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HOWARD SILVERBLATT The consumer is not on a spending binge - consumer spending has moderated and I don't think there's ...
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CHOI CHANG HOON Oil prices are increasing and (US) consumer spending is strong.
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BOB STRAUS Oil was the biggest concern in terms of U.S. consumer spending.
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Although I cannot see your face
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SHEL SILVERSTEIN Higher oil increasingly will creep into the indicators. Today, it biased the trade gap higher and pu...
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IAN MCCAFFERTY such a modest increase [in unemployment] is unlikely to have any impact on consumer confidence or af...
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FRANKLIN MORTON Market sentiment is turning quite upbeat on gains in high-priced stocks.
DANIEL LIU Weaker consumer spending backs the case for interest rates on hold.
TOM KENNY We all talk about our dependence on imported oil, but our dependence on manufactured goods is two an...
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HOWARD ARCHER We haven't yet seen the negative effect of gas prices on consumer spending. It's certainly not here ...
DELOS SMITH It's a good sign that the consumer has some momentum going into the start of the year and that proba...
PATRICK FEARON Moreover, the four motors of consumption -- that is wages, inflation, unemployment and consumer conf...
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ATUL LELE The high oil price can't be ignored and it is starting to have a negative impact on consumption in t...
CHOI CHANG HOON The situation between Russia and Ukraine is a rather (supportive) factor for oil ... as the potentia...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK The real drivers of consumer spending and demand are real disposal income and real income. Unfortuna...
JACQUES BOTHA Consumer spending was really slowing down a lot in August and September. We're entering the fourth q...
KEVIN LOGAN The party division being addressed is a market positive, but Arroyo staying on will mean continuing ...
JOSE VISTAN The market has gone crazy, but we're not going to go crazy with it, OK? And if clubs want to spend t...
WALT JOCKETTY Cooling housing markets will have a negative impact on consumer spending and employment. The dollar ...
YUJI KAMEOKA The market is no longer straightforwardly cheap, but everything depends on oil prices.
AL BREACH The bull case on copper has grown even more compelling over the last month. Sentiment in the copper ...
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They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
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HOWARD SCHULTZ
GAVIN REDKNAP Gas prices are going to keep rising and that's going to have a negative impact on consumer spending ...
BEN HALLIBURTON The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of cons...
JOE ABATE We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously goi...
HOWARD SILVERBLATT The consumer is not on a spending binge - consumer spending has moderated and I don't think there's ...
GREG VALLIERE Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
CHOI CHANG HOON Oil prices are increasing and (US) consumer spending is strong.
JOSEPH YAM In reality, it won't matter as much because other elements like spending and consumer sentiment look...
HANS OLSEN The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS Oil was the biggest concern in terms of U.S. consumer spending.
HIROSHI CHANO It (consumer sentiment) was a little higher than expected, but the stock market has come back, gasol...
MARK VITNER House price inflation has picked up in recent months; if this continues it has positive implications...
JOSEPH CAPURSO consumer spending has not been dented by the hurricane-inspired rise in gasoline prices and fears of...
CHRIS RUPKEY The heights are Donald Trump size - huge buildings. There is a real serious issue whether that's an ...
EDWARD RUBIN Increasing home prices and the ability of consumers to cash out their growing home equity has been a...
DENNIS JACOBE The bond market has rebounded this week, and we've seen sentiment improving. Tensions over Iran, if ...
BOB MAES The fact that investors are chasing commodity stocks on the back of higher oil prices, instead of se...
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO We fully expect sentiment to drop sharply, putting in place the conditions for much softer consumer ...
IAN SHEPHERDSON We feel it's a huge consumer right-to-know issue.
DONNA ROSENBAUM Strong crude oil prices were generally lifting sentiment in the precious metals market.
AKIRA DOI The companies' sentiment on the global market outlook appears to have suddenly turned pessimistic. A...
YOSHIHISA MIYAMOTO Retail sales have shown tentative signs of a modest recovery from weak levels, but in our view a con...
MICHAEL PENN Companies are doing well, but aren't passing their wealth on to employees. Consumer spending is unde...
JACQUES CAILLOUX Clearly this meeting signals a bona fide interest on Wal-Mart's part in the Indian market. India is ...
CRAIG JOHNSON Clearly this meeting signals a bona fide interest on Wal-Mart's part in the Indian market, ... India...
CRAIG JOHNSON Consumer sentiment made an extraordinary month-to-month gain and really sparked the selling. The mar...
JOSH STILES Far from being a leading indicator of consumer spending, consumer confidence has consistently missed...
CARL STEIDTMANN
Although I cannot see your faceAs you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Higher oil increasingly will creep into the indicators. Today, it biased the trade gap higher and pu...
DREW MATUS A combination of weak consumer spending and challenging world markets is weighing on UK manufacturin...
IAN MCCAFFERTY such a modest increase [in unemployment] is unlikely to have any impact on consumer confidence or af...
PHILIP SHAW If crude oil prices hit $60 a barrel, that's going to stir up old fears of higher energy prices and ...
ANDRE BAKHOS China Telecom reflects market sentiment, ... A lot of foreign brokerages have issued pessimistic out...
HERBERT LAU The report is the latest sign that consumer confidence has been trending down, ... It adds to worrie...
PETER BOOCKVAR The report is the latest sign that consumer confidence has been trending down. It adds to worries in...
