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PETER LAI Although we were pleased with the overall level of sales in December, especially in the last two wee...
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PAUL TAYLOR One of our concerns is rising interest rates, and that, as you can imagine, for a bond issue this si...
BRYAN CROUGH I think that what we have to understand now is that interest rates had been rising for a year and a ...
LOUIS HOLLAND Property prices may drop, but I do not think it will drop that fast. The consumers are more financia...
ZENG HAN JUN When consumers are burdened with heavy debt loads, rising interest rates, higher energy costs, no pe...
BERNARD BAUMOHL After a hike in December last year, the real short-term interest rates remain zero or close to zero.
GUY QUADEN Rising incomes combined with falling interest rates positively affected the domestic market.
ANFAVEA PRESIDENT ROGELIO GOLFARB The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is de...
JEFFREY LUBELL As expected, industry sales continued to moderate in July, especially when compared with last year's...
BILL LOVEJOY The rising mortgage rates have pushed us to a new record home-sales level, but once the fence sitter...
JOEL NAROFF Card rates are rising faster than the rise in general interest rates.
JUSTIN MCHENRY The tough economy has put tremendous pressure on fourth-quarter sales performance and increased comp...
BOB NARDELLI Severe operating challenges still confront GM, including mix, pricing and market-share pressures plu...
ROBERT BARRY Concerns about inflation are well tempered by concerns about how quickly economic growth will be und...
LOUISE PURTLE Generally, none have record-setting rates. But they have fairly high rates for all the taxes.
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CHRISTIAN WELLER Peugeot, which used to be lukewarm in China, is gearing up now. Peugeot may record faster sales grow...
YALE ZHANG Home sales have remained surprisingly strong despite higher interest rates.
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CARL TANNENBAUM A lack of new models, especially compact cars, trimmed sales last month. Consumers have a strong app...
KOICHI OGAWA Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere...
ESMAEL ADIBI Consumers are paying substantially more for fuel compared to a month ago. Escalating crude oil price...
KRIS LATHAN High interest rates have affected car and motorcycle sales. The high interest rate climate has affec...
HENRY HO Consumers will be squeezed with higher interest rates, which is not good news for the market general...
EDMUND SHING The big shift for 2006 will be interest rates rising outside the U.S..
ANTON PIL As long as they are rising, the ECB tends to raise interest rates.
JOERG KRAEMER There are some big concerns about the U.S. economy and the stock market will struggle a bit. Interes...
FELIX LANTERS Energy shares are rising because the oil price has hit quite a comfortable level. I'm not really con...
MARKUS ILG Even if interest rates weren't rising, home prices are very high relative to income. So, people are ...
CELIA CHEN You have to consider concerns about the economy and interest rates. The one time that bank stocks al...
DIANE GLOSSMAN Our concerns about rising competition became real.
ELLEN TSENG Every month we're basically setting an all-time record for the previous 12 months.
ANDY VOBORA Interest rates matter and there are concerns about the economy. These things make the market more he...
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AMY CUTTS Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Domestic demand is incredibly resilient now. With consumers set to increase spending now that deflat...
AZUSA KATO Although this represents a significant decline, the sales pace in January is still ahead of last yea...
LEONARD ZUMPANO Some companies have given disappointing results. Their shares suffer in an environment with risks, i...
EDWIN SLAGHEKKE We have solid employment growth, stable interest rates and rising immigration. They are all supporti...
BOB CUNNEEN Ten-year Treasuries are very close to the yield level at which we plan to buy. We prefer the 10-year...
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AMY CUTTS Acceleration in U.S. growth and rising energy costs will likely translate into higher long-term [int...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The raises in interest rates will reduce the willingness and ability of consumers to continue their ...
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TONY ALEXANDER We are still cautious about Treasuries because global interest rates are rising. I'll wait before bu...
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PETER BOOCKVAR Our December department store sales were disappointing, which we think is attributable at least in p...
JAMES ZIMMERMAN We expect no change in interest rates. The market has been factoring in better interest rates for th...
JOE ROONEY Fresh worries about rising inflation in the US and the extent to which the US Federal Reserve will r...
