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Home sales have remained surprisingly strong despite higher interest rates.
CHRISTOPHER LOW It's slowed down because of price increases and interest rates creeping up. We're seeing a steady, s...
FRANCK KAISER High interest rates have affected car and motorcycle sales. The high interest rate climate has affec...
HENRY HO Somewhat slower (economic) growth, higher interest rates and volatile gas prices all add up to auto ...
MARK FIELDS Mortgage rates have been so low and accommodating that total home sales surged in October as familie...
FRANK NOTHAFT As interest rates have fallen sharply over the past 4-5 years ... we have seen a new batch of (young...
DHIRENDRA KUMAR You're seeing inventories creeping up and affordability pinching more and more, and you're seeing lo...
ANTHONY CHAN But looser underwriting standards and the more widespread penetration of riskier mortgage products h...
JOHN DUGAN But looser underwriting standards and the more widespread penetration of riskier mortgage products h...
JOHN DUGAN Interest rates are creeping up and some might say that this is more realistic that it's more normal....
ALEXIS MUELLNER Despite the slippage in home sales there is no evidence of any nationwide softening of home prices, ...
JOHN LONSKI Online sales are growing at a healthy clip, even though sales may have pulled back somewhat from the...
JEFFREY GRAU Overall we're in a very good situation; I don't think interest rates will be going up. Greenspan is ...
GREGORY SMITH Most of the markets in the region are also under selling pressure on fears of rising ( U.S. ) intere...
ALEX TANG We expect to see continued, although slower growth in housing. Higher interest rates will tend to da...
BILL CONNORS Even though retail sales may have spurred somewhat higher long-term rates, they're still not much di...
GORDON FOWLER The fact that home sales were up, while mortgage rates also climbed bodes well for the real estate c...
DAVE OTTO![]()
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
UNKNOWN We have low interest rates and a real estate sales boom that signals to builders and developers that...
ERIK KNODER Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation...
IM NO JUNG We expect no change in interest rates. The market has been factoring in better interest rates for th...
JOE ROONEY Sales of meat birds and egg-laying birds have fallen 25 to 30 percent since the news of the bird flu...
BHARAT TANDON My sales in football have been the best I've seen in four years.
JACK TERRY What we are looking for especially in the first quarter is sales growth ... Growth is rewarded very ...
JUSSI HYOTY Consumer spending has kept the economy moving, and when initial holiday sales were better than expec...
FRANK NOTHAFT It definitely shows what the figures have shown all year. Home sales continue to be strong.
DAVE PHILLIPS One reason the futures may be up is because the latest economic data have been a bit softer than exp...
KHURAM CHAUDHRY Cap rates are going to have to return to normal because interest rates are continuing to bubble up.
DAVE BUURMA The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rat...
ANNE ROSS There is no denying that 2005 has been a tremendous year for the housing industry. Very favorable in...
DAVID PRESSLY It seems like the market is obsessing on this bond market fallout, which was somewhat precipitated b...
JACK ABLIN This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.
MARK LANGAN![]()
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t...
EDMUND PHELPS The early heat-up in temperatures and the relatively few number of days with rain have definitely co...
LORRAINE ABERCROMBIE Today's market may well face a struggle for direction. Uncertainty over oil prices and the future di...
MATTHEW BUCKLAND There are definitely earnings fears creeping in the market,
TAKASHI MIYAZAKI The rising mortgage rates have pushed us to a new record home-sales level, but once the fence sitter...
JOEL NAROFF There's already been a considerable softening in housing demand which preceded the recent rise in mo...
RICHARD DEKASER Sales fell last month compared with December 2004's record-setting pace, prompted by consumers' conc...
VINCE MALTA Interest rates have an indirect effect on exchange rates.
JEFFREY TAN The recovery has been fueled by lower rates, and people have been so focused on that, they're losing...
ANDY ENGEL The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates a...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT [Bob Carpenter, public information officer for the Charlotte County sheriff's office, said that crim...
BOB CARPENTER The stock market has been anticipating a slowdown because of pressures from interest rates and energ...
RON BARON The strength of the housing market this year continues to surprise, despite rising home prices and s...
GREGORY KLUMP We're definitely softening, definitely slowing down. We're catching our breath and getting ready for...
LINDA RHEINBERGER The picture is not altogether clear that we have definitely reached the peak in short-term U.S. inte...
EDWARD MENASHY![]()
Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it c...
ROBERT JORDAN The biggest impact in today's trade is coming from the reduced worries about U.S. interest rates see...
JASON HWANG The level of sales activity remained below the record-setting levels that occurred over the last two...
