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LAURA BRUCE Properties were weak as investors were concerned that further rate hikes will affect earnings of dev...
CONITA HUNG The market's expecting that the interest rate cycle is close to an end and that's the major driver o...
AGNES DENG The market is still expecting two more rate rises from the Federal Reserve, which will keep improvin...
FUMIHIKO KAWANO It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates. But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut means...
JOHN LONSKI It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates, ... But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut m...
JOHN LONSKI Yes, Greenspan does admit the obvious, that the real federal funds rate has risen considerably, but ...
ANTHONY CHAN As the market now feels that any interest rate hikes in the US will come to an end with the Federal ...
KAZUYUKI KATO There's increasing doubts (about a BOJ rate boost) due to developments in the stock market and the S...
DAVE GILMORE The stock is really looking ahead to better times down the road. We're expecting of course a Fed rat...
JAMES SCHMIDT No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds...
WAYNE ANGELL The U.K. over the past six months shows us how the economy can go from looking quite weak to improvi...
ADRIAN FOSTER The nascent recovery in domestic demand is neither strong enough to warrant an immediate reversal of...
ANDREW MCLAUGHLIN Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be app...
TONY CRESCENZI It was an extremely confusing quarter. It looks like their tax rate was lower than expected, so I th...
BILL LEACH Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) were more strongly affected by the latest Federal Reserve rate hike...
FRANK NOTHAFT At first, we were recruiting about 20 per cent of the students we made an offer to. As the funds in ...
DR. BILL PFAFFENBERGER That's the major driver of stock markets today. The rising interest rate cycle is close to an end.
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I would be uncomfortable raising the federal funds rate if readings on wage growth, core consumer pr...
JANET YELLEN The Federal Reserve engages in a series of rate hikes at the tail end of an expansion when inflation...
WAYNE ANGELL If anyone was still expecting a Fed rate cut before, they're certainly going to throw that out the w...
COREY REDFIELD We are definitely getting another rate cut.
LARA RHAME Long-term rates are below the federal fund rate. That tells you the Fed's too tight. The reason the ...
MICHAEL ANCELL![]()
Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because mon...
JANET YELLEN The idea is to boost the home-ownership rate, ... Rates for ... newlyweds are (currently) low. We're...
HENRY CISNEROS There are many unresolved issues, but rates could have been substantially increased today depending ...
BILL LOCKYER![]()
Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would ...
BEN BERNANKE The inflation rate keeps moving downward. That gives the central bank room to cut the reference rate...
BERTRAND DELGADO This is a very weak number and well below what everyone expected. It's not the kind of report the Fe...
STUART HOFFMAN The foreigners are coming back to the market. A low real currency rate against the dollar is also fa...
BRUNO OTERO The question is: Will we get to a 4.25 percent fed funds rate in December?. If we do, then two-year ...
ERIC HILLER With little movement in Ohio's labor market from January to February, the state's unemployment rate ...
BARBARA RILEY If we get a better interest rate, great. If we get a lower interest rate or a worse interest rate, w...
JAMES KUNKE A cut...won't affect the 30-year fixed mortgage rate at all. According to Freddie Mac, the 30-year f...
LAWRENCE YUN![]()
The 3 percent overall federal tax rate I would pay -- if a Berkshire dividend were to be tax free --...
WARREN BUFFETT I think there's a very good chance we could see the Federal funds rate rise to at least 5.25 percent...
JOHN LONSKI I think there's a very good chance we could see the Federal funds rate rise to at least 5.25 percent...
JOHN LONSKI I met with a representative from Blue Cross last month to look at rates for next year, and he said t...
GARY TEDESCHI We got the worst possible scenario today: no rate cut, but confirmation that there is weakness. Howe...
TIM SMALLS![]()
With UK growth remaining weak and below trend, and with inflationary pressures easing, we urge the (...
DAVID FROST The market is having second thoughts about the need for further Federal Reserve rate hikes following...
MARC CHANDLER![]()
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi in...
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Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve,
DAVID GILMORE The market has been trying to push a rate cut, but the Governor has remained steadfast, saying there...
BRIAN REDICAN Anticipation of a 25-basis-point rate cut pushed mortgage rates downward in this week's survey, and ...
FRANK NOTHAFT Kentucky was one of 18 states plus the District of Columbia that reported an unemployment rate above...
CARLOS CRACRAFT Holding the rate in December was just a pause.
TOMAS FLORES It was a respectable day. But after the (Fed) decision tomorrow, I think we can do better. I think t...
LARRY WACHTEL A lot of people were expecting the guidance to go down or at least not to go up. Anyone short in the...
