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GAIL FOSLER Oil continues to dominate trade, with crude at or near the highs. Worries remain about how high pric...
JOE SUNDERMAN We have seen record levels for natural gas prices. It would have been impossible to predict that cru...
BRYAN BRADSHAW There has been a rising floor underneath oil prices, ... Last year we were worried about $40 a barre...
JAN STUART People are focusing on the impact of higher energy prices on the consumer instead of focusing on the...
DREW MATUS Although crude oil continues to sell at more than $60 per barrel, some analysts say the price of oil...
ELLIOTT EKI consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of...
CHRIS RUPKEY There is no fundamental reason driving prices back up. Market participants felt that the 60 dollar l...
VICTOR SHUM I think that what we may be seeing is the realization that if crude is not the problem, then we can'...
BILL O'GRADY Any bets on dollar weakness will be a bet that higher energy prices will divert consumer spending, w...
JEFF GLADSTEIN Those who think that energy prices are headed back into the $30's are dreaming. A $50-$60 trading ra...
DAVID KOTOK As oil prices go below $60 per barrel, it should translate to yen strength. I think we are far close...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG Gas prices are going to keep rising and that's going to have a negative impact on consumer spending ...
BEN HALLIBURTON We believe that consumer spending is going to bear the brunt of higher energy prices that we have se...
JOSHUA SHAPIRO People were thinking that, if the oil refineries take a direct hit, energy prices would shoot up and...
GEORGE GONCALVES The most surprising aspect of the earnings release was management's more conservative outlook for th...
EMME KOZLOFF What that says is that even though crude oil prices are at near-record highs, gasoline prices are mu...
DAVID HACKETT With oil prices at $60 a barrel it was a foregone conclusion they were not going to cut. If you do s...
CRAIG PENNINGTON The business integration will help the company reduce the impact which higher crude oil prices have ...
LI GUOHONG Our previous view ascribed a 50 percent to 60 percent probability to a Delta Chapter 11 filing. We n...
MICHAEL LINENBERG There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's...
DAVID ABELLA Agriculture came in better and remittances continued to be good. These two factors reduced the impac...
JOEY CUYEGKENG The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of cons...
JOE ABATE Oil prices are increasing and (US) consumer spending is strong.
JOSEPH YAM Consumption is up considerably and that trend is not going to reverse itself. Higher oil prices are ...
DAN VERU Energy issues are stronger on higher oil prices.
HIDEYUKI SUZUKI We may see oil prices settling around $60 a barrel for some time now. The demand and supply situatio...
JASPREET SINGH We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously goi...
HOWARD SILVERBLATT If prices persist above the level of 60 we will definitively take that into account.
EDMOND DAUKORU The jump in retail gas prices is partly due to the seasonal production switch from winter to summer ...
ROSE ROUGEAU You can't have this kind of slowing in job growth coupled with rising energy prices and not see some...
ALAN GAYLE Gasoline prices have begun their seasonal move higher. Increased prices can be attributed to tighter...
KRIS LATHAN There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ...
FRANKLIN MORTON Given the demographics of the targeted Pier 1 consumer, we believe higher gas prices could limit spe...
ALAN RIFKIN Oil below $60 a barrel grabbed folks' attention.
BOB SITKO International oil prices have shifted to a higher level permanently.
CAMERON BAGRIE The move up in crude oil price from $12 a barrel to nearly $31 a barrel has been really positive for...
CRAIG CALLAHAN We have some inflation at the pipeline level, rising commodity prices, crude, material prices, thing...
CHARLES REINHARD Increasing home prices and the ability of consumers to cash out their growing home equity has been a...
DENNIS JACOBE We have fear of higher oil prices and the lower dollar against the yen.
CHARLES REINHARD Crude oil prices are the major determinant of gasoline prices.
JAMES WELLS Consumers are beginning to feel the impact of higher oil prices in their pockets. Less confidence me...
LARRY PERUZZI We saw last year just how much oil shot up after Ivan. Crude markets remain delicately balanced and ...
GERARD BURG The last time the U.S. was engaged militarily in Iraq, oil prices shot up to about $42 a barrel,
PETER GIGNOUX The real culprit is certainly the unforeseen supply disruptions that could develop out of the Middle...
JOHN PERSON Despite oft-mentioned concerns about higher energy and commodity prices, a lower growth rate for con...
DONALD A. NORMAN Higher crude oil prices and other factors mean consumers are in for another year of price volatility...
DAVE CARLSON Sentiment is drifting higher on softer oil prices. All eyes remain on energy. As long as oil prices ...
BEN ROGOFF We're looking at companies which are taking advantage of high energy prices, and we've been buying e...