VINCE MALTA We've seen a dramatic pickup in these loans since rates starting going up,
ANTHONY HSIEH The drop in mortgage interest rates is offsetting higher home prices, so housing affordability condi...
MARTIN EDWARDS As we expected, mortgage rates moved upward a little in response to the current volatility in the fi...
FRANK NOTHAFT![]()
It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.
BILL GROSS![]()
Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it c...
ROBERT JORDAN Global markets have not been affected by the possibility of rising U.S. interest rates. Japan and th...
JASON HWANG We already have tremendous interest in Grand Arbors, and 2005 sales in The Estates caused a buzz. Th...
AL PRIMAVERA The interest rates were so low we wanted to take advantage of it. We were afraid if we waited until ...
BETH MACKIE Earlier in the year when we had a high interest rates, the sentiment was that housing would slow dow...
MARIA FIORINI RAMIREZ I've seen interest rates as high as 26.5 percent. Unfortunately, students are very, very, very poor ...
DEBORAH GODFREY The perception is that rates are going up, and people are lining up to buy homes because of that. It...
CARL WEINBERG Supply and demand continue to drive this market out here, more so than interest rates. Interest rate...
DAVE NASH So far, the debt payment ratio (of loan payments to income) hasn't been higher this decade than duri...
HEATHER BOUSHEY We continue to believe the company's assumptions appear to be somewhat aggressive given the recent s...
RICK MURRAY Can interest rates shore up the euro? Not so far,
CLAUDIO PIRON I think there are a number of factors that have led (to the growth), including the low interest rate...
BILL KING There's been a lot of discussion about the end of quantitative easing, but relatively little about i...
HIRONARI NOZAKI Bad weather and the war did affect Lowe's sales in the quarter. That's the logical assumption. But w...
COLIN MCGRANAHAN Even if interest rates weren't rising, home prices are very high relative to income. So, people are ...
CELIA CHEN We're all surprised by the persistence of the housing boom, and it actually is a boom in our state. ...
GREG WEEKS The tough economy has put tremendous pressure on fourth-quarter sales performance and increased comp...
BOB NARDELLI We did well in both our European and Asia/Pacific regions during the quarter, but some of this growt...
GARRY O. RIDGE I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obs...
RACHELE BROOKE SMITH But that didn't benefit the motor home sales. Higher fuel prices have been a negative for them.
CRAIG KENNISON Increased confidence, a strong housing sector and low interest rates have got Australian consumers i...
CRAIG JAMES The seasonally adjusted annual (industry-wide) sales rate in the last six months has exceeded 18 mil...
BOB REWEY![]()
It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted...
ANGIE STONE Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT Mortgage rates have crept up a bit, but not enough to dampen the enthusiasm for home-buying activity...
DAVE OTTO Home sales will remain strong because all the fundamentals remain rock solid. Long-term rates are fa...
BOB WALTERS Looking at the economy, there's been a lot of market chatter about the Federal Reserve cutting inter...
CHARLES LEMONIDES [Rasco has also served as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. He graduated from Prairie Gro...
GREG MACK The biggest surprise to me has been that interest rates have stayed as low as they have as long as t...
DEAN BAKER I wouldn't be surprised to see (the Dow) trend lower because markets don't trend up in a time of ris...
GRACE FEY When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be...
JOHN HULL Near term, we have seen a softening in our business, coincident with the onset of the war with Iraq....
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH Near term, we have seen a softening in our business, coincident with the onset of the war with Iraq....
W. ALAN MCCOLLOUGH This is slightly baffling, given that existing home sales have been strengthening, ... It may be a r...
IAN SHEPHERDSON We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a...
ADAM MESURIER We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a...
ADAM LE MESURIER The market is showing a good improvement. Some points of concern, including in the political sphere,...
MARCELO PORTO Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN I definitely have been approached and reached out to by a lot of young Asian American and Asian wome...
PHILLIPA SOO Card rates are rising faster than the rise in general interest rates.
JUSTIN MCHENRY The slowing of unit sales will lessen one pressure point lying behind the abnormally high rates of c...
DAVID SCOTT Lauren has really burst on the scene in the county. I've been around fast-pitch softball for a long ...
DON ELLENBERGER In March and April, interest rates were going up very gradually, and tech investors figured Greenspa...
BERNARD BAUMOHL There has been a creeping spread of location technology in the workplace.
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE Banks are definitely in vogue at the moment because we are expecting rates to come down in the secon...
HARRY SU People are complacent about interest rates now. There is a risk that the emerging strength of the da...
