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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Warren Buffett

Investors don't want to make the bet because it's too hard to call.

Barbara Ryan

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

David Dreman

It is the second company that gives that kind of a chance to investors to buy into a national telecom footprint and a global business through Flag Telecom.

Jigar Shah

What you're seeing right now is that private equity investors, corporations as well as institutional equity investors are all picking and choosing through equity assets.

Som Dasgupta

It seems to be a good sign (for investors) if managers have confidence in their own abilities, ... You could do a lot worse than some of those funds.

David Harrell

Searching for diversified yields, both in and outside the U.S., is the way to go. Many investors have discovered this.

Linda Duessel

Given the weight of surplus capital among banks and investors wanting growth and the economies of scale you can get, there will be action.

Huw Van Steenis

They should have looked at how individual investors are literally being fleeced.

Al Rosen

Investors want to see the forecasts for the current fiscal year. They want to see what kind of earnings growth companies are expecting.

Toru Otsuka

Institutional investors are continuing to buy into China's growth story and this explains their interest in H shares and red chips.

Peter Lai

Investors used to look at ratings for a barometer as to whether to sell or buy bonds.

Joyce Chang

The strength of the AOL cash flow and billed subscribers were better than investors were expecting and an increase in full-year guidance is clearly a good sign.

Richard Greenfield

We saw consistent upward growth in the amount of investment, the number of investors and the range of things invested in.

Nicholas Parker

The rise was obviously too much, too fast. Some weak earnings which came out yesterday gave a good excuse for investors to sell.

Hideyuki Ookoshi

I realize that the events of 2001 have seriously damaged our credibility with many of our constituents, including cancer patients, oncologists, and you, our investors.

Sam Waksal

As rates rise, there would be more demand because most investors are interested in protecting themselves.

Henley Smith

Now that the world economy is on firmer footing, investors have grown skeptical that rapid growth can coexist with tame inflation.

Adam Blankman

All other investments go down when inflation goes up. An investor's portfolio goes down just as inflation goes up. That is a one-two punch that is devastating. But this is different.

John Brynjolfsson

I think the impairment charge seems to be a big negative surprise to investors.

Krishna Shankar

It's a matter of faith. Investors are being asked to be patient.

Dan Geiman

Investors are looking at India carefully and avian flu is a risk.

Abheek Barua

It's hard to imagine buying bonds, especially after reports added to signs of that the economy is expanding. Bond investors will probably avoid buying as we head into the 10-year auction.

Tsutomu Kawasaki

Investors are more aware of the risks associated with these offerings. We'll see more consolidation of technology funds and that's a healthy thing.

Christopher Traulsen

But when the market got dicey, we knew investors would need help in making decisions.

John Mckinley

A number of Western borrowers and investors have indicated to us that they see Islamic finance as a natural alternative to conventional finance.

John Weguelin

Merger and acquisition activity is the primary driver in the market. Investors are greedy for the next deal.

Justin Urquhart Stewart

It's not up to GM, it's up to the consumer whether that price holds or not. GM's pricing strategy continues to be a source of confusion for investors.

Darren Kimball

The ruling appears not to affect HVB as much as initially feared and it seems investors are shifting funds out of tech.

Christian Schmidt

All the economic indicators, including industrial production, are pointing to improvement. That will help bolster investors' confidence in the equity market.

Takashi Kamiya

This is obviously a strong quarter, but investors did have high expectations for what the company could do.

Brent Bracelin

International investors have not gone into this with their eyes shut.

Jack Rodman

Investors are closely watching if the euro-dollar falls into $1.19 on a closing-price basis.

Tetsu Aikawa

I think the shares will initially go down. Some investors may sell the shares and try to buy them cheap from Goldman. Goldman would probably be selling them at a discount.

Thomas Hofmann

The fiscal numbers that came out this morning started worrying investors.

Carlos Hokama

Any shock hitting the US economy or the global market may change investors' perceptions given the existing global current account imbalance.

Masahiro Kawai

There's a lot of faith and confidence in this management team. This may be more change in executive suite than investors are happy to see.

David Berry

It is to a point where (currency investors are wondering) what if it becomes extremely bad, how do we position ourselves?

