenning were very aggressiv...
BRIAN GRIESE Winning or losing by three points means one wrestler is slightly better than the other. I thought we...
AARON SARRA One of the things that helped on the numbers was the fewer number of shares. The bottom line operati...
DENNIS MCALPINE The capital expenditure numbers were stronger than expected.
HIROKAZA YUIHAMA Marc's a better athlete than Kenny [Dorsey] was in terms of running and jumping. Both of them were e...
FLOYD BURNSED It was better today. We kind of struggled on the front nine, but it was good to see that they all pl...
BO STEPHAN We did everything right today. The kids performed very well. I think we did better than we expected ...
ANDREW WASHINGTON Pine Tree outplayed us and was the better team tonight. They were better prepared, and you have to g...
BROCK BLASSINGAME Our top line growth was more than respectable. Our bottom line growth, however, was not.
FRANK NEWMAN Time Warner Cable should again experience a strong growth quarter. Cable subscriber net additions we...
KATHY STYPONIAS We hope to have an on-line conference booking facility in order to streamline our bookings processes...
LIM LIM We need to book some solid results and see signs that the war might end sooner than indicated.
FLORIAN VAN LAAR By and large we've ended up better than many of the forecasts that were made at the beginning of 200...
EDWARD MENASHY Our organic revenue growth was 2% in the quarter, which was a bit stronger than expected in Fire and...
ED BREEN People are taking some comfort in results and a feeling that the economy is getting better, but ther...
JACK ABLIN
The top line looks very good, ... were better than expected just because of the size of the company. CHUCK JONES Our preliminary conclusion is that, although Microsoft is not out of the woods, it will be slightly ...
HENRY BLODGET I had a front-view seat of this. And yeah, there were some words exchanged. But I certainly didn't s...
LOU PINIELLA Enrollment growth of 9.5 percent year-over-year, while likely better than many companies this quarte...
JEFF SILBER They were just that much better than us. We were a bit intimidated and didn't get many shots off. I ...
JOSH MILBOURN Materially higher than expected revenue growth and better than expected cost side performance drove ...
EDWARD WOLFE Despite a weak economy, order patterns held until the end of the quarter, and demand was better than...
ANDY BRYANT We're seeing stronger bookings and therefore have had less of an impact on our schedule than we saw ...
TODD BURKE It's pretty good job growth. Revised numbers show job growth was stronger than we thought in the sec...
HOWARD ROTH While this was nothing to sneeze at, it was certainly less than on previous occasions.
KEITH ROCKWELL
I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in M... PEYTON MANNING We're not anticipating problems, other than that we're getting them later than we expected.
KATHY MILLER I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was som...
ALLISON TOLMAN The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And,...
RICHARD GRIMES The market was looking for a weak number. There was a relief rally when the number came in stronger ...
MITUL KOTECHA Existing home sales were stronger than expected and that is providing an offset.
GEORGE DAVIS We're off to a great start in fiscal 1999, with trading volumes and account growth during the first ...
JOE RICKETTS It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Su...
DAVID AKERS BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expec...
CHRIS ALLIOTT
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