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CARLY FIORINA Oil prices are increasing and (US) consumer spending is strong.
JOSEPH YAM Slower U.S. growth may reduce growth in oil demand in the second half of the year. We are seeing pro...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK The risk with the high oil price is that it hits the U.S. consumer more than the European or Swiss c...
ANDREAS HAHNER consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of...
CHRIS RUPKEY The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS The oil issue is continuing. It has a huge effect on market sentiment and on consumer spending.
DONALD SELKIN Although the cooling U.S. housing sector is going be a major drag on consumer spending as 2006 unfol...
SHERRY COOPER Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leav...
JOHN AUGUSTINE Spending was up, a little weaker than expected... Nevertheless, the trend has been upward and it loo...
PATRICK FEARON This will be one of the - if not the - biggest single event in terms of insured losses in U.S. histo...
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HOWARD SILVERBLATT There is a lot of concern about oil and its impact on growth in the U.S. and globally, and that's a ...
ANN HURLEY Our results continue to be impacted by significant macro-economic challenges and particular weakness...
CARLY FIORINA We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in con...
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YUJI SAITO I think that you're seeing acceleration in economic activity, in terms of consumer spending and real...
BILL DUDLEY The high oil price can't be ignored and it is starting to have a negative impact on consumption in t...
CHOI CHANG HOON Economists have to worry that if consumer sentiment remains depressed, spending could follow that do...
CARY LEAHEY While the U.S. consumer appears to be in reasonably good shape, the risk lies in the potential for h...
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CHARLES ROTBLUT The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending as 2005-2006 unfolds, b...
SHERRY COOPER [The report indicates] consumer spending is gearing back, ... It is very much in line with sagging i...
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JARROD KERR That was the biggest concern I had, seeing Ralf sitting so long in the car,
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BEN SIMPFENDORFER The main concern in the markets is the possibility of easing of public spending.
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CRAIG JAMES In seven of the last eight election cycles, real consumer spending growth has decelerated in the hol...
CARL STEIDTMANN Oil continues to dominate trade, with crude at or near the highs. Worries remain about how high pric...
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LEE SCOTT The consumer is not on a spending binge - consumer spending has moderated and I don't think there's ...
GREG VALLIERE Through November [2002], we believed that discretionary consumer spending growth of 3 percent was ad...
HARRY CURTIS A very decent set of numbers from Philips, with both semiconductors and electronics surprising. The ...
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LORI WACHS The U.S. consumer roars back.
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I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United...
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SCOTT ANDERSON To a certain extent, Bush's speech about increased spending in the U.S. Gulf Coast is helping the ma...
PAUL NOLTE We still expect Treasury yields to move higher. The rise in oil is starting to be a concern once aga...
GRANT HASSELL One concern is that its production cost is rising, but as long as the oil price is high, that's acce...
GIDEON LO The real concern is over products and I expect prices for gasoline, heating oil and jet fuel to rema...
JULIAN LEE There's some nervousness about the hurricane, that it might slow imports, and concern that gasoline ...
SAM TILLEY Worries of a housing-led consumer spending bust are overblown.
RICHARD BERNER Consumer spending was really slowing down a lot in August and September. We're entering the fourth q...
KEVIN LOGAN The consumer spending numbers seem to be good, but so much of it is going to oil. It's difficult to ...
PAUL FINKELSTEIN There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ...
FRANKLIN MORTON In general there's more growth outside the U.S. than inside the U.S. in terms of new or expanded mar...
JOE GREFF such a modest increase [in unemployment] is unlikely to have any impact on consumer confidence or af...
PHILIP SHAW Areas of concern are more numerous. Most important, continuing deterioration of the financial health...
HEATHER GOODCHILD A rebound today will allay fears the consumer sector is continuing to struggle. The improvement in t...
GAVIN REDKNAP If crude oil prices hit $60 a barrel, that's going to stir up old fears of higher energy prices and ...
ANDRE BAKHOS You have lower oil prices, you have a healthy employment situation and you have a consumer that is s...
GORDON FOWLER An undecided consumer simply means that he may soon begin to pull in his spending habits. Two-thirds...
PETER CARDILLO It's a cause for concern in terms of indifference or risk-taking,
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EVAN DAVIS In terms of where Chris was, we had a very long, heart-to-heart talk about that, because that was a ...
ALISON BELL Most people don't know that the Middle East has one of the highest growth in consumer spending in th...
FADI FARRA The last time the U.S. was engaged militarily in Iraq, oil prices shot up to about $42 a barrel,
PETER GIGNOUX The biggest usefulness the U.N. had for the U.S. was the Korean War.
JOEL DIEMOND The biggest need in terms of facilities is clearly a grade school.
GREG WILLETT Crude oil was the one thing not in short supply. What the U.S. lacks is oil products, especially gas...
BARCLAYS CAPITAL The pace of consumer spending in the first half was too strong, so it will be slower in the second. ...
HIROAKI MUTO The U.S. imbalance is obviously still an issue of concern.