Brian Taylor

Considering how fast the industry is growing, there just aren't that many places for investors to go in ethanol yet.

Neil Koehler

Investors are being asked to own a stock on more and more faith. There is a lack of clarity about the company's growth rate and a lack of vision on where they are going.

Angela Kohler

The sharp gains on Wall Street failed to restore investors' confidence.

Stanley Chou

If the company has had good returns, voting with management is easier to explain to investors.

Bill Atwood

Investors will be looking to see if Prudential can match Principal and Anthem.

Kyle Huske

China has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. And fast-growing economies usually provide opportunities for equity investors.

Wang Lei

Investors continued to chase up some technology stocks after their recent declines.

Morris Chen

We will accelerate the study of financial derivatives and futures to further develop the market and provide hedging products for investors.

Shang Fulin

The country's adherence to fiscal discipline, despite low debt levels, is commendable and reassuring for investors.

Alberto Ramos

We need to build new systems to restore investors' faith.

Takuo Tsurushima

People own banks for consistency of results. Dividends keep increasing, that's what the banks are giving investors.

Ian Nakamoto

There's always been damn fool investors. You want to go where the value is. Buying stocks is like buying groceries.

Ralph Wanger

Investors tend to get nervous around DOJ issues. Absolutely, it will help alleviate their fears.

Denise Garcia

There's pretty much nobody home in the foreign brokerages now due to Christmas celebrations, and domestic institutional investors have no particular incentive to trade either.

Minoru Tada

Some financial institutions believed Fukui would delay the action but the government can't stop him. It shocked some investors and they finally decided to cut their losses.

Xinyi Lu

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Jeff Cheah

An announcement by the government that deflation is ending will mean a lot for bond investors. It will make it hard to buy bonds as there is a growing expectation deflation is really ending.

Yasunori Kuroda

That's what we teach all freshmen -- that investors and workers and everyone else in an economy respond in an important way to incentives, including tax incentives.

Gary Becker

Investors are concerned about economic growth in the U.S.. We're seeing a bit of disappointment.

Thomas Koerfgen

The biggest challenge is to convince investors that this is a company that can produce consistent top-line and earnings growth.

Michael Steib

Our analysts have long considered these less-tangible factors in an effort to help investors determine which fund companies do the best job of safeguarding their interests.

Kunal Kapoor

The deal shows Taiwan's better banks are attractive to foreign investors.

Michael On

(Investors) need a clear sign in the economy that things have bottomed out and need corporate leaders in key industries to come out and say things have bottomed out.

Warren Meyers

It is a relief for both Japanese and U.S. investors that the Nasdaq has hit a floor.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

Investors are set to close out the year with good gains.

Hans Kunnen

This is not necessarily a time for investors to put all their money behind their idea right now. A lot could happen.

David Darst

If the central bank acts this week, it will probably come up with ways to limit rate increases to ease concerns of the government and investors.

Akihiko Inoue

I think this will be a volatile stock. Individual investors should be wary.

Tom Taulli

Investors were and have been a little nervous that will be a major political change in the elections in 2006.

Javier Viveros

Our doors are always open for foreign investors.

Dr. Sanjay K. Jha

When our stock price went down after the acquisition I told our investors: You should have more confidence in this company.

Yang Yuanqing

The media is killing the investors.

Todd Linsley

We support reforms that enhance the interests of the U.S. capital markets, which is especially important to the growth companies and growth investors who we serve.

Thomas Weisel

Investors aren't giving management the benefit of the doubt on much of anything at the moment and this is probably deserved.

Timothy Anderson

The rise in the afternoon was due to domestic investors ... they haven't been buying lately and they took their cue from foreign investors.

Hiroyuki Nakai

Investors will adjust to the $55 a barrel range, ... but if it continues to rise, it's going to upset stocks.

Stephen Leeb

Now, you've got investors who believe they want to have a core short-dollar position in place.

Robert Sinche

Investors will in our view naturally be concerned that the risk of referral has increased.

Credit Suisse First Boston

Investors should think about this as an enhanced money-market return.

Mario Gabelli

THE HARD WAY. Individual investors bear a lot of the blame for the selling.

Masatoshi Kikuchi

Investors are saying, 'we're not getting as much for the risk, so we're not interested,'.

Brian Reynolds

One of the things that investors are gradually starting to recognize is that business software is very sticky.

Richard Davis

Looking to see whether managers are adjusting their assumptions with an eye to enhancing the earnings and balance-sheet numbers investors care about. That could be fraud.

Stephen Cutler

This is a market where these strategies can work the best. It's a way that allows investors to actively be in the market.

Mark Edwards

I'm very happy they got it behind them. For investors on balance it's good news.

Wayne Bopp

Investors need to watch to see who becomes the new manager.

Don Dion

We are concerned that many investors aren't taking appropriate precautions when accessing their online brokerage accounts.

Susan Wyderko

There's constant demand for longer debt from pension funds and other investors who follow the index.

Koji Mori

Investors have warmed to the idea that there is an inflation issue and are pricing in a greater degree of risk.

Michael Daley

The blanket label of 'tech' does more harm than good for investors.

Mark Schultz

This is positive. The tax structure that exists today in Brazil, even for local investors, is an aberration.

Adauto Lima

We believe investors are increasingly self directed.

Michael Dunn

There is greater potential for individual funds' capacity constraints being reached in these two categories and this is becoming an obstacle to investors wishing to invest.

Warren Brown

Across-the-board buying is over and investors have to select stocks with good earnings prospects.

Kunihiro Hatae

Definitely, there is a turning around of the ship here. Earnings are improving and investors are starting to respond to that.

Ram Kolluri

Investors are anxiously awaiting tomorrow as the data could increase volatility in the currency and other markets.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

A disproportionate amount of money is being raised from investors chasing premium launches.

Robert Schulman

There's profit-taking, and investors are concerned about interest rates. At this level, investors are cautious.

Tony Tong

The city-backed bonds makes the most sense. Then we don't have to bring in other investors.

Jim Counts

Investors probably want to see what the U.S. job data will be like.

Hiroaki Kuramochi

His leadership alone makes investors more comfortable.

Stephan Thomas

Investors started selling, which flooded the market.

Karen Palmer

We're telling investors to use current strength in the dollar to get out of cyclical stocks.

James Cornish

It [must] really speak the truth, ... Our investors can see that.

Barbara Reynolds

The continued failure to breach topside resistance at $1.22 will see some investors turn bearish on the single currency.

Sue Trinh

They're showing signs of life, but I would caution investors not to get too swept away.

Bill Harding

Their largest and most prominent funds have not been attractive to investors, so the assets have not flowed their way.

John Bonnanzio

Cheung Kong was up HK$4.75 in London trade on Friday, so Hong Kong investors are catching up.

James So

For Singapore, it bodes well for its efforts to be a hub for Southeast Asia, offering companies international investors they can tap.

Nicholas Yeo

The marketing and sales of hedge funds to individual investors has been an ongoing focus of the NASD.

Barry Goldsmith

Investors expected a good quarter and they got it ... the focus now is what happens when Red Rock opens on April 18.

Brian Mcgill

We had heard some investors were expecting a much worse forecast for next year, and those fears have been allayed.

Robert Hazlett

The investors' love affair with real estate is still very much alive, but the risk is that too can quickly change.

Nicholas Buss

There's a wider community investing in commodities. You're seeing a lot of investors shift into gold.

Tom Boustead

Overseas investors appear to be on hold on concerns about further US interest rate hikes.

Hideo Mizutani

Investors are unwilling to buy bonds today. Everyone is cautious about good U.S. job data, staying alert for further gains in bond yields.

Yasunori Kuroda

It's not an auspicious time to roll out a small-cap fund, so investors should keep their expectations in check since small-caps may be in for a breather.

Sonya Morris

The commitment of these American investors has never wavered, but now they see that the government has found its direction and is beginning to take important actions to encourage investment here.

Matthew Daley

Investors are hoping there is going to be a large amount of money to recover that were the fruits of the Bayou fraud.

Ross B. Intelisano

War does not present a backdrop in which people follow their expectations of the future as if there wasn't a war. It's uncertainty that's unnerving investors.

Bert Hochfeld

Investors should be encouraged since Intel can now increase production.

Rick Whittington

Investors are still wary of diving back into this market.

Koji Muneoka

Investors should consider the share structure and how that may influence the price received per bearer share.

Mike Booth

It's to encourage investors to put more money into Palm Springs.

Mark Bragg

Investors are now coming to grips with the fact that oil is not going to retreat any time soon.

Kirby Daley

Greenspan's cut was a wonderful thing. It has instilled Tokyo investors with a greater confidence the U.S. economy and markets will recover.

Nobuaki Kurisu

Concerns that direction could be a firming of the yen has investors a bit wary of holding export-oriented shares.

Masayoshi Okamoto

They want more detail about where the money goes. I see them as more informed investors who want to be wise and cautious about their gifts.

David Kennedy

Investors expected more than in-line results.

Adrianne Shapira

Customers, team members (employees), investors, vendors, communities and the environment.

John Mackey

Investors are waiting for the CPI data due Friday and until then, it would be difficult for them to build positions.

Shinji Igarashi

They just don't make sense for (small investors). They'll get eaten up by the commissions.

Scott Cooley

Investors should never go into a tech fund expecting stability.

Christopher Traulsen

This means investors should be careful.

John Cobb

Equity valuations are still appealing. We think investors are too cautious.

Darren Brooks

Most investors focus too much on finding the broker with the cheapest commissions, but our study brings home the importance of a firm's integrity.

Martin Weiss

We think that in the economy, the joint use of these military facilities will lead to an increase in the confidence in our country on behalf of investors and improve the general investment climate in our country.

Dimitar Tsanchev

We continue to see higher trading volumes from both hedge funds and retail investors, despite concerns that growth could slow.

Robert Hansen

We need to get corporate earnings to turn around before investors regain confidence.

Troy Nickerson

Investors are worried that something is going to blow up tomorrow -- they just think it's a crazy world.

Robert Solow

I'm looking at what (the newsletters) recommend and I assume investors are, too.

Mark Hulbert

Alan Greenspan's rate hikes aren't just to hold down an economic boom. He's trying to bring investors back to the dollar.

James Dines

CNNfn.com ... has a strong European following, (so) we are excited that we will now be offering European investors and business people faster, easier access to our breaking business-news investment information.

Rich Zahradnik

The Japanese economy is getting better and better all the time and that's why international investors have favored Japanese stocks.

Masaki Iso

Growth going forward is becoming the big issue for stock investors. Things are still OK on the earnings front, but some companies are beginning to be more conservative with their guidance.

Owen Fitzpatrick

It is a very moderate hike and investors had factored in an increase before the presentation of the budget.

Deepak Shah

Investors should look to the wireless companies for the first signs of recovery.

Per Lindberg

The PeopleSoft drama is just that: drama and chatter. Investors need to adjust their antennas and focus on the underlying fundamentals of the business.

Gary Abbott

We deal with first-time buyers and buy-to-let investors and they are both looking at one and two bedroom flats or houses.

Richard Roberts

I don't think this kind of growth can be supported by international investors. It must be driven by organic, domestic growth.

Milan Khatri

Customers are showing their preferences, and investors are going to take note.

Claes Fornell

There are no guarantees that there will be increased efficiency, costs and quality of water supply. How can we attract investors confidence in our economic development if we can not even guarantee regular supply of clean water?

Lim Guan Eng

Unless investors can see where compensation committees are setting those hurdles, it's hard for us to assess the quality of those plans.

Ted White

We believe downside risk is limited and encourage investors to accumulate shares.

Quinn Bolton

We have a new lot of investors. They know the new products. They know the technology.

Muriel Siebert

The crude inventory figure is pushing up oil prices and that is hurting the markets. That is preventing investors from being too euphoric.

Cummins Catherwood

These stocks are mostly bought by retail investors. When these stocks approach high double digits, they become less attractive to retail investors.

Jonathan Cohen

These are pretty moderate plans. There could have been some investors who had expected more drastic measures from the new foreign CEO.

Koichi Hariya

Now with the major events behind us, investors have started making buy decisions on corporate earnings leads again.

Mamoru Maeda

That's what investors have come to expect.

Jeanie Wyatt

This year the risk for investors lies in holding bonds, not stocks.

Yuuki Sakurai

Investors will be disappointed with the guidance.

Mark Sue

The data gives investors hope the Fed won't have to stay aggressive too long.

