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JASON BRAM The market has been looking for the housing numbers to show signs of cracking. We're seeing some buy...
JOSE MAZAS The data are consistent with very gradual cooling in the housing market.
JOHN SHIN It's the early signs of some cooling in this super-heated market. Fewer people qualify for loans and...
DAVID RESLER The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH We have the potential to introduce millions of new customers to an alternative in real estate, which...
COLBY SAMBROTTO Low mortgage rates continue to fuel the housing market, making homeownership more attainable to a br...
FRANK NOTHAFT I think that the affordable-housing problem in New Jersey has become so dire and become so widesprea...
ANNU MANGAT Housing activity has peaked and is coming down a bit, and we expect further cooling in the coming mo...
DAVID LEREAH There are signs of cooling in the hottest markets on both coasts and a shift in investor activity fr...
BRUCE KARATZ The weakness was primarily in the residential area. That's consistent with the other data we've seen...
GARY THAYER We see a flattening of housing starts and the beginning of a cooling process.
DAVID SEIDERS The cooling off of the regional housing market can be attributed to a combination of job losses rela...
JIM CUTTER There is no denying that 2005 has been a tremendous year for the housing industry. Very favorable in...
DAVID PRESSLY This should induce some slowing in housing market activity, but we expect the housing market in 2006...
FRANK NOTHAFT They took a sharper run up in prices, so it makes sense that there's a decrease there. Some people h...
ALAN GIN The slowdown in UK GDP growth is mainly being driven by sharply lower growth in household consumptio...
DAVID KERN Housing activity has peaked and is coming down a bit, and we expect further cooling in the coming mo...
DAVID LEREAH I think it's important from the policy stand point in that if the housing market is cooling down the...
ALEX LI Service-sector inflation has been picking up. Wage inflation has shown some signs of picking up so, ...
GARY DUGAN![]()
So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any act...
RUSH LIMBAUGH We've not seen anything like this previously. There have been hurricane disruptions, like Andrew, wh...
WALTER MOLONY Among manufacturers some have been relying on a strong housing market. It is appropriate to be conce...
GERALD ZUKOWSKI We also see consumer confidence down a little bit. Houses are on the market a little longer. We're n...
BOB MOULTON This increased housing market activity has clearly led to some recent firming in house prices, and t...
HOWARD ARCHER The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending as 2005-2006 unfolds, b...
SHERRY COOPER There is a need for business users to have broader access to unstructured information. The larger so...
BRIAN MCDONOUGH There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive me...
KENNETH BACON The bottom line is housing is not plunging and it's not soaring, ... There are signs that housing is...
JAMES O'SULLIVAN Housing prices cooling off, or even declining, is one potential risk,
AMY CLARK One of the reasons we had the housing market surging ahead was because of the low cost of borrowing ...
ALAN GIN There were some signs of recovery, but the latest outbreak has proved disastrous.
BHARAT TANDON There has been a huge drop in the amount of people coming to open houses because of the lack of sign...
ANNE LONG We needed to make a dramatic change in the way we approach welfare housing, ... There has been an in...
ISAAC HERZOG Some investors are worrying about the slowdown in the housing market, a key driver of the U.S. econo...
TORU UMEMOTO We have seen it in some instances, ... It's spotty.
JAMES CONWAY Housing activity has peaked. Inventories continue to rise. I see the housing market continuing to so...
DAVID LEREAH Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the sp...
TOM VILSACK Prudently underwritten alternative mortgage products have also allowed some borrowers who might othe...
DAVID SCHNEIDER Even though the Fed has tightened, it's not done a whole lot in the way of weakening the housing mar...
BILL MEEHAN Since the Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates in March, the housing market has just been going si...
MICHAEL EVERY The current administration has allowed market forces to determine the dollar's level, although there...
BOB LYNCH Fundamentally, the market looks strong and there are no signs of a sharp sell-off in the offing. We ...
CHRISTOPH EIBL The general picture from the housing market has not changed,
GEORGE BUCKLEY The decline helps affirm cooling in the housing sector and is consistent with other broad-based data...
CHRISTOPHER LOW We're watching the market carefully for any signs of a turn, for any signs of the 'bursting bubble' ...
MARSHALL PRENTICE There's been a cooling off in the U.S..
EDMUND SHING The key message is housing market activity has improved significantly into the second half of this y...
ALAN CLARKE It was in a market that was growing but has declined, at least as far as housing starts. What it all...
