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DAVID BROWN Last year, there were at least 250 people, but probably more, ... This year we are expecting about 5...
ANN STEVENSON We certainly expect the second half of the year to be considerably better than the first
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CRAIG LABARGE The key is going to be the turn-around in industrial production. When we see that, that will give so...
JASON JAMES We think we're going to see recovery by second half of the year and that growth can be quite brisk,
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DEBRA ALICH I think we've made tremendous strides in the passing game from last year. You saw us improve every w...
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LAWRENCE YUN How much better can it get? I find it hard to believe next year we will be talking about earnings th...
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LI XIANG Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.
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DALE OSBOURNE we believe we are on track to deliver on our previously disclosed range of earnings per share of $2....
GEORGE FISHER My hay production is down about 30 percent this year,
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KEN PERKINS We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.
ANIL KHANDELWAL We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spendi...
FRANK WANG Earnings are coming in 'in line' with expectations. We should still be up 15 percent year-over-year ...
ALFRED KUGEL Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN Producers are going to be supplying more to the domestic market, where demand is surging because thr...
JEFFREY MULYONO We're getting to the latter half of the year. and typically, the industry sells close to 20 percent ...
DAN NILES Earnings estimates are factoring in generous prices and in the second half of the year comparisons a...
GENE GILLESPIE I don't think you're going to see an aggressive marketplace, but there's no doubt that the second ha...
JOE CANGEMI Since the demand will keep mounting in the market, the prices could jump more than 3 percent on a ye...
DAVID KIM The evidence continues to mount that the economy is picking up a little bit but current levels -- 5....
JOSH STILES That was a pretty tough second half. There's nothing in the first half of this year that is going to...
MICHAEL TYNDALL We are expecting a 30 percent increase this year (in total sales).
HU YONG Against this background we are confident of our earlier expectations that we will be able to grow pr...
HENNING KAGERMANN We are 30 percent over what we were last year.
BRENDA RYANS Now people are starting to focus their attention on next year's earnings and year-end earnings on th...
BOB DICKEY While the near-term front-end order environment remains strong (December and March both likely up 25...
AVINASH KANT Analysts' forecasts for earnings I think are still a little too high. They are expecting 8-percent e...
ED KEON With demand still weak, there's room to cut rates in the first half of next year. That'll keep yield...
STUART THOMSON Our revenue grew 7 percent on an organic basis this quarter, ... We are confident EDS' revenue perfo...
DICK BROWN We're working on the passing game. The backs are pretty quick. We'll have to throw a little more [th...
JOSH HILDEBRANDT Correct. You can't pretend the first half of last year didn't transpire. But you do have to give cre...
DAN O'BRIEN We are seeing a different environment and performance in the second half of the fiscal year compared...
BRUCE ROHDE I remain bullish on the tech tape, ... I think short term we might be a little bit overbought here. ...
BRIAN CLIFFORD We now expect to achieve positive operating profits during the second half of this financial year,
WILLIAM ALLAN We're headed to around 6.5 percent sometime in the first half of next year.
HENRY WILLMORE Shaw Group reinvented itself over the last year and, as a result, their earnings (per share) are goi...
DAVID KATZ Shaw Group reinvented itself over the last year and, as a result, their earnings (per share) are goi...
DAVID KATZ Whereas it took the last official runners 30 minutes to cross the starting line last year, this year...
DAVE MCGILLIVRAY Core exports are trending up at about 10 percent year over year, not enough to prevent a widening of...
IAN SHEPHERDSON We think inflation in the middle of this year will be back below target. We are likely to see 5 perc...
DAVID BRICKMAN The auctions are all behind us. We are going to see the coming off of two-, five- and 10-year bond y...
LEE BOON KENG The economy is definitely making a transition. I think 1998 will be viewed as the year of soft landi...
BRUCE STEINBERG Through the first half of 2005, supply and demand has remained in relatively stable balance. However...
BRIAN GORDON Our mile-and-a-half program has improved a good bit this year compared to last year,
SCOTT WIMMER
Hopefully, the second half is the start of next year. Not to knock the first half, but we made two m... ANDY WILLIAMS For the year, we expect earnings for the Outdoor Group to exceed those of 1997 as seasonal marketing...
PETER LARSON Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half...
GUS FAUCHER What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent year...
BJORN HANSON As we face tougher comparisons in the second half of this year, it is unlikely we will sustain this ...
ALAN FELDMAN Looking forward into the fourth quarter, at this point we are not highly optimistic that there will ...
KAREN HAUS In 1999 ... booster seats were used by only 5 percent of 4- to 8-year-olds. By the middle of last ye...
DR. DENNIS DURBIN Earnings (for financial stocks) are going to outpace the S&P 500 in the second half of this year,
TOM GALVIN We can't extrapolate from the retailers' performance in the first part of the year how retailers' wi...
CRAIG JOHNSON We remain comfortable with our estimated fourth-quarter earnings per share range of 28 cents to 30 c...
JOHN CATO Up until last year, there was a cap on the number of students that could leave a particular district...
JOE DONOVAN We are going to see a recovery (in Hong Kong) in the second half of this year.
ALEX TANG I think we will hit the $600 level sometime this year. I don't know if we will make it during the fi...