Jeff Palma

Enron got in trouble with too much debt. Investors and analysts didn't realize how much debt they had because it was hidden.

Mike Barbis

In general, institutional investors aren't sold on the (stock) market going higher, even with the pullback in oil.

Michael James

Investors were positioning themselves in shares that had fallen too much.

Marcelo Borges

The challenge for this company is investors have been trained for them to beat numbers and raise guidance, which they didn't do this quarter.

Karen Haus

The government has done exactly the right thing. Dollar-bond investors were looking for a significant cut in subsidies, and Indonesia delivered.

Scott Wilson

Selling the drug unit is going to focus the company. The earnings were also better than expected. It is a good day for investors.

Patrick Casselman

I don't think with all the uncertainty investors are going to come in full force, but they are starting to nibble again.

Nick Angilletta

A lot of investors are in a wait-and-see mode until we get the Fed behind us next Tuesday.

Arthur Hogan

Private banking is a great machine. Every quarter UBS comes out with good results. They don't disappoint investors.

Andrea Solari

A lot of investors are just buying because the price is going up, then trying to find reasons to explain it.

Yingxi Yu

I don't think we're in for Armageddon, but there's not going to be any visibility on earnings. So we've got months of trading fun and investors can go to the beach.

Bill Meehan

Investors are coming in from out of state by the droves and trying to buy stuff.

Robert Cook

Gains of stocks give investors another reason to sell bonds.

Masahiro Kami

We are in a cyclical bear market and investors' reaction to good news is certainly indicative of that.

Gerald Vincent

The coming of institutional investors in the gold market is certainly a boost to its development, but the introduction of more products and market reforms is even more critical to the growth of the gold market.

Cui Lin

Reliance Industries has clearly led the rise today, and investors are confident because of the fund flows into the market.

Dipen Sanghavi

I don't think [the tax issue] will be a top-of-mind issue for investors. It won't be interpreted as a big issue.

Kevin Buttigieg

A key thing investors wanted to see was strength in corporate and investment banking, and we got that.

Steve Roukis

This could be one of the rare instances that investors can buy an IPO at a reasonable price in the aftermarket.

George Nichols

There's huge demand. We don't need the money but several foreign investors, including Fidelity, have said they'd be interested in buying new bonds.

Raymond Holliwell

A decline in stocks will probably encourage investors to buy bonds.

Xinyi Lu

It should allay whatever concerns investors might have ... as regards duplicate spending.

Will Power

It'll take time for old habits to break. But the more interactions with investors, the better. It's always better to get more investors interested in your company.

Tom Taulli

Investors will continue to monitor what happens in the economy because once the economy picks up, earnings will improve.

Peter Cardillo

As investors begin to focus on fiscal year 2007 and estimates continue to move higher, the stock should continue to outperform.

Adam Holt

I think there's been confusion in the first year around acquisitions [and the company's accounting] which doesn't exist anymore. It was hard for investors to get their hands around what the acquisitions meant.

Harry Gruber

Investors are being cautiously optimistic. There's a desire to put money back into the market based on a feeling that the worst of the economy may be behind us, ... However, there's not enough evidence of that.

Alan Ackerman

We believe most investors will focus on the softness in the Las Vegas locals market.

Celeste Brown

Investors are thinking the BOJ may change its monetary policy sooner than expected and that's why bonds are falling.

Jun Fukashiro

Investors were disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.

Hesham Abojamee

Investors have to step up and assume more responsibility.

Jim Cox

We continue to believe that longer-term investors should focus on yield.

Richard Bernstein

And American investors have lost a great advocate, the legacy that he has left behind will continue to serve them well.

Harvey Pitt

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Peter Peterson

Because the market was so hot, investors were buying everything. It was like a frenzy with prices going up so fast.

Karen Palmer

The returns are attractive right now for investors. It's a solid exit for investors.

Jessica Canning

This is something to be concerned about. I don't think investors have been particularly cautious just yet.

Ozan Akcin

These costs are small in the context of the potential loss to investors of selling GPT cheap.

Nic Lyons

Investors are already positioning themselves, assuming that the operation will be concluded. The assumption is that only the details are missing.

Catarina Pedrosa