For foreign investors, they care more about China's political stability and huge market.

Jiang Enzhu

The sooner U.S. investors can see the end of this current interest rate cycle the better.

Angus Campbell

Many mom-and-pop [companies] are attractive for investors as well. A lot of them are sitting on a good thing.

Tim Dietz

We've had a good run, so for most investors it's a pretty good start and therefore we don't need to be too aggressive.

Neil Dwane

It gives institutions and individual investors equal access to these markets for the first time.

Mike Crinieri

What we're hoping is that what we're providing investors now is a little bit of certainty.

Brad Mcgee

If investors are worried about inflation, this is a great vehicle for them.

John Hollyer

The fact that Softbank drew active buying even after it entered ex-dividend shows strong interest for equity investment by retail investors.

Haruki Takahashi

Aggressive bids from financial sponsors would clearly serve as an upside catalyst for the group as investors anticipate the potential for further industry consolidation.

Peter Appert

Investors were disappointed with in line results and were expecting a strong to blowout quarter.

Robert Mccarthy

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Naomi Klein

We must win back the trust of both domestic and foreign investors. For that, we are taking the proper steps.

Tabare Vazquez

I applaud him for wanting to do this, but he should be doing it at his own expense or getting himself investors to do it.

Betti Flores

The credit will hopefully give high-tech start-ups more access to start-up capital and also will give angel investors additional incentive to invest in Wisconsin-based businesses.

Tom Milliken

The Japanese economy, as the approval of foreign investors has been showing, has undoubtedly improved.

Masaki Iso

When the yen falls against the dollar it changes the appetite of Japanese investors for U.S. bonds. Recently, as the yen has fallen against the dollar, dollar bonds look more expensive to Japanese investors and they buy fewer of them.

David Goldman

Our concern is that this episode will send exactly the wrong signal not only to Arab investors but to investors around the world.

David Hamod

Investors have been pouring money into dollar-denominated assets this year, where returns are higher.

Masaki Fukui

Investors may stay cautious about buying bonds before the consumer price report and the central bank's forecast.

Hiroaki Takai

Investors were looking for direction and Yahoo was the catalyst to make them more optimistic.

Steve Tuen

The fact that they didn't get all the fields sold is evidence that either the trust or the terms are not what (investors) are comfortable with.

William Edwards

One day, when the commodity boom ends and foreign investors head for the exits, that could change the picture for the rand.

Paul Hansen

Our taxes are too high. They deter foreign investors and hurt consumer confidence alike.

Juergen Thumann

To get involved in (the online brokerage business) would not be in the best interest of investors. It would take our eyes off the ball.

Mark B. Cohen

The Fed's been clear that rates are going up to control inflation. Investors are trying to see what that's going to do to the consumer.

Andy Brooks

Investors are now less eager to chase prices higher after the big rally recently.

Derek Lam

Investors in the U.S. have a short-term memory.

David Lui

Investors are going to take microscopes to these numbers, try to get behind them and try to pre-guess what the Fed is likely to do.

Rick Hutcheon

Investors and businessmen depend on the Government for the security of their property and therefore if the Government does not abide by the law, they might feel hopeless and relocate.

Wafula Nabutola

It's certainly something for investors to factor into their thinking, that Pioneer could certainly be a tough competitor.

Frank Mitsch

Now big investors are getting cold feet and are exiting the stock. That a dentist would see the same problems with bone loss as the Gothenburg professors has fueled the fire.

Patrick Laager

But with the start of the new fiscal year, domestic institutional investors are likely to do some buying.

Takashi Ushio

This will be taken positively by the market. Investors have been worried about the government's finances.

Jonathan Ravelas

Foreign investors are still quite keen to buy Canadian bonds as we still have low and stable inflation.

Sal Guatieri

It's like a jar of candies you can see but you can't get your hands on. The foreign investors will believe this when they see more fundamental changes in how companies are run.

Henry Ho

Volume is not convincing because many investors are not convinced that they should step back into this market and there is very little catalyst to step back in.

Nick Angiletta

Every time there is a fraud, investors profess to do more due diligence and this is no different.

Scott Berman

It was good news and sunshine for investors.

