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Imports growing more than expected means domestic demand continues on a very strong path.


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ARTHUR WOO It's weaker than expected due to the decline of inventories, but final demand is quite strong. Basic...
TAKEHIRO SATO The gains in imports are a sign of strong domestic demand and show how resilient the economy is now....
YOSHIKI SHINKE Imports on the other hand are up because of rises in oil prices. Still, on a volume basis exports ar...
KOJI KOBAYASHI What's pushing these figures is domestic demand, with a major contribution from investment, which me...
JOSEPH RAMOS Strong demand continues, and we are on plan for a good fiscal year.
ED ZANDER This economy is still driven by domestic demand. And domestic demand remains very strong. The underp...
LARRY CHIMERINE Underlying the rise in prices is a strong world economy. The IEA is showing that demand continues to...
EUGENE X. HODGE Import volumes were less weak than previously reported. That's another sign that domestic demand is ...
HUW MCKAY Growth was slightly better than we had expected, chiefly due to resilient domestic demand such as co...
ATSUSHI TAKEDA Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide ...
BABA KALYANI The sharp slowing in domestic demand has dramatically reduced imports. Weakening economic activity i...
STEVEN WOOD Domestic demand has been nowhere close to strong or impressive.
MORGAN STANLEY Domestic vehicles are still real popular, ... The import market is the big, growing thing. Forty per...
BILL FLEMING This will increase the political pressure from outside for China to allow the currency to appreciate...
FRANK GONG What has occurred is that supply swelled as our domestic refinery capacity came back on line after r...
TRILBY LUNDBERG We see very strong interest to buy Japanese equities on increased confidence that this recovery is v...
BRIAN GARVEY The demand for concrete has been outstripping supply for several years. We've become more steadily d...
KEN SIMONSON Less-than-expected household spending is a big concern. People are speculating that domestic-demand ...
KATSUNORI HIRAI Demand in the machinery industry is quite strong, stronger than I expected. Higher rents are also a ...
MINORU TAKADA I think the economy is growing at a very nice pace. We are seeing strong demand in our hotel busines...
JAMES TISCH The story is one of continuing boom conditions in mining and very strong nonresidential construction...
ALAN OSTER The story is one of continuing boom conditions in mining and very strong nonresidential construction...
ALAN OSTER Aside from the effects of high oil prices, growth in imports in general can be interpreted as a sign...
KOJI KOBAYASHI The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by mor...
SPENCER ABRAHAM We got a bigger-than-expected decline because offshore production is still down by more than 50 perc...
TOM BENTZ Underlying demand is very strong. We continue to be optimistic about China. As you look around the w...
CHIP GOODYEAR There's some nervousness about the hurricane, that it might slow imports, and concern that gasoline ...
SAM TILLEY The shrinking trade balance isn't a bad thing because it's partly a result of strong domestic demand...
TAKUJI AIDA The report of the best industry job gains in over 11 years is more evidence that strong actions take...
CHARLES MCMILLION Even if these (falls) reverse partially next month, this is very bad news on domestic demand.
ADAM COLE Demand is growing, and we still have uncertainties in Nigeria, and the ongoing situation in Iran con...
BRUCE EVERS This forecast is based on both a positive outlook for exports and -- more significantly -- on a prog...
KLAUS REGLING The important thing is that global growth continues. Demand for technology goods remains strong.
YOJI TAKEDA The fundamental business model is intact. The path for growth continues to be strong.
APRIL HORACE Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of ...
AMBROSE BIERCE International GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is expected to grow substantially more than U.S. GDP over...
CHARLES PRINCE U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quic...
HENRY PAULSON Machinery makers are enjoying steady increases in their production. Japan's strong economy is boosti...
YOSHIHISA OKAMOTO It's actually strong and consistent. The market's healthy. I think this area's isolated regarding th...
JANET MOORE As long as energy prices are high, the trade surplus is going to shrink. The volume of imports is st...
HIROSHI SHIRAISHI That means there's a gob more fish in that lake than we had originally expected.
BRIAN BORKHOLDER Investors are now accelerating buying of domestic demand-linked shares such as property developers a...
HARUKI TAKAHASHI Though domestic demand waned and imports slackened in the first half, due largely to macro-economic ...
LI YUSHI The transformation of the business continues to deliver value to our customers and shareholders. Bro...
BEN VERWAAYEN With still strong domestic demand and improving international demand, the factory sector is continui...
STEVEN WOOD We are very satisfied. We got very clear support that was more than expected. It was more than expec...
ZORAN DJINDJIC In comparison, Cuba spent about $1 billion -- or more than 35 percent -- on petroleum imports,
ROBERT MENENDEZ The cost of the expansion is higher than we expected, but diamond prices and demand have been buoyan...
ATUL LELE When we appear to be “more a loser than a victor” on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fa...