JOE FOSTER We have had a good year. We've already surpassed last year. We're up about 12 percent over last year...
TOM JANKOVSKY Student bus ridership was up 30 percent last academic year. We hope to see that improve even more.
CINDY CAMPBELL At the start of the year, forecasts generally were for a more subdued year than we'd seen in 2004 so...
ALEX SCOTT Last year, a little over 51 percent of all individual taxpayers took advantage of e-file. This year,...
BERT DUMARS This sector saw about a 4 percent growth last year. I expect it to do about the same, between 3 to 4...
FRANK BADILLO The fundamentals remain solid. Virginia is among the 10 fastest-growing states in the country, and m...
KIT HALE The sales of bottled water are increasing by 30 percent a year here.
LI DEQUAN Our turnover rate as of May of this year was about 70 percent, which is about 30 percent below the i...
BOB FARLEY We estimate there will be 140,000 to 150,000 weddings this year, a 40 percent rise over last year.
CHEN YU It may have already touched the highest points in the first half year, but still have chance to clim...
CHENG WEIQING Consistent with the seasonality in our business and with the results from fiscal year 2005, we expec...
GARY STEELE
Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). ... MARC ANDREESSEN Orders will be only 30 to 40 percent of last year's (level), and we see them leveling out next year ...
ALAN MULALLY It is possible that this year will mark the end of the deflation and will bring in a paradigm shift ...
MASUHISA KOBAYASHI Investment spending continues to be very vigorous. There was 26 percent growth in investment in the ...
ALBERTO RAMOS The Mountain States region experienced growth significantly higher than the rest of the nation. The ...
ERNIE GOSS We expect our results for the remainder of the year to be in line with the earnings per share range ...
MIKE WRIGHT This year profits are going to be down on last year [but] most of them will still make money.
GEOFF MILLER
Economic confidence is weak because of high oil prices, but all that will change once oil is back do... DAVID BROWN Last year, there were at least 250 people, but probably more, ... This year we are expecting about 5...
ANN STEVENSON We certainly expect the second half of the year to be considerably better than the first
FRITZ HENDERSON We now expect sales and earnings in the fiscal 2006 third quarter, which ends April 2, 2006, to appr...
CRAIG LABARGE The key is going to be the turn-around in industrial production. When we see that, that will give so...
JASON JAMES We think we're going to see recovery by second half of the year and that growth can be quite brisk,
JOSH FEINMAN We anticipated about a 10 to 20 percent drop this year in participation,
HOWARD TAYLOR I am looking at recurrent earnings growth of 10 percent in 2006 for the banks, if you strip out exce...
DAVID LUM We have made an excellent start to the year with a 20 pct increase in profits in the first half and ...
ALAN JACKSON We have about 85 percent of our team back from last year, so we're pretty deep in a lot of spots. We...
DUKE DURLAND We're looking, hopefully, for a positive sales growth of about 2 percent this year. The stores that ...
BILL BAKER Last year, we started seven freshmen, and this year we will probably only start two. That makes it a...
CINDY SNEAD This has been an unbelievable year, no matter what happens. I did a better job of coaching last year...
JOHN CALIPARI The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the fir...
CHRIS ALLEN With companies like GE we expect earnings to remain strong through next year, where the momentum wit...
SUBODH KUMAR In the 10-year and 30-year area it seems like you attract a crowd any time yields have exceeded 4.5 ...
DAN SHACKELFORD
In the Palestinian Authority area unemployment is 30 percent and maybe more. The area needs to grow ... GORDON BROWN The chances of 10-year yields soaring above 1.6 percent are high. Ten- year bonds look expensive com...
MAKOTO YAMASHITA The first half of the year will be solid as the momentum we have seen in the last two quarters will ...
JOSEPH TAN We have experience this year. After getting it together last year, it was definitely easier this yea...
JACKIE BROUSSARD We are only one month into our first quarter. Our view of the year remains uncertain. While we are e...
HEIDI KUNZ Of the 36,000 that were served by the food bank last year, food insecure was about 87 percent.
DEBRA ALICH I think we've made tremendous strides in the passing game from last year. You saw us improve every w...
JOEL KLATT A cut...won't affect the 30-year fixed mortgage rate at all. According to Freddie Mac, the 30-year f...
LAWRENCE YUN How much better can it get? I find it hard to believe next year we will be talking about earnings th...
CAROLE BERGER It's going just as everyone has been expecting. We'll probably see the year-on-year (CPI) increase j...
SEIJI ADACHI It looks to me, with a slowing economy, the first half of the coming year is going to be pretty chal...
LANNY BAKER In the first quarter of this year, sales rose 35 per cent compared with the same period last year. A...
LI XIANG Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.
BOB BURKE Hopefully, we have more depth and we'll be more athletic than last year. Last year, this team was a ...
DALE OSBOURNE we believe we are on track to deliver on our previously disclosed range of earnings per share of $2....
GEORGE FISHER My hay production is down about 30 percent this year,
BRUCE WOOD We move into the second half of 1999 confident that we can meet our earnings goals for the year.
LAWRENCE WEINBACH [We reached] the high end of our target margin range of 3.5 to 4 percent reinforces the fact that we...
MERLE GILMORE
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