John Hueston

The reality is the bulk of this construction is going to be occurring in mid-2007 and beyond, ... At the end of the day, this isn't something (investors) should hang their hats on.

Brandon Roberts

Everyone has the Christmas blues. Investors are now concerned the US economy may be about to slow down.

Andrew Clarke

This initial earnings guidance for 2006 reflects the fact that the integration of May is going to be a more challenging and longer-term task than some investors had expected.

Michael Exstein

There's so much supply it's become a chore for investors to say which is the best one to bet on. And when there's a downturn and things don't look good, people hold back.

Lawrence York

Japanese investors are continuing to buy bonds abroad, and we see more scope for yen weakness.

Paul Mackel

Most of the investors are American citizens and interest has remained strong.

Nicholas Kaiser

Investors are showing a little less enthusiasm and they're not as bullish as before.

Bradley Hunter

Investors fail to appreciate is that this is one of Li's companies. Having one of the wealthiest and most influential men in China owning your company carries a lot of weight.

Jason Brueschke

Nobody ever wants to admit it. Investors should be aware of it.

Sheldon Jacob

New Zealand investors behave like a bunch of sheep.

Arthur Lim

Investors will look at the quarter and like fact that they beat estimates.

Henry Scott

This has frustrated Vodafone's management and investors alike.

Robin Hearn

All of the investors (families included) were able to get their capital back, plus the agreed 25 percent.

Gitesh Pandya

Investors are concerned about a rebound in share prices. But if the coupon was set at 1.6%, the new bonds will attract.

Mari Iwashita

A lot of the high expectations investors had are priced in.

Andreas Gartner

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

Joe Osha

Japanese investors are going into Treasuries. The dollar is going to be very well supported.

Luke Waddington

From Maguire's investors' point of view, this is a very positive development.

Paul Puryear

The Canadian dollar is oversold. The economic fundamentals are still strong, which enticed investors back to the Canadian dollar.

Reid Farrill

We left fundamentals, and only momentum began driving up the stocks, ... The binge had very little to do with economics. Investors were playing a very dangerous game.

Daniel Peris

The signals are not there for foreign investors to come and commit money at the fair when they may not get any returns.

James Jowa

It's very difficult for investors to extrapolate anything from these short-term moves in the market.

Christopher Conkey

With the Internet, the information divide between professional traders and individual investors has become very small.

Masatoshi Kikuchi

Investors have been looking for excuses to say the chip cycle is over, ... But I'd guess that things don't plateau until mid 2005.

Patrick Ho

This was a bit of a surprise. But it was a relatively good surprise. Carl is well respected -- not only myself but from what I can tell from investors as well.

Mark Schappel

Islamic funds haven't really been on the radar for a lot of investors. That's slowly beginning to change.

Peter Chiang

There are a lot of value investors who have done tremendous style drift, ... The funds have drifted so dramatically that it's hard to compare us to them.

Rob Friedman

There are a lot of investors out there who look at oil as a leading indicator for commodity investing.

David Gornall

Investors have been conditioned to buy on the down days, ... Money continues to flow into the market (and) net sellers are being outpaced by buyers.

Doug Myers

The increase appears to be due to stronger than expected organic growth, an area of recent concern for investors.

Jeffrey Cianci

They are not the stocks investors have focused on given their view of positive growth.

Peter Sullivan

There are a lot of opportunities for investors -- a lot of companies out there looking for money.

Scott Murphy

Our U.K. and Canadian corporate clients want better access to U.S.-based institutional investors and hedge funds to expand their shareholder bases and increase their ability to raise growth capital.

Paul Reynolds

Even for the most bullish investors, it is probably worth doing a check on whether stocks have been overbought.

Vincent Chan

You have a lot of out-of-state investors looking for a place to put their money.

Jenifer Gilliland

Conventional wisdom is that you should buy things when they're down, not when they're up. A lot of investors unfortunately get in at the top and get out at the bottom.

Michael Winer

A key issue for investors is how high the bidding war for the LSE could go.

Clive Mcdonnell

Until the market gets comfortable and the cycle is ended, you're still going to see a lot of volatility and a lot of concern by investors.

David Spika

So investors prefer to trim their exposure to equities a bit and wait and see.

