In fact, there is a chance that the March rate cut might be just [a quarter-percentage point] and not the [half-percentage-point] the market expects.

The Fed is hanging onto its long-term view. Some will say this is just excessive optimism.

Buffett has made timely purchases of STRIPS in the past, so people pay attention.

If it really is going on now, we'll hear more, rather than less, about it later.

When there is a weak auction, it sometimes means investors will step aside and wait for deals in the secondary market.

Since $300 billion in yen trade each day in the markets, the G-7 is really no match for the market's firepower, ... In the end, fundamentals will dictate trading.

The Bank of Japan's feeble 10 basis-point rate cut to 0.15 percent shows the head-in-sand attitude that has led to weak money supply growth and a slow economy.

Now the game has changed and there's a greater risk of capital loss. Banks won't take as many chances now.

The new rumor now since the meeting, since they did not act, is that the Fed could conduct an inter-meeting rate change, ... This is something they haven't done since April 1994, but people feel if the payroll report is strong and it's accompanied by a high wage gain, the Fed might move as early as tomorrow.