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JOHN LONSKI The big question is when and how much long-term interest rates are going to rise, because that affec...
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DAVID LEREAH The strength of the housing market this year continues to surprise, despite rising home prices and s...
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KLAUS BAADER The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something ...
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PETER BOOCKVAR The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is de...
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FRANK NOTHAFT We're developing a more bullish scenario here because of the slowdown in the economy leading to less...
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PETER BOOCKVAR Even with interest rates going up, housing markets will remain healthy going into 2006.
DEREK HOLT Nobody knows when the Fed is going to quit raising rates. Once the market feels comfortable with tha...
EDWARD HEMMELGARN If the past is any guide, the effect of rising interest rates is likely to be felt most visibly in h...
DONALD KOHN It's unclear when the Fed will stop raising interest rates. Even if the rate hike comes to an end, H...
LOUIS WONG Since the Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates in March, the housing market has just been going si...
MICHAEL EVERY At the moment there is not a broad-based systemic inflation problem bubbling up in the economy. The ...
JOSEPH MCALINDEN In reality, it won't matter as much because other elements like spending and consumer sentiment look...
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NATALIE URQUIETA The market's starting to look further ahead. There seems to be the sentiment that the economy will c...
JOSH STILES The Fed is remaining vigilant against inflation, which helps 10-year notes and 30-year bonds. But tw...
JEFF PALMA
MARIA FIORINI RAMIREZ Increased confidence, a strong housing sector and low interest rates have got Australian consumers i...
CRAIG JAMES From his comments, it is clear that the US Fed will keep raising rates, hoping to bring the housing ...
DREW MATUS It seems the U.S. housing markets remain overheated. This will give the Fed another reason to keep r...
JUN KITAZAWA I think the Fed still has no other choice but still to raise rates. I know that there's some rumors ...
MARC GABELLI It'll kill the housing sector,
EDWARD LEAMER The Fed will be concerned about inflation pressures building and will keep on hiking interest rates....
INDRAJIT ADVANI It shows growth for the U.S. economy but also points that the Fed will keep raising rates. Growth is...
EDWIN SLAGHEKKE I think the Fed is going to raise interest rates over the rest of this year. I think it will go up a...
FRANKLIN RAINES The short-term interest-rate level at 4.25 on fed funds provides mortgage rates which definitely won...
KIT JUCKES The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH Interest rates probably aren't high enough. The Bank of Canada will keep raising until it sees some ...
FRED PYNN If rates move up, housing will move down. But as long as we see relatively low interest rates and em...
GREGORY GIEBER I think the question the market is struggling with is whether we are concerned about inflation and t...
KEN TOWER Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH The Fed contributed to the financial crisis, keeping interest rates too low for too long. I give the...
KEVIN BRADY
I don't think you will see the Fed jumping to interest rates, GEORGE SOROS The perception is that rates are going up, and people are lining up to buy homes because of that. It...
CARL WEINBERG The statement fueled market expectations that the Fed will further increase interest rates.
HIROKI SHIMAZU The Fed is a price fixer; it fixes the price of short-term credit. If there's an increase in demand ...
PAUL KASRIEL We still do not look for the core CPI to accelerate rapidly, but it is likely to be persistently fir...
STEPHEN STANLEY There's increased speculation that the Fed will be cutting interest rates between meetings.
CHUCK CARLSON Inflation has boxed the Fed in, they are going to have to keep moving rates up.
MICHAEL DARDA Treasuries are expensive at these levels given that the Fed is still going to raise interest rates. ...
HIROYUKI YAMADA Everyone knows that interest rates will rise but the question is how fast and by how much. I see the...
KNUT HOCHWALD It is a foregone conclusion that there is no threat of inflation ... the question is not when the Fe...
PHILIP BRAVERMAN Theres still so much interest in the Beatles and John and still so much mythology,
BOB SPITZ This is in line with our expectation that demand for new housing would 'cool off' towards the end of...
BRIAN BETHUNE U.S. economic numbers are still doing well, but decelerating. The data are not strong enough to forc...
BRIAN ROSE Interest rates are going up - the only question is by how much. Yields will rise further.
ALEX ROHNER The market is not going to figure out where it wants to go until you have some conviction about wher...
VINCE FARRELL The market is speculating that the Fed may keep going. The interest rate in Canada right now lags be...
STEVE BUTLER All forecasts are for interest rates and mortgage rates to go up a little bit again this year. It co...
KATHY DECK The important thing is not whether the Fed can ease but the fact that people can even ask that quest...
CARY LEAHEY As certain as it is that the sun rises in the east, the Fed will be hiking its benchmark interest ra...
JOHN LONSKI The big question is when and how much long-term interest rates are going to rise, because that affec...
BRIAN ROONEY The government will be making every effort to bring down interest rates more and more so that sustai...
GUIDO MANTEGA Higher interest rates are still a concern. My sense is that global growth should continue, but how q...
FRANKI CHUNG I think he's basically greasing the skids for the Fed to keep raising rates, and that may not be som...
MICHAEL DARDA The hype is off the housing market. Prices are high. Interest rates are climbing. Housing needs to c...
JAY BUTLER Whatever I fed to his mind, thinking it was nutrition was, in fact, poison. No matter how much a per...