TOM PAYNE It shows quite clearly that Europe's benefiting from strong global demand, and there are now signs t...
DARIO PERKINS Import and substituting imports with domestic production are a big opportunity. With a devaluation o...
BABA KALYANI Copper prices fell because processors are reluctant to buy now, and demand on the spot market is not...
SHEN HAIHUA Although crude oil continues to sell at more than $60 per barrel, some analysts say the price of oil...
ELLIOTT EKI The forecast may suggest weaker-than-expected computer monitor demand.
FRANK WANG In the short run, you're going to start seeing a growing demand for building material products, whic...
ERIC BELSKY They clearly came in stronger than we expected. The marquee footwear line has been very strong.
JOHN SHANLEY The government's emphasis is really misplaced, ... Each and every year we become more dependent upon...
BILL GREEHEY That's very bearish, ... The imports are higher than we anticipated.
ED SILLIERE Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United St...
CHUCK GRASSLEY Given the domestic demand-led recovery, I would expect Japan to increase imports from China and othe...
NAOKI IIZUKA The German economy is on a longer-term path of recovery, helped by some gains in domestic demand. Ge...
DAVID PAGE Because Chinese GDP is growing at 8 to 10 percent, it provides a huge source of incremental demand f...
BEN WALKER There is strong commodity demand still emerging from Asia, which is expected to grow further as most...
BHARAT SHETH I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade...
CHUCK GRASSLEY Despite the strong domestic demand, high oil prices and rising food prices, inflation remains relati...
DENNIS DYKES Demand continues to rise against a backdrop of stagnant supply. It's going to be a very interesting ...
BRUCE EVERS We believe domestic demand will increasingly become a much more important driver for growth...in the...
HONG LIANG There is an imbalance in terms of the demand and supply of energy which continues to be satisfied, o...
BRIAN BETHUNE We did expect a sharp deterioration of the trade balance. The real story on the trade numbers is tha...
HARVINDER KALIRAI The doldrums of summer haven't dampened the demand for our cars and trucks. Confidence in the econom...
DICK COLLIVER I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-t...
CHUCK GRASSLEY There are two stories at work. The first is that we see surprising strength in exports. But imports ...
BEN SIMPFENDORFER Domestic demand is now driving growth.
BERT HOFMAN Larger imports apparently more than compensate for production losses in the Gulf.
TOBIAS MERATH Creating jobs for your country's workers is about much more than ensuring that the balance sheet...
CHRYSTIA FREELAND The amount of refined oil products our country imports is very small, and our diesel and gasoline de...
LIU SHUJIE The market's deteriorated far worse than I expected, ... Everything is reacting much more violently ...
ANN HURLEY Office space continues to fill up quickly. We have a very strong office market.
JANET YOWELL The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spendi...
HIDEO ARIMURA I think on the margin the U.S. data makes currency traders more hesitant to put on strong positions....
ANTON PIL United had suggested that it was on a glide path to emerging from bankruptcy. This suggests there is...
JOE SCHWIETERMAN The community has been very supportive. It's much more than what I expected.
KRISTI SCHULMEISTER The trade surplus figures showed strong exports and domestic demand. This shows the economy is robus...
TOMOKO FUJII The figures reflect good growth and bode well for 2006 for two reasons: international prices (for co...
JOSEPH RAMOS Amazon looked pretty strong on sales although gross margins and operating expense were somewhat lowe...
DAN GEIMAN Buying momentum for domestic-demand related stocks still exists on a recovery in consumer spending a...
HIDEYUKI OOKOSHI Services performance was encouraging especially given the glimmers of hope on the domestic demand si...
ALAN CLARKE Domestic-demand related stocks will lead the market on speculation consumer prices may finally gain.
YOSHIHISA OKAMOTO Net flows were much better than anyone expected and the outlook of flows continues to be good.
MARK LANE Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
MICHAEL POLLAN We are seeing strong demand across our entire portfolio of services, both domestic and international...
FRED SMITH In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development p...
RAGHURAM RAJAN The first quarter was better because of better-than-expected extra demand for personal computers.
LORA HO All imports of domestic and wild birds, their products and by-products from Nigeria are prohibited w...
JOSEPH MUSAA The curtailment is not ongoing. If the stalemate continues, the curtailment will be on imports from ...
MAHESHA RANASOMA The company continues to generate strong cash flow. Our present cash and available borrowing capacit...
GREG GESWEIN Just having the industrial zones is a step forward. We would've liked to see more areas included. De...
ADAM FRIEDMAN We continue to see very good demand out of developing economies in India and China, and Middle East ...
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BERTRAND RUSSELL What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are ha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this d...
BERTRAND RUSSELL An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had...
BERTRAND RUSSELL There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintell...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Change is one thing, progress is another. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indub...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
BERTRAND RUSSELL One must care about a world one will not see.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he fi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by...
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