We think that we are close to making considerable acquisitions in the European and American markets.

Vagit Alekperov

A combination of growth in the areas of high market activity and consolidation of our position in the remaining markets present exciting prospects for the group.

Brian Quinn

All we have ever asked for is open and competitive Canadian markets for timber and logs.

Barry Cullen

The market's not always going to go up, up, up, ... It is important to diversify the revenue stream.

Dan Burke

We believe we are ready to buy heavily on the European and US markets, and we have been considering a number of large facilities that we are planning to buy.

Vagit Alekperov

The market's not that stretched on valuations, it's a bit frothy because of the takeover activity but at the end of the day companies are quite cheap.

Mark Bon

With M&A still a key theme for equity markets, this methodology can continue to outperform.

Graham Secker

We are focusing our skills and resources on markets which offer the greatest earnings and growth potential.

Nikolaus Von Bomhard

This week's collection of data will give the markets plenty to trade on.

Carol Stone

Given our excellent position in the communications and electronics markets and our strong backlog levels, we continue to feel comfortable with fourth quarter earnings per share of 39 cents.

Ned Barnholt

London is still seen as the crossroads of all markets. Europe is roughly on its doorstep, one hour distant, New York is five hours distant and there's the cross-over with the Asian markets.

Jerry Evans

Free markets meet technology.

George Taylor

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

It's difficult to look around the global oil markets today and find anything bearish, any factors that might push down prices.

John Kingston

We had a challenging quarter due to the wet and cool spring across the country, the National Hockey League lockout and continued price discounting in our key markets.

John Sleeman

It is certainly possible that the Fed could cut rates further, and it is very probable that the Fed will continue to pump liquidity into the markets.

Preston Martin

We think the market was too pessimistic on Asia. The only issue is that the main growth is in low margin markets like India, Korea and Taiwan.

Bruno Paulson

This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets.

Adnan Akant

Good buying is underpinning the robustness and it comes mainly from Asia and other markets that are main consumers of gold.

Ross Moore

As soon as the movie rolls out, he's going to be on in a hundred markets.

Walter Sabo

Publishers often discount books for overseas markets.

Steve Loyola

It is scary, we have competition more than ever before. But the same forces that are allowing them to enter our market is providing new markets for American products.

Israel Hernandez

The dollar's got a lot of supportive factors going for it, at a time when we're not so sure elsewhere, ... The market's getting more and more confident about rate increases in the U.S. and that's making the dollar look good against everything.

Niels From

These are the toughest markets Kingfisher has faced in many years.

Gerry Murphy

I don't know why they tied our gasoline to the prices in Los Angeles, Gulf Coast and New York, ... We have nothing to do with those markets.

Mark Moses

It's not lack of competition. In fact, we have a very, very highly competitive marketplace. Our members compete like mad. In most markets, there are a variety of plans and products to choose from.

Susan Pisano

This should support the dollar. Rate expectations have been the driving force in currency markets this year.

Brad Jones

Our core markets continue to be Texas and California.

Katherine Potter

Mongolia is the best-kept secret in emerging markets in Asia.

Robert Friedland

If all the markets were as strong as Columbia, then they might have survived. It's at least fair to say they might have.

Mike Flack

The growth has been phenomenal. At the same time, it's changed from year to year in different markets.

Rob Pait

You're dealing with a seasonal period that's less favorable for markets and you're also dealing with end of quarter portfolio issues.

Jeffrey Hirsch

If companies can tap into capital markets, you'll see a huge increase in the amount of gold being produced.

Tim Mccutcheon

Companies are increasingly looking abroad to spur innovation and build new markets. In today's competitive environment, business can't be held hostage by the 'not invented here' syndrome.

Barry Jaruzelski

Our merger with Liberty Corp. allows us to take an exciting and logical next step into an exceptionally attractive group of markets.

Paul Mctear

Markets will be stuck in the middle.

Jeffrey Saut

Markets are afraid there might be a sign of stagflation in the U.S. economy.

Junya Tanase

Tradition drives these international markets very, very hard. The concept is interesting, but inevitably, they will find it as difficult, if not more difficult than Europe.

Richard Cripps

The financial markets appear to be betting that demand has slowed and supply is coming back on.

Standard Life

Merchant bar demand continues to draw strength from business investment while the previously booming consumer end-markets lose some luster.

John Anton

They make money. The market's going to respond heavily to this.

Jeffrey R. Hirschkorn

The ability for Gold Fields to discover value in these markets we've got today ... is becoming increasingly difficult. Several opportunities have been identified across the globe.