ART HATFIELD You could go to almost any lender and for no fees find yourself with a decent rate.
KEITH GUMBINGER The ECB delivered in December, and they're going to deliver another rate increase in March. My perso...
DAVID TAVADIAN The dollar's firm tone is supported by a shift in the market focus back to interest rate differentia...
KOSUKE HANAO Economists are expecting a gradual slowdown in economic growth paired with a slowdown in inflation. ...
JACK ABLIN Stop looking for that person you were in the past. She has changed. Look for the person she has grow...
CHRIS PEPPLE It may not be long before we see another interest rate cut and this could account for the follow-thr...
HOWARD GORGES If nothing else, a flat-to-inverted Treasury yield curve is the financial market's way of telling po...
JOHN LONSKI The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Amtrak could break from some dependence on federal funds by adding freight cars or operating high-sp...
JERRY WELLER I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer co...
WAYNE AYERS We think the bank has left the door open for a pause in October, but a rate hike would follow in Dec...
CARL GOMEZ![]()
I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low...
WILL FERRELL Some US economists assume that the exchange rate is the key to fixing the trade imbalance However, s...
ZHOU XIAOCHUAN Yeah, the rate held steady, but all the payroll stuff is extremely weak. To have 357,000 down and 10...
MIKE CLOHERTY We believe the shares fail to reflect the company's market position or growth potential. We believe ...
HOWARD RUBEL Profit levels declined in the past quarter because of market challenges such as the exchange rate. E...
CHU WOO SIK Profit levels declined in the past quarter because of market challenges such as the exchange rate. E...
WOOSIK CHU The market today was responding to the outlook with the increasing possibility we will see an intere...
DAVID RINEHIMER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The surprise was how large the new student enrollment number was ? everybody was just shocked. This ...
JEFF SILBER You could see they were getting rattled. That just gave us a boost.
ASHTON BISHOP The overall PMI shows we are still in rate cut territory. But the PMI has been below this (current) ...
CHRIS WILLIAMSON To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... There's no Federal Reserve meeting this month, which gives rate-sensitive stocks a window to recover...
LINUS YIP So trade unions in Beijing should take the benchmark rate as weapons.
DONG LI People were expecting weak retail sales, they were already in the stocks.
JIM VOLK The magnitude of the surprise was bigger than most people were expecting, ... Earnings and revenue w...
TIM WOOLSTON There is no limit to the rate of inflation in health care costs relative to the cost of other things...
MICHAEL HURD We're expecting just two rate increases by the end of next year. That's not enough to help the euro.
GAVIN FRIEND There were questions developing in the market late last week regarding the tenor of Greenspan's spee...
WILLIAM SULLIVAN Despite all the rate hikes, the (Federal Reserve's) overnight lending rate is still less than inflat...
JAMES TURK While they were willing to root out individual cases as we brought them to their attention, we were ...
DAVID MCGUIRE That low inflation rate leaves the Fed plenty of latitude to remain on hold, and reinforces our expe...
MAURY HARRIS In general, a rising rate environment slows down growth, so most companies are not going to go as go...
JAY BRYSON We expect Oracle could appreciate at a more tempered rate over the intermediate term as fourth-quart...
CHRIS SHILAKES Our national savings rate is still far too low, driven by a personal savings rate that is not where ...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS Trade problems cannot be solved simply by letting the exchange rate rise or fall.
ZHENG JINGPING It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the earl...
JOE LASZLO The economy could get back to an above trend rate this quarter, and that is what will matter to mone...
JOSEPH LAVORGNA The cargo trade, especially on the import side, is growing at an unprecedented rate. One of the high...
AARON ELLIS Many investors and funds continued selling... as the market lacks fresh good news. Interest-rate wor...
CASTOR PANG For economic policymakers, the landscape has materially changed. It no longer would be prudent to re...
RAY STONE We want to have a discussion, because a presidential American decision from Palo Alto saying ' there...
FRANCOIS LOOS We want to have a discussion, because a presidential American decision from Palo Alto saying ' there...
FRANCOIS LOOS We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions...
HENRY CUELLAR At the margin they reinforced our growing sense that Fed tightening might stop before the federal fu...
ED MCKELVEY Instead of the present ad hoc adjustments to the tax rate we ... call for government to provide grea...
IAN DAVIDSON It doesn't look like a rate cut is in the cards.
DAVID LEAVER Excluding the exchange rate variable, the financial results were on the whole reasonable.
CHU WOO SIK
SANDRA PIANALTO We think the Fed will continue cutting rates, although less aggressively. We are expecting another [...
