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The dollar remains firm, as the absolute U.S. interest- rate advantage still continues to exist. Rat...
YUJI SAITO Most people think we're in for a couple more rate hikes in the United States. We'd argue that that w...
GRAHAM SECKER The Fed's not finished. More rate hikes loom.
JOHN LONSKI I expect stocks to fall. Fears of more rate hikes will take hold and some of the confidence we've se...
KNUT HOCHWALD It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates. But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut means...
JOHN LONSKI It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates, ... But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut m...
JOHN LONSKI A strong number will keep alive speculation of more rate hikes. It should give some support to the d...
ADRIAN FOSTER We think there's going to be two more rate hikes. One in March and then another in April.
TED CARMICHAEL a pause in rate hikes is a more likely scenario rather than a rate cut.
MICHAEL NIEMIRA Properties were weak as investors were concerned that further rate hikes will affect earnings of dev...
CONITA HUNG I see more interest rate hikes and this will dampen domestic consumption. Also, the coming 50 percen...
IRENE CHEUNG Strong figures will certainly re-ignite expectations of further Fed rate hikes.
TORU UMEMOTO While the US Fed appears to have shortened its commitment to rate hikes by deleting the word 'measur...
KAZUHIRO NISHINA It is more important what the jobs report shows in December and January -- that will affect how many...
DAVID MALPASS Bond prices rose because the market was excited at the idea that the number of further rate hikes ne...
CARY LEAHEY The yen is more likely to fall than rise. The BOJ probably won't raise rates anytime soon, keeping t...
YASUNORI KURODA Strong figures will boost expectations of higher growth in consumer spending in the U.S.. That will ...
YUJI SAITO For the Fed, continuing 25-basis-point rate hikes seem to be the best bet.
ELISABETH DENISON Boy, we've been waiting for this. The feeling is that the market does not need further rate hikes an...
LARRY PERUZZI Despite all the rate hikes, the (Federal Reserve's) overnight lending rate is still less than inflat...
JAMES TURK Fed and ECB rate hikes should not present a liquidity problem for equity markets.
LARS KRECKEL As long as the Fed keeps raising rates, yields are going to move higher. The Fed decision definitely...
JOSEPH SHATZ Multiple rate hikes after May would certainly change the picture.
CHARLES ROTBLUT Rate hikes don't have to mean the death knell for tech spending. Fundamentals are still strong.
DAVID JOY With household finances already under considerable stress, one has to wonder if another round of rat...
BERNARD BAUMOHL Fed officials' comments point to the risk of faster inflation. We expect three or four more rate hik...
JUN KITAZAWA 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 certainly do think there are another two (rate hikes) left in the Bank of Canada before they tag ...
ERIC LASCELLES Investors are looking for a sign as to when rate hikes are going to stop.
ANDRE BAKHOS The data on the real side of the economy supports rate hikes.
DAVID KEEBLE We primarily see dollar strength because we're expecting one to two more rate hikes from the Fed. Al...
KATHY LIEN We still don't know how many more rate hikes there are in the cycle and the minutes don't really she...
MARC CHANDLER It really comes down to the fact that the Fed is saying demand is excessive, ... Until they see enou...
JOSH STILES The dollar got sold off and then rallied back to the levels prior to the news. The jobless figure is...
ADRIAN FOSTER What's causing the rate hikes has nothing to do with the legal system.
JOANNE DOROSHOW There's increasing doubts (about a BOJ rate boost) due to developments in the stock market and the S...
DAVE GILMORE It's pretty much universally expected they'll hike 25 basis points but I think what will be more imp...
DAVID POWELL The market is having second thoughts about the need for further Federal Reserve rate hikes following...
MARC CHANDLER 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 everybody is waiting for the employment data. If unemployment is still dropping when we've j...
ED PETERS Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII![]()
Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve,
DAVID GILMORE The market was spending sometime digesting whether this meant more rate hikes for longer and conclud...
KATE WARNE On balance, the macro outlook continues to point to further rate hikes by the Fed.
CHARMAINE BUSKAS If the BOJ can deliver an exit strategy without creating undue political friction, it could be the c...
DARAGH MAHER Unless the statement offers fresh indications that the US Fed will continue its rate hikes going for...
DAISUKE UNO The Fed will probably slow the pace of interest-rate hikes after October. Should the reports signal ...
TETSU AIKAWA We're optimistic on the market as we head into the second half of this year and into 2001. We think ...
DAVID PRESSON As the market now feels that any interest rate hikes in the US will come to an end with the Federal ...
KAZUYUKI KATO This level of inflation, combined with falling unemployment and rising capacity utilization, is a re...
DREW MATUS I think investors are somewhat nervous about the economic data coming out. Once investors do become ...
DAVID PRESSON I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform pas...
ADAM CLAYTON![]()
The government and the BOJ will work as one to defeat deflation, and we hope the BOJ will keep takin...
SHINZO ABE The risk is for the ECB to accelerate the pace of interest- rate hikes. There seems to be very littl...
CYRIL BEUZIT I want to commend it as an epoch-making move for the BOJ that will bring transparency to its policy.
KOZO YAMAMOTO Market psychology has changed a little bit -- or is beginning to change -- in terms of being a littl...
FELIX BONI The economic data points to the Fed stopping (rate hikes) sooner rather than later, and that's encou...
JACK CAFFREY The wording was that monetary policy is still stimulative, which implies further rate hikes down the...
DAVID POWELL Olson's comments reaffirmed our views on the Fed's stance for further interest-rate hikes. The Fed's...
MASAKI FUKUI The world assumes the Fed will raise the rates by a quarter percentage point, that's a non-event. It...
JACK ABLIN Overseas investors appear to be on hold on concerns about further US interest rate hikes.
HIDEO MIZUTANI Resettlement for sure has become more difficult. They don't see the pressing need any more.
ASTRID VAN GENDEREN STORT It has become more difficult to help the North, but we will continue to provide support.
CARDINAL CHEONG No species can survive such a high mortality rate. It is more difficult for an already endangered sp...
BISWAJIT MOHANTY Market players pay keen attention to what those officials may say about future U.S. rate hikes.
AKIHIRO TANAKA From my perspective it leaves the door open to further rate hikes. Remember: the Fed is taking back ...
DICK BERNER 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 The surprise might be an additional move toward hinting that the process of gradual rate hikes is no...
PAUL RABBIT The near-term momentum is clearly favorable to the dollar. Two further rate hikes are a pretty sure ...
HANS GOETTI The strong Canadian dollar does not seem to be an impediment to further rate hikes ... at least not ...
DOUG PORTER Fed officials are sounding hawkish. They're signaling further rate hikes and that's making investors...
TETSU AIKAWA Given the election situation, I don't see a sharp rise in fuel prices, but further interest rate hik...
HASITHA PREMARATNE An increase in domestic fuel prices will be inflationary and controls will have to come through rate...
HASITHA PREMARATNE Like those players in the bond market, stock players may have begun to factor in rate hikes in the f...
RYUTA OTSUKA The longer they hold onto these people the more difficult the negotiations and transition to another...
ART BOWMAN![]()
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make...
MILTON FRIEDMAN![]()
The prospect of an interest-rate-hike lifeline for the currency has become even more remote. The com...
CRAIG FERGUSON I think you look for immediate help with the JC kids. They're more mature. But again, you'd like to ...
BILL DOBA On balance, the steady increase in payrolls in conjunction with yesterday's comments by [Fed] Chairm...
CHARMAINE BUSKAS I think, you know, you're going to have these crosscurrents in place here for the next few months wh...
DAVID PRESSON We have to conclude, with regret, that it is Mr Saito.
AKIRA CHIBA Few people thought that he would be that explicit. We're getting closer to the end of the Fed intere...
FREDERIC DICKSON Under the BOJ Law, the central bank is by definition aimed at achieving price stability. It is natur...
KAORU YOSANO Alan Greenspan's rate hikes aren't just to hold down an economic boom. He's trying to bring investor...
JAMES DINES It's become more difficult than we anticipated.
BUZZ HARGROVE The year-over-year gain of 1.7 percent reinforces the sense that the current series of Fed rate hike...
JOHN LONSKI I think it will become more common because players are getting more athletic. I think you're seeing ...
CATHY INGLESE When interest rates rise, the rate gap with the U.S. will narrow and that will provide pressure for ...
JEFFREY TAN I won't be surprised to see more falls in the property and financial sectors even if presales of apa...
CASTOR PANG I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.
RICHARD GREENBERG Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH Japanese and foreign investors are now rushing to unwind yen-carry positions on concerns over possib...
MASAHI HASHIMOTO There's this building case that the BOJ will be changing policy soon. That's the trigger we've been ...
ADRIAN FOSTER I think it will work out in the end, but it will make a stable architecture more difficult. The chan...
MATTHIAS WISSMANN While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer ...
CHANNA AMARATUNGA We will never let the BOJ repeat the mistake the bank made in August 2000.
KOZO YAMAMOTO A third positive number in a row heightens expectations for the BOJ to raise policy next week. That ...
CALLUM HENDERSON![]()
For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult a...
PRIMO LEVI People are really just focusing on oil prices and using models to figure out what the impact will be...
AZIZ MCMAHON It would be tempting to up the pace of rate hikes, but we have to be very careful in evaluating wher...
ROBERT LIND
YUJI SAITO Most people think we're in for a couple more rate hikes in the United States. We'd argue that that w...
GRAHAM SECKER The Fed's not finished. More rate hikes loom.
JOHN LONSKI I expect stocks to fall. Fears of more rate hikes will take hold and some of the confidence we've se...
KNUT HOCHWALD It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates. But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut means...
JOHN LONSKI It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates, ... But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut m...
JOHN LONSKI A strong number will keep alive speculation of more rate hikes. It should give some support to the d...
ADRIAN FOSTER We think there's going to be two more rate hikes. One in March and then another in April.
TED CARMICHAEL a pause in rate hikes is a more likely scenario rather than a rate cut.
MICHAEL NIEMIRA Properties were weak as investors were concerned that further rate hikes will affect earnings of dev...
CONITA HUNG I see more interest rate hikes and this will dampen domestic consumption. Also, the coming 50 percen...
IRENE CHEUNG Strong figures will certainly re-ignite expectations of further Fed rate hikes.
TORU UMEMOTO While the US Fed appears to have shortened its commitment to rate hikes by deleting the word 'measur...
KAZUHIRO NISHINA It is more important what the jobs report shows in December and January -- that will affect how many...
DAVID MALPASS Bond prices rose because the market was excited at the idea that the number of further rate hikes ne...
CARY LEAHEY The yen is more likely to fall than rise. The BOJ probably won't raise rates anytime soon, keeping t...
YASUNORI KURODA Strong figures will boost expectations of higher growth in consumer spending in the U.S.. That will ...
YUJI SAITO For the Fed, continuing 25-basis-point rate hikes seem to be the best bet.
ELISABETH DENISON Boy, we've been waiting for this. The feeling is that the market does not need further rate hikes an...
LARRY PERUZZI Despite all the rate hikes, the (Federal Reserve's) overnight lending rate is still less than inflat...
JAMES TURK Fed and ECB rate hikes should not present a liquidity problem for equity markets.
LARS KRECKEL As long as the Fed keeps raising rates, yields are going to move higher. The Fed decision definitely...
JOSEPH SHATZ Multiple rate hikes after May would certainly change the picture.
CHARLES ROTBLUT Rate hikes don't have to mean the death knell for tech spending. Fundamentals are still strong.
DAVID JOY With household finances already under considerable stress, one has to wonder if another round of rat...
BERNARD BAUMOHL Fed officials' comments point to the risk of faster inflation. We expect three or four more rate hik...
JUN KITAZAWA 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 certainly do think there are another two (rate hikes) left in the Bank of Canada before they tag ...
ERIC LASCELLES Investors are looking for a sign as to when rate hikes are going to stop.
ANDRE BAKHOS The data on the real side of the economy supports rate hikes.
DAVID KEEBLE We primarily see dollar strength because we're expecting one to two more rate hikes from the Fed. Al...
KATHY LIEN We still don't know how many more rate hikes there are in the cycle and the minutes don't really she...
MARC CHANDLER It really comes down to the fact that the Fed is saying demand is excessive, ... Until they see enou...
JOSH STILES The dollar got sold off and then rallied back to the levels prior to the news. The jobless figure is...
ADRIAN FOSTER What's causing the rate hikes has nothing to do with the legal system.
JOANNE DOROSHOW There's increasing doubts (about a BOJ rate boost) due to developments in the stock market and the S...
DAVE GILMORE It's pretty much universally expected they'll hike 25 basis points but I think what will be more imp...
DAVID POWELL The market is having second thoughts about the need for further Federal Reserve rate hikes following...
MARC CHANDLER 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 everybody is waiting for the employment data. If unemployment is still dropping when we've j...
ED PETERS Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII
Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, DAVID GILMORE The market was spending sometime digesting whether this meant more rate hikes for longer and conclud...
KATE WARNE On balance, the macro outlook continues to point to further rate hikes by the Fed.
CHARMAINE BUSKAS If the BOJ can deliver an exit strategy without creating undue political friction, it could be the c...
DARAGH MAHER Unless the statement offers fresh indications that the US Fed will continue its rate hikes going for...
DAISUKE UNO The Fed will probably slow the pace of interest-rate hikes after October. Should the reports signal ...
TETSU AIKAWA We're optimistic on the market as we head into the second half of this year and into 2001. We think ...
DAVID PRESSON As the market now feels that any interest rate hikes in the US will come to an end with the Federal ...
KAZUYUKI KATO This level of inflation, combined with falling unemployment and rising capacity utilization, is a re...
DREW MATUS I think investors are somewhat nervous about the economic data coming out. Once investors do become ...
DAVID PRESSON I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform pas...