Ian Cockerill

Given the lift off -- which I totally missed -- it's going to be tough to break the markets down.

Raymond James

U.S. stocks are cheap and will make up the gap in performance with other markets around the world.

Larry Smith

Mudslides, fire ants, being nuzzled by llamas, going to markets, living in huts, going to animal rescue centers.

Brown Johnson

Interest-rate advantage is still the only game in town for the currency markets. There's no doubt the dollar can gain further.

Armin Mekelburg

This could be the beginning of an interesting game between the ECB and the financial markets, ... If they believe the ECB has miscalculated they will take on the euro like never before.

Stephen Jen

A lot of galleries around RTP are corporate markets and that's a big part of their patron base. We just want to show something we like and keep it laid back here. We don't want the intimidating environment that a lot of galleries have.

Meghan Coward

Until you get ... the Bank of Japan actually pushing interest rates (higher) and not just jawboning the financial markets, I don't think the yen is going to find long-lasting support.

David Mozina

We remain convinced that our home-improvement markets are fundamentally attractive and that the actions we are taking will position Kingfisher well for the future.

Gerry Murphy

Obviously, they have the most to gain (and) the most to lose in terms of the market's success or failure.

Randy Thompson

People are on the sidelines as some investors are cautious of the market's volatility right now.

Joseph Lau

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

The market was really thin throughout the afternoon, with a continuation of profit-taking from yesterday, but then U.S. markets came back and capital flowed in.

Francisco Andrade

For each of those markets, there is a segment where people are taking those products and converting them into something.

Anthony Patterson

That has been behind the market's ability to really drive rates.

Robert Hayward

This is before the hurricane and does not influence what the Fed is going to do, and CPI is more relevant to the markets.

Peter Boockvar

Farmers markets are green shoots coming out of the gun. They represent hope and they need to be cultivated. But we have a juggernaut coming at us.

Jerry Brown

The outlook for the markets is pretty tricky. The Fed is nearly finished with its interest-rate hikes, but it's not there yet.

Philip Barleggs

This suggests the (capital markets) environment was even better than we thought macro-wise.

Jeff Harte

We like the market here. Job growth is healthy, as is population growth. And real estate values have improved, but not to the extent in other markets.

John Hinkle

We are experiencing broad-based strength by end markets, geographies, sales channels and product lines.

Steve Sanghi

The damage from the storm, both in terms of the physical damage and any human impact, was certainly less than expected so that should really bode well for the financial markets.

Tim Ghriskey

Put an immediate chill on the housing markets and reverse almost a century of housing policy.

Jerry Howard

That's the major driver of stock markets today. The rising interest rate cycle is close to an end.

Agnes Deng

It's an easy way for an investor to get access to international markets.

Mike Crinieri

Given the financial market's incredibly high expectations, all of these guys are probably saying, 'I have to do something.

James Angel

We were looking for new markets to expand to and I knew about the Bartlesville Community Center so we arranged something, ... It's a beautiful theater. I'm really happy for us to have our show here. And it will be the same show that we have performed in New York, so Bartlesville won't go away disappointed.

Joe Sears

They are primarily selling into their installed base and are not expanding their markets, ... Design innovation only gets you so far. It's hard to continue growing if you keep selling into your installed base.

Kevin Knox

Disney actually has identified Plainfield as one of its top target markets in this state.

Shari Kopczynski

The best growth at a reasonable price is to be found in the emerging markets, where you have 15% earnings growth, just like in Japan, but multiples of only 10 or 11. We're expecting another year of double-digit gains in earnings.

Alexander Young

We're used to being in competitive markets. We've got a business model that works well for these competitive markets.

Bill Wood

The market's applauding the resolve of the Fed and acting accordingly, ... In that way, its behavior is rational.

Anthony Crescenzi

Adding asset classes that aren't highly correlated with equity markets is a good way to lower overall portfolio risk.

Matthew Scanlan

We continue to believe Wal-Mart is well positioned to benefit from international market expansion and reorganization of management structure with increased focus on local markets.

Joseph Agnese

The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.

Claes Ahrel

There are some feelings that possibly live game markets might have been associated with some of the earlier cases, but this is only hypothesis.

C. David Heymann

1998 was a year of excellent progress for Kodak, despite continuing intense competition, the issues with the Office Imaging business, and on-going challenges in emerging markets. On the competitive front, we arrested our share loss in the U.S., closing out the year with a share increase for the consumer film in that market.

George Fisher

The markets can't go up every day. Profit taking is one of the features of trading.

Andrew Lebow

European financial markets were able to navigate problems of 9/11 and the Madrid and London bombings without too much instability, because they didn't have the extra layer of exchange-rate problems.

Barry Eichengreen

I firmly believe these markets are so overdone, so oversold.

Linda Jay

Steel markets are at an inflection point and we forecast a bounce in demand.

Charles Spencer

Converting and packaging are natural markets for commercial printers.

Frank Romano

There is a new breed of traders. Some are young lads but they know the markets.

Richard Sharpe

[This] has really helped a great deal, ... It has captured some of the problem with short selling, which has driven down the markets.

Dan Mcgovern

The market's been soft for seven to eight months now.

David Briggs

Markets have been pricing in Koizumi's victory in the elections. That's positive for the yen.

Toru Umemoto

We'd like to be in most major markets, but we don't have definite plans.

Christine Michaels

The Rabbit was always exclusive to the U.S. and Canadian markets. While the rest of the world had the Golf, we had the iconic Rabbit.

Kerri Martin

I think the markets had largely been expecting some sort of air strikes, and had pretty much factored that in.

Michael Derks

We thought it was important to get ahead of the curve on something that's going to become of increasing concern to the capital markets as the disease spreads.

Paul Heldman

There's an opportunity for AT&T to be more aggressive than BellSouth has been. The Southeast is among the strongest markets in the U.S.

William Power

By joining forces with Cablevision, Home Network gains access to a significant concentration of homes in key major metropolitan markets in the Northeast corridor.

Tom Jermoluk

It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the biggest markets for cancer.

Gbola Amusa

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

Owen D. Young

The European beer market is flat. There is growth in premium, specialty markets and own-label brands, but these are high margin and low volume.

Kevin Baker

We continue to believe that Cisco will be among the first companies to emerge once the end markets recover.

Michael Ching

It's not really the cost of defined-benefit plans, but the unpredictability of the plans. They're captive to the volatility of the capital markets.

John Bukovinsky

This proves it is not just the Mervyn King show. In any academic or business environment you are always going to have at least two views; that's what makes markets.

Simon Rubinsohn

We used to get a lot of different products from manufacturers because the cans were mislabeled or the cans had dents in them. Now those manufacturers have found secondary markets for their goods.

Mike Gibson

We will focus on strengthening our core brands and also on increasing consumption and penetrations in the rural markets, where we see the bulk of our growth coming from.

Harish Manwani

The markets will obviously tread water, but we could see some buying on weakness.

Charles Payne

Sales have come to a standstill in almost all markets.

Jens Refslund

Globally, the U.S. and some emerging markets are the leading growth engines.

John Herrmann

I opened this account because I had problems with the tax authorities in my own country. I also intended to make investments on the stocks markets.

Rolland Courbis

It's a bad deal for community lending. We've looked at Sovereign's existing lending in the market - from Philadelphia to Boston - and we found that in all of the markets we've looked at they disproportionately deny credit to people of color, African Americans and Latinos. Where credit is granted, they are much more likely to impose higher costs on people of color.

Matthew Lee

You can't live off Venezuela, you have to give a signal that you are returning to the markets. And this is a good time to try.

Rafael Ber

Continued cost cutting is going to help the bottom line. The company is making money in one of the worst markets and there's room for earnings to go a lot higher.

Matt Kelmon

It is going to change, quite dramatically, the way European markets work.

Andrew Douglas

Conditions in our markets are mixed, and we do not yet see clear signs of a recovery in end markets.

Gene Sapp

The government may not be able to stop the BOJ from shifting policy after all the speculation that's been built up in financial markets.

Takehiro Sato

I know the market's there, ... The question is, 'How do you reach it, and how do you communicate with the end user?' .

Michael Cimino

Emerging markets as a group have proved they can sustain high growth and attract capital. There is tremendous dynamism but there is a huge unfinished agenda.

Lars Thunell

Margins are holding up very well, considering growth is in the emerging markets.

Thor Udenaes

There will be some review of the markets as we go into reporting period, but there is an underlying confidence in our markets.

Tony Russell

I think the market's already corrected for the downplay in EPS.

Robert Peck

The consumer finance sector is not the market's main driver, so I see little impact from the news.

Kentaro Nakajo

Even with interest rates going up, housing markets will remain healthy going into 2006.

Derek Holt

The NFL is already in substantially all major markets that could support a team. Los Angeles is the most likely candidate for the Chargers.