MARKUS STEINBEIS Frankly, we believe natural gas prices would have dropped more this winter, had it not been for $60+...
CATHERINE ELDER Although the market is also well supplied with crude oil and products, it was roiled by geopolitical...
EARL SWEET The routes we operate have to be economically viable. With (crude oil) going from $40 to $60 (per ba...
DEAN BREEST In general, the economy is proving to be resilient to energy and gas price pressure. It's on a growt...
MICHAEL ENGLUND Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
CHOI CHANG HOON The price hike comes as crude oil costs continue to climb on energy security woes involving Iran and...
KRIS LATHAN Japan is really the industrialized country most heavily dependent on oil imports, ... so the most di...
ASHRAF LAIDI Every negative development in the oil price slams the energy stocks. Oil companies are increasingly ...
JAN LEROY Considering where prices are now, flirting with their record level of August 2005 (70.85 dollars a b...
FRANCIS PERRIN The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS You have an entirely different industry with oil below $50 a barrel and with oil above $60.
VAUGHN CORDLE September sales were surprisingly resilient in the face of significantly higher gasoline prices. Whi...
EMME KOZLOFF If oil stays around $60, it shouldn't stop the S&P 500 from climbing, considering the strength of th...
JACQUES PORTA People are increasingly concerned, given what Wal-Mart said, that higher gas prices are going to hur...
ALAN RIFKIN Every barrel of oil that we produce around the world benefits Americans because it keeps prices down...
JOHN S. WATSON To me, the longer you sit above $60 a barrel, the greater the likelihood we'll have a push even high...
BILL STRAZZULLO Gas prices have a significant impact on the consumer psyche,
KEN PERKINS![]()
You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust em...
REX TILLERSON People are really just focusing on oil prices and using models to figure out what the impact will be...
AZIZ MCMAHON Companies are doing well, but aren't passing their wealth on to employees. Consumer spending is unde...
JACQUES CAILLOUX![]()
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more ...
GARY MILLER Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.
JEFF ADAMS The increase in oil prices is going to be problematic to the consumer as well as higher home heating...
ANN HURLEY Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which cou...
KENJI ARATA Companies appear to have turned cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices, w...
KENJI ARATA It all depends on what happens with crude oil prices.
ROB SCHLICHTING You'd think higher energy would put a lid on stocks, but the market's going up. People seem to be mo...
BOB BASEL Higher oil increasingly will creep into the indicators. Today, it biased the trade gap higher and pu...
DREW MATUS![]()
Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising ...
ALEX BERENSON We'll see crude prices ranging anywhere from $45 per barrel to $75 per barrel this year.
HENRY GROPPE Some of the capacity will go away if fuel prices stay this high. It (oil prices near $50 a barrel) c...
BETSY SNYDER Higher oil prices will drive up sentiment for oil stocks.
SALLY YEO Over the past few weeks, crude prices and gas futures have dropped and increased and dropped. Until ...
ART KINSMAN Right now we're already starting to see that rebuilding is under way and energy prices are moving lo...
LYNN REASER It's very simple. The energy market was up real strongly. That's part of it, as people consistently ...
DAN VAUGHT The API report was a big positive for crude prices. That was the catalyst for us going back over $30...
TOM PARKER We had higher oil prices, higher gold prices, higher copper prices and even a higher Dow (Jones inde...
ANGUS GEDDES Consumers are paying substantially more for fuel compared to a month ago. Escalating crude oil price...
KRIS LATHAN We started the year at $42-a-barrel oil - that was a concern, but we could get past it. When we cros...
DAVID SOWERBY Although the likelihood of an oil embargo seems very low, the fact is that there is no spare capacit...
MAKOTO TAKEDA If crude oil remains high, sugar prices will not be far behind.
JAMES LEDESMA Our speculation of gas and oil prices made the prices go up before the hurricane hit. Students perce...
CHRIS AUSTIN Gas prices have a significant impact on the consumer psyche. These lower prices should be a boon to ...
KEN PERKINS The price of crude oil is a big reason pump prices are in record high territory.
GEOFF SUNDSTROM If fears of significant harm to the supply of oil, due to geopolitical reasons from places like Iran...
AMIT MOR You have lower oil prices, you have a healthy employment situation and you have a consumer that is s...
GORDON FOWLER Gas prices dropped at a slightly slower pace than the prior week, which can be attributed to level c...
CAROL THORP With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to ...
ANGUS CAMPBELL If gas prices go up, the consumer is going to be a little tighter than they were.
ROBERT JOHNSON The Canadian dollar is seen as a commodity currency and metal prices have been going up across the b...
TOM VOSA A weaker dollar, continued geopolitical concerns, weak government data, and higher oil prices have a...
