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PETER BOOCKVAR The report is the latest sign that consumer confidence has been trending down. It adds to worries in...
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Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their em...
KLAUS SCHWAB Looking forward, consumer confidence could increase further should the rise in black consumer confid...
CEES BRUGGEMANS such a modest increase [in unemployment] is unlikely to have any impact on consumer confidence or af...
PHILIP SHAW The good news is that concert consumer spending is miniscule compared to total entertainment spendin...
MICHAEL RAPINO For the Nikkei to go up further, gains need to become more broad-based.
HIROSHI ARANO The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS Far from being a leading indicator of consumer spending, consumer confidence has consistently missed...
CARL STEIDTMANN The New York gains are nice, but a rebound of this scale is not enough to turn the bearish trend aro...
KUNIHIRO HATAE People moved to take profits now as they don't want to be squeezed during a holiday.
KUNIHIRO HATAE Tokyo shares followed the Nasdaq today. Also, trading was supported by those buyers who came back to...
KUNIHIRO HATAE It can be seen as a positive sign that vigorous corporate restructuring is underway. But the negativ...
KUNIHIRO HATAE The worst is over. I believe we've seen a peak in selling in those outgoing 30 issues, although sell...
KUNIHIRO HATAE Strong corporate earnings are fuelling capital spending and spilling over to the household sector, s...
SEIJI ADACHI The good news is that this is going to go directly to the corporate bottom line. That's a real plus ...
WAYNE AYERS Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer...
HIDEO ARIMURA Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer...
HIDEO ARIMURA Consumer confidence is poised to remain strong during 2006, which will continue to support consumer ...
CEES BRUGGEMANS We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in con...
STEVEN WIETING We have a bunch of good news today. First, foreign investors took a cue from strong earnings here an...
KAZUHIRO TAKAHASHI There's no need to cut interest rates to stimulate consumer demand or investment spending.
DENNIS DYKES There is reasonable optimism still in investors' minds. We are still seeing good support coming thro...
ALEX SCOTT All M&A news is strong support for the stock market. European shares remain attractive. Productivity...
GUILLAUME DUCHESNE![]()
A further rise [in fuel prices] could cut materially into private spending and thus damp the rate of...
ALAN GREENSPAN Although the cooling U.S. housing sector is going be a major drag on consumer spending as 2006 unfol...
SHERRY COOPER We expect the [earnings] news [to] further the relief rally underway in the shares and therefore con...
MARK SWARTZBERG The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spendi...
HIDEO ARIMURA We've gotten good reports from a variety of companies, supporting the thesis that corporate earnings...
ERIC KUBY We had expected a snap-back in consumer spending after a decline in May, and that's what these numbe...
LYNN REASER Markets are down because of the start of attacks and the fear of counter attacks, which could impact...
ROBERT ROBBINS consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of...
CHRIS RUPKEY Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increas...
DIANE GARNICK The political turmoil in Iran turned the mood from positive to negative going into the week and that...
ERIC KUBY Energy stocks should find support in the oil price and the earnings news will support the broader ma...
LEX BOUWMEESTER With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to ...
ANGUS CAMPBELL In the acquire-or-be-acquired corporate mayhem of the 1980s, the mantle of management has passed to ...
CHARLES FONTAINE![]()
Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the ...
GERMAINE GREER The tax will reduce our competitiveness against producers such as Australia, South Africa and newcom...
JEFFREY MULYONO Corporate balance sheets are in great shape and we look for business investment to keep the economy ...
CARL RICCADONNA Spain's strong consumer spending is backed not only by job creation but also by a significant rise i...
CARMEN NUZZO We got some good earnings news from Cisco and from Pepsi. Oil has also been pretty tame today.
CHARLES ROTBLUT Profit-taking took hold following recent gains. I believe the lack of any significant local news pre...
JACKSON WONG I think the Fed has at least one further tightening in June and another one in August. Until the Ame...
NED RILEY Our business is more impacted by consumer confidence than even a little spike in the interest rates ...
FAROOQ KATHWARI The consumer spending situation is improving in Europe; that's what we need to ensure durable growth...
DOMINIQUE BARBET Last week, chain-store sales came in pretty strong. But if you stripped out gasoline sales from Wal-...
ELLEN BEESON Marketing spending in the fourth quarter of 2005 was a precipitous drop from the two-year high of Q3...
CARL HOWE It's good news for existing hotels, since they benefit from an increase in demand. For the consumer,...
JAN FREITAG This was not good news for the economy. It looks like a reflection of November's unemployment rate, ...
GREGORY MILLER It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not &...
CRAIG L. THOMAS There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ...
