We're reasonably optimistic on the economy, but markets are going to be difficult. I'd be cautious.

Nick Skiming

The markets have been on a very good run over the last few months. Perhaps this is the end of that trend.

Jimmy Yates

Really, ... what we're talking about here is the U.S. struggling to find its place in an economy where the labor markets are just so vastly different.

Jason Schultz

Operating in bubble markets.

James Grant

We hope that the equity markets perform as we expect them to, but it's impossible for us to project what equity markets are going to do.

Saul Rubin

We're not only going into our core markets of education, graphics and video, which has seen a huge increase in the need for storage.

Alex Grossman

We will also look into extending our geographical coverage to include other fast-growing and high potential markets in Asia.

Keiji Shimada

Our forecast was that we would not be able to fly those markets profitably with a regional jet.

Bill Mishk

To a large extent where the markets go is predicated on the positions by funds in the markets.

David Rinehimer

What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.

Gene Kimmelman

There's nothing bigger than a big home game for a home market. And during the Olympics we have 230 home markets for 17 days of big games.

Gary Zenkel

Many of these countries don't yet have good resale markets.

Stuart Law

We lost the markets. We can get the shrimp — there's plenty out there. We just can't sell them. There's no market.

Peter Kendall

TI has their foothold in lots of these markets already.

Idarose Sylvester

U.S. markets were firmer, gold was a bit better, commodities are OK, so all is forgiven.

Leigh Gardner

Major overseas telecom players are increasingly looking beyond their home markets in the face of flat growth.

Kobita Desai

The market's getting very close to being oversold, so I would expect to see some sort of reversal in the next few days.

Bruce Latimer

It's not the beginning of the end as we see it. Most of our markets are strong. They're just not as strong as last year.

Joel Rassman

These (Russian) markets have been so damaged that I doubt that one issue is going to markedly change things.

Stuart Brown

The prospect of deflation is one that sends shudders through financial markets.

Jerry Jasinowski

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

Larry Summers

If a team from one of our markets makes it to the Super Bowl, the impact is even greater.

Jeff Lowrance

As we head into 2006 we continue to face low cost carrier competition in our domestic markets, a weak domestic fare environment, high fuel costs, and we expect to report a significant loss in the first quarter of 2006.

Larry Kellner

Markets were caught off-guard by a blow-out trade deficit, ... This could affect growth.

Jason Schenker

The market's keen to see U.S. labor costs and economic growth figures for signs of a possible interest rate hike.

Hiroichi Nishi

They really seem perfectly positioned for continued high M&A activity and what we think are going to be pretty good capital markets.

Ralph Cole

The U.S. origination business may be slowing while it is growing in other markets.

Guy Moszkowski

My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected by the government will therefore fall as well, and the trading will go to other markets.

Gonzalo Alonso

The market's outlook is simply bright.

Carlos Hokama

The Bank of Japan has already laid out a map on how it will alter its policy framework, and financial markets are factoring that in. Opposition from the government and politicians to the central bank will probably continue at least through the end of March.

Takuji Aida

It is going very well. We were up at midnight and it was very exciting to watch all the different markets waking up.

Chris Dehring

People are saying, 'Okay, I'm ready to go play in the equity markets again.

Tom Roseen

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

Peter Lynch

Strength is in the capital markets area and the advisory businesses. That should continue for the rest of this year.

Peter Kovalski

Australia remains a concern due to its size. The consolation is growth from emerging markets in Indonesia, India and Thailand.

Nicholas Yeo

We are really busy in Asia at the moment in M&A transactions and equity capital markets.

Herbert Smith

Stocks will continue to rally. Companies are flush with cash for takeovers and this will continue to give momentum to markets.

David Stix

[RFID] is about research, development, education and developing new markets.

Sal Iannuzzi

I'm worried that a number of these deals will not get done now. A lot of people get caught in the changing markets when they only see the upside of things going in.

Doug Artusio

Telecom, coupled with buoyant global markets has seen buying re-enter the New Zealand market.

Murray Rutherford

There's unprecedented confusion in the local and long-distance markets.

Jim Chilsen

If you look at population, and population density, (York and Lancaster) are very similar (markets), ... Put on top of that a built-in rivalry.

Peter Kirk

The merger-and-acquisitions cycle and also the market are far more beneficial in Europe and Asia and in emerging markets than they are in the U.S..

Huw Van Steenis

Political risk is never good for stock markets, so that is definitely a negative.