KIRTIDA GAUTAM No one wants to see interest rates raised. The fact that the congressman is not supporting this mean...
SARAH ARMSTRONG The Fed should be cautious about over-tightening and causing too much of a downturn in the housing m...
GLENN HABERBUSH The numbers relieved some fear of the Fed tightening interest rates. For how long, I don't know. But...
DAVID JARVIS The Fed will continue to raise interest rates. We think they will do so twice more.
KATHLEEN STEPHANSEN
To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question ...
RAY DALIO The GDP data was weak, but the key is new home sales. The Fed right now has one thing to worry about...
FRANK HSU Although earlier estimates have been revised up slightly, the new figures confirm that the sector wa...
DAVID KERN Yields are going to continue to trend upward as the Fed keeps raising rates. The Fed believes that t...
JOSEPH SHATZ Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... If inflation gets out of hand, the Fed will have to raise interest rates more than is envisioned rig...
ALLEN SINAI But I do think it brings into question the notion of how aggressive the Fed is going to need to be i...
ALEX BEUZELIN [Even with the changes in the market, many economists remain optimistic that the housing market is n...
BOB WALTERS The decline in starts shows that higher interest rates are impacting the housing market. That is a s...
JAMES CARON
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Feder... BEN BERNANKE Long-term U.S. interest rates have risen as the market has started to price in the likelihood that t...
MASAMICHI KOIKE The housing sector has likely passed its peak. The boom is winding down. I expect continued softenin...
DAVID LEREAH The strength of the housing market this year continues to surprise, despite rising home prices and s...
GREGORY KLUMP The market generally believes that zero interest rates will continue for the next two or three month...
KAZUYUKI KATO The evidence of marked improvement in the manufacturing sector further guarantees there will be no i...
HOWARD ARCHER The consensus appears to be a likely pause in June as the Fed assesses the effects of past rate hike...
WILLIAM O'DONNELL
Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go ... CARLOS SLIM Today's inflation figures have boosted the dollar across the board on accumulating chances that the ...
ASHRAF LAIDI If the Fed continues to raise interest rates, it puts a damper on the spirits of voters and consumer...
ETHAN SIEGAL The housing group will be fairly stable the next six months, then later will react to opportunities ...
JAMES WILSON The orders situation in the German manufacturing sector is excellent. It strengthens the European Ce...
KLAUS BAADER The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something ...
JOHN HULL The decline in oil helped, as well as the hope that maybe the Fed will be finished raising interest ...
PETER BOOCKVAR The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is de...
JEFFREY LUBELL If inflation is brought down, interest rates will fall. Once rates fall, we have the opportunity to ...
PIYUSH GOYAL The world is coming to a view that the Fed is going to provide more liquidity and interest rates wil...
ADAM MYERS
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD The report isn't so tame as to deter the Fed from bumping rates another notch, especially with Y2K f...
OSCAR GONZALEZ Earlier, there was no question who was going to win this league. There was no question that no team ...
BRACEY WRIGHT Markets are confident that the Fed will raise rates another 25 basis points at the Federal Open Mark...
ANN OWEN I don't think the Fed is under pressure to raise rates faster than they have been but I think they'd...
BILL CHENEY It was no great surprise that housing starts rose for the second time in three months since mortgage...
FRANK NOTHAFT We're developing a more bullish scenario here because of the slowdown in the economy leading to less...
COURTNEY SMITH These numbers give the Fed license to cut rates as much as necessary.
ANTHONY CHAN People are willing to hold dollars. People are coming around to the view that the Fed is going to ke...
GERRY CELAYA Interest rates are just part of the costs in the real sector. With inflation starting to ease, we ex...
ANGGITO ABIMANYU
Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA It looks like manufacturing is still under pressure. We're getting to a stage of a two-speed economy...
CHRIS HART
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Feder... BEN BERNANKE The Fed is not finished yet in raising interest rates. Investors are still cautious on inflation and...
YOSHIHIRO ISHIDA The market needs to set prices, including interest rates and allocate resources. If it were up to me...
PETER SCHIFF Given the uncertainty of the effect the hurricane may have on the economy, the Fed may take a pause ...
STUART THOMSON The results confirm the view that the euro zone export/investment-led recovery is graduating to a mo...
LENA KOMILEVA The decline in oil helped (stocks), as well as the hope that maybe the Fed will be finished raising ...
PETER BOOCKVAR Even with interest rates going up, housing markets will remain healthy going into 2006.
DEREK HOLT Nobody knows when the Fed is going to quit raising rates. Once the market feels comfortable with tha...
EDWARD HEMMELGARN If the past is any guide, the effect of rising interest rates is likely to be felt most visibly in h...
DONALD KOHN It's unclear when the Fed will stop raising interest rates. Even if the rate hike comes to an end, H...
LOUIS WONG Since the Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates in March, the housing market has just been going si...
MICHAEL EVERY At the moment there is not a broad-based systemic inflation problem bubbling up in the economy. The ...
JOSEPH MCALINDEN In reality, it won't matter as much because other elements like spending and consumer sentiment look...
HANS OLSEN PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA The market's starting to look further ahead. There seems to be the sentiment that the economy will c...
JOSH STILES The Fed is remaining vigilant against inflation, which helps 10-year notes and 30-year bonds. But tw...
JEFF PALMA
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