JEFF NOBERS Nationally, it is clear that some housing markets have moderated from the over-heated and, in some c...
BRUCE KARATZ The growth has been that some years we'll expand, some years we'll not. In the last few years, there...
CONNIE GRADEN I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity fo...
FRANK B. KELLOGG This is primarily because of a decrease in investment and speculative real estate activity in those ...
BRAD GEISEN![]()
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ...
MARK ZANDI In the state and the country, the overall market is cooling a bit, but we will retain a robust marke...
KIT HALE President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in th...
GLENN HUBBARD The housing market has continued to cool off from white- hot levels of previous years.
ARA HOVNANIAN![]()
I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of ...
DAVID IGE We believe there is a real shortage of treatment programs for people with mental health illness. To ...
JAN EUSTIS A disconnect between household income levels and for-sale pricing in the valley's housing market has...
CHRIS BENTLEY The outlook in the UK is promising, particularly if there is an uplift in the housing market.
BEN GUNN The wireless handset market has been correcting for some time now and is showing signs of strength. ...
CHARLES BOUCHER It's really difficult to buy technology shares without any real signs of a turnaround in prices, whi...
KOJI UCHIDA Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006. It's starting to turn into a...
JOSHUA SHAPIRO What I see at this moment are the signs of a normal market. Previously, there was a frenzy.
CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG Direct sellers tend to be globally diverse. They aren't typically leveraged to the U.S. consumer, wh...
DOUGLAS LANE The market is extremely strong, ... The office market has been improving steadily and there is a gre...
JACK KYSER Hopefully, some of the younger runners will step up as the season progresses. The entire group has a...
BRIAN BULLIS The January numbers looked overly weak, in light of recent developments in the housing market so som...
GEORGE BUCKLEY What I see happening is moving from the very high end to a broader market, where I can start to affo...
BILL ABLONDI The Smith Barney lineup is kind of thin. They seem to have spotty records in other areas of the mark...
KERRY O'BOYLE The enterprise market is showing some signs of beginning to bounce back as the general economy begin...
TIM SMITH![]()
The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have b...
LUCY POWELL I would not have predicted that it (the market) would have been as active as it has been this early ...
CARLTON LUND We have had a great deal of precipitation, but the variable warming and cooling trends has made it s...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN I think the spike in permits, in retrospect, should have been somewhat predictable. But the strength...
CARL BROWN Without question, the housing market has peaked out. However, I think it will be a modest decline.
GREGORY GIEBER Interest rates probably aren't high enough. The Bank of Canada will keep raising until it sees some ...
FRED PYNN![]()
There do appear to be, at a minimum, signs of froth in some local markets,
ALAN GREENSPAN There have been no signs of life.
HUBERTUS ANDRAE I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.
ERIC MASKIN In the past they've guarded like heck and offense has been spotty. Now they're running really good o...
ROYCE WALTMAN The market has done a good job of ignoring signs we have bottomed. That's more a ghost of the bear m...
AL GOLDMAN The market has done a good job of ignoring signs we have bottomed, ... That's more a ghost of the be...
AL GOLDMAN The market has slowed a little bit, but the housing industry is still booming. We're still building ...
JOE SINAGRA Our January forecast calls for a gradual rise in long-term rates throughout 2006. This should induce...
FRANK NOTHAFT Winter months tend to be slower. We really have to wait until spring and summer ? the peak of the ho...
KATHY KALSER It is a pretty sharp bounce the market has been weak for some time.
JAMES STEEL![]()
There were a lot of rumors going around about comments that Mr. Greenspan made. One was regarding th...
JOHN MCCARTHY![]()
Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
JIM ROGERS The handheld market has been in decline since 2001. The biggest problem is that there hasn't been a ...
DAVID LINSALATA Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. Howe...
CRAIG ALEXANDER IBM is going to have another negative effect in the broader market. It's a major stock.
ANDRE BAKHOS A lot of the nervousness has already been priced in. Unless there is a smoking gun, the market will ...
JAMES BARRINEAU There has been huge demand everywhere. These people all need short- and long-term housing.
AL MANSELL There are definitely signs that consumer demand has been picking up. Funds are buying heavily.
ADAM ROWLEY Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006.
JOSHUA SHAPIRO I think what we saw yesterday (Tuesday) was a bounce in the bear market. It could continue. There's ...
ALAN KRAL There have been very little teeth in the affordable housing laws.
DREW POWELL There has always been a gray market [for computers], it has always existed.