Tim Rocks

China's announcement of wanting to diversify their foreign-exchange reserves holdings is going to have a profound effect on financial markets worldwide.

Peter Grandich

We are very proud of the effort put forth into 'A Current Affair,' which displayed some exceptional work but has not resonated with audiences in the larger markets as well as we would have liked.

Bob Cook

We will be continuing to look at new opportunities to move into new markets and if and when the opportunity arises and it fits and we have a clear and achievable strategy to enter that market, we will be making a move.

Simon Baker

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.

Tony Crescenzi

Mark did a spectacular job for us during some of the most difficult periods in our financial markets.

Rob Feckner

So at the moment, markets generally assume the Fed will continue to tighten. That expectation is generally resulting in the U.S. dollar strengthening, though the Canadian dollar seems to be holding its own.

Paul Ferley

We're going to first and foremost start working with customers to commercialize the technology - that's the first priority - and to the extent that we can find companies in complementary markets who don't compete with us head to head, we may look at licensing agreements with them.

Sumit Sadana

By contrast, China's domestic market was oversupplied generally, compelling traders to turn to international markets and thus boosting export.

Li Yushi

The dollar is under pressure and the main driving force for this is the market's expectation that the Fed will stop hiking rates soon.

Marios Maratheftis

Since the U.S. election ended with the expected Bush victory, the market's focus has moved to U.S. corporate earnings and monetary policy there.

Hiroyuki Nakai

The emerging markets are where Europe was five to seven years ago.

Colin Morton

But the thing about Cascade Bancorp is that they are in some of the best growth markets in the country, so we're probably looking at a steady growth.

Brett Rabatin

If you look across all markets, there seems to be a common theme of reduction of risk.

Mark Chandler

We need to do something about how these live markets are treating species.

Howard Stone

Clearly, the costs of compliance are disproportionate to small companies. It's causing people to avoid the U.S. capital markets.

David Weild

The markets for the products are huge. If you can get it right, it's really a market that's infinite.

Robert Metcalfe

If it isn't in sync with the markets current leanings, it could get ugly in a hurry.

Kevin Giddis

Another one of our fantasies is that we'd like to make this area more active with ongoing flea markets and farmers markets so when people drive by they will see that there's activity in this town.

Gabriel Brisbois

The U.S. market's strength overnight helped the main board to extend gains since it started a rebound Friday.

Johnny Lee

It looks like the tech rally has had a little hiccup. It will take markets lower tomorrow across the world.

Stephen Massocca

Both growth and inflation in the coming months could be stronger than financial markets are currently expecting. There is a growing risk that the Fed will have to tighten further and longer than many analysts anticipate.

Nariman Behravesh

The EU should not be allowing consolidation in markets like energy where we haven't even established competition yet.

Jeremy Nicholson

Companies are moving to tastier markets. There's not that much point in investing in markets that are already more or less solidified.

Tetsuro Tsusaka

Russia is one of the top-five beer markets in the world and fits our international growth strategy for brand development.

Andrew Day

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Mark Batey

Pay attention to what the current markets are, see where the averages are and establish based off of what that market is some kind of price range that you're willing to trade in. You have to set your limits.

Daryl Strohbehn

Consumption per capita in our categories in developing markets is about one-third that of developed markets.

A.g. Lafley

[Even the] beige book ... labor markets remain stretched and some districts indicated increasing wage pressures.

William Sullivan

We expect 2006 to be another good year for Pearson as we continue to increase margins and grow ahead of our markets.

Marjorie Scardino

Initially, it was dollar positive. I think the markets are waiting for more details. Where is it coming from? Who is supplying it?

Hugh Walsh

We have an extremely clear understanding of our own economic interests connected with these countries' markets, and problems to discuss and resolve.

Viktor Khristenko

The markets are always on the side of exuberance or fear. It's fear and greed. Right now greed has the better of it, which is rather nice (for investors) as long as it doesn't get out of hand.

George Soros

There are fears in the oil markets of the continued supplying of markets with crude oil although there's a big surplus; there are quantities that the market cannot absorb, there is no buyer.

Sheikh Ahmad

When the markets get frothy they can disappear. When the markets are frothy is exactly when consumers need them.

David Krell

As China's financial markets develop, more and more banks will raise funds at home.

Jiang Dingzhi

Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.

Gerard Arpey

Our two companies will leverage growth opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs as engines for inclusive prosperity in their markets.

Mark Pinsky

Chrysler Group believes it's only fair that we take the fight to our global competitors in markets where it makes sense for us. We are launching a major effort to take Dodge to international markets based upon Dodge's very American core values.

Joe Eberhardt

If the past is any guide, the effect of rising interest rates is likely to be felt most visibly in housing markets.

Donald Kohn

We carried a large overweight in international markets all last year. That was a huge driver for us. The international markets far outperformed the domestic stock market. The U.S. stock market didn't do too well.

Mark Anson

The performance of the major stock averages didn't make anyone happy in 2005. But when you consider what the markets had to contend with, treading water is not so bad.

Al Goldman

If it's down a lot (people are investing in it). Everyone says this can't be sustained, but that's what fuels the markets.

Angel Mata

Yesterday we were down because of Saudi Arabia. In the past few days we have seen the fate of markets in the UAE becoming more related to the fate of the Saudi (market).

Hany Hussein

There's significant emerging markets elsewhere in the world where we're going to be adding resources, and we're going to be adding to it this year.

Jim Queen

The markets have pushed the euro somewhat too low relative to fundamentals.

Michael Mussa

The markets would like to see some statement that the G7 are quite happy with the dollar-yen rate and if it stays at 120 yen they will be delirious.

Adrian Schmidt

In the U.S., the markets that are most risky are those where there is a higher proportion of buyers using adjustable loans and interest-only loans.

Thomas Skinner

In hindsight, it's really no surprise. MCI wants to cry as loudly as possible that the local markets aren't open to competition.

Barry Sine

I always check eBay. My lifelong love of flea markets has been transformed into a love of e-markets.

Alyssia Ettinger

Since they control their own destiny in the O&O markets, it's a wonderful laboratory for them.

Bob Lee

Emerging markets are growing well for them, but not enough to compensate for slowing in the U.S..

Jason Maxwell

Of the 14 bull markets in the S&P 500 index over the past 75 years, fewer than half have lived to celebrate a fourth anniversary.

James Stack

The jump in import prices will fan the new-found fears of inflation in the markets and at the Fed.

Paul Ashworth

Illegal ivory markets expand when business is booming and government authorities look the other way.

Tom Milliken

This decision is based on diminished customer relevancy and demand in these markets.

Jolanda Stewart

Fortunately, most emerging markets are in relatively good shape economically.

Paul Hansen

I know this market can bear it and I know smaller markets have done that.

Jeff Cogen

Different majorities in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, as now looks possible, would be the worst possible scenario for markets.

Luigi Speranza

We had a very constructive backdrop in the markets for this quarter, and we were able to take advantage of that. And we still have many opportunities to drive further growth.

David Goldfarb

Fed and ECB rate hikes should not present a liquidity problem for equity markets.

Lars Kreckel

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

Tsuyoshi Shimizu

We are returning to more balanced markets between home buyers and sellers, one that places buyers on a more even footing.

David Lereah

The idea that there is going to be a war is thoroughly accepted in the financial markets right now. But nobody can know what the exact contours are going to be.

Bill Sterling

Everybody wants to buy growth markets. Maintaining your franchise and your readership and advertising base is much harder in a declining or flat market than it is in a growth market.

Miles Groves

Lower crude oil prices are giving the equity markets a lift this morning after Friday's attack.

Harry Michas

There's been a lot of volatility in emerging markets but in the majors, very little.

Robert Lynch

We need to look at that. Were they [international investors] to lose interest, it would also have an impact on our exchange markets and equity markets simultaneously.

Frank Fernandez

Japanese equities remain attractive relative to other developed markets.

Kathy Matsui

If the core rate shows lower inflation than expected, it will give a hint that the Federal Reserve is close to the end of its rate hikes, and this would give equity markets a boost overall.

John Person

Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too.

Adnan Akant

It's really being tailored to serve the Marina area. Marina and Pajaro are really separate markets.

Kevin Loscotoff

(The bill) will allow us to have a greater year-round presence, and we'll be able to do more marketing in our key core markets.

Rob Perlman

The marketing messages [for the cellular industry] have been the same forever: Keep in touch. Now they have to differentiate themselves based on their markets and their own individual capabilities.

Scott Ellison

Oil above $70 and the threat of a weakening U.S. economy are going to shake out those hangers-on in all markets. Oil affects just about everything, from companies' costs to consumers.

Angus Gluskie

Frankly, there's very little upside for Office in developed markets. The market share [for Office] is so high, there's just not much room to grow.

