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HOWARD ARCHER The rate of annual growth has been slowing as would be expected, with most of the rise in the market...
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CHRIS PROBYN This is a concern for Australia's growth outlook. We've been depending on better exports to take up ...
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STEVEN WIETING The markedly reduced mortgage equity withdrawal since its fourth-quarter 2003 peak has undoubtedly w...
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SEAN WARGO It's a wake-up call for the bond market, ... The bond market was nervous to begin with that the gold...
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CHARLES LIEBERMAN It is a good time if you're willing to accept slow growth and slow improvement. We do not anticipate...
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MATT NELLANS We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.
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XOLILE GUMA The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending as 2005-2006 unfolds, b...
SHERRY COOPER There were two key trends in the global wireless market in 2005. First, emerging markets contributed...
PHIL KENDALL 2005 was another strong year in both the Enterprise and Consumer Wireless LAN markets, growing 13 pe...
AARON VANCE Intel will be a key beneficiary of any kind of recovery in information technology [IT] spending in 2...
KRISHNA SHANKAR This reinforces the role of business investment and exports as underpinning the recovering economy. ...
SCOTT HASLEM Through November [2002], we believed that discretionary consumer spending growth of 3 percent was ad...
HARRY CURTIS Growing inventory of existing homes indicate we are now in a buyer's market! We started strong in 20...
DENNY GRIMES The figure, compared with 18.6 percent for the whole 2005, shows the banking industry has a steady g...
ZHU YAN In seven of the last eight election cycles, real consumer spending growth has decelerated in the hol...
CARL STEIDTMANN So while some special factors may be boosting spending, the overall trend of spending is well out of...
ROBERT BRUSCA Low and declining inventory levels naturally lead to increased production to build inventories in an...
ANDREW NORWOOD We are expecting a 6 percent increase in homes sold in 2005 over the number sold in 2004. And that m...
GREG DYER Higher price points for the blockbuster titles in 2004 and 2005 can condition the video game consume...
GARY COOPER You can't have this kind of slowing in job growth coupled with rising energy prices and not see some...
ALAN GAYLE At this point, the market isn't that developed yet. Ten percent of all consumer bills will be presen...
BETH ROBERTSON The rise in consumer confidence in general indicates that consumers' willingness to spend additional...
CEES BRUGGEMANS We moved nearly 1.7 million tons in containers in 2005, up 15 percent from 2004. We've had a very go...
BOB CUMMINGS All groups showed comparable sales up over 5 percent for the month, ... The economy is certainly an ...
KEN PERKINS Increases in personal disposable income boosted consumer spending and that in turn contributed to th...
MAGAN MISTRY The last few months of 2005 marked the first time since mid-2004 that the fixed-rate mortgage was ab...
VINCE MALTA As a category, games represent 50 percent of consumer PC software sales. This is an opportunity for ...
BRIAN DEXHEIMER The Mountain States region experienced growth significantly higher than the rest of the nation. The ...
ERNIE GOSS
[At a minimum, this will hit consumers' pocketbooks—and perhaps their confidence. Before Katr... MARK ZANDI
[At a minimum, this will hit consumers' pocketbooks—and perhaps their confidence. Before Katrina, ... MARK ZANDI Cable is not really growing at all, ... It's seeing roughly 15 to 20 percent growth in terms of upgr...
MIKE PAXTON We will see a change in the drivers of economic growth with capital spending taking a lead. There is...
CARL RICCADONNA Our expectation is that GDP will increase by 0.9% in the June quarter to be 2.1% higher that the Jun...
ADAM CARR Looking out even further toward the end of the year, investors might grow optimistic about the end-o...
ANTHONY CRESCENZI Although we expect consumer spending to slow sharply in the fourth quarter, to below 2 percent, as a...
JOHN RYDING We continue to believe that solid household income growth will sustain decent - but not spectacular ...
ADAM DONALDSON In 2005, we delivered our third consecutive year of exceptional growth, resulting in record revenue ...
DAVE GOULD There is a 60-percent likelihood of this scenario.
CHRISTOPHER DIXON The consumer spending situation is improving in Europe; that's what we need to ensure durable growth...
DOMINIQUE BARBET The increase is due largely to the decline in consumer confidence during 2005 as a result of concern...
ANDREW WOLLASTON The strong second half in 2005 is feeding through into 2006. The consensus wisdom for industry growt...
MALCOLM PENN We welcome the review. Our unit leads the nation in recoveries, has in 2004 and will in 2005. Recove...
DARREN DOPP Most people don't know that the Middle East has one of the highest growth in consumer spending in th...
FADI FARRA Far from being a leading indicator of consumer spending, consumer confidence has consistently missed...
CARL STEIDTMANN
The bottom line for German growth this year is that recovery momentum is flagging with GDP likely to... DAVID BROWN There were 39 fatalities in 2005, which was a slight reduction from the 41 fatalities that occurred ...
AL JOHNSON The PBX market came in at our expectations in 2005, and from a global perspective is doing very well...
MATTHIAS MACHOWINSKI
Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market ... ALEX BERENSON
The increase in financing capacity provides us with additional liquidity to continue our goal of gro... HUGH MILLER
The increase in financing capacity provides us with additional liquidity to continue our goal of gro... HUGH MILLER If we do get a housing slowdown, job growth is there to support a relatively decent pace of consumer...
