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We certainly do think there are another two (rate hikes) left in the Bank of Canada before they tag out.


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We think there's going to be two more rate hikes. One in March and then another in April.
TED CARMICHAEL We expect the combination of a U.S. growth moderation and the lagged impacts of a strong Canadian do...
AVERY SHENFELD While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer ...
CHANNA AMARATUNGA Multiple rate hikes after May would certainly change the picture.
CHARLES ROTBLUT Strong figures will certainly re-ignite expectations of further Fed rate hikes.
TORU UMEMOTO Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII We still don't know how many more rate hikes there are in the cycle and the minutes don't really she...
MARC CHANDLER We think the bank has left the door open for a pause in October, but a rate hike would follow in Dec...
CARL GOMEZ While the US Fed appears to have shortened its commitment to rate hikes by deleting the word 'measur...
KAZUHIRO NISHINA The near-term momentum is clearly favorable to the dollar. Two further rate hikes are a pretty sure ...
HANS GOETTI We've had quite a significant appreciation this week, and I think this is sort of a holding pattern ...
CAROLYN KWAN The market is speculating that the Fed may keep going. The interest rate in Canada right now lags be...
STEVE BUTLER The ECB probably won't do very much, maybe one or two rate hikes, and if the Fed keeps tightening th...
BESA DEDA I think rate hikes will become more difficult for the BOJ.
MITSURU SAITO Bond prices rose because the market was excited at the idea that the number of further rate hikes ne...
CARY LEAHEY The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to...
CRAIG ALEXANDER It would be tempting to up the pace of rate hikes, but we have to be very careful in evaluating wher...
ROBERT LIND As long as the Fed keeps raising rates, yields are going to move higher. The Fed decision definitely...
JOSEPH SHATZ Buying momentum for stocks is shrinking. Overseas investors are pulling their money out of Japanese ...
HAJIME YAGI We're optimistic on the market as we head into the second half of this year and into 2001. We think ...
DAVID PRESSON What's causing the rate hikes has nothing to do with the legal system.
JOANNE DOROSHOW We primarily see dollar strength because we're expecting one to two more rate hikes from the Fed. Al...
KATHY LIEN A lot of the gains are due to the earnings story. I think the market can deal with one or two more i...
BARRY HYMAN We would have left campus earlier, but one of our buses broke down right before we left. We had to w...
CRYSTAL HAWKINS Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve,
DAVID GILMORE I think overnight there was another focus on the bank of Canada statement and it pushed aside the oi...
DAVID POWELL Inflation is a massive theme because we are in a rising-interest-rate environment. I think there is ...
JANE FOLEY There has been a slow down in real growth, but at 5,6% growth is still fairly strong. If the Reserve...
ADENAAN HARDIEN I think there is a reasonable chance we will see another interest rate reduction before the cycle is...
PAUL DONOVAN a pause in rate hikes is a more likely scenario rather than a rate cut.
MICHAEL NIEMIRA An increase in domestic fuel prices will be inflationary and controls will have to come through rate...
HASITHA PREMARATNE The best thing for the Bank of Canada to do is to wait and see.
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KHALIA N. HADES If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... We don't think there is anything to warrant a rate move from the central bank. Even though building ...
JARROD KERR With household finances already under considerable stress, one has to wonder if another round of rat...
BERNARD BAUMOHL If we see them increasing their outlook for the world economy in terms of growth and we see that fee...
JOHN ANANIA we
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI The Fed's not finished. More rate hikes loom.
JOHN LONSKI Strong figures will boost expectations of higher growth in consumer spending in the U.S.. That will ...
YUJI SAITO The bank did a splendid job. The market had expected an end to the policy, but the bank still left i...
YASUHIDE YAJIMA 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 data on the real side of the economy supports rate hikes.
DAVID KEEBLE Investors are looking for a sign as to when rate hikes are going to stop.
ANDRE BAKHOS 2010 Bank holidays are the most important public holidays and are observed across the different coun...
RAHUL KUMAR We won't see big moves today in anticipation of the FOMC statement. The risk is out there that the F...
DAVID MANN I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organiza...
BOB GELDOF He's been very clear. The Fed may take a pause for a month or two, but that doesn't mean it's the en...
ART HOGAN If anyone was still expecting a Fed rate cut before, they're certainly going to throw that out the w...
COREY REDFIELD You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN The wording was that monetary policy is still stimulative, which implies further rate hikes down the...