Paul Degroot

There's some concern about the unemployment data tomorrow (Friday), but there's more concern that with so little data coming out next week, markets may drift.

Marty Cunningham

We can look at this as a success. We can definitely expect to back here. Manitoba and Winnipeg are very important markets to us, and the event has a very good chance of growing.

Justin Anderson

We have wet markets and we'll continue to have them. It's a local tradition.

Paul Cheng

But that was just a minor correction on the heels of a huge bull market. The market's former success seemed to be more of an indicator that year.

Jeffrey Hirsch

We're losing international markets.

Bob Goodlatte

They're in a hot area and they're selling to top customers. Anyone is hot that sells to broadband markets.

Francis Gaskins

That means the markets are going to define where power goes. The markets are going to figure this out, and that bodes well for Wyoming.

Joe Coyne

Right now 90 percent of the market's sentiment is focused on political events.

Luis Garrido

It appears we are gaining market share in virtually all markets.

Jonathan Rosenberg

Of all the emerging-markets countries.

Christopher Taylor

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

Susumu Abe

Uncertainties have never been great for markets.

Arthur Lim

We remain fans of the local Las Vegas gaming market, which we believe is the best risk-adjusted market in gaming today, and we can't fault the company for deploying capital in these markets.

John Mulkey

We're lowering costs in our East Coast shuttle markets.

Phil Gee

If you have any kind of cut or a neutral bias, the markets will move higher.

Phil Dow

Uncertainty creates lower markets.

Arthur Gray

The October panic is hitting more than the world's equity markets; it is hitting the currency markets, too.

Dennis Gartman

Investors are focusing on corporate earnings and positive results will help lead stock markets higher.

Jeon Jeong Woo

We've seen pockets of strength in the Canadian markets, so the Canadian market actually acted a lot better than the U.S. market did as a whole.

Peter Chandler

We see a slowing in home-price appreciation. But some markets could see a significant decline.

Celia Chen

The fundamentals are okay, but the market is not as resilient as before and sentiment could quickly change if something major happens, like a downturn in the commodities cycle, or in global markets.

Du Plessis

Higher interest rates are holding back the markets.

Philippe Gijsels

Foreign central banks are doing precisely the same thing -- and in much larger magnitudes than our own Federal Reserve. Therefore we should be focusing a lot more on the influence that they are having on our markets and our economy.

John Mueller

In response to the global chase for better investment fundamentals, the global hospitality industry should expect increased capital flow from U.S.-based investors to several international markets, mostly Latin America, Caribbean, Asia and Europe. And the U.S. can also expect increased investment in its own hospitality industry from investors in the Middle East.

Michael Fishbin

We would not be doing our job of enforcing the capital markets if we only brought cases that were clear winners.

Michael Watson

Anything could happen. The one good thing to come from this is that (market) forecasting will probably stop forever. Forecasting is absurd in these markets.

Nick Knight

But we don't think this language quarrels with the consensus view of financial markets - and our view - that an easing cycle will most likely begin in September.

Darren Gibbs

Joy does not face many competitors and demand is growing from emerging markets.

Jim Margard

You're getting the locals starting to believe in their markets a little more and that's always very good.

Tom Delzoppo

Markets have taken the view that the government is doing everything it can against terrorism and to cut subsidies.

Robert Adair

London's trading is probably more closely linked to that of Wall Street than the other markets in Europe.

Gary Dugan

Developers are using the Bank's AHP funding to bring more affordable homeownership and rental opportunities to high-cost housing markets such as Baltimore and Garrett County.

Lynn Brazen

The markets right now are facing a critical juncture and they're trying to determine if the strong economic growth we saw at the start of 2006 will continue.

Gary Pollack

This is a confidence booster for the markets. What we're seeing is a reversal of some of the negative confidence.

Denis Laplante

We're used to those regional markets.

Bill Wise

We expect to meet the market's need for a medium-priced business hotel.

George Glover

As overseas markets become ever more important, companies will grapple with a new set of management challenges.

Andrew Palmer

Spain is one of Europe's fastest-growing mobile markets.

Chris Gent

Cattle markets are always going to be on an up and down cycle.

Carrie Stadheim

Global equity markets are in the midst of a pause after a very long upward march.

Akber Khan

We're at the mercy of whatever the market's calling for.

Matt Burdick

It will be gradual. China's financial markets and their banking system are extraordinarily fragile. They cannot endure the rough and tumble of the global financial markets.