Alex Tang

Investors are becoming extremely prejudiced about fundamentals. There's no conviction and volume is really light.

Ash Rajan

Investors express concern about taxes and the tax implications of investing but are confused by a subject hat can become complicated very quickly.

Duncan Richardson

The days are gone when investors could easily flip stocks in the short term and make money.

Tsutomu Yamada

The court's decision was a positive surprise for investors as they expected the court to look into the case.

Rakpong Chaisuparakul

Investors are discounting as if the good news is going to continue and I'm not so certain it is. I've built up a lot of cash and taken profits where I can.

Michael Sprung

It's another one off the list and confirms that investors' options have been decreased.

Mark Lister

The more that oil trades over $50, the group will be attractive to investors because of solid earnings and cash flow.

George Gaspar

It's a viable incentive that's available especially for new investors. It's not the ultimate solution but it helps them settle down. The CDA is doing it best to encourage investors to come in.

Tom Glenn

Earnings will be good, and probably better than some expected. That will be refreshing to investors.

Jim Dunigan

We've been hearing that Morgan Stanley's call was a reason for some investors to sell.

Hiroaki Kuramochi

Caution ahead of CPI appears to have kept most investors at bay.

Osamu Tamada

I think investors were too optimistic about an earnings recovery in the first quarter.

Bernadette Murphy

Investors feel there is no need to aggressively buy bonds now as yields may continue climbing amid signs of solid economic growth.

Koji Mori

We see investors coming in to cover short positions. For some, these are attractive levels to get in.

Hiroyuki Yamada

The way international investors look at Brazil is changing. Brazil is consolidating its position as an interesting investment alternative in the equity market as well as in the bond market.

Jose Olympio Pereira

It's more than simply getting bigger. For our investors, it's also a win-win.

Michael Jesanis

A good yield combined with a weakening US dollar should prove irresistible to global investors.

Clifford Bennett

Whenever you get that dramatic of an increase, it bears watching. It's always hard to measure the amount of fraud in the market. A lot of investors don't complain.

Nancy Smith

Foreign institutional investors are, I think, cautious to neutral on equities, including those in the Philippines.

Jose Vistan

Investors aren't sure if they should buy more longer-dated bonds with yields this low.

Tatsuo Ichikawa

Most investors are cautious and still have some concerns that there could be return to hostilities.

Vajira Premawardhana

We've had a very good year, certainly in Europe, and I expect investors to remain locked in equities.

Robin Griffiths

This is something that investors have been waiting for for nearly a decade. It's the end of an era.

James Fenkner

It's a sad fact, but mutual-fund investors really get a raw deal when it comes to taxes.

Sonya Morris

The Santa Claus rally hasn't happened yet, and by now investors are fearing that it won't. There's disappointment all around.

Neil Massa

Left to their own devices, (investors) naturally choose safety and it's one of the worst decisions they can make.

Ric Edelman

Sure, some investors would love to see us have no charity care, but in this business that is something that we need to do. We need to set the standard.

Victor Campbell

Investors' strategy is really simple --- buying earnings winners.

Hiroyuki Fukunaga

It's a shame that TCA doesn't see our group of investors as a viable bid, ... Had we had more time, we would have had a better chance at purchasing the club.

Joe Gill

Investors know that Maytag is going to have to shed some of the businesses in order for the deal to go through.

Mirko Mikelic

The lawsuit could lead to additional exposure to AMD for investors and customers.

Kevin Rottinghaus

The fund is fairly volatile. Investors need to have a long time horizon.

Christopher Traulsen

After gaining for four straight sessions, investors are concerned that the Nikkei has risen too quickly.

Katsuhiko Kodama

There's concern about overheating ... After touching the goal of 16,000, it's now easy for investors to cash in their winnings.

Hideyuki Suzuki

For small investors, they probably aren't the place to be.

Scott Kahan

With this change in the mood on Argentina, investors are buying Brazilian stocks almost indiscriminately as everything here is so cheap now.

Francisco Andrade

It's Bollard's dilemma: consumers are feeling the pain, yet he is chasing an inflation target. The more he puts up rates, the more attractive the currency is for foreign investors.

Monica Fan

The stock is up because investors think it's a good move to get new blood in the company.