PETER BOOCKVAR
I try to focus on eating seasonally and organic whenever possible. It can be a challenge, but it has... ELLE MACPHERSON The most surprising aspect of the earnings release was management's more conservative outlook for th...
EMME KOZLOFF
This is a consumer phenomenon and people will care about what it has to offer them. We are not the m... MARC ANDREESSEN The investigation is continuing with a sense of urgency as it should, but there is no indication tha...
MIKE ABERLICH The investigation is continuing with a sense of urgency as it should, but there is no indication tha...
MIKE ABERLICH Since the beginning, HTC has focused on developing strong research and development capabilities and ...
CHER WANG Consumption is up considerably and that trend is not going to reverse itself. Higher oil prices are ...
DAN VERU Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the ban...
JUDD GREGG The overall effect of the international oil price increases on inflation and output has been far mor...
TITO MBOWENI There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ...
FRANKLIN MORTON Market sentiment is turning quite upbeat on gains in high-priced stocks.
DANIEL LIU Weaker consumer spending backs the case for interest rates on hold.
TOM KENNY We all talk about our dependence on imported oil, but our dependence on manufactured goods is two an...
JOE CARSON Sentiment is drifting higher on softer oil prices. All eyes remain on energy. As long as oil prices ...
BEN ROGOFF The mood on the dollar is currently negative, the comments are playing into it. The market is short ...
MITUL KOTECHA It had a huge [economic] impact. The effect on the tourism and exhibition industry was significant.
MARGARET PEDERSON This created a psychological effect on the market.
GRACE CERDENIA Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leav...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the... JENNIFER GRANHOLM American consumer spending has been the economic driver.
DANIEL RAY Economists have to worry that if consumer sentiment remains depressed, spending could follow that do...
CARY LEAHEY It has all started off strongly because of continuing M&A activity in the oil sector.
IAN HARNETT ISM prices paid came a bit higher than expected and that stoked some inflationary concerns. I am bea...
MICHAEL MALONE The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy ...
MARK SKOUSEN It's obviously part of the entire issue of focusing on drug spending and cost and pricing which keep...
JEFF CHAFFKIN What seems to be happening is that U.S. business sentiment is faltering and consumer sentiment is ta...
STEPHEN LEWIS There is some nervousness on the part of consumer and it is not going to be a red-hot market in 2006...
GARY GRANDBOIS The new austerity policy has created a small concern on the China side and there is a correction in ...
GIDEON LO The government should reconsider the issue, as the current model has made the country's economy depe...
INGILAB AHMADOV Sentiment in the bond market has really soured.
MIKE RYAN Any bets on dollar weakness will be a bet that higher energy prices will divert consumer spending, w...
JEFF GLADSTEIN The ongoing dot.com market correction is far from having a negative effect on online retailing as a ...
KATE DELHAGEN A whole community has been uprooted and huge parts of it destroyed. Add on top of that the dispropor...
JANET HOWARD The most serious risk to medium-term inflation is the continuing strength of household spending, sup...
ALAN BOLLARD American energy independence is an economic issue, an environmental issue and a national security is...
ANDY WARREN He has superstar stats and he is a superstar, but he doesn't act like a superstar. It has a huge eff...
CHAD PENNINGTON [The report indicates] consumer spending is gearing back, ... It is very much in line with sagging i...
DOUGLAS PORTER
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Pressure is showing on the BMC they want to ban a lot of things and bring down a lot of things. The ...
APURVA GAGLANI
Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market ... ALEX BERENSON The markedly reduced mortgage equity withdrawal since its fourth-quarter 2003 peak has undoubtedly w...
HOWARD ARCHER We haven't yet seen the negative effect of gas prices on consumer spending. It's certainly not here ...
DELOS SMITH It's a good sign that the consumer has some momentum going into the start of the year and that proba...
PATRICK FEARON Moreover, the four motors of consumption -- that is wages, inflation, unemployment and consumer conf...
EMMANUEL FERRY Livestock production has a huge financial impact on the state economy. You're turning a lot of dolla...
BARNEY ROLING The price [of oil] is set on the world market by willing buyers and sellers,
LEE RAYMOND blackmagic on a person http://www.astrodost.com/how-to-do-black-magic-on-a-person blackmagic on a pe...
ASTRODOST Buying momentum for domestic-demand related stocks still exists on a recovery in consumer spending a...
HIDEYUKI OOKOSHI
Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different... ANNE SWEENEY Sentiment is not too positive and people are quite cautious ahead of the Federal Open Market Committ...
ALEX WONG I think offshore investors would be looking at the Australian telecommunications market and seeing a...
ATUL LELE The high oil price can't be ignored and it is starting to have a negative impact on consumption in t...
CHOI CHANG HOON The situation between Russia and Ukraine is a rather (supportive) factor for oil ... as the potentia...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK The real drivers of consumer spending and demand are real disposal income and real income. Unfortuna...
JACQUES BOTHA Consumer spending was really slowing down a lot in August and September. We're entering the fourth q...
KEVIN LOGAN The party division being addressed is a market positive, but Arroyo staying on will mean continuing ...
JOSE VISTAN The market has gone crazy, but we're not going to go crazy with it, OK? And if clubs want to spend t...
WALT JOCKETTY Cooling housing markets will have a negative impact on consumer spending and employment. The dollar ...
YUJI KAMEOKA The market is no longer straightforwardly cheap, but everything depends on oil prices.
AL BREACH The bull case on copper has grown even more compelling over the last month. Sentiment in the copper ...
ANDREW COLE I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
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