There's been a lot of discussion about the end of quantitative easing, but relatively little about interest rates themselves. It's the level of rates that really matters.
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HIDENORI KATO One of the main drivers right now for the market is this worry about interest rates.
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BRUCE KASMAN Greenspan's shift to a 'don't criticize what you don't understand mode' signals that the low level o...
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DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT The U.S. economy looks stable. Easing concern over interest rates prompted investors to buy back the...
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AMY CUTTS Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CREWS CUTTS The economy could slow down, and there is still uncertainty about interest rates.
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ADAM MYERS The American numbers showed the people who had been getting nervous about interest rates may now thi...
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TOHRU SASAKI To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest r...
AMITY SHLAES Possibly we could see a little bit of profit taking because investors had been anticipating that whe...
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DIANE GLOSSMAN A lot of people equate the Federal Reserve's actions with changes in consumer interest rates but the...
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RON BARON I think it's inevitable that Governor Fukui will indicate we're that bit closer to the end of quanti...
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HENRY JAMES The sentiment on interest rates can swing. It really depends on the stance of the Federal Reserve.
MANDY CHAN We believe that Japan's premium (price-to-earnings) multiple is justified given the lower level of i...
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PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
RICHARD KADREY But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
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GEOFF LEWIS It is clear that the level of interest rates are at a sweet spot, neither serving to boost economic ...
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GREGORY SMITH The overall PMI shows we are still in rate cut territory. But the PMI has been below this (current) ...
CHRIS WILLIAMSON It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rathe...
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ANDY ENGEL The Federal Reserve system has been very much a lucky passenger in this growth, ... It's the bond ma...
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JOHN HULL The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
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IM NO JUNG Interest rates have an indirect effect on exchange rates.
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FELIX LANTERS We're going overweight in the United States, where rates are relatively high and stable ... while we...
TOSHIHIRO WADA It's not the end of the world to lose.
ANDY MURRAY At the end of the day, I'm a man.
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