Gary Helmig

There were two things investors hated about Motorola: Chris Galvin and the semi business. Now they are getting rid of both.

Casey Ryan

There were signs both local and foreign institutional investors actively chased up these two stocks.

Jeffrey Cheng

While central banks care less than private investors about the return on their investments, they're not completely clueless.

Nouriel Roubini

Consolidation is not a goal in itself and must bring an advantage for investors.

Josef Ackermann

German companies see the potential dangers if they don't act. They're acting first, to avoid becoming prey for foreign investors. They have confidence they can manage these deals.

Boris Boehm

With all the top name underwriters it will be interesting to see if investors see if it's worth buying into.

Kyle Huske

It's a great deal for individual investors, but I don't know what kind of incentive the elimination of the tax is going to give to some of the cash cows to start offering dividends.

Kari Pinkernell

The report will probably prompt investors to imagine the era of low rates is going change soon.

Makoto Yamashita

The fact that there is internal conflict (at Sony) is hardly good for investors' trust.

Hiroyuki Nakai

Investors have started to warm to Japan again as an investment market.

Douglas Eu

You don't need to make a bad deal, make some foreign investors wealthy and have no guarantees.

Pat Bauer

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Dirk Becker

We believe that there are attractive investment opportunities in Europe -- for mutual fund investors generally, and social investors in particular.

Amy Domini

Our hope as analysts and investors is that this is the beginning of a process and not isolated cases.

Andrew Brown

Investors were hoping for some white knight to pop in and save Lucent.

Pip Coburn

There are some offerings, the crappy offerings, where the only people stupid enough to buy it are the retail investors.

Charles Kaplan

The rally in stocks is hampering bonds. Investors also have become risk averse ahead of the fiscal year end.

Masato Fukasaku

Inflation is a difficult thing both for investors, who are counting on companies to be able to pass (higher prices) through, and also for consumers, when the realize the dividend increases they've been getting aren't really buying that much more.

Thomas Mcmanus

Investors are buying on expectations that earnings growth is going to be strong. Valuations are still reasonable.

Teo Chon Kiat

Investors are shifting their attention to other metals and soft commodities.

Andrew Silver

Directed is committed to the same high level of service to our investors that we apply to every facet of our business.

Kevin Duffy

India just cannot afford to build resentment against multinationals and foreign investors.

Raghavendra Rao

Investments of this size by such reputable investors draw attention to the country and further bolster investor confidence in South Africa.

Mark Mobius

Global investors still like dollar-denominated assets. The fundamentals still auger for dollar strength.

David Mozina

The regulatory environment is getting much more welcoming to foreign investors.

Sara Harris

In 2005, investors began to pay attention to gradual improvement in the Japanese economy aided by some long overdue government-driven reforms.

Don Cassidy

The investors really made a profit on those, Bank of Communications, or CCB.

Kitty Chan

Investors' heightened attention will make it easy for the proposed fund to attract investment.

Cui Lin

It won't wipe out stock fraud, but it will give investors a much better tool.

Barry Goldsmith

We got a big influx of investors over the past six to nine months.

Daniel Butterworth

Investors are trying not to build up big positions this week.

Dennis Leung

I believe these measures will provide new and broader opportunities for foreign investors.

Chen Jinhua

As we see more and more investors moving inland, we're seeing a decrease in affordable housing.

Tom Maeser

I saw it as a very upbeat report. There is no fundamental reason for investors to be selling.

Peter Jankovskis

We are delighted to be appointed successor depositary by British Airways and look forward to supporting the company's goal of enhancing its base of US investors.

Nancy Lissemore

Socially responsible investors happen to be big shareholders in Dell and have significant clout.

Bryant Hilton

Whether or not the rally can continue hinges critically on how long investors decide to stay in the market.

Yingxi Yu

The trend today is for some depreciation. Many investors will feel inclined to buy dollars.

Jose Roberto Carreira

All investors are looking for consistency and stability. I think the Indonesian government knows this.

Bob Edgar

Earnings have been better than expected. Investors are confident and there's a reallocation of assets in favor of stocks.

Matthieu Giuliani

Credit option volumes grew dramatically in 2005, and we expect a continued broadening of the account base in 2006 as investors focus on the convexity profile of their portfolios.