FRANCIS LUN As has been widely discussed, February sales were likely hurt by a record- breaking snowstorm that h...
PATRICK MCKEEVER Consumers continued to shop right up until the very last minute on Christmas Eve as seen by our spik...
WAYNE BEST I've seen interest rates as high as 26.5 percent. Unfortunately, students are very, very, very poor ...
DEBORAH GODFREY Increased confidence, a strong housing sector and low interest rates have got Australian consumers i...
CRAIG JAMES Americans are still worried about rising interest rates and high gasoline prices. That, along with t...
TERRY JONES We are starting to see a change in consumer behavior. Consumers are cutting back because of high pri...
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK I think it's been driven down in large part by concerns over interest rates. There have been some pr...
DAVID BRADY The traffic lights are green on Main Street, U.S.A.. Confident consumers, rising incomes, and innova...
BOB REWEY There is no denying that 2005 has been a tremendous year for the housing industry. Very favorable in...
DAVID PRESSLY Interest rates have been creeping up slowly, and we've definitely seen somewhat of a softening in ho...
LAUREN YOUNG Global markets have not been affected by the possibility of rising U.S. interest rates. Japan and th...
JASON HWANG The market is definitely a lot more sluggish than at the end of last year. However how much of that ...
HOWARD MORLEY It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rathe...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO The strength of the housing market this year continues to surprise, despite rising home prices and s...
GREGORY KLUMP Our products reflect the concerns of our consumers about Y2K.
SABRINA BALTHAZAR Black Monday was only the 12th highest online spending day of the 2004 holiday season. Last year, pe...
GIAN FULGONI Although we are only one month into the second quarter, we are concerned by the May sales trend, ......
JAMES ZIMMERMAN Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT Currently freight rates are below their record highs of 2004, but when compared to historical averag...
BHARAT SHETH When mortgage interest rates first began to rise from record lows, it appears some buyers jumped int...
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Large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt service to GDP...
ALAN GREENSPAN Most people use installment payment to purchase cars, so the rising interest rate environment has a ...
JOE LO After several record-breaking years for home sales, builders are anticipating a return of the market...
DAVID PRESSLY Anytime rates go down, it's definitely good news for consumers, especially since rates are still muc...
ERIN BIEHL We've already done $3.9 million from December 1 to 27, compared to $2.2 million in the same period l...
BILL STRATHMANN The seasonally adjusted annual (industry-wide) sales rate in the last six months has exceeded 18 mil...
BOB REWEY Some technology stocks are being cut because of concern that high oil prices and rising interest rat...
SIMON CHAO If the past is any guide, the effect of rising interest rates is likely to be felt most visibly in h...
DONALD KOHN I wouldn't be surprised to see (the Dow) trend lower because markets don't trend up in a time of ris...
GRACE FEY Typically stocks don't do well in the face of rising interest rates so I don't think anyone is going...
LOUIS HOLLAND This sales volume is a new monthly record, the best CPO month ever since the program launched back i...
MARK STEWART Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates a...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT The Conference Board's November consumer confidence Index fell in November for the fourth consecutiv...
KEN PERKINS Although December sales started relatively strong and picked up at the end of the month, we were not...
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The last six-month period, we were down, ... No question that newsstand sales are soft.
CHRISTIE HEFNER If the primary cause of rising interest rates is growing demand for capital, then this should be reg...
KATHY MATSUI
BOB REWEY So far it's been an easy roll, with interest rates rising at a steady gradual pace.
LAURENCE MEYER The level of sales activity remained below the record-setting levels that occurred over the last two...
VINCE MALTA Wall Street fell Friday and prompted some investors to take profits. Sentiment was also weighed down...
PETER LAI Although we were pleased with the overall level of sales in December, especially in the last two wee...
LARRY MONTGOMERY GM, which chose not to push fleet (in February), saw its market share plummet to just 23.7 percent. ...
JOHN MURPHY
In any year, there is always a certain percentage of dealers losing money. [Rising ] interest rates ... PAUL TAYLOR One of our concerns is rising interest rates, and that, as you can imagine, for a bond issue this si...
BRYAN CROUGH I think that what we have to understand now is that interest rates had been rising for a year and a ...
