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It has all started off strongly because of continuing M&A activity in the oil sector.


Ian Harnett

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There has been a sharp decline in oil prices recently, so people started to come back and pile into ...
LUC GIRARD Particularly in the software sector, so much of what's going on with these stocks now has nothing to...
BRENDAN BARNICLE Our guess is that [M&A activity] has only just started.
FRANZ WENZEL It all started about two years ago. The oil market and the helicopter market in general took off.
BOB POPE The gas industry is therefore looking to increased activity involving new connections in established...
STEPHEN PARKER The oil issue is continuing. It has a huge effect on market sentiment and on consumer spending.
DONALD SELKIN Essentially it was a means to create enhanced service capability for financial institutions. It star...
DAN MCINTYRE The underlying drivers of this market - resources, energy - are continuing to run very strongly at r...
GAVIN GRAHAM Housing activity has peaked. Inventories continue to rise. I see the housing market continuing to so...
DAVID LEREAH It's still meaningful -- it's a sector that accounts for a lot of swings in activity.
JOSHUA FEINMAN Record setting wet weather in key Western Canadian producing regions and industry activity levels in...
GWYN MORGAN Swimming is a life-long activity and it's one of the best all-around conditioning sports. I strongly...
BRIAN INGRAM Although it has calmed down a little of late, the energy sector still has traders watching it very c...
DAVID LAND Algeria is very important, as it is a country that has a well defined infrastructure investment plan...
CLOVIS MARTINES The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
ROSAMOND LEHMAN This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing. It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a se...
PHIL ENGLISH This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing, ... It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in ...
PHIL ENGLISH It is very difficult to take call on the oil sector as it is driven by the global crude oil prices. ...
JAYESH SHROFF The surprise fall in crude stocks has helped the rally and the energy sector has keyed off that.
FERGAL SMITH The lower warnings level is evidence that the continuing bad news has started to affect confidence t...
ANDREW WOLLASTON The increase in oil prices as trading started this morning took away all the incentive to buy stocks...
LARRY PERUZZI We cannot reduce our oil dependency without tackling our oil-guzzling transport sector.
CLAUDE TURMES The pickup in domestic demand seems to be starting to boost activity in the tertiary sector.
PAUL SHEARD The companies stand to do some profit because the oil is already there. All they have to do is take ...
JASON SCHENKER The contagion has now hit the financial sector, which is a bigger deal because it can affect every s...
BILL STERLING We maintain our overweight rating on the integrated oil sector, believing that the stocks are only p...
JACQUES ROUSSEAU It's time to reduce some holdings in oil stocks. Most of the gains in the sector we've seen already.
FRIEDRICH DIEL Energy has been a hot sector for a while with oil and gas prices up, so (CME) is responding to what ...
MEGHAN CROWE We strongly feel this is predominantly person-to-person, spread through hand-to-mouth activity, and ...
DAVE FORNEY I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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HOWARD ROTH I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that someti...
EDI RAMA It started in the bond market which has been selling off aggressively in recent days,
RUSSELL JONES The electricity and gas M&A activity surpassed the exceptional momentum that had already built up an...
MANFRED WIEGAND I think what Ian said has a lot of merit,
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IAN HARNETT The euro has clearly accelerated some people's focus on cost-saving synergies.
IAN HARNETT It's very quiet and lackluster. I was looking for the markets to come up slightly because of a modes...
IAN HARNETT Part of this is political posturing. But what companies are realizing is that arrival of the euro is...
IAN HARNETT There's a more comfortable feeling across the market. People are starting to look back at fundamenta...
IAN HARNETT At the same time, there are worries that bond yields may be rising.
IAN HARNETT If this trading activity is client-driven, oil-related physical assets are certainly not critical. B...
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DEYTH BANGER This is primarily because of a decrease in investment and speculative real estate activity in those ...
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MAYCO VILLAFANA Delay in forming the government does not benefit the Oil Ministry or the sector which provides the b...
ASIM JIHAD Sugar prices in the past few months have pulled back because of the weaker oil price. Now that oil i...
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GOPAL AHLUWALIA I expect the integrated oil sector to help support the market if it goes down. Aside from the fact t...
BRUCE LANNI The biotech sector is just not proven. It gets started and then it fades.
BEN HOLMES If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.
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HUGO CHAVEZ Starting in 2004, we started to see salaries rise again. In 2002 and 2003 we saw a lot of decreases ...
ANDREA KONCZ The contact between us has been continuing all along but it is hard to set a timetable.
YE XIAOWEN I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense ...
RAY KURZWEIL Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and defer...
ANTOINE HALFF The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS ... need pay little attention to the oil and gas sector because we're highly profitable, can fend fo...
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DAVID SPELMAN In all you're seeing sort of a mixed reaction out there. The oil data was good because of the distil...
BRIAN WILLIAMSON I am looking forward to continuing the work started by Augustine in Melbourne.
ISAAC SONGOK I still believe, and I believe this quite strongly, that the manufacturing sector will, in fact, rec...
ANTHONY CHAN [The bill did not] markedly reduce these imports, ... We need to build a consensus around effective ...
JEFF BINGAMAN It will start to taper off a little bit. It will decrease, because there has been this tremendous pu...
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ART HATFIELD First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn&...
MARTY MEEHAN I think that you're seeing acceleration in economic activity, in terms of consumer spending and real...
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MIKE BEEBE It's pretty tricky because the rock itself has a lot of oil in it. So when the water comes down, it ...
DONALD PUTNAM Ian (Thorpe) is now in the top three most recognized sports stars in Japan behind Tigers Woods and D...
DAVE FLASKAS Merger and acquisition activity in Europe has taken off over the first two months of this year. A to...
CLIVE MCDONNELL Oil seems to be a tad off today, ... One of the reasons yesterday sold off so much was having that s...
ANDRE BAKHOS Oil seems to be a tad off today. One of the reasons yesterday sold off so much was having that surge...
ANDRE BAKHOS I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employe...
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VALERY NESTEROV I believe strongly in it, because it keeps the individual involved in the political process.
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JACK ROTH Techs are moving a little and you have oil and gasoline down, which is moving the transports. The dr...
TOM SCHRADER Techs are moving a little and you have oil and gasoline down, which is moving the transports, ... Th...
TOM SCHRADER I would guess two to four weeks before we see this sector [the oil industry] back to where it should...
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IAN JACKSON If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certa...
IAN JACKSON I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general ...
IAN JACKSON We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you...
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