FRANKLIN MORTON A domestic-demand-driven economic recovery is continuing, albeit at a slightly slower pace in Q3, .....
SEIJI ADACHI A domestic-demand-driven economic recovery is continuing, albeit at a slightly slower pace in Q3. St...
SEIJI ADACHI Acquisition news is quite positive because it indicates a looking-ahead and willing-to-spend mentali...
BARBARA MARCIN It did come in stronger, so that's probably good news in terms of consumer momentum as we go into th...
ELISABETH DENISON Prices are expected to rise dramatically as a result of the terrorist attack. Typically for property...
AL CAPRA But it's not as if a major Japanese firm has come out with a piece of good news on the earnings fron...
HIDEKI KAMIYA VC spending has always been a challenge in Illinois, so this is good news.
ED LONGANECKER The hopes that you're going to have strong corporate earnings fuel the market to rally further are s...
ERIC KUBY The more important development more recently was the tax cut that was enacted over the weekend, whic...
HENRY WILLMORE Given the demographics of the targeted Pier 1 consumer, we believe higher gas prices could limit spe...
ALAN RIFKIN Investors are becoming bullish on the sales outlook for electronics industries. Retailers may contin...
ATSUSHI OSA As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued con...
FAROOQ KATHWARI Through November [2002], we believed that discretionary consumer spending growth of 3 percent was ad...
HARRY CURTIS We realised from past experience that we need to have a range of disciplines, including employment, ...
DAVID KERR We have seen good corporate earnings and strong numbers from the auto makers for April, and fund flo...
DEVEN CHOKSEY A takeover bid is underscoring prospects for the sector, which has been benefiting from a recovery i...
SUSUMU ABE The market would need some fundamental news to be coming through to be supported at these levels, ot...
GUY HUTCHINGS The markets were choppy during morning trade. Trading will become stock-specific as the corporate ea...
ATUL HATWAR I don't really see [today's bad corporate news] as significant fundamental factors, I see it more as...
ADAM ADELMAN There are two key challenges to the U.S. market: one is Fed policy -- and it's still our concern tha...
GARY DUGAN The market is caught between good quarterly reports, such as the one from Disney, and the reality of...
JIM AWAD The consumer is already somewhat vulnerable in the year ahead as the tax-cut effects fade. If we con...
ETHAN HARRIS In the last few weeks we've had pretty good corporate earnings out but the market seems to be stuck ...
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I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because ...
J. C. WATTS Many stocks have already built in good earnings. A stock like Goldman Sachs had a tremendous run ove...
TERENCE GABRIEL![]()
Fixed mortgage rates remain at historically low levels and thus should continue to fuel reasonably s...
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MICHAEL H. DANSBURY The emphasis is now more on corporate earnings,
GARETH WILLIAMS We believe the right to vote is a fundamental right of shareowners and a pillar of good corporate go...
ANNE STAUSBOLL We think the right to vote is a fundamental right of shareowners and a pillar of good corporate gove...
ANNE STAUSBOLL![]()
In principle, stock-option grants, properly constructed, can be highly effective in aligning corpora...
ALAN GREENSPAN![]()
We still need to play fundamental football, and we must rise to the occasion if nothing else.
CALVIN JOHNSON We think this is a good result with a 12 percent rise in earnings and the dividend in spite of a dif...
MICHAEL SMITH Consumer spending will weaken in the months ahead.
RICHARD CURTIN The most surprising aspect of the earnings release was management's more conservative outlook for th...
EMME KOZLOFF The consumer is not on a spending binge - consumer spending has moderated and I don't think there's ...
GREG VALLIERE![]()
The market typically leads earnings rebound by about six months. Maybe market participants are expec...
JOHN DAVIDSON Without the good fundamental news, it's going to be difficult to call the rally a sustainable rally.
KARI BAYER As we get toward the end of the winter season and early spring, we'll probably go through another wa...
MICHAEL SOLOMON There's really no news from both the corporate front or the economic front that's helping traders ga...
GORAN YORDANOFF It's very bad news. Numbers such as this put a dent in the view that exports can pick up to counter ...
GAVIN REDKNAP In reality, it won't matter as much because other elements like spending and consumer sentiment look...
HANS OLSEN![]()
Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak...
JOHN BATTELLE The first two quarters of last year were OK but not stellar. If we still have double digit increases...
KEN PERKINS![]()
It appears that the threshold has been reached where consumers are feeling the pinch of higher gas p...
RON PAUL
CHARLES PAYNE With no major earnings news scheduled and losses in Tokyo, the (U.S.) market is lacking support for ...
