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We had higher oil prices, higher gold prices, higher copper prices and even a higher Dow (Jones inde...
ANGUS GEDDES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES![]()
Higher oil prices may be partly passed through to core inflation at least for a time,
JANET YELLEN Following the higher-than-expected headline producer price inflation data for January... (Tuesday's ...
HOWARD ARCHER Inflation is going to continue to rise based on the disruption from the hurricanes, high oil prices ...
CARL RICCADONNA The month-to-month gas price hike was driven primarily by increasing oil prices and speculation over...
CAROL THORP Higher oil increasingly will creep into the indicators. Today, it biased the trade gap higher and pu...
DREW MATUS Today's report provides a signal, albeit noisy, that the long-awaited pass-through of higher costs t...
KENNETH BEAUCHEMIN You're going to go through a rough patch through the next six to 12 months. Inflation is going to be...
GEORGE BUCKLEY Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.
CHARLES O. HOLLIDAY People are increasingly concerned, given what Wal-Mart said, that higher gas prices are going to hur...
ALAN RIFKIN Strip out higher oil prices, and Europe doesn't have an inflation problem. We're still bullish for t...
STUART THOMSON The prices of $51 for 2006 and $46 for 2007-2008 are considered a more realistic option. Because the...
ANDREI KLEPACH To keep cyclical price pressures and any transitory spike in energy prices from permanently disrupti...
ANTHONY SANTOMERO The inflation-adjusted number, the finite supply of oil, and the growing demand for oil from one-thi...
EMANUEL BALARIE ISM prices paid came a bit higher than expected and that stoked some inflationary concerns. I am bea...
MICHAEL MALONE We're going to have high energy prices, a little bit more inflation. Underlying inflation is going t...
DONALD RATAJCZAK Both [the French and the euro-zone data] reflect higher oil prices rather than any rise in underlyin...
GWYN HACCHE People are focusing on the impact of higher energy prices on the consumer instead of focusing on the...
DREW MATUS With crude prices forecast to remain strong for the remainder of the year, consumers can expect, on ...
CATHY HAY Some expected elements that will push the prices up have not taken effect yet. For example, the refo...
ZUO XIAOLEI consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of...
CHRIS RUPKEY Given the demographics of the targeted Pier 1 consumer, we believe higher gas prices could limit spe...
ALAN RIFKIN With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to ...
ANGUS CAMPBELL A weaker dollar, continued geopolitical concerns, weak government data, and higher oil prices have a...
EMANUEL BALARIE September sales were surprisingly resilient in the face of significantly higher gasoline prices. Whi...
EMME KOZLOFF Prices for all kinds of heating -- natural gas, fuel oil, electricity and propane -- have all risen ...
CHARLES RAWSON This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing. Production, dis...
GEOFF SUNDSTROM The increase in the rate is intended to address possible second-round effects on consumer prices com...
AMANDO TETANGCO Gasoline prices have begun their seasonal move higher. Increased prices can be attributed to tighter...
KRIS LATHAN Higher gas prices will be our ally, ironically,
GLORIA BERGQUIST Inflation is the wild card for 2006, with rising oil prices, an increase in commodity prices, slow p...
JOSEPH SENECA What that says is that even though crude oil prices are at near-record highs, gasoline prices are mu...
DAVID HACKETT We expect a colder weather in the next two weeks, so heating oil prices and natural gas prices will ...
GORDON KWAN Higher oil prices will drive up sentiment for oil stocks.
SALLY YEO Any bets on dollar weakness will be a bet that higher energy prices will divert consumer spending, w...
JEFF GLADSTEIN We expect the Fed to focus on the risks to higher inflation caused by higher energy prices, supply-c...
COLIN LUNDGREN The trend is for higher yields given the outlook for economic growth. Consumer prices will probably ...
HIDENORI SUEZAWA Consumption is up considerably and that trend is not going to reverse itself. Higher oil prices are ...
DAN VERU We are in for higher prices than we had through the 1990s.