BILL EVANS
CHRISTOPHER LOW It's slowed down because of price increases and interest rates creeping up. We're seeing a steady, s...
FRANCK KAISER High interest rates have affected car and motorcycle sales. The high interest rate climate has affec...
HENRY HO Somewhat slower (economic) growth, higher interest rates and volatile gas prices all add up to auto ...
MARK FIELDS Mortgage rates have been so low and accommodating that total home sales surged in October as familie...
FRANK NOTHAFT As interest rates have fallen sharply over the past 4-5 years ... we have seen a new batch of (young...
DHIRENDRA KUMAR You're seeing inventories creeping up and affordability pinching more and more, and you're seeing lo...
ANTHONY CHAN But looser underwriting standards and the more widespread penetration of riskier mortgage products h...
JOHN DUGAN But looser underwriting standards and the more widespread penetration of riskier mortgage products h...
JOHN DUGAN Interest rates are creeping up and some might say that this is more realistic that it's more normal....
ALEXIS MUELLNER Despite the slippage in home sales there is no evidence of any nationwide softening of home prices, ...
JOHN LONSKI Online sales are growing at a healthy clip, even though sales may have pulled back somewhat from the...
JEFFREY GRAU Overall we're in a very good situation; I don't think interest rates will be going up. Greenspan is ...
GREGORY SMITH Most of the markets in the region are also under selling pressure on fears of rising ( U.S. ) intere...
ALEX TANG We expect to see continued, although slower growth in housing. Higher interest rates will tend to da...
BILL CONNORS Even though retail sales may have spurred somewhat higher long-term rates, they're still not much di...
GORDON FOWLER The fact that home sales were up, while mortgage rates also climbed bodes well for the real estate c...
DAVE OTTO
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on. UNKNOWN We have low interest rates and a real estate sales boom that signals to builders and developers that...
ERIK KNODER Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation...
IM NO JUNG We expect no change in interest rates. The market has been factoring in better interest rates for th...
JOE ROONEY Sales of meat birds and egg-laying birds have fallen 25 to 30 percent since the news of the bird flu...
BHARAT TANDON My sales in football have been the best I've seen in four years.
JACK TERRY What we are looking for especially in the first quarter is sales growth ... Growth is rewarded very ...
JUSSI HYOTY Consumer spending has kept the economy moving, and when initial holiday sales were better than expec...
FRANK NOTHAFT It definitely shows what the figures have shown all year. Home sales continue to be strong.
DAVE PHILLIPS One reason the futures may be up is because the latest economic data have been a bit softer than exp...
KHURAM CHAUDHRY Cap rates are going to have to return to normal because interest rates are continuing to bubble up.
DAVE BUURMA The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rat...
ANNE ROSS There is no denying that 2005 has been a tremendous year for the housing industry. Very favorable in...
DAVID PRESSLY It seems like the market is obsessing on this bond market fallout, which was somewhat precipitated b...
JACK ABLIN This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.
MARK LANGAN
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t... EDMUND PHELPS The early heat-up in temperatures and the relatively few number of days with rain have definitely co...
LORRAINE ABERCROMBIE Today's market may well face a struggle for direction. Uncertainty over oil prices and the future di...
MATTHEW BUCKLAND There are definitely earnings fears creeping in the market,
TAKASHI MIYAZAKI The rising mortgage rates have pushed us to a new record home-sales level, but once the fence sitter...
JOEL NAROFF There's already been a considerable softening in housing demand which preceded the recent rise in mo...
RICHARD DEKASER Sales fell last month compared with December 2004's record-setting pace, prompted by consumers' conc...
VINCE MALTA Interest rates have an indirect effect on exchange rates.
JEFFREY TAN The recovery has been fueled by lower rates, and people have been so focused on that, they're losing...
ANDY ENGEL The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates a...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT [Bob Carpenter, public information officer for the Charlotte County sheriff's office, said that crim...
BOB CARPENTER The stock market has been anticipating a slowdown because of pressures from interest rates and energ...
RON BARON The strength of the housing market this year continues to surprise, despite rising home prices and s...
GREGORY KLUMP We're definitely softening, definitely slowing down. We're catching our breath and getting ready for...
LINDA RHEINBERGER The picture is not altogether clear that we have definitely reached the peak in short-term U.S. inte...
EDWARD MENASHY
Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it c... ROBERT JORDAN The biggest impact in today's trade is coming from the reduced worries about U.S. interest rates see...
JASON HWANG The level of sales activity remained below the record-setting levels that occurred over the last two...
