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DANA SPIOTTA Exporters are going to lead the market higher in the second half. The fall in oil prices and positiv...
LEE KUN HAK Hong Kong took a lead from Wall Street, Tokyo and other overseas markets, and this explains gains th...
HOWARD GORGES Without pressure from Wall Street, they would never have got things moving. It took Wall Street to w...
BRAD RUBIN There are fears in the market that the supply from Iran could be reduced. This is obviously positive...
MARKUS ILG The Hong Kong market takes the lead from Wall Street and, to a lesser extent, other overseas markets...
HOWARD GORGES I think within a couple of weeks, (gas) prices will revert to pre-Katrina levels. But I also believe...
A. F. ALHAJJI Back in February, when we projected $55 oil, oil prices were falling. We projected a weaker price ov...
GREG ALBRECHT A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street.
BEN BERNANKE In the 70s, high oil prices were a shock... People woke up, but then they relaxed.
COLIN CAMPBELL Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies a...
GARY WEISS Oil damps growth everywhere but the high oil price may well be hurting Asia and Japan a lot more. Oi...
ADRIAN SCHMIDT You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust em...
REX TILLERSON The oil price and the rally on Wall Street will definitely help us move higher today.
LEX BOUWMEESTER Higher oil prices will drive up sentiment for oil stocks.
SALLY YEO The Wall Street Journal said the least Congress could do is take credit for these prices.
BOB LANDRETH We had no option. We were up against the proverbial brick wall.
KEN WELLS The market extended yesterday's decline as it took its lead from the overnight losses on Wall Street...
ALVIN TENG If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
JEFF GOODELL What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.
DAVID WINTERS Gasoline inventories are expected to decline going into March, which may lead to a further rise in o...
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JOS DELGADO When we first went to talk to Wall Street, we had a long face and a short story.
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LARRY PERUZZI There has been a rising floor underneath oil prices, ... Last year we were worried about $40 a barre...
JAN STUART The market took the lead from Wall street last Friday and the Japanese market this morning. Buying i...
CASTOR PANG We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.
ALAN JOHNSON Share prices got off a firmer start as investors took comfort from the rally on Wall Street but caut...
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GARY DUGAN It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.
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ADDISON ARMSTRONG In an up cycle, it is very difficult to forecast the velocity of the earnings growth. Therefore, Wal...
BRIAN ALGER We have a remarkably resilient economy. It's taken hits from a hurricane, and increased oil prices, ...
CLIFF BREWIS The whole story this week was about maintaining and improving confidence ? from the Fed and from Wal...
BARRY HYMAN You've had not only a steady rise in actual oil and gas prices, but you have had a steady rise in th...
GEOFF KIEBURTZ Currently the international oil prices are at high levels. Against this backdrop, we would face big ...
ZHANG GUOBAO We expect a colder weather in the next two weeks, so heating oil prices and natural gas prices will ...
GORDON KWAN We had higher oil prices, higher gold prices, higher copper prices and even a higher Dow (Jones inde...
ANGUS GEDDES High oil prices were one factor in dampening the global expansion.
ANDREW BURNS Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel o...
FAREED ZAKARIA The transition from a world of expanding oil to one
of shrinking oil will be a shift of seismi...
LESTER BROWN We think this is a more positive outlook than many on the Street were looking for and should have a ...
CHARLES BOUCHER Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again
WILL ROGERS I think the market's come to realize that economic growth in the U.S. is not threatened by higher oi...
LOUIS WONG Apparently someone blew up down there and we hit his oil. I went up and hit the wall, bent the ball ...
MIKE SKINNER Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, woul...
BERNIE SANDERS The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
RON CHERNOW Strictly natural gas and oil, that's what's driving up prices everywhere.
DAVID GRAVES Oil prices and continued inflammatory comments from Iran are driving gold.
DANIEL VAUGHT Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the sa...
STEPHANIE CUTTER You have lower oil prices, you have a healthy employment situation and you have a consumer that is s...
GORDON FOWLER Frankly, we believe natural gas prices would have dropped more this winter, had it not been for $60+...
CATHERINE ELDER People were thinking that, if the oil refineries take a direct hit, energy prices would shoot up and...