KURT BARROW The problem isn't simply that families are facing higher prices, particularly at the pump. It's also...
JARED BERNSTEIN There will be just too much risk of geopolitical shocks in 2006 for oil prices to fall sharply and i...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN![]()
Most likely the higher prices will slow growth, ... But there is the growing threat that we get a co...
MARK ZANDI Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
CHOI CHANG HOON The market has every excuse in the world to be down right now -- higher oil prices, higher interest ...
EDWARD BRETSCHER Treasury yields are generally moving higher because the market expects the Fed to continue to hike.
BERND WUEBBEN![]()
Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American c...
FRED UPTON In the big oil shocks that really damaged the economy, the tax on the consumer was many times more t...
ETHAN HARRIS The perception that there's trouble in the Middle East drives oil prices higher.
DAN GILLESPIE There are also expectations that oil prices will remain high for some time, and that also could be b...
SHIGEMI NONAKA The Fed is concerned that higher energy costs may give an adverse impact on growth rather than posin...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA I think the market's come to realize that economic growth in the U.S. is not threatened by higher oi...
LOUIS WONG Higher oil prices will raise material costs and that is a blow to the U.S. economy. Exporters are th...
ATSUSHI OSA We're not at gas prices that pose some kind of a tipping point. There have been botched forecasts of...
STEVEN WIETING Overall, the push from speculators is the main driver for higher copper prices.
LI RONG Stocks have been losing steam as a result of higher rates and higher energy prices. We could see a c...
CARL BIRKELBACH Our current view is that our forecast is likely to be significantly exceeded. Higher prices are refl...
LIAM BAILEY I think the next move by the Fed will be to take a neutral stance. I think the economy is probably s...
ANNETTE GEDDES The Fed will hike at least once more, and there won't be a significant slowdown in the second half o...
MICHAEL MARKOVIC The increase in oil prices is going to be problematic to the consumer as well as higher home heating...
ANN HURLEY There's been a surge in interest partly due to the schools going back, but even more so as a result ...
LEON TEUBES Commodity stocks are moving in line with the prices of raw materials. Higher commodity prices are fe...
MASAYUKI ITO Nigeria isn't enough to continue to push crude oil prices higher due to current ample supplies in th...
MAKOTO TAKEDA International oil prices have shifted to a higher level permanently.
CAMERON BAGRIE There is a combo of factors. Most recently, Hurricane Katrina and the damage done to Gulf Coast caus...
ALLAN URLIS![]()
It appears that the threshold has been reached where consumers are feeling the pinch of higher gas p...
RON PAUL This still reflects pre-Katrina pump prices, suggesting that the following month's headline CPI numb...
CARL GOMEZ You've had not only a steady rise in actual oil and gas prices, but you have had a steady rise in th...
GEOFF KIEBURTZ Sentiment is drifting higher on softer oil prices. All eyes remain on energy. As long as oil prices ...
BEN ROGOFF Despite the strong domestic demand, high oil prices and rising food prices, inflation remains relati...
DENNIS DYKES![]()
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can...
MAJOR OWENS Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.
JEFF ADAMS We have fear of higher oil prices and the lower dollar against the yen.
CHARLES REINHARD Oil prices have continued to move higher and equities have apparently taken it badly.
DANIEL KATZIVE If investments do not come in a timely and sufficient manner, there will be higher oil prices, and g...
FATIH BIROL Those two factors will not repeat in the second quarter. However, the carry-through of higher alumin...
DICK EVANS![]()
Consumers are likely to pay more for lumber, coffee, chocolate, perhaps sugar _ anything that we imp...
MARK ZANDI The Canadian dollar has been supported by a lot of positives this year as prices of oil, gas and gol...
ANDREW BUSCH Fortunately, not everything was higher at the grocery store. Consumers in Missouri found lower price...
DIANE OLSON Over the past year, core intermediate goods inflation has been nearly 5 percentage points higher tha...
BILL DUDLEY In general, the economy is proving to be resilient to energy and gas price pressure. It's on a growt...
MICHAEL ENGLUND Rising oil prices are not only affecting current inflation rates but they're also overshadowing next...
OTMAR ISSING You almost conceptually expect that gasoline prices will be just about as volatile as petroleum and ...
DANIELE SEITZ If commodities prices are at their multi-year highs, then you'll expect that the producers and the m...
EMANUEL BALARIE It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rathe...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO Higher inflation will mean weaker consumer demand and that will keep core inflation under control.
JACQUES CAILLOUX Having said that, I think that on average prices will go higher. I suspect when we do our weekly pum...
CATHY HAY It's very difficult for consumers to go to the gas pump and pay record high prices for gas and then ...
MARK PRYOR Market prices are continuing to soften for natural gas (nationwide). You see that show up in electri...
CLAUDIA RAPKOCH Concerns over (higher energy prices) feeding into higher wages have so far not materialized, which h...
MICHAEL PENN The business integration will help the company reduce the impact which higher crude oil prices have ...
LI GUOHONG Because of that, the prices have been extremely high. It's safe to say that prices are much higher t...
MARK SHIRLEY This is a big amount of cash to be giving back. The figures will be even higher in 2006, when the in...
GUY DESLONDES Strong figures on growth and inflation will reinforce expectations of higher Fed rates, supporting t...
XINYI LU High oil prices may raise inflation but longer-term it's negative for growth and that's how the Fed ...
DAVID MANN We've insulated ourselves from higher oil prices, but we're not immune to them.
LARRY GOLDSTEIN The underlying fundamentals remain decent, but the pessimism is getting higher. The biggest hindranc...
ROBERT PHILIPS Oil companies are responsibly reflecting the public?s outcry at the pump over gas prices. We have no...
CATHERINE ROSSI Oil and natural gas prices, as well as heating oil costs, are much higher than they were a year ago,...
ED MARAN Higher crude oil prices and other factors mean consumers are in for another year of price volatility...
DAVE CARLSON
ANGUS GEDDES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Higher oil prices may be partly passed through to core inflation at least for a time, JANET YELLEN Following the higher-than-expected headline producer price inflation data for January... (Tuesday's ...
HOWARD ARCHER Inflation is going to continue to rise based on the disruption from the hurricanes, high oil prices ...
CARL RICCADONNA The month-to-month gas price hike was driven primarily by increasing oil prices and speculation over...
CAROL THORP Higher oil increasingly will creep into the indicators. Today, it biased the trade gap higher and pu...
DREW MATUS Today's report provides a signal, albeit noisy, that the long-awaited pass-through of higher costs t...
KENNETH BEAUCHEMIN You're going to go through a rough patch through the next six to 12 months. Inflation is going to be...
GEORGE BUCKLEY Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.
CHARLES O. HOLLIDAY People are increasingly concerned, given what Wal-Mart said, that higher gas prices are going to hur...
ALAN RIFKIN Strip out higher oil prices, and Europe doesn't have an inflation problem. We're still bullish for t...
STUART THOMSON The prices of $51 for 2006 and $46 for 2007-2008 are considered a more realistic option. Because the...
ANDREI KLEPACH To keep cyclical price pressures and any transitory spike in energy prices from permanently disrupti...
ANTHONY SANTOMERO The inflation-adjusted number, the finite supply of oil, and the growing demand for oil from one-thi...
EMANUEL BALARIE ISM prices paid came a bit higher than expected and that stoked some inflationary concerns. I am bea...
MICHAEL MALONE We're going to have high energy prices, a little bit more inflation. Underlying inflation is going t...
DONALD RATAJCZAK Both [the French and the euro-zone data] reflect higher oil prices rather than any rise in underlyin...
GWYN HACCHE People are focusing on the impact of higher energy prices on the consumer instead of focusing on the...
DREW MATUS With crude prices forecast to remain strong for the remainder of the year, consumers can expect, on ...
