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CHANNA AMARATUNGA Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth.
CHANNA AMARATUNGA While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer ...
CHANNA AMARATUNGA As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which comp...
JOHN MOODY A large part of the increased spending have gone to raising board wages, improving clothing material...
DING JIYE Our growth will come in through our existing clients with increased IT spending. We are also looking...
ATUL NISHAR The fact that fuel prices have increased and more importantly, fuel price forecasts have increased s...
ERIC HAXTHAUSEN
A further rise [in fuel prices] could cut materially into private spending and thus damp the rate of... ALAN GREENSPAN
Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels. ELIOT SPITZER Public-sector unions could become a millstone around the state's neck. Union interests will dictate ...
RYAN BEDFORD Inflation in March will probably be lower because school tuition won't be in the mix. (The car fuel)...
JASON VIEIRA Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.
JEFF ADAMS We went through everything we could, biologically, without spending tons of money.
LISA WEBB
Fixed mortgage rates remain at historically low levels and thus should continue to fuel reasonably s... ALAN GREENSPAN At the moment, rising fuel prices are placing a cap on spending.
ANDREW HANLAN We have not put the inflation increase through for the last couple of years. Indeed, since 1999 fuel...
ALISTAIR DARLING Through November [2002], we believed that discretionary consumer spending growth of 3 percent was ad...
HARRY CURTIS As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.
CHRIS WILLIAMSON Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation a...
JOE CRAFT
The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 4... DAVID LIMBAUGH How can the department explain his department spending $42 million on travel and hospitality while C...
LOYOLA HEARN We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carb...
MARTIN O'MALLEY Along with its economic growth, China has increased national defense spending in recent years. The i...
DING JIYE While masked by the high cost of fuel, our restructuring initiatives have begun to produce tangible ...
EDWARD BASTIAN
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JASON MARK The maintaining of the rate reflects that there is not a dangerous core inflation pressure, while th...
JOSEPH RAMOS Fuel prices went through the roof.
JANET KISTER While city people continued their strong spending, rural people have increased their spending only g...
QI JINGMEI Thailand has been more resilient to shocks since 1998, given the manageable inflation, low unemploym...
VINCENT HO Given all the other spending we're having to do for homeland defense and the military, my suspicion ...
PAUL KASRIEL The increased fuel pries, the increase in the amount of insurance costs, as well as the cost of purc...
GLORIA SUTTON We will see a change in the drivers of economic growth with capital spending taking a lead. There is...
CARL RICCADONNA The prospects for a rate cut have certainly increased. You have weaker inflation and in addition the...
GEORGE BUCKLEY
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's g... BEN SHAPIRO As a team the increased fuel costs, naturally, affect your budget. Figure this: the transporter that...
EDDIE JONES JSU helps fuel the local economy by supplying an outstanding concentration of brainpower and experie...
WILLIAM MEEHAN With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to ...
ANGUS CAMPBELL A report like this will continue to fuel the debate about how strong consumer spending will be over ...
ALAN GAYLE [They also focus on two areas - healthcare and energy - where inflation is eating away at spending p...
JARED BERNSTEIN This budget is a fraud on the people of New Jersey. He promised he would reduce spending. Instead, h...
ALEX DECROCE
Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market ... ALEX BERENSON Moreover, the four motors of consumption -- that is wages, inflation, unemployment and consumer conf...
EMMANUEL FERRY Wage inflation works with a lag and is going to stay high. It's hard to get too bearish about the ou...
CRAIG EBERT These losses may reflect the fact that consumers facing higher energy prices and falling real [infla...
JARED BERNSTEIN Low and declining inventory levels naturally lead to increased production to build inventories in an...
ANDREW NORWOOD
[At a minimum, this will hit consumers' pocketbooks—and perhaps their confidence. Before Katrina, ... MARK ZANDI I see more interest rate hikes and this will dampen domestic consumption. Also, the coming 50 percen...
IRENE CHEUNG This was a modest but not insignificant deal which could be a driving force to make real cuts in agr...
CELSO AMORIM Clearly, many of our problems could have been avoided if there had been greater commitment to eradic...
ANWAR IBRAHIM
Through not spending enough we spend too much SPANISH PROVERB The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy ...
MARK SKOUSEN
Our productivity and scope of influence are increased through self-education SUNDAY ADELAJA I don't see the U.S. agreeing to anything and the next phase could be Europe filing against Japanese...
DAVID PRITCHARD The most serious risk to medium-term inflation is the continuing strength of household spending, sup...
ALAN BOLLARD House price inflation has picked up in recent months; if this continues it has positive implications...
JOSEPH CAPURSO One thing it highlights, again, is the wrong-headedness of the notion that higher state taxes and in...
MATTHEW MAGUIRE With the increase in broadband penetration further enhancing how messages get delivered, we should c...
DAVID SILVERMAN Rising fuel prices will keep a lid on consumer spending for some time, slowing economic growth. The ...
SHANE OLIVER Increases in health and liability insurance costs, utility expenses, and garbage hauling fees were f...
DAVID ROBERTS [The company said it would offer 280,000 flex-fuel vehicles that run on gas or ethanol next year, in...
JASON MARK The 30-year bond is being hurt a little bit by fears of increased government spending, no more surpl...
BILL HORNBARGER The correction of these imbalances and associated inflation pressures will require a slowdown in hou...
ALAN BOLLARD Buoyant spending and borrowing have not yet been inflationary, and will not necessarily become infla...
ELNA MOOLMAN We must work out if one year of increased spending is enough to boost growth and brand positioning, ...
MORGAN STANLEY Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment g...
BEN S. BERNANKE Yesterday we increased our condition level to four. We're one step from the bottom, an increased sta...
JOE FARMER That's (fuel efficiency) on the mind of everyone who comes through those doors.
TIM BARRETT The likely slowdown in Korea due to the recent elimination of handset subsidies could reduce worldwi...
EDWARD SNYDER Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longe...
MARTIN FELDSTEIN Compounding the problem by chasing higher inflation through higher wage demands would be the ultimat...
DANNY MCCOY
Higher oil prices may be partly passed through to core inflation at least for a time, JANET YELLEN Marketing spending in the fourth quarter of 2005 was a precipitous drop from the two-year high of Q3...
CARL HOWE
However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opp... NICHOLAS KRISTOF Today's numbers threw some (inflation) fears. We could see some nervousness on the mortgage side.
BRIAN BRENNAN They could be the watering holes and fuel stations for future interplanetary exploration.
DON YEOMANS There is so much momentum in consumer spending and business investment that economic growth in the t...
DICK GREEN Does spending more per student lead to increased learning? That's a difficult one. At many schools, ...
DON HELLER Taxes have gone up, spending has gone up, waste of government money has vastly increased, and I thin...
GEORGE OSBORNE Long-bond buyers aren't afraid of inflation or increased interest rates, the way short-term bond buy...
BENJAMIN PACE What we're waiting to see is whether the increase in commodity prices will sift through into core in...
WILLIAM FITZGERALD The acceleration of loan growth will add further fuel to the current growth momentum and we see upsi...
HONG LIANG Investors have to realize that this is a state-controlled oil company. The government wants to fight...
LUIZ CAETANO if years for living can be increased through obedience therefore disobedience can decrease it as wel...
MTHUKI LODRICK
Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other... ALAN GREENSPAN There are no set plans. But development could coexist with the spent fuel storage.
SCOTT SIMMS
I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. We are on a joy ride but we have got to be very careful. We have got benign inflation, but we have a...
MANDLA MALEKA a little bit of inflation could be a really good thing, but not too much of it.
ROBERT BRUSCA Slowing income gains and increased uncertainty have savaged consumer spending. This has removed the ...
STEVEN WOOD Over the past year, core intermediate goods inflation has been nearly 5 percentage points higher tha...
BILL DUDLEY We're concerned that with the increased travel during the holidays, the flu situation could worsen.
EDUARDO SANCHEZ My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, 'You can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidie...
THOMAS MASSIE A significant shift in either of those areas, however, could dramatically impact on fuel prices.
ELLIOTT EKI You still have to fuel the fire through saving. You have to keep contributing to your IRA.
BARBARA STEINMETZ When relief operators are available, he has been spending days digging through the wreckage.
BOB BELL Half of the gain (in spending) was due to price increases. Mr. (Alan) Greenspan may want to convince...
BILL MEEHAN I hope it's really opened the eyes of the residents of this city that spending is out of control, an...
JANE PITFIELD This is the stupidest thing the village could have done. It increased geometrically my client's dama...
JONATHAN LOVETT Rudolph Diesel, the German who invented the diesel fuel process, experimented with peanut oil fuel. ...
ANDREW KLENERT