GEORGE GONCALVES We never know what Wall Street will love and what Wall Street won't love, ... We have to do the thin...
JEFF SMULYAN Strong crude oil prices were generally lifting sentiment in the precious metals market.
AKIRA DOI We've had a pull-back in gold and oil prices, and surprise surprise, oil and gold companies are off,...
JULIE BROUGH Oil prices are effectively a tax and we want a low-tax global economy. I am happier with lower price...
EDWARD MENASHY supply and demand price for oil stands at around $27, so $5 to $6 (of the current price) is pure spe...
PETER HITCHENS Shell is profiting from the current high oil prices, but we are all paying the price. Oil companies ...
CRAIG BENNETT The outlook for Asia Pacific's aviation industry in 2006 remains fairly positive although the burden...
ANDREW HERDMAN The outlook for Asia-Pacific's aviation industry in 2006 remains fairly positive, although the burde...
ANDREW HERDMAN We were up 6-2, gave up four goals in the third period, took a 7-6 lead, lost the lead in the last m...
ANDY EMANUEL Last year, oil prices were really high so there was no problem meeting targets.
JOYDEEP MUKHERJI We are beginning to wrap up the Main Street improvements, putting in the new retaining wall on Jacks...
DAN CAMP Fortunately, not everything was higher at the grocery store. Consumers in Missouri found lower price...
DIANE OLSON The crude inventory figure is pushing up oil prices and that is hurting the markets. That is prevent...
CUMMINS CATHERWOOD This is a very positive, strong report and encouraging because it included Katrina and a spike in oi...
KURT KARL The one positive thing I can say about our kids is when their backs were up against the wall, they k...
BRENT STROH I had come from a middle-class family in Port Washington, Long Island, and I was really clueless abo...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country st...
ELIOT SPITZER We've insulated ourselves from higher oil prices, but we're not immune to them.
LARRY GOLDSTEIN We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able...
RODRIGO RATO what came from Manchester; Stevie Winwood and Spencer Davis were the Birmingham contingent and then ...
JOHN MAYALL There will be just too much risk of geopolitical shocks in 2006 for oil prices to fall sharply and i...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN Share prices fell in knee-jerk reaction to a retreat on Wall Street overnight. Investors also took a...
TOSHIHIKO MATSUNO It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to cap...
MARIA CANTWELL There's a huge conviction in the Wall Street community that this will be a successful, surgical, sho...
BILL SULLIVAN With a lack of any key economic news, once again the direction of the dollar is linked to the volati...
ALEX BEUZELIN Rising oil prices are the biggest risk to what is otherwise shaping up as a robust recovery.
BRUCE STEINBERG High oil prices are a concerning factor. We have to watch them carefully.
SADAKAZU TANIGAKI Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street.
JANET YELLEN I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.
BEN NELSON In the run-up things were looking quite promising and solid, and now it really is a matter of, can t...
CHARLIE SHARP And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came ...
WILL ARNETT Whatever will happen has to be based on long-term policies and strategies of resistance. We had the ...
RAOUL PECK The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming...
JON MEACHAM The oil data is giving some support to the stock market, especially given the mixed company earnings...
EDGAR PETERS People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that ...
GEOFFREY CANADA We certainly have not been helped by gold and oil prices.
MARSHALL FRONT His testimony not only played well to Congress but to Wall Street. So we should continue to get a li...
FRED DICKSON Crude oil prices are the major determinant of gasoline prices.
JAMES WELLS These four companies all had good solid strings of success for a while. They even had Wall Street pa...
CRAIG JOHNSON If we look at Hurricane Ivan (which hit the Gulf in 2004), oil prices continued to go up for more th...
A. F. ALHAJJI This is a nation of inconsistencies. The Puritans fleeing from oppression became oppressors. We foug...
MARY LEASE After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 throug...
BERNIE SANDERS The last time the U.S. was engaged militarily in Iraq, oil prices shot up to about $42 a barrel,
PETER GIGNOUX Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke.
PETER SCHIFF It's Wall Street rather than Main Street that's getting rich.
CLEMENT GIGNAC The hole in the wall is primarily to prevent babies from dying in the street.
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ERIC HOFFER No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER