I truly believe the housing market will continue to expand. But rather than the double-digit price appreciation we've seen, we might see that drop to a 5 or 6 percent appreciation sometime toward the end of next year.
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MARK MILNER We've had a good run this week and it's normal that it stops for a break. From here we think the mar... MARC LALONDE We might not see retail sales numbers that are that strong yet, but they will pick up toward the end... JAMES CARRICK Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing mar... GEORGE BUCKLEY It's not growing at the number we want. Next year there's opportunity to improve that but I'm not ve... ARTHUR YOUNG The mobile phone market will see a growth of over 50 percent year-on-year in the next two years. The... KOBITA DESAI We believe that Lancaster Mall is an excellent property in a thriving market, with solid prospects f... ALLAN SILBER Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort... FRANK NOTHAFT This is really good for everyone. With the double-digit price increase we had last year, at some poi... GENE COLLINS We hope that under any scenario, the ruble's appreciation will range within 4-6% in 2006 and will ev... GERMAN GREF The rapid pace of appreciation and other negatives has made housing become very unaffordable. About ... JACK PHELPS Our plan is that sometime early next year, we will then start to put this on the Cisco overall price... CHARLES GIANCARLO Home prices continue to be bid up in tight markets across the country, ... Eventually, appreciation ... AL MANSELL In the past, the market has absorbed home price increases with household income growth. Well, we had... J. LENNOX SCOTT We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will ... ALBERTO FUJIMORI Another year is ending, but something is pending ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I believe they are going to finish this, ... We are confident that they will complete this process a... CONDOLEEZZA RICE Both 2005 and 2006 will represent an extended two-year period of moderate growth before the market r... GARY GRANDBOIS A 30 percent appreciation of the yuan over the next year could be a destabilizing blow to their econ... JAY BRYSON Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Next to excellence is the appreciation of it WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY We expect housing activity to drop about 8 percent this year -- it's primarily because of the invest... DAVID BERSON Housing activity has peaked. Inventories continue to rise. I see the housing market continuing to so... DAVID LEREAH I don't believe the big brands will be able to consolidate that fragmented market in the next 5 year... JEFF BOYD Believe it or not, Boise is poised to be the No. 1 market for appreciation in 2006, and that has man... LYNDON HOLDEMAN We hope to stabilize and increase property values on the west side rather than continue to see them ... BRUCE MCMILLER We're headed to around 6.5 percent sometime in the first half of next year. HENRY WILLMORE We think it's a high single-digit, low double-digit return asset class that has absolutely no correl... DARRELL HORN The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, b... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Arizona is enjoying boom conditions the likes of which it has not seen in more than a decade. When e... ELLIOTT POLLACK Oil prices are going nowhere but up and so we believe that earnings are going to go south. It does c... HOWARD SILVERBLATT U.S. economic activity continues to expand, led by solid growth in household spending. But business ... JANET YELLEN The fact is an ARM that you took a year ago could easily adjust to 6.5 percent or 7 percent percent ... GREG MCBRIDE That will change in the back half of 2006. 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JANET ROBINSON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... I think he's terrific. I've always had a great appreciation of his ability. And I would rather like ... WALTER CRONKITE The raises in interest rates will reduce the willingness and ability of consumers to continue their ... SCOTT HOYT The children's market is probably a $3 billion to $5 billion market at my best guess, (and) growing ... ANDREW SHORE But it can't continue indefinitely. Overall, in the year, we have seen availability added to the mar... KATHY DECK While the counter still trades at a discount to our 16.5 times market price-earnings ratio, its curr... LEO VENEZUELA We continue to advise investors to buy Yahoo! shares as we see 20 per cent plus appreciation potenti... ANTHONY NOTO Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU (I)n Washington Mutual, you're getting in there at less than 10 times this year's earnings estimate.... CHARLES LEMONIDES We had a great appreciation for the fact that [D&H] is the top distributor servicing the SMB market.... ANNA YEN The market, particularly the short end, is weighed by the suggestion from the minutes that inflation... AKIFUMI UCHIDA Long-term U.S. interest rates have risen as the market has started to price in the likelihood that t... MASAMICHI KOIKE I do see the possibility of the markets having a 200 or 300 point drop over the next 3 to 4 weeks if... RAO CHALASANI I can easily see Asian automakers grabbing another three or four percentage points next year. I can ... ART SPINELLA Half the winters where EIA projects anything like this, their figure ends up collapsing. The market ... MICHAEL GORDON The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... 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