LOUIS HOLLAND Property prices may drop, but I do not think it will drop that fast. The consumers are more financia...
ZENG HAN JUN When consumers are burdened with heavy debt loads, rising interest rates, higher energy costs, no pe...
BERNARD BAUMOHL After a hike in December last year, the real short-term interest rates remain zero or close to zero.
GUY QUADEN Rising incomes combined with falling interest rates positively affected the domestic market.
ANFAVEA PRESIDENT ROGELIO GOLFARB The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is de...
JEFFREY LUBELL As expected, industry sales continued to moderate in July, especially when compared with last year's...
BILL LOVEJOY The rising mortgage rates have pushed us to a new record home-sales level, but once the fence sitter...
JOEL NAROFF Card rates are rising faster than the rise in general interest rates.
JUSTIN MCHENRY The tough economy has put tremendous pressure on fourth-quarter sales performance and increased comp...
BOB NARDELLI Severe operating challenges still confront GM, including mix, pricing and market-share pressures plu...
ROBERT BARRY Concerns about inflation are well tempered by concerns about how quickly economic growth will be und...
LOUISE PURTLE Generally, none have record-setting rates. But they have fairly high rates for all the taxes.
BILL AHERN Inflation is the wild card for 2006, with rising oil prices, an increase in commodity prices, slow p...
JOSEPH SENECA Today's figures show that in the fourth quarter of 2005, consumers simply ran out of steam. When con...
CHRISTIAN WELLER Peugeot, which used to be lukewarm in China, is gearing up now. Peugeot may record faster sales grow...
YALE ZHANG Home sales have remained surprisingly strong despite higher interest rates.
CHRISTOPHER LOW This is coming in an environment where consumers are being challenged by higher interest rates and e...
CARL TANNENBAUM A lack of new models, especially compact cars, trimmed sales last month. Consumers have a strong app...
KOICHI OGAWA Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere...
ESMAEL ADIBI Consumers are paying substantially more for fuel compared to a month ago. Escalating crude oil price...
KRIS LATHAN High interest rates have affected car and motorcycle sales. The high interest rate climate has affec...
HENRY HO Consumers will be squeezed with higher interest rates, which is not good news for the market general...
EDMUND SHING The big shift for 2006 will be interest rates rising outside the U.S..
ANTON PIL As long as they are rising, the ECB tends to raise interest rates.
JOERG KRAEMER There are some big concerns about the U.S. economy and the stock market will struggle a bit. Interes...
FELIX LANTERS Energy shares are rising because the oil price has hit quite a comfortable level. I'm not really con...
MARKUS ILG Even if interest rates weren't rising, home prices are very high relative to income. So, people are ...
CELIA CHEN You have to consider concerns about the economy and interest rates. The one time that bank stocks al...
DIANE GLOSSMAN Our concerns about rising competition became real.
ELLEN TSENG Every month we're basically setting an all-time record for the previous 12 months.
ANDY VOBORA Interest rates matter and there are concerns about the economy. These things make the market more he...
FELIX LANTERS Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CUTTS Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Domestic demand is incredibly resilient now. With consumers set to increase spending now that deflat...
AZUSA KATO Although this represents a significant decline, the sales pace in January is still ahead of last yea...
LEONARD ZUMPANO Some companies have given disappointing results. Their shares suffer in an environment with risks, i...
EDWIN SLAGHEKKE We have solid employment growth, stable interest rates and rising immigration. They are all supporti...
BOB CUNNEEN Ten-year Treasuries are very close to the yield level at which we plan to buy. We prefer the 10-year...
SATOSHI ASAI The U.S. economy looks stable. Easing concern over interest rates prompted investors to buy back the...
ATSUSHI OSA [Consumers] are more optimistic about the outlook than last month. Historically, this trend is preva...
LYNN FRANCO The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something ...
JOHN HULL Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psyc...
LI KA-SHING Acceleration in U.S. growth and rising energy costs will likely translate into higher long-term [int...
AMY CUTTS Acceleration in U.S. growth and rising energy costs will likely translate into higher long-term [int...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The raises in interest rates will reduce the willingness and ability of consumers to continue their ...
SCOTT HOYT If people were aggressively concerned about falling house prices, rising interest rates, you would n...