BRUCE STEINBERG There were many years where the Fed Funds rate was as low as 1 percent and interest rates on savings...
LAURA BRUCE Properties were weak as investors were concerned that further rate hikes will affect earnings of dev...
CONITA HUNG The market's expecting that the interest rate cycle is close to an end and that's the major driver o...
AGNES DENG The market is still expecting two more rate rises from the Federal Reserve, which will keep improvin...
FUMIHIKO KAWANO It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates. But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut means...
JOHN LONSKI It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates, ... But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut m...
JOHN LONSKI Yes, Greenspan does admit the obvious, that the real federal funds rate has risen considerably, but ...
ANTHONY CHAN As the market now feels that any interest rate hikes in the US will come to an end with the Federal ...
KAZUYUKI KATO There's increasing doubts (about a BOJ rate boost) due to developments in the stock market and the S...
DAVE GILMORE The stock is really looking ahead to better times down the road. We're expecting of course a Fed rat...
JAMES SCHMIDT No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds...
WAYNE ANGELL The U.K. over the past six months shows us how the economy can go from looking quite weak to improvi...
ADRIAN FOSTER The nascent recovery in domestic demand is neither strong enough to warrant an immediate reversal of...
ANDREW MCLAUGHLIN Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be app...
TONY CRESCENZI It was an extremely confusing quarter. It looks like their tax rate was lower than expected, so I th...
BILL LEACH Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) were more strongly affected by the latest Federal Reserve rate hike...
FRANK NOTHAFT At first, we were recruiting about 20 per cent of the students we made an offer to. As the funds in ...
DR. BILL PFAFFENBERGER That's the major driver of stock markets today. The rising interest rate cycle is close to an end.
AGNES DENG
I would be uncomfortable raising the federal funds rate if readings on wage growth, core consumer pr... JANET YELLEN The Federal Reserve engages in a series of rate hikes at the tail end of an expansion when inflation...
WAYNE ANGELL If anyone was still expecting a Fed rate cut before, they're certainly going to throw that out the w...
COREY REDFIELD We are definitely getting another rate cut.
LARA RHAME Long-term rates are below the federal fund rate. That tells you the Fed's too tight. The reason the ...
MICHAEL ANCELL
Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because mon... JANET YELLEN The idea is to boost the home-ownership rate, ... Rates for ... newlyweds are (currently) low. We're...
HENRY CISNEROS There are many unresolved issues, but rates could have been substantially increased today depending ...
BILL LOCKYER
Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would ... BEN BERNANKE The inflation rate keeps moving downward. That gives the central bank room to cut the reference rate...
BERTRAND DELGADO This is a very weak number and well below what everyone expected. It's not the kind of report the Fe...
STUART HOFFMAN The foreigners are coming back to the market. A low real currency rate against the dollar is also fa...
BRUNO OTERO The question is: Will we get to a 4.25 percent fed funds rate in December?. If we do, then two-year ...
ERIC HILLER With little movement in Ohio's labor market from January to February, the state's unemployment rate ...
BARBARA RILEY If we get a better interest rate, great. If we get a lower interest rate or a worse interest rate, w...
JAMES KUNKE A cut...won't affect the 30-year fixed mortgage rate at all. According to Freddie Mac, the 30-year f...
LAWRENCE YUN
The 3 percent overall federal tax rate I would pay -- if a Berkshire dividend were to be tax free --... WARREN BUFFETT I think there's a very good chance we could see the Federal funds rate rise to at least 5.25 percent...
JOHN LONSKI I think there's a very good chance we could see the Federal funds rate rise to at least 5.25 percent...
JOHN LONSKI I met with a representative from Blue Cross last month to look at rates for next year, and he said t...
GARY TEDESCHI We got the worst possible scenario today: no rate cut, but confirmation that there is weakness. Howe...
TIM SMALLS
With UK growth remaining weak and below trend, and with inflationary pressures easing, we urge the (... DAVID FROST The market is having second thoughts about the need for further Federal Reserve rate hikes following...
MARC CHANDLER
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi in... JOHN SPRATT
Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, DAVID GILMORE The market has been trying to push a rate cut, but the Governor has remained steadfast, saying there...
BRIAN REDICAN Anticipation of a 25-basis-point rate cut pushed mortgage rates downward in this week's survey, and ...
FRANK NOTHAFT Kentucky was one of 18 states plus the District of Columbia that reported an unemployment rate above...
CARLOS CRACRAFT Holding the rate in December was just a pause.
TOMAS FLORES It was a respectable day. But after the (Fed) decision tomorrow, I think we can do better. I think t...
