When all markets fall, it's a sign that liquidity is being withdrawn.

Historically, there is no correlation between what markets do in the first week of the year and what they do in the year as a whole.

The large German banks now seem to be more interested in competing with Anglo-Saxon banks in international markets than in nurturing their long-standing domestic lending business.

It seems to me sad when ... you give a platform to the charlatans. It is doing great damage to the struggle. It sows confusion and uncertainty where there should be no confusion and uncertainty.

I'm happy that things are going up in the markets but when things get too bullish and too, I don't know if they're exuberant, but too optimistic, someone will find something between the lines on the Fed statement saying, 'but they said this, they cautioned here', maybe to have to be vigilant, so people might use that as an excuse to stay profits.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.