These data continue to suggest that labor market conditions are much more robust that recent payroll employment and help-wanted reports have indicated.

284

This is taking dollars from Wal-Mart and giving it to Shell. It's shifting the money. It's not increasing inflation.

198

Both the U.S. and Japan realize that it's not in Japan's economic interest to have a stronger yen, and they don't need anything that could potentially short-circuit that. It's probably the case that the U.S. will be willing to help them out a bit, which is what the market will be looking for.

159

Business activity in the services and construction sectors has been accelerating in recent months and is now growing quite quickly, providing momentum for the economy coming into 2005.

156

We're probably much more likely to be trading closer with the dollar. There may be some intervention that's coming, which is what the market is looking for, but it's obviously one of those things that we won't know about until it happens.

151

In the past five years, value has done OK, but the real story is that growth has been getting clobbered, We don't think growth will roll over and go belly up. Once a style comes into favor, it tends to stay there for years. You just had the fifth year of a value cycle. Do you get a sixth year? You could. But I'm not convinced we'll see it.

147

This anemic rise at the end of the third quarter suggests that consumer spending will rise much more slowly in the fourth quarter.

143

The (Federal Open Market) Committee will more than likely remain on hold, unless economic developments force its hand.

89

Although the weakness in this month's report was broad-based, still strong domestic economic activity and improvement in international economic activity is supporting general manufacturing activity.

85