ERNST WELTEKE There was a rumor of a terror alert that affected U.S. stocks and raised some concern in Brazilian m...
FLAVIO DATZ Most of (Chevron's) earnings miss was in the upstream and was caused by weak U.S. oil and gas volume...
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON My biggest concern coming in was having two junior quarterbacks, I won't deny that. I feel real good...
DAN SABERS Consumer confidence is poised to remain strong during 2006, which will continue to support consumer ...
CEES BRUGGEMANS The findings are invaluable to business owners and policy- makers in our communities. They use the d...
JAMES HOLMES As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued con...
FAROOQ KATHWARI Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
ED RENDELL The good news is that concert consumer spending is miniscule compared to total entertainment spendin...
MICHAEL RAPINO The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
TIMOTHY NOAH Weaker consumer spending backs the case for interest rates on hold.
TOM KENNY It was not great, just good. The consumer spent a little better than many expected. Consumer confide...
DAN POOLE
CHOI CHANG HOON But I think the underlying trend in terms of consumer spending and overall economic spending is actu...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN Our real big concern is that the combination of rising bond yields, sustained high energy prices and...
ABHIJIT CHAKRABORTTI Consumer spending in the U.S. slowed below even our own conservative estimates and corporate spendin...
CARLY FIORINA Oil prices are increasing and (US) consumer spending is strong.
JOSEPH YAM Slower U.S. growth may reduce growth in oil demand in the second half of the year. We are seeing pro...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK The risk with the high oil price is that it hits the U.S. consumer more than the European or Swiss c...
ANDREAS HAHNER consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of...
CHRIS RUPKEY The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS The oil issue is continuing. It has a huge effect on market sentiment and on consumer spending.
DONALD SELKIN Although the cooling U.S. housing sector is going be a major drag on consumer spending as 2006 unfol...
SHERRY COOPER Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leav...
JOHN AUGUSTINE Spending was up, a little weaker than expected... Nevertheless, the trend has been upward and it loo...
PATRICK FEARON This will be one of the - if not the - biggest single event in terms of insured losses in U.S. histo...
JULIE ROCHMAN The most surprising aspect of the earnings release was management's more conservative outlook for th...
EMME KOZLOFF Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American we...
STEPHEN KINZER Far from being a leading indicator of consumer spending, consumer confidence has consistently missed...
CARL STEIDTMANN Investors are more sensitive to negative headlines after seeing interest rates and oil prices rise.
HIROSHI CHANO I expect technology companies to enjoy a recovery this year. Their potential is being realized with ...
HIROSHI CHANO Fuji Photo's plan symbolizes an end to the film camera era. The digitalization of the camera industr...
HIROSHI CHANO For overseas investors, who bought large volumes of stocks last year, Japanese equities are no longe...
HIROSHI CHANO The highly anticipated first trade went off without a hitch, and that eased investor concerns. The e...
HIROSHI CHANO We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously goi...
HOWARD SILVERBLATT There is a lot of concern about oil and its impact on growth in the U.S. and globally, and that's a ...
ANN HURLEY Our results continue to be impacted by significant macro-economic challenges and particular weakness...
CARLY FIORINA We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in con...
STEVEN WIETING Strong figures will boost expectations of higher growth in consumer spending in the U.S.. That will ...
YUJI SAITO I think that you're seeing acceleration in economic activity, in terms of consumer spending and real...
BILL DUDLEY The high oil price can't be ignored and it is starting to have a negative impact on consumption in t...
CHOI CHANG HOON Economists have to worry that if consumer sentiment remains depressed, spending could follow that do...
CARY LEAHEY While the U.S. consumer appears to be in reasonably good shape, the risk lies in the potential for h...
ADRIENNE WARREN The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any...
BERNARDO ALVAREZ
Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real ter... BEN BERNANKE Consumer spending will weaken in the months ahead.
RICHARD CURTIN If you have a couple of (refineries) that get shut down, it would be a cause for concern. But the oi...
CHARLES ROTBLUT The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending as 2005-2006 unfolds, b...
SHERRY COOPER [The report indicates] consumer spending is gearing back, ... It is very much in line with sagging i...
DOUGLAS PORTER We do believe that the U.S. housing market is a bubble in the sense that its contribution to consume...
JAN HATZIUS
I expect by '07 there will be a significant decline in U.S. consumer spending, and I don't see what ... GEORGE SOROS This is a concern for Australia's growth outlook. We've been depending on better exports to take up ...
JARROD KERR That was the biggest concern I had, seeing Ralf sitting so long in the car,
RALF SCHUMACHER Production growth is being driven by strong export demand and rising consumer spending at home. Ther...
BEN SIMPFENDORFER The main concern in the markets is the possibility of easing of public spending.
EDUARDO COTRIM Wal-Mart is a litmus test for the economy with respect to consumer spending. One thing I'll be inter...
JEFFREY KLINEFELTER Volkswagen said at the start of the year that it would be going up in market share and instead it ha...
ADAM JONAS Companies are doing well, but aren't passing their wealth on to employees. Consumer spending is unde...