Dean Bonham

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

Russell Means

The market is volatile due to instability there abroad. The market is lacking personality; it is hostage to foreign markets.

Helio Ozaki

We're calling it a reverse conundrum. Markets are looking at growth as a bad thing, but if growth is too slow that's bad too.

Doug Sandler

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

Mike Crinieri

I'm just a little bit concerned about, going forward, whether they can achieve a growth record that is going to have more of a thrust in the U.S. markets.

David Menlow

You just have to have a threat there to worry markets and they (buyers) want to lock in prices.

Greg Albrecht

TI has their foothold in lots of these markets already. It is looking to take the same basic technology and pitch it to a bunch of very different customers.

Idarose Sylvester

In the end, he did not fully validate the recent decline in the market's Fed tightening expectations.

Robert Lynch

The market is looking for a good excuse to sell off. The markets could be in for some trouble.

Christian Holland

We believe the Basic PC segment has the potential to expand our markets and bring us new users.

Sean Maloney

The problem, ... is that the markets have fallen sharply and they've fallen because all these financial shenanigans are coming unraveled.

Robert Brusca

We're trying to get more aircraft. Once our aircraft arrive, we'll be in a better position to evaluate new markets.

Jen Mcskimming

The dot-com logic of paying big prices to enter new markets has come roaring back.

Greg Sterling

I don't think it's necessarily that bad if Denmark stays out. I don't think there will be a huge fallout in Danish markets.

Steve Barrow

For the most part, the market's just going to be flat.

Neil Massa

Customers are making strides at reducing their inventories, but capacity is still far in excess of demand in some of our markets.

Ned Barnholt

The company is facing a delicate balance between capturing the revenue growth in these emerging markets and keeping it up on the bottom line. The market share gains were significant in the growth areas, but that's less profitable growth.

John Slack

The concern is that there will be less money available to stocks in emerging markets.

Andre Castro

Geopolitical tensions are on the rise and could at some point in the future have a very negative impact on the global economy and financial markets.

Marc Faber

As China's economy continues to grow, its outbound tourism will also continue to increase. China is now one of the most important markets in Asia for Canada, just behind Japan and Korea.

Jacques Burelle

The Middle East is the area where we're most concerned. There has been a lot of speculation in these markets.

Joanne Irvine

The passage of this legislation will help the commission to continue its efforts aimed at increasing investor protection and restoring confidence in our markets.

William Donaldson

There's going to be advantages of scale and if you can't compete on that, you're going to get left out of some areas, ... You could see some of these smaller guys get muscled out of some of the markets and actually lose market share.

Richard Watson

As Asia's dynamic, high-growth markets continue to develop and offer new and growing business opportunities, we have looked to enhance our management platform. Hans will be a valuable addition to our capabilities.

Alasdair Morrison

A flattening yield curve typically is indicative of the bond market's view that the Fed as being less accommodative.

Carlos Borromeo

It's a target, that's what the market's saying.

Jamelah Leddy

As European markets move farther east, Ukraine becomes cost-competitive with our most competitive places.

Bill Muir

Exits from the baskets could have a disproportionately larger impact on the less-liquid metal markets.

Jon Bergtheil

There have been only four opportunities over the last 20 years to buy the markets at this level.

Tracy Eichler

They are new markets that we intend to work on. The climate is hot, which surely favors the sale of Brazilian melons.

José Roberto Prado

It is my hope that this agreement will encourage the development of new markets, new services, lower prices and greater competition.

Jean Lapierre

Asia Pacific Pay TV and Broadband Markets 2006. As a result, our projections are conservative.

Vivek Couto

I think the market's reacting appropriately.

Henry Willmore

World oil markets are fundamentally tight.

Af Alhajji

There is a lot of following stocks around today. That was the big thing after the huge decline in the European equity markets - there was a lot of nervousness about what would happen in the U.S.

Michael Cloherty

When bull markets and economies start putting on some age, the bigger-name defensive growth stocks get more attention.

Al Goldman

We believe there is enormous potential for entrepreneurial Internet ventures in key European markets.

Masayoshi Son

Custom House is excited about working with the PGA TOUR in all our markets internationally. The TOUR is integral to our global marketing strategy.

Brian Taylor

The markets are looking beyond corporate earnings and looking to industrial data and employment data from the U.S. to see what kind of economic recovery we can expect.

Ben Rudd

I think we're making tremendous progress. What I would like to see is more progress in expansion of the businesses, with more access to capital, networks and markets.