Donald Straszheim

Investors are going to shy away from Peru until they see a clearer electoral outcome. What hurts the markets more than anything is the uncertainty.

Carola Sandy

We consider all of the markets we serve to be competitive.

Kurt Ebenhoch

More than 30 percent of our channel revenue comes from those markets outside the U.S..

Hans Geyer

There are a lot of new technologies that could address battery problems, but it is unclear now which will capture the market's attention.

Alan Varghese

It's imperative that communities have this kind of access to markets.

Bryan Derreberry

Incomes have gone up, and these markets have become more attractive.

Teresa Woodland

Capital sources are circling the primary hotel markets in the U.S. now, looking for opportunities to own new hotels as soon as they are completed.

Michael Fishbin

Excellent performance in our corporate and capital markets driven businesses.

Charles O. Prince Iii

Kinetics in its short life has been building a reputation for being early in certain markets. If you're in a market that hasn't been discovered yet, there's real potential.

Steven Bregman

We passed a gas price cap law without knowing what was actually happening. The price cap brought us from no government intervention in the markets to an absolute government intervention.

Ted Liu

Without an African internal market, it is an illusion to believe that we can strive towards overseas markets.

Alpha Oumar Konare

Then, you have to decide whether you want to go worldwide or confine yourself to certain markets. Once you decide this, everything else falls into place.

Didier Grumbach

There's a casino gambling mentality among investors today. I think it's a disservice to the efficiency of the capital markets.

Scott Black

The more exciting story is these emerging markets. The U.S. stock market was quite a laggard with only a 1 percent increase.

Luisa Kroll

Most buyout funds today increasingly have to go to newer markets. Countries like India and China offer the most potential.

Kelvin Chan

Companies that have a presence in multiple markets are very likely to rebuild.

John Knott

From their Investor Day, we know they are looking at traditional media markets in which to insert their ad engines.

Matthew Booth

Continued strength of commodity markets has been beneficial to the $A, but traders haven't been getting a lot of loving being long.

Robert Rennie

You have to hit the public markets when they're receptive. Right now, I think you have a very favorable market environment.

Allan Hickok

Will it be additive or will it be cannibalization? ... Certainly we're competing with ourselves but I believe because of the design it will open up new markets for us.

Jim Merrick

The main way in which these markets become 'contestable' is thus via takeovers of less efficient players.

Daniel Gros

Worldwide markets for advanced, grain-oriented electrical steels continue to grow.

James Wainscott

Interest rates matter and there are concerns about the economy. These things make the market more hesitant. Growth is evening out and markets are coming to grips with that.

Felix Lanters

Tech is a big part of emerging markets coming back.

Bill Rocco

In Indian markets ARPU does not matter; what matters are costs and [the] per-minute realization of customers.

Manoj Kohli

The markets are looking at today's GDP numbers in the context of the fact that the fourth quarter is looking like it will deliver just one percent growth.

Kevin Grice

The view in many markets is that we didn't hear too much new from Chairman Greenspan and there wasn't going to be any serious change in the investment environment in the near term.

Roger Monson

We are committed to investing marketing and training resources to educate the channel on the benefits of delivering cutting-edge mobility, digital convergence and appliances to customers in these markets.

David Park

Measures ... sanctions, or other kind of barriers to our markets.

Brandon Evans

It's just the style of the last 15 years, ... Because of the long-term bull cycle, the bear markets are very short.

Yale Hirsch

This is a teaming agreement with IBM for .Net ISVs to get into the Linux and J2EE markets. This gives ISVs the opportunity to double their market.

Yaacov Cohen

Growth in some of our export markets has been quite good or at least improving. Certainly in the euro area there seems to be a bit more life than there was.

Martin Weale

It is difficult to pick the bottom of these markets.

Nick Angilletta

Our beverages operations are now clearly focused in profitable markets of North America, Continental Europe and Australia.

John Sunderland

This is a disaster for all markets in Latin America.

Geoffrey Dennis

We continue to execute our growth strategy laid out five years ago to enhance our core retail business, extend our business into adjacent areas and expand into new markets.

Robert Nardelli

This kind of volatility is to be expected in markets with supply inelasticity.

Susan Wachter

There's more upside potential globally, in places like Asia, emerging markets and even in the US.

David Cassidy

The market's saunter into 2006 continues, with just a few remaining events before the champagne and confetti.

David Ader