VINCE MALTA We've seen a dramatic pickup in these loans since rates starting going up,
ANTHONY HSIEH The drop in mortgage interest rates is offsetting higher home prices, so housing affordability condi...
MARTIN EDWARDS As we expected, mortgage rates moved upward a little in response to the current volatility in the fi...
FRANK NOTHAFT
It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up. BILL GROSS
Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it c... ROBERT JORDAN Global markets have not been affected by the possibility of rising U.S. interest rates. Japan and th...
JASON HWANG We already have tremendous interest in Grand Arbors, and 2005 sales in The Estates caused a buzz. Th...
AL PRIMAVERA The interest rates were so low we wanted to take advantage of it. We were afraid if we waited until ...
BETH MACKIE Earlier in the year when we had a high interest rates, the sentiment was that housing would slow dow...
MARIA FIORINI RAMIREZ I've seen interest rates as high as 26.5 percent. Unfortunately, students are very, very, very poor ...
DEBORAH GODFREY The perception is that rates are going up, and people are lining up to buy homes because of that. It...
CARL WEINBERG Supply and demand continue to drive this market out here, more so than interest rates. Interest rate...
DAVE NASH So far, the debt payment ratio (of loan payments to income) hasn't been higher this decade than duri...
HEATHER BOUSHEY We continue to believe the company's assumptions appear to be somewhat aggressive given the recent s...
RICK MURRAY Can interest rates shore up the euro? Not so far,
CLAUDIO PIRON I think there are a number of factors that have led (to the growth), including the low interest rate...
BILL KING There's been a lot of discussion about the end of quantitative easing, but relatively little about i...
HIRONARI NOZAKI Bad weather and the war did affect Lowe's sales in the quarter. That's the logical assumption. But w...
COLIN MCGRANAHAN Even if interest rates weren't rising, home prices are very high relative to income. So, people are ...
CELIA CHEN We're all surprised by the persistence of the housing boom, and it actually is a boom in our state. ...
GREG WEEKS The tough economy has put tremendous pressure on fourth-quarter sales performance and increased comp...
BOB NARDELLI We did well in both our European and Asia/Pacific regions during the quarter, but some of this growt...
GARRY O. RIDGE I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obs...
RACHELE BROOKE SMITH But that didn't benefit the motor home sales. Higher fuel prices have been a negative for them.
CRAIG KENNISON Increased confidence, a strong housing sector and low interest rates have got Australian consumers i...
CRAIG JAMES The seasonally adjusted annual (industry-wide) sales rate in the last six months has exceeded 18 mil...
BOB REWEY
It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted... ANGIE STONE Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT Mortgage rates have crept up a bit, but not enough to dampen the enthusiasm for home-buying activity...
DAVE OTTO Home sales will remain strong because all the fundamentals remain rock solid. Long-term rates are fa...
BOB WALTERS Looking at the economy, there's been a lot of market chatter about the Federal Reserve cutting inter...
CHARLES LEMONIDES [Rasco has also served as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. He graduated from Prairie Gro...
GREG MACK The biggest surprise to me has been that interest rates have stayed as low as they have as long as t...
DEAN BAKER I wouldn't be surprised to see (the Dow) trend lower because markets don't trend up in a time of ris...
GRACE FEY When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be...
JOHN HULL Near term, we have seen a softening in our business, coincident with the onset of the war with Iraq....
ALAN MCCOLLOUGH Near term, we have seen a softening in our business, coincident with the onset of the war with Iraq....
W. ALAN MCCOLLOUGH This is slightly baffling, given that existing home sales have been strengthening, ... It may be a r...
IAN SHEPHERDSON We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a...
ADAM MESURIER We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a...
ADAM LE MESURIER The market is showing a good improvement. Some points of concern, including in the political sphere,...
MARCELO PORTO Its comparable sales have been on a tear over the past two year, up 6 percent in 2002 and up 4 perce...
HOWARD TUBIN I definitely have been approached and reached out to by a lot of young Asian American and Asian wome...
PHILLIPA SOO Card rates are rising faster than the rise in general interest rates.
JUSTIN MCHENRY The slowing of unit sales will lessen one pressure point lying behind the abnormally high rates of c...
DAVID SCOTT Lauren has really burst on the scene in the county. I've been around fast-pitch softball for a long ...
DON ELLENBERGER In March and April, interest rates were going up very gradually, and tech investors figured Greenspa...
BERNARD BAUMOHL There has been a creeping spread of location technology in the workplace.
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE Banks are definitely in vogue at the moment because we are expecting rates to come down in the secon...
HARRY SU People are complacent about interest rates now. There is a risk that the emerging strength of the da...
BILL EVANS
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