DAVID POWELL Marco and Eric are forging full-speed ahead and certainly look to fill out the team. They've been ex...
HAYNE ELLIS Rate hikes don't have to mean the death knell for tech spending. Fundamentals are still strong.
DAVID JOY Despite all the rate hikes, the (Federal Reserve's) overnight lending rate is still less than inflat...
JAMES TURK We are glad that two of these senior citizens didn't fall for the scams. Unfortunately, criminals in...
JANET JENKINS The low jobless rate, the steady upward creep in wage increases and the solid employment gain will a...
DOUG PORTER We're probably in for another quarter or two of disappointments. I think there's a lot of caution ou...
NICK ANGILLETTA My impression is that the market is correctly anticipating that the Fed is close to being finished w...
JASON TRENNERT In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.
MAC THORNBERRY We don't know who they are, why they're there, what kind of therapy they're receiving, or who they h...
BRYAN SAMUELS So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most busine...
BARRY DILLER Properties were weak as investors were concerned that further rate hikes will affect earnings of dev...
CONITA HUNG We live in Florida; we already have fire ants, scorpions and snakes. We certainly don't need another...
JERRY HAYES Fed officials' comments point to the risk of faster inflation. We expect three or four more rate hik...
JUN KITAZAWA We certainly anticipated more out of our two games in Alberta.
WAYNE GRETZKY Some investors are betting that Hong Kong won't follow the U.S. rate hikes in May and are moving ahe...
FREDERICK TSANG I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through ...
BOB GELDOF I think we each have a certain number of unnecessary apologies, which we willingly dish out before w...
JOYCE RACHELLE I won't be surprised to see more falls in the property and financial sectors even if presales of apa...
CASTOR PANG Fed officials are sounding hawkish. They're signaling further rate hikes and that's making investors...
TETSU AIKAWA I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left.
CURTIS ARNOLD All three are four-time state champions. I don't think that's ever happened before. Most seasons, th...
DON HEIZER They didn't come in bunches. I think we had opportunities to score more than we did. A couple of tim...
JASON SHIREY I had never been into the park before and came because I heard that there were no fees today. It's r...
CATHY MITCHELL The market is closely watching if there are any other comments on the US economy or interest rate hi...
MASAMICHI KOIKE There have been some expectations in the market that the Fed would perhaps do, instead of three hike...
BRIAN WILLIAMSON We cannot stay another year; we want to go now, before another year has passed, we may all be dead, ...
DULL KNIFE It may not be long before we see another interest rate cut and this could account for the follow-thr...
HOWARD GORGES The risk is for the ECB to accelerate the pace of interest- rate hikes. There seems to be very littl...
CYRIL BEUZIT We are definitely getting another rate cut.
LARA RHAME Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, bec...
ROBERT ASPRIN I certainly think our kids are think good things are going to happen when they go out on the field e...
GEORGE QUARLES Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.
JEFFREY FRY They're certainly the favorites. There's no doubt about it. They're as good as anybody we've played....
LOU LEFEVRE Like those players in the bond market, stock players may have begun to factor in rate hikes in the f...
RYUTA OTSUKA He attacked Eric. Eric had a stab wound through his left arm and was stabbed in the lungs and the he...
GERRI FLYNN I think, with inflation still rising, the central bank will have to increase the rate again.
FAUZI ICHSAN I think it was the right thing to do. We needed to get those people out of there and get them anothe...
LUC ROBITAILLE Most people think we're in for a couple more rate hikes in the United States. We'd argue that that w...
GRAHAM SECKER They took our 50 because we were chasing the president and we got out of there right away, ... The o...
JAMES BRUNNER There's certainly a danger in people thinking that chocolate is a health food. Chocolate is very cal...
BONNIE LIEBMAN I would expect there are students out there who rationalize that they cheated out of boredom with th...
FRAN COHEN I would have to say that Canada definitely produces the best wrestlers; I don't know why. I thin...
CHRIS JERICHO In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was co...
RYAN ZINKE Those numbers that came out this morning on the economy really signal that the rate hikes aren't ove...
BART BARNETT We had members in Alaska, Hawaii; we even had a wing in Canada, but they kind of died out. There wer...
FLORA BALMER On balance, the macro outlook continues to point to further rate hikes by the Fed.
CHARMAINE BUSKAS For the Fed, continuing 25-basis-point rate hikes seem to be the best bet.
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ERIC HOFFER Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR. When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW