Share prices fell in knee-jerk reaction to a retreat on Wall Street overnight. Investors also took a breather after the benchmark Nikkei index added more than 200 points yesterday.


Toshihiko Matsuno

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What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices.
JIM AWAD
may just be a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that 90 cents a share was so much better than expected.
GARY FRAZIER
Share prices got off a firmer start as investors took comfort from the rally on Wall Street but caut...
YUTAKA MIURA
The market took a breather ... as investors moved to lock-in profits after the main indices here sur...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO
It was a knee-jerk reaction after the reports of an earthquake.
LEE FERRIDGE
The market took a breather as investors believed share prices surged too far, too fast in recent ses...
YUTAKA MIURA
It's a knee-jerk reaction to a surprise.
CARL WEINBERG
Overseas investors are selling their Nikkei stocks. This is yen negative for sure. Sliding share pri...
TETSU AIKAWA
Investors had to decide this (Monday) morning whether last week's rally was real or just a knee-jerk...
BRETT GALLAGHER
We need to take a little time and do this right, rather than have a knee-jerk reaction based on emot...
COMMISSIONER ELMO RICHARDSON
their typical knee-jerk reaction.
HENRY HYDE
The Nikkei 225 had shed more than half the gains it added in its previous rally, so it was a good ti...
HIROICHI NISHI
I think the most relevant thing is the market was down 120 yesterday. I think we're going to have a ...
LARRY RICE
in the short term we could see a knee-jerk reaction higher.
LAWRENCE EAGLES
Some investors took profits in select blue chips, driving the benchmark index into negative territor...
JACKSON WONG
The bin Laden tape has caused a knee-jerk reaction on the part of the market.
VICTOR SHUM
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ALAN PAU
Wall Street fell Friday and prompted some investors to take profits. Sentiment was also weighed down...
PETER LAI
You have to take each situation individually, ... Don't make a knee-jerk reaction.
JOEL DICKSON
This was not a knee-jerk reaction. It was not based on one game. It was a feeling in the program its...
SAM BAKER
It was an emotional knee-jerk reaction. People often sell in panic.
JOEL BRUCKENSTEIN
My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.
MATTHEW VAUGHN
It's a tug-of-war between investors choosing to pocket gains after the Nikkei surged to its highest ...
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My immediate, knee-jerk reaction was that we can live with this, ... On the other hand, this is bigg...
WAYNE HALE
There is a knee-jerk reaction to this short-term political concern. But should foreign investors rea...
JAMES LAGO
The market extended yesterday's decline as it took its lead from the overnight losses on Wall Street...
ALVIN TENG
The market turned lower in late morning due to profit-taking after the sharp gains of 200 points yes...
JACKSON WONG
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
EDWARD ABBEY
Gains on Wall Street overnight and in Tokyo this morning helped the market recover.
ALEX WONG
While these (price cuts) are a reaction to a very competitive market, these are not directly a react...
BRIAN JAQUET
The industrial production number is a big surprise. The expected knee-jerk reaction was certainly ev...
KIRBY DALEY
Anything but a quarter percentage point move will get a reaction. A 50 basis point move would see a ...
ART HOGAN
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ARFAN KARNIODY
any kind of political interference doesn't help at all... there is a little bit of a knee-jerk react...
JUSTINIAN
The sharp gains on Wall Street failed to restore investors' confidence.
STANLEY CHOU
I don't expect the market to have sharp movement today, with the benchmark index likely to hover wit...
JACKSON WONG
Given what's happening in Europe, which could be a knee-jerk reaction to what happened in the U.S. F...
GARY DUGAN
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BILL WHALEN
I would say that to extrapolate a sea change in the industry from one tragic situation would be noth...
JAY TAYLOR
Due to the sensitivity concerning H5N1 in Southeast Asia, there appears to be a knee-jerk reaction t...
JIM CLARK
Due to the sensitivity concerning H5N1 in Southeast Asia, there appears to be a knee-jerk reaction t...
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Gains in the market are fund-led. Trading in the region remains relatively strong with funds pursuin...
JACKSON WONG
A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street.
BEN BERNANKE
I think what we've seen this morning is a knee-jerk reaction to exactly what's been happening over t...
GARFIELD DUNLOP
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BEN KWONG
On the prices paid index, you're down 50 points from the highs in October, which the bond market cle...
CARY LEAHEY
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ALVIN TENG
Share prices gained as New York stocks continued to rise overnight.
MASAYOSHI YANO
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KATSUHIKO KODAMA
The knee jerk reaction is to say that when interest rates go up, these stocks go down, and that stil...
JAMES MCDERMOTT
New stock offerings on the market are attracting more interest. There's also a lot of speculative tr...
HESHAM ABOJAMEE
This could be a little bit of conservativeness on Microsoft's part. Wall Street was already above th...
ALAN DAVIS
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JIM GIBBONS
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CHARLES DISANZA
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AF ALHAJJI
We had a positive lead from Wall Street. Oil prices were up again.
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PETER SCHIFF
The initial knee jerk reaction was a powerful rally in the morning. As cooler heads prevail, it's cl...
ANTHONY CHAN
In 2000, it was very knee jerk,
EDWARD COX
That's the most pain I've ever been in after a 200. It's exhaustion more than anything.
MICHAEL PHELPS
Investors are more sensitive to negative headlines after seeing interest rates and oil prices rise.
HIROSHI CHANO
The continued weakness in a number of components of the index suggests that it's more than just high...
LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN
In uncertain times you should not just give a knee-jerk response.
JACK STRAW
Share prices fell partly on profit-taking and partly because of a seasonal factors but underlying ma...
YUJI SHIMANAKA
The local market continued to post losses as it was affected by the retreat of Wall Street and the J...
CASTOR PANG
This is a continued negative reaction to Friday's employment report. More investors are realizing th...
BILL SULLIVAN
Without pressure from Wall Street, they would never have got things moving. It took Wall Street to w...
BRAD RUBIN
Let's not blindly presume in a knee-jerk reaction that small is always better and that designer bout...
JACKIE LEAVY
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ALAN ACKERMAN
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You might see some relief (on Wall Street) after the G7 meeting.
BILL MEEHAN
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CARLOS LUPINI
The market held on despite Wall Street. I think investors are becoming increasingly confident and ta...
MARIO ZAWADZKI
I'm unabashedly a progressive, but I'm not a knee-jerk, either,
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA
Litigation should be a last resort, not a knee-jerk reflex.
IRVING S. SHAPIRO
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RALPH ALVAREZ
I think there was a knee-jerk reaction on the part of market participants who were hoping and wantin...
DENNIS FERRO
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HIDENORI KAWASAKI
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DUNCAN KING
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After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 throug...
BERNIE SANDERS
London's trading is probably more closely linked to that of Wall Street than the other markets in Eu...
GARY DUGAN
Blue chips were sought after yesterday after the recent correction. But you will probably see the in...
LIU YU
Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).
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We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO
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ROB DAVIS
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VANNA BONTA
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BERNIE SANDERS
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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