TONY ALEXANDER We are still cautious about Treasuries because global interest rates are rising. I'll wait before bu...
MASAYUKI SENDA Somewhat slower (economic) growth, higher interest rates and volatile gas prices all add up to auto ...
MARK FIELDS If you examine anyone's contributions, you find they receive contributions from the people they know...
ALBERT MARTINEZ The market is more focused on the bigger trends we have seen of late, and that is concerns about inf...
PETER BOOCKVAR Our December department store sales were disappointing, which we think is attributable at least in p...
JAMES ZIMMERMAN We expect no change in interest rates. The market has been factoring in better interest rates for th...
JOE ROONEY Fresh worries about rising inflation in the US and the extent to which the US Federal Reserve will r...
FRANCIS LUN As has been widely discussed, February sales were likely hurt by a record- breaking snowstorm that h...
PATRICK MCKEEVER Consumers continued to shop right up until the very last minute on Christmas Eve as seen by our spik...
WAYNE BEST I've seen interest rates as high as 26.5 percent. Unfortunately, students are very, very, very poor ...
DEBORAH GODFREY Increased confidence, a strong housing sector and low interest rates have got Australian consumers i...
CRAIG JAMES Americans are still worried about rising interest rates and high gasoline prices. That, along with t...
TERRY JONES We are starting to see a change in consumer behavior. Consumers are cutting back because of high pri...
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK I think it's been driven down in large part by concerns over interest rates. There have been some pr...
DAVID BRADY The traffic lights are green on Main Street, U.S.A.. Confident consumers, rising incomes, and innova...
BOB REWEY There is no denying that 2005 has been a tremendous year for the housing industry. Very favorable in...
DAVID PRESSLY Interest rates have been creeping up slowly, and we've definitely seen somewhat of a softening in ho...
LAUREN YOUNG Global markets have not been affected by the possibility of rising U.S. interest rates. Japan and th...
JASON HWANG The market is definitely a lot more sluggish than at the end of last year. However how much of that ...
HOWARD MORLEY It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rathe...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO The strength of the housing market this year continues to surprise, despite rising home prices and s...
GREGORY KLUMP Our products reflect the concerns of our consumers about Y2K.
SABRINA BALTHAZAR Black Monday was only the 12th highest online spending day of the 2004 holiday season. Last year, pe...
GIAN FULGONI Although we are only one month into the second quarter, we are concerned by the May sales trend, ......
JAMES ZIMMERMAN Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT Currently freight rates are below their record highs of 2004, but when compared to historical averag...
BHARAT SHETH When mortgage interest rates first began to rise from record lows, it appears some buyers jumped int...
DAVID LEREAH
Large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt service to GDP... ALAN GREENSPAN Most people use installment payment to purchase cars, so the rising interest rate environment has a ...
JOE LO After several record-breaking years for home sales, builders are anticipating a return of the market...
DAVID PRESSLY Anytime rates go down, it's definitely good news for consumers, especially since rates are still muc...
ERIN BIEHL We've already done $3.9 million from December 1 to 27, compared to $2.2 million in the same period l...
BILL STRATHMANN The seasonally adjusted annual (industry-wide) sales rate in the last six months has exceeded 18 mil...
BOB REWEY Some technology stocks are being cut because of concern that high oil prices and rising interest rat...
SIMON CHAO If the past is any guide, the effect of rising interest rates is likely to be felt most visibly in h...
DONALD KOHN I wouldn't be surprised to see (the Dow) trend lower because markets don't trend up in a time of ris...
GRACE FEY Typically stocks don't do well in the face of rising interest rates so I don't think anyone is going...
LOUIS HOLLAND This sales volume is a new monthly record, the best CPO month ever since the program launched back i...
MARK STEWART Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates a...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT The Conference Board's November consumer confidence Index fell in November for the fourth consecutiv...
KEN PERKINS Although December sales started relatively strong and picked up at the end of the month, we were not...
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH
The last six-month period, we were down, ... No question that newsstand sales are soft. CHRISTIE HEFNER If the primary cause of rising interest rates is growing demand for capital, then this should be reg...
KATHY MATSUI
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