CATHY HAY Some expected elements that will push the prices up have not taken effect yet. For example, the refo...
ZUO XIAOLEI consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of...
CHRIS RUPKEY Given the demographics of the targeted Pier 1 consumer, we believe higher gas prices could limit spe...
ALAN RIFKIN With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to ...
ANGUS CAMPBELL A weaker dollar, continued geopolitical concerns, weak government data, and higher oil prices have a...
EMANUEL BALARIE September sales were surprisingly resilient in the face of significantly higher gasoline prices. Whi...
EMME KOZLOFF Prices for all kinds of heating -- natural gas, fuel oil, electricity and propane -- have all risen ...
CHARLES RAWSON This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing. Production, dis...
GEOFF SUNDSTROM The increase in the rate is intended to address possible second-round effects on consumer prices com...
AMANDO TETANGCO Gasoline prices have begun their seasonal move higher. Increased prices can be attributed to tighter...
KRIS LATHAN Higher gas prices will be our ally, ironically,
GLORIA BERGQUIST Inflation is the wild card for 2006, with rising oil prices, an increase in commodity prices, slow p...
JOSEPH SENECA What that says is that even though crude oil prices are at near-record highs, gasoline prices are mu...
DAVID HACKETT We expect a colder weather in the next two weeks, so heating oil prices and natural gas prices will ...
GORDON KWAN Higher oil prices will drive up sentiment for oil stocks.
SALLY YEO Any bets on dollar weakness will be a bet that higher energy prices will divert consumer spending, w...
JEFF GLADSTEIN We expect the Fed to focus on the risks to higher inflation caused by higher energy prices, supply-c...
COLIN LUNDGREN The trend is for higher yields given the outlook for economic growth. Consumer prices will probably ...
HIDENORI SUEZAWA Consumption is up considerably and that trend is not going to reverse itself. Higher oil prices are ...
DAN VERU We are in for higher prices than we had through the 1990s.
KURT BARROW The problem isn't simply that families are facing higher prices, particularly at the pump. It's also...
JARED BERNSTEIN There will be just too much risk of geopolitical shocks in 2006 for oil prices to fall sharply and i...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN
Most likely the higher prices will slow growth, ... But there is the growing threat that we get a co... MARK ZANDI Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
CHOI CHANG HOON The market has every excuse in the world to be down right now -- higher oil prices, higher interest ...
EDWARD BRETSCHER Treasury yields are generally moving higher because the market expects the Fed to continue to hike.
BERND WUEBBEN
Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American c... FRED UPTON In the big oil shocks that really damaged the economy, the tax on the consumer was many times more t...
ETHAN HARRIS The perception that there's trouble in the Middle East drives oil prices higher.
DAN GILLESPIE There are also expectations that oil prices will remain high for some time, and that also could be b...
SHIGEMI NONAKA The Fed is concerned that higher energy costs may give an adverse impact on growth rather than posin...
HIDEHIKO MAEJIMA I think the market's come to realize that economic growth in the U.S. is not threatened by higher oi...
LOUIS WONG Higher oil prices will raise material costs and that is a blow to the U.S. economy. Exporters are th...
ATSUSHI OSA We're not at gas prices that pose some kind of a tipping point. There have been botched forecasts of...
STEVEN WIETING Overall, the push from speculators is the main driver for higher copper prices.
LI RONG Stocks have been losing steam as a result of higher rates and higher energy prices. We could see a c...
CARL BIRKELBACH Our current view is that our forecast is likely to be significantly exceeded. Higher prices are refl...
LIAM BAILEY I think the next move by the Fed will be to take a neutral stance. I think the economy is probably s...
ANNETTE GEDDES The Fed will hike at least once more, and there won't be a significant slowdown in the second half o...
MICHAEL MARKOVIC The increase in oil prices is going to be problematic to the consumer as well as higher home heating...
ANN HURLEY There's been a surge in interest partly due to the schools going back, but even more so as a result ...