LARRY WACHTEL A lot of people were expecting the guidance to go down or at least not to go up. Anyone short in the...
ART HATFIELD You could go to almost any lender and for no fees find yourself with a decent rate.
KEITH GUMBINGER The ECB delivered in December, and they're going to deliver another rate increase in March. My perso...
DAVID TAVADIAN The dollar's firm tone is supported by a shift in the market focus back to interest rate differentia...
KOSUKE HANAO Economists are expecting a gradual slowdown in economic growth paired with a slowdown in inflation. ...
JACK ABLIN Stop looking for that person you were in the past. She has changed. Look for the person she has grow...
CHRIS PEPPLE It may not be long before we see another interest rate cut and this could account for the follow-thr...
HOWARD GORGES If nothing else, a flat-to-inverted Treasury yield curve is the financial market's way of telling po...
JOHN LONSKI The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Amtrak could break from some dependence on federal funds by adding freight cars or operating high-sp...
JERRY WELLER I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer co...
WAYNE AYERS We think the bank has left the door open for a pause in October, but a rate hike would follow in Dec...
CARL GOMEZ
I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low... WILL FERRELL Some US economists assume that the exchange rate is the key to fixing the trade imbalance However, s...
ZHOU XIAOCHUAN Yeah, the rate held steady, but all the payroll stuff is extremely weak. To have 357,000 down and 10...
MIKE CLOHERTY We believe the shares fail to reflect the company's market position or growth potential. We believe ...
HOWARD RUBEL Profit levels declined in the past quarter because of market challenges such as the exchange rate. E...
CHU WOO SIK Profit levels declined in the past quarter because of market challenges such as the exchange rate. E...
WOOSIK CHU The market today was responding to the outlook with the increasing possibility we will see an intere...
DAVID RINEHIMER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The surprise was how large the new student enrollment number was ? everybody was just shocked. This ...
JEFF SILBER You could see they were getting rattled. That just gave us a boost.
ASHTON BISHOP The overall PMI shows we are still in rate cut territory. But the PMI has been below this (current) ...
CHRIS WILLIAMSON To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... There's no Federal Reserve meeting this month, which gives rate-sensitive stocks a window to recover...
LINUS YIP So trade unions in Beijing should take the benchmark rate as weapons.
DONG LI People were expecting weak retail sales, they were already in the stocks.
JIM VOLK The magnitude of the surprise was bigger than most people were expecting, ... Earnings and revenue w...
TIM WOOLSTON There is no limit to the rate of inflation in health care costs relative to the cost of other things...
MICHAEL HURD We're expecting just two rate increases by the end of next year. That's not enough to help the euro.
GAVIN FRIEND There were questions developing in the market late last week regarding the tenor of Greenspan's spee...
WILLIAM SULLIVAN Despite all the rate hikes, the (Federal Reserve's) overnight lending rate is still less than inflat...
JAMES TURK While they were willing to root out individual cases as we brought them to their attention, we were ...
DAVID MCGUIRE That low inflation rate leaves the Fed plenty of latitude to remain on hold, and reinforces our expe...
MAURY HARRIS In general, a rising rate environment slows down growth, so most companies are not going to go as go...
JAY BRYSON We expect Oracle could appreciate at a more tempered rate over the intermediate term as fourth-quart...
CHRIS SHILAKES Our national savings rate is still far too low, driven by a personal savings rate that is not where ...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS Trade problems cannot be solved simply by letting the exchange rate rise or fall.
ZHENG JINGPING It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the earl...
JOE LASZLO The economy could get back to an above trend rate this quarter, and that is what will matter to mone...
JOSEPH LAVORGNA The cargo trade, especially on the import side, is growing at an unprecedented rate. One of the high...
AARON ELLIS Many investors and funds continued selling... as the market lacks fresh good news. Interest-rate wor...
CASTOR PANG For economic policymakers, the landscape has materially changed. It no longer would be prudent to re...
RAY STONE We want to have a discussion, because a presidential American decision from Palo Alto saying ' there...
FRANCOIS LOOS We want to have a discussion, because a presidential American decision from Palo Alto saying ' there...
FRANCOIS LOOS We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions...
HENRY CUELLAR At the margin they reinforced our growing sense that Fed tightening might stop before the federal fu...
ED MCKELVEY Instead of the present ad hoc adjustments to the tax rate we ... call for government to provide grea...
IAN DAVIDSON It doesn't look like a rate cut is in the cards.
DAVID LEAVER Excluding the exchange rate variable, the financial results were on the whole reasonable.
CHU WOO SIK
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