Given equal prices, most consumers would pick a vehicle from a manufacturer they trust first, although some still will be swayed by a lower price.
Daniel Gorrell
It looks like the economy picked up in the second quarter. The leap higher in commodity prices is helping underpin profits and driving export earnings and investment.
Andrew Hanlan
Once we get beyond two or three percent deflation, we have problems because we can't drive interest rates low enough and we begin to have unanticipated drops in prices.
Brian Wesbury
It's going to be a significant, really, a shocking increase in prices this winter that we're anticipating.
Kateri Callahan
The forecasts have been a bit too sanguine, given that the lead indicators of input prices have been quite strong.
Brian Stewart
There is no evidence here of prices topping out. Some areas that have experienced relatively slow appreciation are picking up steam.
Patrick Lawler
Prices are being pushed lower ahead of Thursday's storage report.
Agbeli Ameko
We believe that consumer spending is going to bear the brunt of higher energy prices that we have seen leading up to and immediately following Hurricane Katrina as discretionary spending is curtailed.
Joshua Shapiro
The higher the prices, the more you need housing subsidies, so the system works perfectly unless you divert the money. Then there's a meltdown.
Jaimie Ross
There is only so long business can absorb higher production costs. Something has got to give and what's most likely to give is prices.
Craig James
Warm weather in the Northern Hemisphere continues to weigh on the heating oil market, and that has been dragging crude prices down too.
Christopher Bellew
Concerns over (higher energy prices) feeding into higher wages have so far not materialized, which has dampened the risk of a rise in inflation expectations.
Michael Penn
What's happening is not so much that more people are leaving but that fewer people are coming. Our housing prices are pretty daunting, even more so than two years ago.
Howard Roth
It's a national index on the price of gas and locks in the price of the fuel on the day we buy, ... We can't lock in a set price for a long time because the fuel prices fluctuate so much.
Jack Barnes
We have all these hits on disposable income, and we turn around and say we don't have to worry about higher home prices. Give me a break.
Jay Butler
These are important numbers, particularly the one on employment costs. There's some concern about rising wage costs and rising prices and I think the market is really going to be on alert for that.
Adam Blankman
Automotive leaders are cognizant of the lasting impact of rising gas prices on the minds of consumers. The focus right now is on producing fuel-efficient vehicles that will meet consumer demand.
Betsy Meter
The empire-building continues. He has a track record of gobbling competitors at premium prices.
Jeffrey Halpern
Canada imports 94% of its prescription drugs and regulates the prices at levels much lower than in the U.S. Internet pharmacies then sell those cheap drugs to Americans, some states legalizing this trade.
Ujjal Dosanjh
WE HAVE TO campaign to let everyone know that we have the best deals. The big-box retailers have set up shop, and now the swap meet isn't the only center in town with discount prices.
Jeffrey Bareng
The rebound came in due course after the negative factors surrounding Japan's financial system had been factored into share prices.
Masatoshi Sato
The scary thing is that the hurricane season is not over yet... so I don't see prices coming down.
Tony Nunan
Energy prices are coming off, mitigating the positive effects of the current account number. The Canadian dollar is still closely tracking energy.
Maria Jones
Weather may be one of the factors driving up oil prices, but I don't think it's been a major factor.
Stephen O'sullivan
As a result, we should see a stabilizing in prices to bring them more in line with inflation.
Glenn Crellin
It's not just warm weather in the U.S.; we have warm weather in all the major consuming regions, Europe and Asia. Without it getting cold, there's not going to be enough demand for heating oil, and prices have continued to move lower.
Seth Kleinman
It's fair to say, at current prices, that running a gold company is a lot more fun than it was even six months ago.
Ian Cockerill
Call it supply constraints or whatever, we have a natural gas market that is tight. We're meeting demand but at significantly higher prices.
Chris Mcgill
I don't know that we'll see those high prices again for the foreseeable future, and we're into a sideways price trend now. Though prices are higher than in early 2003, they're definitely down to much more manageable levels.
Frank Lesh
Whilst we do not foresee any major reduction in fuel prices in the medium term, at present the company, and the industry in general, appears to be coping satisfactorily with the exposure to a high fuel cost environment.
Toll Holdings
What assurance do we have that the gas companies would not raise their prices?
Barbara Buckley
We expect increased supply of lumber into the U.S. in 2006, particularly from Europe, and that should dampen prices.
Hank Ketcham
I don't think it will prevent it (PC prices falling), but diversification will give them (CompUSA) a stronger market share.
David Toung
It is not easy for an Indian investor to trade here, and they don't have their own CPO futures contracts so its better that we share the prices to create opportunities and create demand for CPO.
Yusli Mohamed Yusoff
We think for all of 2006, we will see a slowing of price growth in housing prices.
Walter Molony
For our industrial customers, our insurance rates are pretty low. We just don't see quite the same effect as an office building or retail or apartments or something from that standpoint. We've got much bigger issues like land prices going up, construction costs going up and things of that nature.
Robert Krueger
This is not just good for our farmers, but for all of us hit by high fuel prices. Federal mandates are pushing America away from dependence on fossil fuels and this bill will put Louisiana ahead of this trend.
Ronnie Anderson
Builders got caught in a price-cost squeeze: selling at yesterday's prices and delivering at tomorrow's costs.
Marvin Rose
Oil is a double-edged sword. From one aspect, it lifts overall inflation but from the other side of the same coin it places a constraint on growth. So if oil prices remain high, the implications for the Fed get a little dicey.
Keith Hembre
It's at that stage where I think policymakers will start to become concerned (about high petrol prices).
Brian Redican
Stocks have been following oil prices up and down. And in the meantime, if a company comes with strong numbers, investors stick to it.
Martin Yokosawa
Basically, our motto is that we have good quality stuff and good prices. Hopefully, people will realize that and come to our shop.