JOYCE BECKNELL
JASON BRAM The market has been looking for the housing numbers to show signs of cracking. We're seeing some buy...
JOSE MAZAS The data are consistent with very gradual cooling in the housing market.
JOHN SHIN It's the early signs of some cooling in this super-heated market. Fewer people qualify for loans and...
DAVID RESLER The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH We have the potential to introduce millions of new customers to an alternative in real estate, which...
COLBY SAMBROTTO Low mortgage rates continue to fuel the housing market, making homeownership more attainable to a br...
FRANK NOTHAFT I think that the affordable-housing problem in New Jersey has become so dire and become so widesprea...
ANNU MANGAT Housing activity has peaked and is coming down a bit, and we expect further cooling in the coming mo...
DAVID LEREAH There are signs of cooling in the hottest markets on both coasts and a shift in investor activity fr...
BRUCE KARATZ The weakness was primarily in the residential area. That's consistent with the other data we've seen...
GARY THAYER We see a flattening of housing starts and the beginning of a cooling process.
DAVID SEIDERS The cooling off of the regional housing market can be attributed to a combination of job losses rela...
JIM CUTTER There is no denying that 2005 has been a tremendous year for the housing industry. Very favorable in...
DAVID PRESSLY This should induce some slowing in housing market activity, but we expect the housing market in 2006...
FRANK NOTHAFT They took a sharper run up in prices, so it makes sense that there's a decrease there. Some people h...
ALAN GIN The slowdown in UK GDP growth is mainly being driven by sharply lower growth in household consumptio...
DAVID KERN Housing activity has peaked and is coming down a bit, and we expect further cooling in the coming mo...
DAVID LEREAH I think it's important from the policy stand point in that if the housing market is cooling down the...
ALEX LI Service-sector inflation has been picking up. Wage inflation has shown some signs of picking up so, ...
GARY DUGAN
So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any act... RUSH LIMBAUGH We've not seen anything like this previously. There have been hurricane disruptions, like Andrew, wh...
WALTER MOLONY Among manufacturers some have been relying on a strong housing market. It is appropriate to be conce...
GERALD ZUKOWSKI We also see consumer confidence down a little bit. Houses are on the market a little longer. We're n...
BOB MOULTON This increased housing market activity has clearly led to some recent firming in house prices, and t...
HOWARD ARCHER The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending as 2005-2006 unfolds, b...
SHERRY COOPER There is a need for business users to have broader access to unstructured information. The larger so...
BRIAN MCDONOUGH There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive me...
KENNETH BACON The bottom line is housing is not plunging and it's not soaring, ... There are signs that housing is...
JAMES O'SULLIVAN Housing prices cooling off, or even declining, is one potential risk,
AMY CLARK One of the reasons we had the housing market surging ahead was because of the low cost of borrowing ...
ALAN GIN There were some signs of recovery, but the latest outbreak has proved disastrous.
BHARAT TANDON There has been a huge drop in the amount of people coming to open houses because of the lack of sign...
ANNE LONG We needed to make a dramatic change in the way we approach welfare housing, ... There has been an in...
ISAAC HERZOG Some investors are worrying about the slowdown in the housing market, a key driver of the U.S. econo...
TORU UMEMOTO We have seen it in some instances, ... It's spotty.
JAMES CONWAY Housing activity has peaked. Inventories continue to rise. I see the housing market continuing to so...
DAVID LEREAH Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the sp...
TOM VILSACK Prudently underwritten alternative mortgage products have also allowed some borrowers who might othe...
DAVID SCHNEIDER Even though the Fed has tightened, it's not done a whole lot in the way of weakening the housing mar...
BILL MEEHAN Since the Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates in March, the housing market has just been going si...
MICHAEL EVERY The current administration has allowed market forces to determine the dollar's level, although there...
BOB LYNCH Fundamentally, the market looks strong and there are no signs of a sharp sell-off in the offing. We ...
CHRISTOPH EIBL The general picture from the housing market has not changed,
GEORGE BUCKLEY The decline helps affirm cooling in the housing sector and is consistent with other broad-based data...
CHRISTOPHER LOW We're watching the market carefully for any signs of a turn, for any signs of the 'bursting bubble' ...
MARSHALL PRENTICE There's been a cooling off in the U.S..
EDMUND SHING The key message is housing market activity has improved significantly into the second half of this y...
ALAN CLARKE It was in a market that was growing but has declined, at least as far as housing starts. What it all...