LEON TEUBES Commodity stocks are moving in line with the prices of raw materials. Higher commodity prices are fe...
MASAYUKI ITO Nigeria isn't enough to continue to push crude oil prices higher due to current ample supplies in th...
MAKOTO TAKEDA International oil prices have shifted to a higher level permanently.
CAMERON BAGRIE There is a combo of factors. Most recently, Hurricane Katrina and the damage done to Gulf Coast caus...
ALLAN URLIS
It appears that the threshold has been reached where consumers are feeling the pinch of higher gas p... RON PAUL This still reflects pre-Katrina pump prices, suggesting that the following month's headline CPI numb...
CARL GOMEZ You've had not only a steady rise in actual oil and gas prices, but you have had a steady rise in th...
GEOFF KIEBURTZ Sentiment is drifting higher on softer oil prices. All eyes remain on energy. As long as oil prices ...
BEN ROGOFF Despite the strong domestic demand, high oil prices and rising food prices, inflation remains relati...
DENNIS DYKES
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can... MAJOR OWENS Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.
JEFF ADAMS We have fear of higher oil prices and the lower dollar against the yen.
CHARLES REINHARD Oil prices have continued to move higher and equities have apparently taken it badly.
DANIEL KATZIVE If investments do not come in a timely and sufficient manner, there will be higher oil prices, and g...
FATIH BIROL Those two factors will not repeat in the second quarter. However, the carry-through of higher alumin...
DICK EVANS
Consumers are likely to pay more for lumber, coffee, chocolate, perhaps sugar _ anything that we imp... MARK ZANDI The Canadian dollar has been supported by a lot of positives this year as prices of oil, gas and gol...
ANDREW BUSCH Fortunately, not everything was higher at the grocery store. Consumers in Missouri found lower price...
DIANE OLSON Over the past year, core intermediate goods inflation has been nearly 5 percentage points higher tha...
BILL DUDLEY In general, the economy is proving to be resilient to energy and gas price pressure. It's on a growt...
MICHAEL ENGLUND Rising oil prices are not only affecting current inflation rates but they're also overshadowing next...
OTMAR ISSING You almost conceptually expect that gasoline prices will be just about as volatile as petroleum and ...
DANIELE SEITZ If commodities prices are at their multi-year highs, then you'll expect that the producers and the m...
EMANUEL BALARIE It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rathe...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO Higher inflation will mean weaker consumer demand and that will keep core inflation under control.
JACQUES CAILLOUX Having said that, I think that on average prices will go higher. I suspect when we do our weekly pum...
CATHY HAY It's very difficult for consumers to go to the gas pump and pay record high prices for gas and then ...
MARK PRYOR Market prices are continuing to soften for natural gas (nationwide). You see that show up in electri...
CLAUDIA RAPKOCH Concerns over (higher energy prices) feeding into higher wages have so far not materialized, which h...
MICHAEL PENN The business integration will help the company reduce the impact which higher crude oil prices have ...
LI GUOHONG Because of that, the prices have been extremely high. It's safe to say that prices are much higher t...
MARK SHIRLEY This is a big amount of cash to be giving back. The figures will be even higher in 2006, when the in...
GUY DESLONDES Strong figures on growth and inflation will reinforce expectations of higher Fed rates, supporting t...
XINYI LU High oil prices may raise inflation but longer-term it's negative for growth and that's how the Fed ...
DAVID MANN We've insulated ourselves from higher oil prices, but we're not immune to them.
LARRY GOLDSTEIN The underlying fundamentals remain decent, but the pessimism is getting higher. The biggest hindranc...
ROBERT PHILIPS Oil companies are responsibly reflecting the public?s outcry at the pump over gas prices. We have no...
CATHERINE ROSSI Oil and natural gas prices, as well as heating oil costs, are much higher than they were a year ago,...
ED MARAN Higher crude oil prices and other factors mean consumers are in for another year of price volatility...
DAVE CARLSON
