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FRANK NOTHAFT We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI We expect housing to start slowing the economy this quarter or the next.
EDWARD LEAMER It shows there is still solid underlying demand for housing and that activity this year, while slowi...
MICHAEL MORAN I was getting long all morning, because I can tell you the new houses on my street are not selling. ...
FRANK HSU We anticipated about a 10 to 20 percent drop this year in participation,
HOWARD TAYLOR We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will ...
ALBERTO FUJIMORI November's numbers confirm that housing activity has peaked and is now slowing.
DAVID LEREAH The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the ho...
DAVID LEREAH This is primarily because of a decrease in investment and speculative real estate activity in those ...
BRAD GEISEN This sector saw about a 4 percent growth last year. I expect it to do about the same, between 3 to 4...
FRANK BADILLO I think we'll continue to see weaker housing starts, but the slowing will be more modest than the 8%...
CELIA CHEN Our January forecast calls for a gradual rise in long-term rates throughout 2006. This should induce...
FRANK NOTHAFT The chairman concluded that there is more to do in terms of slowing activity. We expect some further...
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Economic confidence is weak because of high oil prices, but all that will change once oil is back do...
DAVID BROWN Housing activity has peaked and is coming down a bit, and we expect further cooling in the coming mo...
DAVID LEREAH The key message is housing market activity has improved significantly into the second half of this y...
ALAN CLARKE Many investors did not expect that yields would decline from the start of the year. They rather not ...
EIJI DOHKE Housing activity has peaked and is coming down a bit, and we expect further cooling in the coming mo...
DAVID LEREAH I truly believe the housing market will continue to expand. But rather than the double-digit price a...
DAVID LEREAH I am looking at recurrent earnings growth of 10 percent in 2006 for the banks, if you strip out exce...
DAVID LUM I still see solid earnings growth for the sector. Growth looks strong especially when you consider (...
MIKE KRENSAVAGE We've been consistently surprised by the strength of the labor market. We still think over the next ...
ADAM CARR As for new releases, we plan to terminate purchases of VHS sometime early next fiscal year. Next yea...
HIROFUMI SHIRAKATA The biggest surprise to us this year was the late-season surge in the week before Christmas. This oc...
DAN HESS We realize our offense got a lot of guys back, and we've done a lot of things to improve our defense...
CARSON PALMER We realize our offense got a lot of guys back, and we've done a lot of things to improve our defense...
CARSON PALMER We talk about affordable housing in this campaign year, ... but we don't act.
MARGARITA LOPEZ Employers expect less hiring activity than in the first quarter when 30 percent of the companies int...
JOSEPH TUERFF The Commerce Department report on housing starts showed a considerable drop in starts in November. H...
FRANK NOTHAFT I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent.
BURHANUDDIN ABDULLAH My guess would be last year alone we looked at 8-10 percent.
CRAIG KEMMERER We still expect economic activity to slow over the next several quarters as consumer spending slows ...
STEVEN WOOD In fiscal 2007, we anticipate gross capital expenditures of approximately $300 million. Planned expe...
AUSTIN LIGON If we do get a housing slowdown, job growth is there to support a relatively decent pace of consumer...
JAY FELDMAN It's hard to disagree with Greenspan. Our own market view is equities are fairly valued, but they ha...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT I'm very glad to see it close. We've been cautioning investors not to expect as much from it because...
SONYA MORRIS Additionally, we are seeing wholesale prices for natural gas to drop and expect approximately an 11 ...
DAN ALDERSON We expect to see the continuation of the slowing trend in many markets.
MARK MILNER We won about 70 percent of our doubles matches this year.
BEN BUCCA If we see anything above 4.75 percent, approaching 5 percent on the 10-year Treasury, investors shou...
JOSEPH KEATING I've been negative on the industry outlook for quite some time. I think next year is going to be a d...
LAWRENCE HORAN This is a dollar-positive move across the board. It puts perhaps additional interest-rate hikes on t...
GREG SALVAGGIO We remain relatively optimistic about the housing market, but we do accept that activity fell sharpl...
IAN SHEPHERDSON The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH We expect a potentially heavy impact on Qualcomm, especially for second-quarter results. We estimate...
MARC CABI The earnings momentum from the prior fiscal year has been maintained despite some slowing in economi...
RALPH NORRIS The housing market is not slowing sufficiently to comfort the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
CAMERON BAGRIE Local market sentiment was also buoyed by overseas investors, who had placed large net buy orders ah...
HIROYUKI NAKAI Some investors are worrying about the slowdown in the housing market, a key driver of the U.S. econo...
TORU UMEMOTO We obviously track the mortgage activity and understand that overall share, but we don't focus on ho...
DAVID BERSON Looking forward into the fourth quarter, at this point we are not highly optimistic that there will ...
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KATHLEEN CAMILLI I am concerned a little bit about housing prices, because I think demand will continue to be strong,...
ANGELOS ANGELOU What's important here is that maybe a slowing U.S. economy directly translates into a lower dollar. ...
AXEL MERK Canada may even regain G7 leadership by the end of this period if, as we expect, the pace of U.S. ac...
WARREN JESTIN Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of t...
BRENDAN HURLEY Enjoying a stronger economy, shoppers plan to spend an average of $155 (25 percent) more than last y...
GARRY BUTCHER Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT While consumers are clearly concerned that housing activity will slow this year, it is somewhat reas...
ED OJDANA We expect another record year in 2006 with profits increasing 13-14 percent, and revenues up 11 perc...
DAVID GUTRIDGE You normally wouldn't expect this kind of activity.
LARRY HELMERICK We know we have a housing crisis. We know our housing programs are excellent. We have the money to u...
JAIMIE ROSS We have lots of homes for upper income people, but the middle class is being squeezed stagnant wages...
GLEN LEWINSKI We remain comfortable with our estimated fourth-quarter earnings per share range of 28 cents to 30 c...
JOHN CATO Between all of our other television partners and AFL Net [internet video streaming], last year we ha...
CHRIS MCCLOSKEY Furniture manufacturers will clearly be nervous with the potential (of) slowing in the housing secto...
GERALD ZUKOWSKI Despite the gradual rise in mortgage rates over the last two months, housing starts were actually up...
FRANK NOTHAFT Stock markets can still rise. Earnings are still growing. Investors shouldn't be worried about sligh...
GUENTHER GERSTENBERGER Through the first half of 2005, supply and demand has remained in relatively stable balance. However...
BRIAN GORDON The power behind this rally seems to be unstoppable, notwithstanding the concerns about a slowing ec...
MICHAEL MAHONEY The idea was to address issues related to housing in general, in part, because this project has rais...
DAN LEVIN For prices to drop below the $50-per-barrel range, we would need to see a significant slowing in wor...
BOB DOLL At the moment, we can only satisfy about 70 percent of demand and I expect the situation to remain l...
ATSUTOSHI NISHIDA Now profitability is the name of the game, and you'll still see promotions, but I think retailers ar...
ELAINE RUBIN Housing activity has peaked. Inventories continue to rise. I see the housing market continuing to so...
DAVID LEREAH When one looks at the MBA data that reveal that applications for the purchases of new homes are down...
ANTHONY CHAN We have the lowest average wage rate of any metropolitan area we compete with. This might sound good...
BOB ABBERGER We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on ...
JOHN OLVER We're averaging about 30 percent mortality per year, or 70 percent of birds released are surviving. ...
JOE BURNETT The stable price drop combined with the gradual decline in housing investments, is what the governme...
ZHENG JINGPING One thing that we're still concerned over is the slowing earnings growth on a year-over-year basis. ...
BRYAN PISKOROWSKI If the builder is going to try and resell in a couple of years, he is not going to build a slum. Ten...
DENNIS SMITH Though this news is clearly a disappointment, we believe that the damage is largely done and the 10 ...
JAMI RUBIN Investors welcomed the September 8 release of a Consultation Paper on flow-through entities. It appe...
LESLIE HAYMAN An increase in purchases by overseas investors is a reason for bonds to rise. It will assure investo...
KOJI MORI We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES Winter months tend to be slower. We really have to wait until spring and summer ? the peak of the ho...
KATHY KALSER The end of the housing boom doesn't mean the end of house appreciation. Instead of going up 20 perce...
ARA HOVNANIAN We've seen purchases of bonds receding. Investors cannot be bullish on Treasuries until the Fed stop...
YOSHITAKA MAJIMA I would expect (activity) to be significantly higher than last year, both in terms of volume and rev...
KALPANA DESAI No doubt housing activity was elevated over the winter because of very, very mild weather. One housi...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN Our turnover rate as of May of this year was about 70 percent, which is about 30 percent below the i...
BOB FARLEY He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.
ROBERT MCGRATH If 8 percent of our population's got Chlamydia and we treat them, then it's going to go to zero. If ...
KRIS ARMSTRONG I expect zero percent growth out of Allstate but it's never really been a growth company. They are l...
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FRANK NOTHAFT We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI We expect housing to start slowing the economy this quarter or the next.
EDWARD LEAMER It shows there is still solid underlying demand for housing and that activity this year, while slowi...
MICHAEL MORAN I was getting long all morning, because I can tell you the new houses on my street are not selling. ...