HEINO RULAND The report is the latest sign that consumer confidence has been trending down, ... It adds to worrie...
PETER BOOCKVAR The report is the latest sign that consumer confidence has been trending down. It adds to worries in...
PETER BOOCKVAR Consumer spending in the U.S. slowed below even our own conservative estimates and corporate spendin...
CARLY FIORINA
Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their em... KLAUS SCHWAB Looking forward, consumer confidence could increase further should the rise in black consumer confid...
CEES BRUGGEMANS such a modest increase [in unemployment] is unlikely to have any impact on consumer confidence or af...
PHILIP SHAW The good news is that concert consumer spending is miniscule compared to total entertainment spendin...
MICHAEL RAPINO For the Nikkei to go up further, gains need to become more broad-based.
HIROSHI ARANO The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS Far from being a leading indicator of consumer spending, consumer confidence has consistently missed...
CARL STEIDTMANN The New York gains are nice, but a rebound of this scale is not enough to turn the bearish trend aro...
KUNIHIRO HATAE People moved to take profits now as they don't want to be squeezed during a holiday.
KUNIHIRO HATAE Tokyo shares followed the Nasdaq today. Also, trading was supported by those buyers who came back to...
KUNIHIRO HATAE It can be seen as a positive sign that vigorous corporate restructuring is underway. But the negativ...
KUNIHIRO HATAE The worst is over. I believe we've seen a peak in selling in those outgoing 30 issues, although sell...
KUNIHIRO HATAE Strong corporate earnings are fuelling capital spending and spilling over to the household sector, s...
SEIJI ADACHI The good news is that this is going to go directly to the corporate bottom line. That's a real plus ...
WAYNE AYERS Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer...
HIDEO ARIMURA Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer...
HIDEO ARIMURA Consumer confidence is poised to remain strong during 2006, which will continue to support consumer ...
CEES BRUGGEMANS We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in con...
STEVEN WIETING We have a bunch of good news today. First, foreign investors took a cue from strong earnings here an...
KAZUHIRO TAKAHASHI There's no need to cut interest rates to stimulate consumer demand or investment spending.
DENNIS DYKES There is reasonable optimism still in investors' minds. We are still seeing good support coming thro...
ALEX SCOTT All M&A news is strong support for the stock market. European shares remain attractive. Productivity...
GUILLAUME DUCHESNE
A further rise [in fuel prices] could cut materially into private spending and thus damp the rate of... ALAN GREENSPAN Although the cooling U.S. housing sector is going be a major drag on consumer spending as 2006 unfol...
SHERRY COOPER We expect the [earnings] news [to] further the relief rally underway in the shares and therefore con...
MARK SWARTZBERG The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spendi...
HIDEO ARIMURA We've gotten good reports from a variety of companies, supporting the thesis that corporate earnings...
ERIC KUBY We had expected a snap-back in consumer spending after a decline in May, and that's what these numbe...
LYNN REASER Markets are down because of the start of attacks and the fear of counter attacks, which could impact...
ROBERT ROBBINS consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of...
CHRIS RUPKEY Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increas...
DIANE GARNICK The political turmoil in Iran turned the mood from positive to negative going into the week and that...
ERIC KUBY Energy stocks should find support in the oil price and the earnings news will support the broader ma...
LEX BOUWMEESTER With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to ...
ANGUS CAMPBELL In the acquire-or-be-acquired corporate mayhem of the 1980s, the mantle of management has passed to ...
CHARLES FONTAINE
Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the ... GERMAINE GREER The tax will reduce our competitiveness against producers such as Australia, South Africa and newcom...
JEFFREY MULYONO Corporate balance sheets are in great shape and we look for business investment to keep the economy ...
CARL RICCADONNA Spain's strong consumer spending is backed not only by job creation but also by a significant rise i...
CARMEN NUZZO We got some good earnings news from Cisco and from Pepsi. Oil has also been pretty tame today.
CHARLES ROTBLUT Profit-taking took hold following recent gains. I believe the lack of any significant local news pre...
JACKSON WONG I think the Fed has at least one further tightening in June and another one in August. Until the Ame...
NED RILEY Our business is more impacted by consumer confidence than even a little spike in the interest rates ...
FAROOQ KATHWARI The consumer spending situation is improving in Europe; that's what we need to ensure durable growth...
DOMINIQUE BARBET Last week, chain-store sales came in pretty strong. But if you stripped out gasoline sales from Wal-...
ELLEN BEESON Marketing spending in the fourth quarter of 2005 was a precipitous drop from the two-year high of Q3...
CARL HOWE It's good news for existing hotels, since they benefit from an increase in demand. For the consumer,...
