The market is going to be on hold until the Fed's decision is out. We will be looking for hints that the rate increases are coming to an end and if that's the case, we may see a rally in stocks.
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If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT My sense from just this brief analysis is we may avoid a rate hike in August. If you believe the eco... GRACE FEY There is growing optimism about the Fed's interest-rate hikes coming to an end. That would mean cons... HIROFUMI KASAI A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ... GERMANY KENT Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD These are the first hints that the end of the hikes may be coming. DAVID POWELL It is our strong belief that the dollar rally is gradually coming to an end and that we will eventua... CALLUM HENDERSON What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY How to change the world: • spread positivity • bring people up instead of dragging the... GERMANY KENT What we are looking for is interest rate cuts to be beneficial to the market. CHRIS WOLFE We need to see a decent number of earnings coming through with good numbers before we see the market... LARRY PERUZZI The market appeared to have had a case of vertigo. We have had a big rally in recent weeks and it se... PETER BOOCKVAR So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY While it may be temporary, the major risks we see for Japanese stocks right now are the Iranian situ... HITOSHI YAMAMOTO The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ... WINSTON CHURCHILL The market today was responding to the outlook with the increasing possibility we will see an intere... DAVID RINEHIMER It continues to be a very difficult market, and until we see an economic upturn, we should continue ... CHARLES SMULDERS I think that the market - once we get through this interest rate fear and we're more certain about t... GRACE FEY [If your goal is to find companies to grow with, interest rates may not come into play as strongly.]... DAVID KASLOW It is not great news for Barry or the Ospreys. At this stage it looks as if he will be out until the... DERWYN JONES We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Given the prospect of an end to the U.S. interest-rate increases next year, stocks globally will be ... ISAHO NAKASHO I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK It looks increasingly like the Fed rate hike cycle is coming to an end, and that's been the focus. .... CHARMAINE BUSKAS Sentiment on junior high-tech stocks and China high-tech stocks is quite negative for the time being... JAMES SO We may now see a pullback in spending. This winter and this Christmas shopping season are going to b... QUINCY KROSBY A pause on rate increases would be another plus for stocks. BILL STRAZZULLO Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS The market is kind of not doing anything. That's probably going to be the case for a while until we ... BARBARA ALLEN With the Reserve Bank's increases to the cash rate last year and subsequent increases across all len... ANTHONY BYETT I think that we are setting the stage with cash levels very high, with negative sentiment widespread... HOWARD WARD The market is losing reasons to buy the dollar. The end of an interest-rate-driven market may be dra... HIDENORI KATO We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING If the rate increases do stall out at 5 percent, I think there's still tremendous upside room for th... TIM HEEKIN Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU Our Senior Segment premiums rose 13%, or $23.6 million, for the year compared to 2004 due to new bus... TOM KILIAN Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA We sense that the sell-off is behind us and the market has the preconditions in place for a pretty g... AL GOLDMAN It seems the storm is not going to be as strong as we feared and that was enough to take some of the... JOHN AUGUSTINE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The risk is that the deficit is rather worse than the market is looking for and if that's the case i... ADAM COLE You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL Today's rates decision is expected to set the tone for the rest of the week. Hints of future rate hi... HARLEY SALT Ideally ... we think that a further step here would be to phase out capital gains if investor are ho... DAVID GARDNER However great the task may be, the outcome will be greater. JASON T. SURGAUX May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is some room for the market to rally in the next few weeks. We are looking for opportunities t... MASATSUGU YAMAMOTO Worries about an interest rate rise have virtually disappeared, the consensus is now that the Fed wo... DAVID HARMAN This sort of second guessing (in the market) will continue until we actually see what the real impac... LUKE WADDINGTON Whether January's steep decline in home sales foretells a slow housing market for the entire year re... LEONARD ZUMPANO You get the impression traders are putting an awful lot of weight on the Fed Chairman stating there ... DON KOWALCHIK He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL There are a lot fewer applications that run on Linux, and this may affect the acceptance. But price ... FRANK SHI Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD The market is starting to price out some of the rate increases that have been priced in. MARC LEVESQUE We're probably much more likely to be trading closer with the dollar. There may be some intervention... STEPHEN WOOD To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Tonight we are thrilled to tell you that the teachers' strike is coming to an end and that students ... DARRYL HENDERSHOT That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM The situation with John is that he is under contract until the end of the season and we have to make... DAVID PLUMMER We still think that the rally should be sustainable in the case of Mexican bank stocks. Their story ... RODRIGO QUINTANILLA If [the Fed] shows more of a hand that they're close to done, we could see an overall rally in the m... BRAD SORENSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The gold market is basically struggling to decisively overcome the $600 level. Until we see that, we... DAN VAUGHT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM The breadth was much better today than yesterday and I think that's a pretty encouraging sign. More ... JEFFREY BENTON I don't think we're looking at any fundamental changes that's going to cause the market to get any l... JONATHAN COHEN Today's decision means the end of zero interest rate policy is coming closer. Less liquidity is avai... CARSTEN FRITSCH The reality is nobody is going to be happy with the rate increases in any form. Unfortunately we hav... BRIAN DUPLESSIS Results are coming in strong, but the market is concerned that this will not be sustained in the nea... EDGAR PETERS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Stocks have had a fantastic rally and this market is screaming for a correction. The excuse may come... ALBERTO ESPELOSIN PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA With further rate increases and favorable market conditions, 2006 may well be a good year for Hannov... CATHERINE SCHMITT
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BARRY STERNLICHT I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort l... BARRY STERNLICHT There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments. BARRY STERNLICHT