EMANUEL BALARIE
GAIL FOSLER Oil continues to dominate trade, with crude at or near the highs. Worries remain about how high pric...
JOE SUNDERMAN We have seen record levels for natural gas prices. It would have been impossible to predict that cru...
BRYAN BRADSHAW There has been a rising floor underneath oil prices, ... Last year we were worried about $40 a barre...
JAN STUART People are focusing on the impact of higher energy prices on the consumer instead of focusing on the...
DREW MATUS Although crude oil continues to sell at more than $60 per barrel, some analysts say the price of oil...
ELLIOTT EKI consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of...
CHRIS RUPKEY There is no fundamental reason driving prices back up. Market participants felt that the 60 dollar l...
VICTOR SHUM I think that what we may be seeing is the realization that if crude is not the problem, then we can'...
BILL O'GRADY Any bets on dollar weakness will be a bet that higher energy prices will divert consumer spending, w...
JEFF GLADSTEIN Those who think that energy prices are headed back into the $30's are dreaming. A $50-$60 trading ra...
DAVID KOTOK As oil prices go below $60 per barrel, it should translate to yen strength. I think we are far close...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG Gas prices are going to keep rising and that's going to have a negative impact on consumer spending ...
BEN HALLIBURTON We believe that consumer spending is going to bear the brunt of higher energy prices that we have se...
JOSHUA SHAPIRO People were thinking that, if the oil refineries take a direct hit, energy prices would shoot up and...
GEORGE GONCALVES The most surprising aspect of the earnings release was management's more conservative outlook for th...
EMME KOZLOFF What that says is that even though crude oil prices are at near-record highs, gasoline prices are mu...
DAVID HACKETT With oil prices at $60 a barrel it was a foregone conclusion they were not going to cut. If you do s...
CRAIG PENNINGTON The business integration will help the company reduce the impact which higher crude oil prices have ...
LI GUOHONG Our previous view ascribed a 50 percent to 60 percent probability to a Delta Chapter 11 filing. We n...
MICHAEL LINENBERG There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's...
DAVID ABELLA Agriculture came in better and remittances continued to be good. These two factors reduced the impac...
JOEY CUYEGKENG The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of cons...
JOE ABATE Oil prices are increasing and (US) consumer spending is strong.
JOSEPH YAM Consumption is up considerably and that trend is not going to reverse itself. Higher oil prices are ...
DAN VERU Energy issues are stronger on higher oil prices.
HIDEYUKI SUZUKI We may see oil prices settling around $60 a barrel for some time now. The demand and supply situatio...
JASPREET SINGH We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously goi...
HOWARD SILVERBLATT If prices persist above the level of 60 we will definitively take that into account.
EDMOND DAUKORU The jump in retail gas prices is partly due to the seasonal production switch from winter to summer ...
ROSE ROUGEAU You can't have this kind of slowing in job growth coupled with rising energy prices and not see some...
ALAN GAYLE Gasoline prices have begun their seasonal move higher. Increased prices can be attributed to tighter...
KRIS LATHAN There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ...
FRANKLIN MORTON Given the demographics of the targeted Pier 1 consumer, we believe higher gas prices could limit spe...
ALAN RIFKIN Oil below $60 a barrel grabbed folks' attention.
BOB SITKO International oil prices have shifted to a higher level permanently.
CAMERON BAGRIE The move up in crude oil price from $12 a barrel to nearly $31 a barrel has been really positive for...
CRAIG CALLAHAN We have some inflation at the pipeline level, rising commodity prices, crude, material prices, thing...
CHARLES REINHARD Increasing home prices and the ability of consumers to cash out their growing home equity has been a...
DENNIS JACOBE We have fear of higher oil prices and the lower dollar against the yen.
CHARLES REINHARD Crude oil prices are the major determinant of gasoline prices.
JAMES WELLS Consumers are beginning to feel the impact of higher oil prices in their pockets. Less confidence me...
LARRY PERUZZI We saw last year just how much oil shot up after Ivan. Crude markets remain delicately balanced and ...
GERARD BURG The last time the U.S. was engaged militarily in Iraq, oil prices shot up to about $42 a barrel,
PETER GIGNOUX The real culprit is certainly the unforeseen supply disruptions that could develop out of the Middle...
JOHN PERSON Despite oft-mentioned concerns about higher energy and commodity prices, a lower growth rate for con...
DONALD A. NORMAN Higher crude oil prices and other factors mean consumers are in for another year of price volatility...
DAVE CARLSON Sentiment is drifting higher on softer oil prices. All eyes remain on energy. As long as oil prices ...
BEN ROGOFF We're looking at companies which are taking advantage of high energy prices, and we've been buying e...