JAY FELDMAN Delivering on our long-term commitment to enhance shareholder value, this is Devon's third consecuti...
J. LARRY NICHOLS The February CBI survey reinforces our belief that consumer spending will be unable to sustain the r...
HOWARD ARCHER We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spendi...
FRANK WANG Higher claims suggest slower job gains, which should dampen income growth, consumer spending, and ov...
STEVEN WOOD
Thirty-five percent of Americans, according to a 2004 Pew Research survey, call themselves conservat... LARRY ELDER
In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: ... EVAN DAVIS These are abysmal numbers, suggesting a deeply pessimistic consumer in the first half of September.
CHRISTOPHER LOW Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking u...
HOWARD ARCHER The rate of annual growth has been slowing as would be expected, with most of the rise in the market...
HOWARD MORLEY The NPD Group's forecasting model is a unique combination of point-of-sale and consumer data, along ...
STEPHEN BAKER I do not believe that 0.9 percent is sustainable, especially given the price liberalization in areas...
DONG TAO This was a disappointing number relative to expectations and certainly consistent with the idea that...
CHRIS PROBYN This is a concern for Australia's growth outlook. We've been depending on better exports to take up ...
JARROD KERR The momentum we saw coming into the second quarter has all but disappeared as businesses continue to...
LOREN LOVERDE We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in con...
STEVEN WIETING The markedly reduced mortgage equity withdrawal since its fourth-quarter 2003 peak has undoubtedly w...
HOWARD ARCHER Kodak plans to achieve top-line growth of 8 to 12 percent by 2004, ... That's an important part of a...
GEORGE FISHER The unemployment rate has increased only slightly by 0.5% from 26.2% in September 2004 to 26.7% in S...
LIZ GAVIN Our real big concern is that the combination of rising bond yields, sustained high energy prices and...
ABHIJIT CHAKRABORTTI There was only one place to go for Matt. He'd been second (2004) and third (2005) and to walk out of...
BRENT FAUROTE Economists have to worry that if consumer sentiment remains depressed, spending could follow that do...
CARY LEAHEY In this case, we had the vaccine tested. It was found to still be potent for the 2004-2005 flu strai...
ABBY OTTENHOFF The fact that public works spending is about to slow shouldn't raise concern. It's only if private d...
ANDREW SHIPLEY In the past three months, bunker fuel prices have risen 17 percent, with the fuel surcharge recoveri...
DAVE HOPPES Rising fuel prices will keep a lid on consumer spending for some time, slowing economic growth. The ...
SHANE OLIVER Production growth is being driven by strong export demand and rising consumer spending at home. Ther...
BEN SIMPFENDORFER Investment spending continues to be very vigorous. There was 26 percent growth in investment in the ...
ALBERTO RAMOS With the overall CE industry expanding 11 percent on a revenue basis in 2005, it is understandable t...
SEAN WARGO It's a wake-up call for the bond market, ... The bond market was nervous to begin with that the gold...
ANDREW PYLE Spending was up, a little weaker than expected... Nevertheless, the trend has been upward and it loo...
PATRICK FEARON Overall, 2005 saw higher numbers of shoppers on the High Street than in 2004, though this camouflage...
NATASHA BURTON Our local programming teams have done an extraordinary job creating great Spanish-language radio tha...
ALFREDO ALONSO It wouldn't be surprising if there was a little bit of a pullback in consumer spending in the first ...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN It is a good time if you're willing to accept slow growth and slow improvement. We do not anticipate...
KURT BARNARD Japan's consumer spending is pretty firm, and it's expected to pick up momentum further in the next ...
TAKUJI AIDA Our 2005 salesperson of the year award winners have brought great value to Choice as a result of the...
DAVID PEPPER
Net income for the first three quarters of 2005 is nearly equal to all of 2004, MICHAEL EISNER Yan had 18 cases between April 2004 and December 2005 in our court.
HU HAIRONG
Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a ... WOODY HARRELSON We have maybe a 10 percent chance of recovering them alive.
MARIA LIM A similar seasonal pattern occurred in 2004 but then the TAI retracted only four index points from t...
RICHARD DOWNING
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling ... SPENCER BACHUS We believe that apartment rent growth will range from 8 to 10 percent by the close of 2005. Rising h...
BRIAN GORDON The big surprise here is that even if we take out auto dealership and gasoline station sales, we're ...
JOHN LONSKI The big surprise here is that even if we take out auto dealership and gasoline station sales, we're ...
JOHN LONSKI We felt they did pretty well. The 2005 hurricanes created a pretty bad scenario for the company.
MATT NELLANS We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.
ANIL KHANDELWAL Up to 2004, we made 53,839 dumplings. This year, we made 2,815 so far, ... We've made (a total of) $...
CAROL GRAHAM We're in a much more favorable demographic in this slowdown. We now have 21 percent of the populatio...
ARAM RUBINSON Based on the performance in 2005 and what is on the horizon, the growth will be sustainable for this...
JAIME YSMAEL For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compar...
PAUL CURLANDER The consumer is not on a spending binge - consumer spending has moderated and I don't think there's ...
GREG VALLIERE But I think the underlying trend in terms of consumer spending and overall economic spending is actu...
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