ADAM CLAYTON
The government and the BOJ will work as one to defeat deflation, and we hope the BOJ will keep takin... SHINZO ABE The risk is for the ECB to accelerate the pace of interest- rate hikes. There seems to be very littl...
CYRIL BEUZIT I want to commend it as an epoch-making move for the BOJ that will bring transparency to its policy.
KOZO YAMAMOTO Market psychology has changed a little bit -- or is beginning to change -- in terms of being a littl...
FELIX BONI The economic data points to the Fed stopping (rate hikes) sooner rather than later, and that's encou...
JACK CAFFREY The wording was that monetary policy is still stimulative, which implies further rate hikes down the...
DAVID POWELL Olson's comments reaffirmed our views on the Fed's stance for further interest-rate hikes. The Fed's...
MASAKI FUKUI The world assumes the Fed will raise the rates by a quarter percentage point, that's a non-event. It...
JACK ABLIN Overseas investors appear to be on hold on concerns about further US interest rate hikes.
HIDEO MIZUTANI Resettlement for sure has become more difficult. They don't see the pressing need any more.
ASTRID VAN GENDEREN STORT It has become more difficult to help the North, but we will continue to provide support.
CARDINAL CHEONG No species can survive such a high mortality rate. It is more difficult for an already endangered sp...
BISWAJIT MOHANTY Market players pay keen attention to what those officials may say about future U.S. rate hikes.
AKIHIRO TANAKA From my perspective it leaves the door open to further rate hikes. Remember: the Fed is taking back ...
DICK BERNER 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 The surprise might be an additional move toward hinting that the process of gradual rate hikes is no...
PAUL RABBIT The near-term momentum is clearly favorable to the dollar. Two further rate hikes are a pretty sure ...
HANS GOETTI The strong Canadian dollar does not seem to be an impediment to further rate hikes ... at least not ...
DOUG PORTER Fed officials are sounding hawkish. They're signaling further rate hikes and that's making investors...
TETSU AIKAWA Given the election situation, I don't see a sharp rise in fuel prices, but further interest rate hik...
HASITHA PREMARATNE An increase in domestic fuel prices will be inflationary and controls will have to come through rate...
HASITHA PREMARATNE Like those players in the bond market, stock players may have begun to factor in rate hikes in the f...
RYUTA OTSUKA The longer they hold onto these people the more difficult the negotiations and transition to another...
ART BOWMAN
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make... MILTON FRIEDMAN
The prospect of an interest-rate-hike lifeline for the currency has become even more remote. The com... CRAIG FERGUSON I think you look for immediate help with the JC kids. They're more mature. But again, you'd like to ...
BILL DOBA On balance, the steady increase in payrolls in conjunction with yesterday's comments by [Fed] Chairm...
CHARMAINE BUSKAS I think, you know, you're going to have these crosscurrents in place here for the next few months wh...
DAVID PRESSON We have to conclude, with regret, that it is Mr Saito.
AKIRA CHIBA Few people thought that he would be that explicit. We're getting closer to the end of the Fed intere...
FREDERIC DICKSON Under the BOJ Law, the central bank is by definition aimed at achieving price stability. It is natur...
KAORU YOSANO Alan Greenspan's rate hikes aren't just to hold down an economic boom. He's trying to bring investor...
JAMES DINES It's become more difficult than we anticipated.
BUZZ HARGROVE The year-over-year gain of 1.7 percent reinforces the sense that the current series of Fed rate hike...
JOHN LONSKI I think it will become more common because players are getting more athletic. I think you're seeing ...
CATHY INGLESE When interest rates rise, the rate gap with the U.S. will narrow and that will provide pressure for ...
JEFFREY TAN I won't be surprised to see more falls in the property and financial sectors even if presales of apa...
CASTOR PANG I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.
RICHARD GREENBERG Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-r...
PAUL ASHWORTH Japanese and foreign investors are now rushing to unwind yen-carry positions on concerns over possib...
MASAHI HASHIMOTO There's this building case that the BOJ will be changing policy soon. That's the trigger we've been ...
ADRIAN FOSTER I think it will work out in the end, but it will make a stable architecture more difficult. The chan...
MATTHIAS WISSMANN While the decline in inflation can certainly accommodate a rate cut, we believe the bank will defer ...
CHANNA AMARATUNGA We will never let the BOJ repeat the mistake the bank made in August 2000.
KOZO YAMAMOTO A third positive number in a row heightens expectations for the BOJ to raise policy next week. That ...
CALLUM HENDERSON
For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult a... PRIMO LEVI People are really just focusing on oil prices and using models to figure out what the impact will be...
AZIZ MCMAHON It would be tempting to up the pace of rate hikes, but we have to be very careful in evaluating wher...
ROBERT LIND