Sharon Hadary

The deal pipeline continues to be satisfactory overall, including investment banking and equity capital markets.

Allan Moss

Everything went according to script, ... This just underscores that the IPO market's back.

John Fitzgibbon

Our business is no longer solely reliant on whether the markets are going up or down.

Neal Shear

The Northeast and the Midwest are our two biggest domestic markets.

Nancy Hamilton

Continuing takeover speculation on a host of companies may see another near term rally in equity markets.

Matt Buckland

It seems to me that markets aren't going to be too happy if its just a replacement thing.

James Padinha

The markets could correct up to 20 percent over the long-term. I'm not looking at any more levels. There is enough risk on the downside.

Andrew Holland

I worry that there's this perfect storm coming for emerging markets.

Kristin J. Forbes

We're beginning to see price declines in most eastern markets in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Alexis Mcgee

There's a feeling that U.S. inflation may be under control, and this helped U.S. markets. The optimism may spread on to the opening of European markets.

Francisco Salvador

Markets are still trying to firm up where rates will peak in the U.S. and Europe.

George Hodgson

I'm quite pleased the markets have hung in as well as they have.

Bob Sitko

In the last six years, overseas markets have been poor investments.

Jim Owen

We expect to see the continuation of the slowing trend in many markets.

Mark Milner

The company will likely grow faster than the aggregate markets in which it participates.

John Rizzuto

We always look at markets, and this is the classical market - and we have three of them. The merger of these three down to two would probably cause a competitive inquiry by somebody.

Harvey Saferstein

We're very focused on putting these in business markets.

Sean Donohue

It is now appropriate to talk of a major energy crisis after Hurricane Katrina pushed U.S. energy markets beyond the edge. The impact of Katrina has been to produce a significant discontinuity.

Barclays Capital

I put it down to a combination of the Dow and the Nasdaq markets. We've had a couple of reasonably good days off the American markets.

Peter Struk

People who live in higher-cost housing markets are really hurting.

Jay Speer

China will be held to account if it attempts to dump excess capacity on overseas markets.

Huw Mckay

TVs still have higher margins and you wouldn't have a doubt on the market's growth when you see so many different sizes of TVs on the shelves.

Frank Lee

The market's not exactly cheap anymore.

Larry Wachtel

Gold and silver were mirrors of the equity markets, with the weakness in the European stocks.

Bill O'neill

What the market's figuring out is the Fed is coming toward an end of this movement.

James Annable

American Chartered Bank is demonstrating the business case for remote capture. The solution allows the bank to expand its footprint and capture share in new markets.

Dave Youngerman

Even Asian markets trade more in sympathy than they used to.

Armin Lang

The market's short-term consolidation will not affect its bright medium-term picture.

Tom Tang

If you look broadly across the United States -- with the exception of those Midwest markets -- the implementation has gone pretty much as we had hoped.

Red Cavaney

This agreement with Tribune Broadcasting greatly expands our reach. Tribune Broadcasting is well established in the industry with stations in nine of the country's top 10 markets, and 18 of the top 30.

Les Garland

The currency markets are much more driven by activity and data coming out of Europe and Japan right now.

David Durrant

The market's extremely skittish. There's concerns about strong economic growth and tomorrow's (jobs) number.

Bruce Alston

The pace can only accelerate from now onwards because affordability is increasing, prices are coming down, income levels are going up, and the areas we are covering are going up as well, so new markets are opening up.

Akhil Gupta

The financial markets and Australia's trading partners wouldn't be the least bit disquieted by the leadership being passed to Costello.

Paul Strangio

The market's progress since then (Sept. 21) seems excessive, given the challenging environment.

Thomas Mcmanus

Cooling housing markets will have a negative impact on consumer spending and employment. The dollar will be weak, as the U.S. economy is expected to slow down from now on.

Yuji Kameoka

The first couple of weeks in January are really important. Historically there has been a high correlation between then and how the markets do for the rest of the year.

Peter Falvey

All Latin American markets were dragged down by the 'Samba effect', and the Caracas market was no exception.

Hector Perez

What that will tend to do will be to drive down accounting rates in international markets, which will tend to stimulate volume growth, and that will be a good deal for customers.

Robert Wilkes

We have oil prices that will definitely have an impact on the markets. Oil prices are up this morning as some rigs are evacuated, so that could cause some supply fears.

Terry Milne

They got a heck of a price. This is just an example of larger banks desiring to get into really attractive markets, and you have to pay a premium for that.

Scott Alaniz