Daniel Berman

The fund opens during the run up to the Union Budget and closes well after it, giving investors a choice to invest as per the Government's allocation for infrastructure in the budget.

Naresh Garg

Greenwich real estate still astounds most people and continues to be a safe haven for would-be investors.

John Goodkind

Investors are buying dollars to book gains after the real rose for five straight sessions.

Alexandre Vasarhelyi

People aren't trying to extract the last dollar from investors.

David Topper

Investors are becoming more risk-averse and are speaking and expressing their negative sentiment with their dollars.

Robert Adler

Cool heads will prevail before kicking foreign investors out of the country.

James Barrineau

There was a tremendous amount of hype surrounding the opening. It's a very high profile company, has blue chip investors in it. I was expecting it to do better than it did.

Ullas Naik

Investors are concerned that shares have gotten too expensive and there's no reason to buy into the market at these prices.

Koji Uchida

(The proposed change) hasn't been well received by foreign investors.

Ray Headifen

You could almost argue that investors sense some relief.

James Kelleher

In the last year or so, investors have been oblivious to risk.

Bill Fries

What economists see as half full, investors see as half empty.

Richard Yamarone

The conservative guidance for next year was disappointing to some of the investors.

Michael Obuchowski

Investors are actually willing to pay a premium for stocks of companies that have a governance framework in place.

Brian Cleary

Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.

Andrew To

The market's direction hinges on the earnings news for now. Investors are becoming very sensitive to bad news.

Tsuyoshi Shimizu

I think every company wants to attract long-term investors.

Randy Wheeless

What is clear is that investors are tired, frustrated and extremely nervous.

Kerry Smith

They're bad for investors (and) result in higher compensation for brokers.

Mercer Bullard

It's clear to me that, had that information been known to investors, large or small, they would not have made those same investment decisions.

Mark Koenig

We were one of the early investors in the Indian telecom sector and have enjoyed a very fruitful association with Hutchison.

Uday Kotak

We're more trading off of earnings. Investors will be able to tolerate continued moderate inflation as long as earnings continue to accelerate.

John Twomey

The Nasdaq ended mostly unchanged last Friday, and some investors bet it was a good chance to hunt for bargains.

Hidenori Karaki

The significance (of the dethroning) is a little perverse. It's occurring as investors are beginning to flee the index fund.

Dan Wiener

We layer in our next 30 best ideas for those investors who want more diversification.

Jim Mccall

Based on anecdotal evidence, we're seeing that 401(k) investors are staying the course.

Sarah Friedell

We are seeing investors get out of oil and mining stocks and back into banks and financials.

Justin Urquhart Stewart

Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate fears.

Andrew To

We're looking for investors that would be interested in using the tax credits.

Andrew Burgreen

As long as investors are willing to stay on board, this company could have enough cash to make a go of it for a while.

Bill Warlick

We are seeing U.S. investors consistently selling the Canadian dollar to buy the U.S. dollar as there is still uncertainty in the election.

Reid Farrill

The meetings that I engaged in were proper. They were for the benefit of investors.

Harvey Pitt

Hopefully investors realize by now they don't need a focused sector fund in their portfolio.

Bill Harding

Everyone knew that (the Fed) wasn't going to tighten or ease. The only thing disconcerting to investors was that they had no guidance going forward because of the uncertainty about the war.

Matthew Ruane

It's a tough market right now. Even if you do good things, investors are skittish.

Ren Zamora

External factors are out of the market's focus. Investors are now only interested in individual companies' earnings.

Susumu Abe

Recent price action in airline shares has created some price disparities that we believe investors should exploit.

Gary Chase

We took a big risk that investors would see the value of our approach and participate.

Bruce Bond

I think it's time for investors to take a little bit off the table.

Don Reed

This isn't really the way that investors want to see Credit Suisse boost profits.

Javier Lodeiro

The amount of U.S. assets bought by Asian investors is now short of the total U.S. trade deficit with Asia.

Philip Wee

As conservative value investors, we always base decisions on the question: 'what if we are wrong,' .

Bill Nygren

Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have an immediate impact on the cost of debt.

Channa Amaratunga

It's the flight to quality. Investors want to own the names that are doing well.

Shaw Wu