MARKUS STEINBEIS Frankly, we believe natural gas prices would have dropped more this winter, had it not been for $60+...
CATHERINE ELDER Although the market is also well supplied with crude oil and products, it was roiled by geopolitical...
EARL SWEET The routes we operate have to be economically viable. With (crude oil) going from $40 to $60 (per ba...
DEAN BREEST In general, the economy is proving to be resilient to energy and gas price pressure. It's on a growt...
MICHAEL ENGLUND Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
CHOI CHANG HOON The price hike comes as crude oil costs continue to climb on energy security woes involving Iran and...
KRIS LATHAN Japan is really the industrialized country most heavily dependent on oil imports, ... so the most di...
ASHRAF LAIDI Every negative development in the oil price slams the energy stocks. Oil companies are increasingly ...
JAN LEROY Considering where prices are now, flirting with their record level of August 2005 (70.85 dollars a b...
FRANCIS PERRIN The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS You have an entirely different industry with oil below $50 a barrel and with oil above $60.
VAUGHN CORDLE September sales were surprisingly resilient in the face of significantly higher gasoline prices. Whi...
EMME KOZLOFF If oil stays around $60, it shouldn't stop the S&P 500 from climbing, considering the strength of th...
JACQUES PORTA People are increasingly concerned, given what Wal-Mart said, that higher gas prices are going to hur...
ALAN RIFKIN Every barrel of oil that we produce around the world benefits Americans because it keeps prices down...
JOHN S. WATSON To me, the longer you sit above $60 a barrel, the greater the likelihood we'll have a push even high...
BILL STRAZZULLO Gas prices have a significant impact on the consumer psyche,
KEN PERKINS
You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust em... REX TILLERSON People are really just focusing on oil prices and using models to figure out what the impact will be...
AZIZ MCMAHON Companies are doing well, but aren't passing their wealth on to employees. Consumer spending is unde...
JACQUES CAILLOUX
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more ... GARY MILLER Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.
JEFF ADAMS The increase in oil prices is going to be problematic to the consumer as well as higher home heating...
ANN HURLEY Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which cou...
KENJI ARATA Companies appear to have turned cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices, w...
KENJI ARATA It all depends on what happens with crude oil prices.
ROB SCHLICHTING You'd think higher energy would put a lid on stocks, but the market's going up. People seem to be mo...
BOB BASEL Higher oil increasingly will creep into the indicators. Today, it biased the trade gap higher and pu...
DREW MATUS
Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising ... ALEX BERENSON We'll see crude prices ranging anywhere from $45 per barrel to $75 per barrel this year.
HENRY GROPPE Some of the capacity will go away if fuel prices stay this high. It (oil prices near $50 a barrel) c...
BETSY SNYDER Higher oil prices will drive up sentiment for oil stocks.
SALLY YEO Over the past few weeks, crude prices and gas futures have dropped and increased and dropped. Until ...
ART KINSMAN Right now we're already starting to see that rebuilding is under way and energy prices are moving lo...
LYNN REASER It's very simple. The energy market was up real strongly. That's part of it, as people consistently ...
DAN VAUGHT The API report was a big positive for crude prices. That was the catalyst for us going back over $30...
TOM PARKER We had higher oil prices, higher gold prices, higher copper prices and even a higher Dow (Jones inde...
ANGUS GEDDES Consumers are paying substantially more for fuel compared to a month ago. Escalating crude oil price...
KRIS LATHAN We started the year at $42-a-barrel oil - that was a concern, but we could get past it. When we cros...
DAVID SOWERBY Although the likelihood of an oil embargo seems very low, the fact is that there is no spare capacit...
MAKOTO TAKEDA If crude oil remains high, sugar prices will not be far behind.
JAMES LEDESMA Our speculation of gas and oil prices made the prices go up before the hurricane hit. Students perce...
CHRIS AUSTIN Gas prices have a significant impact on the consumer psyche. These lower prices should be a boon to ...
KEN PERKINS The price of crude oil is a big reason pump prices are in record high territory.
GEOFF SUNDSTROM If fears of significant harm to the supply of oil, due to geopolitical reasons from places like Iran...
AMIT MOR You have lower oil prices, you have a healthy employment situation and you have a consumer that is s...
GORDON FOWLER Gas prices dropped at a slightly slower pace than the prior week, which can be attributed to level c...
CAROL THORP With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to ...
ANGUS CAMPBELL If gas prices go up, the consumer is going to be a little tighter than they were.
ROBERT JOHNSON The Canadian dollar is seen as a commodity currency and metal prices have been going up across the b...
TOM VOSA A weaker dollar, continued geopolitical concerns, weak government data, and higher oil prices have a...
EMANUEL BALARIE
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