JACQUES CAILLOUX The recovery in consumer spending is in its infancy. Retail growth in real terms has been the weakes...
CRAIG JAMES In seven of the last eight election cycles, real consumer spending growth has decelerated in the hol...
CARL STEIDTMANN Oil continues to dominate trade, with crude at or near the highs. Worries remain about how high pric...
JOE SUNDERMAN Factors in the U.S. will keep moving oil prices. The U.S. will continue to import oil products to fe...
HISAO SATO
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the f... PATTI SMITH Inflation in the U.S. appears to be well under control, ... The only real economic concern I have is...
LEE SCOTT The consumer is not on a spending binge - consumer spending has moderated and I don't think there's ...
GREG VALLIERE Through November [2002], we believed that discretionary consumer spending growth of 3 percent was ad...
HARRY CURTIS A very decent set of numbers from Philips, with both semiconductors and electronics surprising. The ...
CORNE VAN ZEIJL The negative impact of high international oil prices was big in August. We can still expect a recove...
IM NO JUNG
I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern. NAT WOLFF It was nice to see that the high-income consumer, which slowed down spending in November, came back ...
LORI WACHS The U.S. consumer roars back.
JAN HATZIUS Cooling housing markets will have a negative impact on consumer spending and employment. The dollar ...
YUJI KAMEOKA American consumer spending has been the economic driver.
DANIEL RAY
I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER It's clear that the economic impacts from the hurricanes will stretch well beyond the Gulf Coast reg...
SCOTT ANDERSON To a certain extent, Bush's speech about increased spending in the U.S. Gulf Coast is helping the ma...
PAUL NOLTE We still expect Treasury yields to move higher. The rise in oil is starting to be a concern once aga...
GRANT HASSELL One concern is that its production cost is rising, but as long as the oil price is high, that's acce...
GIDEON LO The real concern is over products and I expect prices for gasoline, heating oil and jet fuel to rema...
JULIAN LEE There's some nervousness about the hurricane, that it might slow imports, and concern that gasoline ...
SAM TILLEY Worries of a housing-led consumer spending bust are overblown.
RICHARD BERNER Consumer spending was really slowing down a lot in August and September. We're entering the fourth q...
KEVIN LOGAN The consumer spending numbers seem to be good, but so much of it is going to oil. It's difficult to ...
PAUL FINKELSTEIN There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ...
FRANKLIN MORTON In general there's more growth outside the U.S. than inside the U.S. in terms of new or expanded mar...
JOE GREFF such a modest increase [in unemployment] is unlikely to have any impact on consumer confidence or af...
PHILIP SHAW Areas of concern are more numerous. Most important, continuing deterioration of the financial health...
HEATHER GOODCHILD A rebound today will allay fears the consumer sector is continuing to struggle. The improvement in t...
GAVIN REDKNAP If crude oil prices hit $60 a barrel, that's going to stir up old fears of higher energy prices and ...
ANDRE BAKHOS You have lower oil prices, you have a healthy employment situation and you have a consumer that is s...
GORDON FOWLER An undecided consumer simply means that he may soon begin to pull in his spending habits. Two-thirds...
PETER CARDILLO It's a cause for concern in terms of indifference or risk-taking,
FRED TRUEMAN
In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: ... EVAN DAVIS In terms of where Chris was, we had a very long, heart-to-heart talk about that, because that was a ...
ALISON BELL Most people don't know that the Middle East has one of the highest growth in consumer spending in th...
FADI FARRA The last time the U.S. was engaged militarily in Iraq, oil prices shot up to about $42 a barrel,
PETER GIGNOUX The biggest usefulness the U.N. had for the U.S. was the Korean War.
JOEL DIEMOND The biggest need in terms of facilities is clearly a grade school.
GREG WILLETT Crude oil was the one thing not in short supply. What the U.S. lacks is oil products, especially gas...
BARCLAYS CAPITAL The pace of consumer spending in the first half was too strong, so it will be slower in the second. ...
HIROAKI MUTO The U.S. imbalance is obviously still an issue of concern.
ERNST WELTEKE There was a rumor of a terror alert that affected U.S. stocks and raised some concern in Brazilian m...
FLAVIO DATZ Most of (Chevron's) earnings miss was in the upstream and was caused by weak U.S. oil and gas volume...
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON My biggest concern coming in was having two junior quarterbacks, I won't deny that. I feel real good...
DAN SABERS Consumer confidence is poised to remain strong during 2006, which will continue to support consumer ...
CEES BRUGGEMANS The findings are invaluable to business owners and policy- makers in our communities. They use the d...
JAMES HOLMES As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued con...
FAROOQ KATHWARI Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
ED RENDELL The good news is that concert consumer spending is miniscule compared to total entertainment spendin...
MICHAEL RAPINO The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
TIMOTHY NOAH Weaker consumer spending backs the case for interest rates on hold.
TOM KENNY It was not great, just good. The consumer spent a little better than many expected. Consumer confide...
DAN POOLE