JEFF NOBERS Nationally, it is clear that some housing markets have moderated from the over-heated and, in some c...
BRUCE KARATZ The growth has been that some years we'll expand, some years we'll not. In the last few years, there...
CONNIE GRADEN I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity fo...
FRANK B. KELLOGG This is primarily because of a decrease in investment and speculative real estate activity in those ...
BRAD GEISEN
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... MARK ZANDI In the state and the country, the overall market is cooling a bit, but we will retain a robust marke...
KIT HALE President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in th...
GLENN HUBBARD The housing market has continued to cool off from white- hot levels of previous years.
ARA HOVNANIAN
I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of ... DAVID IGE We believe there is a real shortage of treatment programs for people with mental health illness. To ...
JAN EUSTIS A disconnect between household income levels and for-sale pricing in the valley's housing market has...
CHRIS BENTLEY The outlook in the UK is promising, particularly if there is an uplift in the housing market.
BEN GUNN The wireless handset market has been correcting for some time now and is showing signs of strength. ...
CHARLES BOUCHER It's really difficult to buy technology shares without any real signs of a turnaround in prices, whi...
KOJI UCHIDA Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006. It's starting to turn into a...
JOSHUA SHAPIRO What I see at this moment are the signs of a normal market. Previously, there was a frenzy.
CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG Direct sellers tend to be globally diverse. They aren't typically leveraged to the U.S. consumer, wh...
DOUGLAS LANE The market is extremely strong, ... The office market has been improving steadily and there is a gre...
JACK KYSER Hopefully, some of the younger runners will step up as the season progresses. The entire group has a...
BRIAN BULLIS The January numbers looked overly weak, in light of recent developments in the housing market so som...
GEORGE BUCKLEY What I see happening is moving from the very high end to a broader market, where I can start to affo...
BILL ABLONDI The Smith Barney lineup is kind of thin. They seem to have spotty records in other areas of the mark...
KERRY O'BOYLE The enterprise market is showing some signs of beginning to bounce back as the general economy begin...
TIM SMITH
The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have b... LUCY POWELL I would not have predicted that it (the market) would have been as active as it has been this early ...
CARLTON LUND We have had a great deal of precipitation, but the variable warming and cooling trends has made it s...
ADRIENNE FREEMAN I think the spike in permits, in retrospect, should have been somewhat predictable. But the strength...
CARL BROWN Without question, the housing market has peaked out. However, I think it will be a modest decline.
GREGORY GIEBER Interest rates probably aren't high enough. The Bank of Canada will keep raising until it sees some ...
FRED PYNN
There do appear to be, at a minimum, signs of froth in some local markets, ALAN GREENSPAN There have been no signs of life.
HUBERTUS ANDRAE I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.
ERIC MASKIN In the past they've guarded like heck and offense has been spotty. Now they're running really good o...
ROYCE WALTMAN The market has done a good job of ignoring signs we have bottomed. That's more a ghost of the bear m...
AL GOLDMAN The market has done a good job of ignoring signs we have bottomed, ... That's more a ghost of the be...
AL GOLDMAN The market has slowed a little bit, but the housing industry is still booming. We're still building ...
JOE SINAGRA Our January forecast calls for a gradual rise in long-term rates throughout 2006. This should induce...
FRANK NOTHAFT Winter months tend to be slower. We really have to wait until spring and summer ? the peak of the ho...
KATHY KALSER It is a pretty sharp bounce the market has been weak for some time.
JAMES STEEL
There were a lot of rumors going around about comments that Mr. Greenspan made. One was regarding th... JOHN MCCARTHY
Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years. JIM ROGERS The handheld market has been in decline since 2001. The biggest problem is that there hasn't been a ...
DAVID LINSALATA Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. Howe...
CRAIG ALEXANDER IBM is going to have another negative effect in the broader market. It's a major stock.
ANDRE BAKHOS A lot of the nervousness has already been priced in. Unless there is a smoking gun, the market will ...
JAMES BARRINEAU There has been huge demand everywhere. These people all need short- and long-term housing.
AL MANSELL There are definitely signs that consumer demand has been picking up. Funds are buying heavily.
ADAM ROWLEY Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006.
JOSHUA SHAPIRO I think what we saw yesterday (Tuesday) was a bounce in the bear market. It could continue. There's ...
ALAN KRAL There have been very little teeth in the affordable housing laws.
DREW POWELL There has always been a gray market [for computers], it has always existed.
JOYCE BECKNELL
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