FRANK HSU We anticipated about a 10 to 20 percent drop this year in participation,
HOWARD TAYLOR We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will ...
ALBERTO FUJIMORI November's numbers confirm that housing activity has peaked and is now slowing.
DAVID LEREAH The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the ho...
DAVID LEREAH This is primarily because of a decrease in investment and speculative real estate activity in those ...
BRAD GEISEN This sector saw about a 4 percent growth last year. I expect it to do about the same, between 3 to 4...
FRANK BADILLO I think we'll continue to see weaker housing starts, but the slowing will be more modest than the 8%...
CELIA CHEN Our January forecast calls for a gradual rise in long-term rates throughout 2006. This should induce...
FRANK NOTHAFT The chairman concluded that there is more to do in terms of slowing activity. We expect some further...
ANDREW MILLIGAN
Economic confidence is weak because of high oil prices, but all that will change once oil is back do... DAVID BROWN Housing activity has peaked and is coming down a bit, and we expect further cooling in the coming mo...
DAVID LEREAH The key message is housing market activity has improved significantly into the second half of this y...
ALAN CLARKE Many investors did not expect that yields would decline from the start of the year. They rather not ...
EIJI DOHKE Housing activity has peaked and is coming down a bit, and we expect further cooling in the coming mo...
DAVID LEREAH I truly believe the housing market will continue to expand. But rather than the double-digit price a...
DAVID LEREAH I am looking at recurrent earnings growth of 10 percent in 2006 for the banks, if you strip out exce...
DAVID LUM I still see solid earnings growth for the sector. Growth looks strong especially when you consider (...
MIKE KRENSAVAGE We've been consistently surprised by the strength of the labor market. We still think over the next ...
ADAM CARR As for new releases, we plan to terminate purchases of VHS sometime early next fiscal year. Next yea...
HIROFUMI SHIRAKATA The biggest surprise to us this year was the late-season surge in the week before Christmas. This oc...
DAN HESS We realize our offense got a lot of guys back, and we've done a lot of things to improve our defense...
CARSON PALMER We realize our offense got a lot of guys back, and we've done a lot of things to improve our defense...
CARSON PALMER We talk about affordable housing in this campaign year, ... but we don't act.
MARGARITA LOPEZ Employers expect less hiring activity than in the first quarter when 30 percent of the companies int...
JOSEPH TUERFF The Commerce Department report on housing starts showed a considerable drop in starts in November. H...
FRANK NOTHAFT I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent.
BURHANUDDIN ABDULLAH My guess would be last year alone we looked at 8-10 percent.
CRAIG KEMMERER We still expect economic activity to slow over the next several quarters as consumer spending slows ...
STEVEN WOOD In fiscal 2007, we anticipate gross capital expenditures of approximately $300 million. Planned expe...
AUSTIN LIGON If we do get a housing slowdown, job growth is there to support a relatively decent pace of consumer...
JAY FELDMAN It's hard to disagree with Greenspan. Our own market view is equities are fairly valued, but they ha...
DOUGLAS CLIGGOTT I'm very glad to see it close. We've been cautioning investors not to expect as much from it because...
SONYA MORRIS Additionally, we are seeing wholesale prices for natural gas to drop and expect approximately an 11 ...
DAN ALDERSON We expect to see the continuation of the slowing trend in many markets.
MARK MILNER We won about 70 percent of our doubles matches this year.
BEN BUCCA If we see anything above 4.75 percent, approaching 5 percent on the 10-year Treasury, investors shou...
JOSEPH KEATING I've been negative on the industry outlook for quite some time. I think next year is going to be a d...
LAWRENCE HORAN This is a dollar-positive move across the board. It puts perhaps additional interest-rate hikes on t...
GREG SALVAGGIO We remain relatively optimistic about the housing market, but we do accept that activity fell sharpl...
IAN SHEPHERDSON The Fed has been singularly unsuccessful in cooling down the hot U.S. housing market, primarily beca...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH We expect a potentially heavy impact on Qualcomm, especially for second-quarter results. We estimate...
MARC CABI The earnings momentum from the prior fiscal year has been maintained despite some slowing in economi...
RALPH NORRIS The housing market is not slowing sufficiently to comfort the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
CAMERON BAGRIE Local market sentiment was also buoyed by overseas investors, who had placed large net buy orders ah...
HIROYUKI NAKAI Some investors are worrying about the slowdown in the housing market, a key driver of the U.S. econo...
TORU UMEMOTO We obviously track the mortgage activity and understand that overall share, but we don't focus on ho...
DAVID BERSON Looking forward into the fourth quarter, at this point we are not highly optimistic that there will ...
KAREN HAUS Apartment vacancy has dropped from 13 percent to 8 percent over the last two years. It should contin...
CARY BRUTEIG On a year-on-year basis, before this number was released, housing starts are down 11 percent. So you...
KATHLEEN CAMILLI I am concerned a little bit about housing prices, because I think demand will continue to be strong,...
ANGELOS ANGELOU What's important here is that maybe a slowing U.S. economy directly translates into a lower dollar. ...
AXEL MERK Canada may even regain G7 leadership by the end of this period if, as we expect, the pace of U.S. ac...
WARREN JESTIN Beef sales have been flat year over year, while chicken product sales are growing 8 to 10 percent a ...
RALPH ALVAREZ We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of t...
BRENDAN HURLEY Enjoying a stronger economy, shoppers plan to spend an average of $155 (25 percent) more than last y...
GARRY BUTCHER Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT While consumers are clearly concerned that housing activity will slow this year, it is somewhat reas...
ED OJDANA We expect another record year in 2006 with profits increasing 13-14 percent, and revenues up 11 perc...
DAVID GUTRIDGE You normally wouldn't expect this kind of activity.
LARRY HELMERICK We know we have a housing crisis. We know our housing programs are excellent. We have the money to u...
JAIMIE ROSS We have lots of homes for upper income people, but the middle class is being squeezed stagnant wages...
GLEN LEWINSKI We remain comfortable with our estimated fourth-quarter earnings per share range of 28 cents to 30 c...
JOHN CATO Between all of our other television partners and AFL Net [internet video streaming], last year we ha...
CHRIS MCCLOSKEY Furniture manufacturers will clearly be nervous with the potential (of) slowing in the housing secto...
GERALD ZUKOWSKI Despite the gradual rise in mortgage rates over the last two months, housing starts were actually up...
FRANK NOTHAFT Stock markets can still rise. Earnings are still growing. Investors shouldn't be worried about sligh...
GUENTHER GERSTENBERGER Through the first half of 2005, supply and demand has remained in relatively stable balance. However...
BRIAN GORDON The power behind this rally seems to be unstoppable, notwithstanding the concerns about a slowing ec...
MICHAEL MAHONEY The idea was to address issues related to housing in general, in part, because this project has rais...
DAN LEVIN For prices to drop below the $50-per-barrel range, we would need to see a significant slowing in wor...
BOB DOLL At the moment, we can only satisfy about 70 percent of demand and I expect the situation to remain l...
ATSUTOSHI NISHIDA Now profitability is the name of the game, and you'll still see promotions, but I think retailers ar...
ELAINE RUBIN Housing activity has peaked. Inventories continue to rise. I see the housing market continuing to so...
DAVID LEREAH When one looks at the MBA data that reveal that applications for the purchases of new homes are down...
ANTHONY CHAN We have the lowest average wage rate of any metropolitan area we compete with. This might sound good...
BOB ABBERGER We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on ...
JOHN OLVER We're averaging about 30 percent mortality per year, or 70 percent of birds released are surviving. ...
JOE BURNETT The stable price drop combined with the gradual decline in housing investments, is what the governme...
ZHENG JINGPING One thing that we're still concerned over is the slowing earnings growth on a year-over-year basis. ...
BRYAN PISKOROWSKI If the builder is going to try and resell in a couple of years, he is not going to build a slum. Ten...
DENNIS SMITH Though this news is clearly a disappointment, we believe that the damage is largely done and the 10 ...
JAMI RUBIN Investors welcomed the September 8 release of a Consultation Paper on flow-through entities. It appe...
LESLIE HAYMAN An increase in purchases by overseas investors is a reason for bonds to rise. It will assure investo...
KOJI MORI We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES We expect the westbound shift to accelerate in 2006, with sales climbing to a record high in Alberta...
CARLOS GOMES Winter months tend to be slower. We really have to wait until spring and summer ? the peak of the ho...
KATHY KALSER The end of the housing boom doesn't mean the end of house appreciation. Instead of going up 20 perce...
ARA HOVNANIAN We've seen purchases of bonds receding. Investors cannot be bullish on Treasuries until the Fed stop...
YOSHITAKA MAJIMA I would expect (activity) to be significantly higher than last year, both in terms of volume and rev...
KALPANA DESAI No doubt housing activity was elevated over the winter because of very, very mild weather. One housi...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN Our turnover rate as of May of this year was about 70 percent, which is about 30 percent below the i...
BOB FARLEY He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.
ROBERT MCGRATH If 8 percent of our population's got Chlamydia and we treat them, then it's going to go to zero. If ...
KRIS ARMSTRONG I expect zero percent growth out of Allstate but it's never really been a growth company. They are l...
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We love this software in its current version. Later this year we expect a new release and current us... WILLIAM MCKINLEY
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