JAN FREITAG This was not good news for the economy. It looks like a reflection of November's unemployment rate, ...
GREGORY MILLER It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not &...
CRAIG L. THOMAS There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ...
FRANKLIN MORTON A domestic-demand-driven economic recovery is continuing, albeit at a slightly slower pace in Q3, .....
SEIJI ADACHI A domestic-demand-driven economic recovery is continuing, albeit at a slightly slower pace in Q3. St...
SEIJI ADACHI Acquisition news is quite positive because it indicates a looking-ahead and willing-to-spend mentali...
BARBARA MARCIN It did come in stronger, so that's probably good news in terms of consumer momentum as we go into th...
ELISABETH DENISON Prices are expected to rise dramatically as a result of the terrorist attack. Typically for property...
AL CAPRA But it's not as if a major Japanese firm has come out with a piece of good news on the earnings fron...
HIDEKI KAMIYA VC spending has always been a challenge in Illinois, so this is good news.
ED LONGANECKER The hopes that you're going to have strong corporate earnings fuel the market to rally further are s...
ERIC KUBY The more important development more recently was the tax cut that was enacted over the weekend, whic...
HENRY WILLMORE Given the demographics of the targeted Pier 1 consumer, we believe higher gas prices could limit spe...
ALAN RIFKIN Investors are becoming bullish on the sales outlook for electronics industries. Retailers may contin...
ATSUSHI OSA As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued con...
FAROOQ KATHWARI Through November [2002], we believed that discretionary consumer spending growth of 3 percent was ad...
HARRY CURTIS We realised from past experience that we need to have a range of disciplines, including employment, ...
DAVID KERR We have seen good corporate earnings and strong numbers from the auto makers for April, and fund flo...
DEVEN CHOKSEY A takeover bid is underscoring prospects for the sector, which has been benefiting from a recovery i...
SUSUMU ABE The market would need some fundamental news to be coming through to be supported at these levels, ot...
GUY HUTCHINGS The markets were choppy during morning trade. Trading will become stock-specific as the corporate ea...
ATUL HATWAR I don't really see [today's bad corporate news] as significant fundamental factors, I see it more as...
ADAM ADELMAN There are two key challenges to the U.S. market: one is Fed policy -- and it's still our concern tha...
GARY DUGAN The market is caught between good quarterly reports, such as the one from Disney, and the reality of...
JIM AWAD The consumer is already somewhat vulnerable in the year ahead as the tax-cut effects fade. If we con...
ETHAN HARRIS In the last few weeks we've had pretty good corporate earnings out but the market seems to be stuck ...
OLIVER STEVENS
I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because ... J. C. WATTS Many stocks have already built in good earnings. A stock like Goldman Sachs had a tremendous run ove...
TERENCE GABRIEL
Fixed mortgage rates remain at historically low levels and thus should continue to fuel reasonably s... ALAN GREENSPAN Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY The emphasis is now more on corporate earnings,
GARETH WILLIAMS We believe the right to vote is a fundamental right of shareowners and a pillar of good corporate go...
ANNE STAUSBOLL We think the right to vote is a fundamental right of shareowners and a pillar of good corporate gove...
ANNE STAUSBOLL
In principle, stock-option grants, properly constructed, can be highly effective in aligning corpora... ALAN GREENSPAN
We still need to play fundamental football, and we must rise to the occasion if nothing else. CALVIN JOHNSON We think this is a good result with a 12 percent rise in earnings and the dividend in spite of a dif...
MICHAEL SMITH Consumer spending will weaken in the months ahead.
RICHARD CURTIN The most surprising aspect of the earnings release was management's more conservative outlook for th...
EMME KOZLOFF The consumer is not on a spending binge - consumer spending has moderated and I don't think there's ...
GREG VALLIERE
The market typically leads earnings rebound by about six months. Maybe market participants are expec... JOHN DAVIDSON Without the good fundamental news, it's going to be difficult to call the rally a sustainable rally.
KARI BAYER As we get toward the end of the winter season and early spring, we'll probably go through another wa...
MICHAEL SOLOMON There's really no news from both the corporate front or the economic front that's helping traders ga...
GORAN YORDANOFF It's very bad news. Numbers such as this put a dent in the view that exports can pick up to counter ...
GAVIN REDKNAP In reality, it won't matter as much because other elements like spending and consumer sentiment look...
HANS OLSEN
Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak... JOHN BATTELLE The first two quarters of last year were OK but not stellar. If we still have double digit increases...
KEN PERKINS
It appears that the threshold has been reached where consumers are feeling the pinch of higher gas p... RON PAUL