Jean Nietupski
Eighty-five to 90 percent of retailers are independent businesses. They set their own prices. I can guess what they do. They make their own decisions. If you're looking at what you know is a tight market, you can see that one approach is to make sure you can pay for it by charging more before it is delivered.
Ron Planting
All the good news about economic reports has already been discounted in share prices. The market is at quite a high level.
Katsunori Hirai
We are diversifying to other businesses to protect the company from swings in commodity prices and exchange rates.
Peter Muthoka
There is still a lot of uncertainty in the market and I expect to see big swings in prices depending on news coming out of the Gulf of Mexico.
Orrin Middleton
We also operate a considerable fleet of vehicles. And, like everybody else, rising gas prices have hit us, too.
Jay Dawson
Consumers are very concerned with value given high gas prices, interest-rate increases and high debt levels.
Jackie Fernandez
It's somewhat surprising how resilient the economy has been, despite higher energy prices.
Mark Vitner
Expansion plans and global tie-ups will push share prices up. The company's shares will set new records.
Jaspreet Singh
But certainly if prices come back they're still very well supported and that's a significant change to what we saw 12 months ago.
Charlie Sartain
The acquisition of the copper mine at a time when metal prices are rising will benefit the company.
Yoshihisa Miyamoto
The consumer has been fuel for this market for a long time now and with energy prices and all the other question marks out there now, investors will be watching earnings and guidance very closely.
Brad Pleimann
(But) prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher.
Liu Jingmin
It's like when cigarette prices went way up, ... They absorb it and go on. After some time, the price becomes accepted.
Jason Bell
With the economy, gas prices, the hurricanes; we all know individuals and families that have been devastated. And our concern is that we may not have as many out-of-town visitors this year.
Tony Mason
In addition to cutting our spectator ticket prices, we wanted to look at our concession menu and see if we couldn't bring those prices down as well. I'm happy to say we've been able to do so.
Tim Stephens
There's prospect that iron-ore prices will rise this year.
Alvaro Bandeira
Fuel prices have more than doubled, and we're anticipating a $6 million shortfall in the 2006 budget year.
Justin Jones
The market is very relieved that a Democratic Congress won't be putting pressure on tobacco, and that it won't be trying to cut the budget at the expense of aerospace defense. It's happy that health care prices won't be contained by a Democratic Congress.
Peter Canelo
Oil companies that are in Bolivia will no longer have the freedom to set prices and export volumes. Now, it's the Bolivian government that's going to set them.
Carlos Villegas
We have an incredibly big, flexible economy, and we've gotten very good at ring-fencing problems. But energy prices -- especially if gas goes back up to $3 a gallon -- are an obvious vulnerability that would be difficult to compartmentalize.
Terry Connelly
Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it gets very cold in New England, we're going to see a much higher price spike in California than we might have without Katrina.
Jason Alderman
People are continuing to invest in their houses despite rising energy prices.
Keith Davis
That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.
Byron Sanders
If the integrity of the PBS is significantly weakened, and this is a chance for that to happen, then we would have significant worry that prices would go up.
Mukesh Haikerwal
With higher auto prices helping to offset the usual price discounting seen in other categories like clothing in December, the annual rate of core inflation is expected to move up to 1.7 per cent during the month.
Carl Gomez
We just basically eat it until we can raise prices.
Paul Howard
Imported vehicles are flooding the market, and have helped contain local prices over the past year.
Shireen Darmalingam
Lower NAND prices would boost demand in a few months' time. We still see a 40 percent annual fall in NAND prices.
Chu Woosik
We're looking at raising our prices from the current rate of $1 per mile. So far we've been able to maintain them, but we're looking at going to at least $1.25 per mile to eat up some of the cost of the mileage.
Robert Wiggins
Given the crude price hikes, pump prices should top $3 a gallon in the next week or so.
Bryant Gimlin
Land is expensive there, and exactions are expensive, but they're going to try their best [to keep prices affordable].
Mark Chain
For the market to head higher, investors need to have confidence that oil prices will stabilize and move below $40 a barrel. If oil stays at current levels, the market will be tentative at best.
Subodh Kumar
Barring ... any catastrophe in Iraq or Iran, which is certainly the big wild card in this, we expect to see prices to start coming down in the June, July range.
Brian Kuzma
Air France has been hurt by high oil prices, just like everyone else.
Klaus Breil
Being much more efficient with natural resources is now an economic imperative. The rise of China and India and other emerging market economies is forcing up prices of natural resources of all kinds.
Nicholas Parker
It's pretty clear that if you have two hospitals competing, prices are going to be lower.
Chris Conover
Who hasn't noticed the prices? But, honestly, you have to buy gas no matter how much it costs. I haven't changed anything at all.
Marie Wallace
The petroleum reserve is not a political reserve -- and raiding it won't lower fuel prices in the long run.
John Engler
Parents are looking for products, and increasingly they are agnostic about where they get those products. And with gas prices the way they are they want to go where it's easiest.
Chris Byrne
Prices are where they ought to be in relation to the price of crude oil. There may be some more movement up or down, but we don't expect it to do much more than where it is now over the next month or two.
Mike Burdette
Now they (consumers and competitors) will have to go through a celestial gatekeeper who will decide what the prices and terms will be for both programmers and content providers.
Jeff Chester
We had higher oil prices, higher gold prices, higher copper prices and even a higher Dow (Jones index), and that has flowed through to a very strong market with strength across the board.
Angus Geddes
Generally, the news of the past two weeks in Europe has been slightly disappointing. We had a lot of issuance to digest this week though, and that kept prices contained.
Vincent Chaigneau
The compromise could be 700,000 barrels but the actual production increase could be around 400,000. At 1 million extra barrels prices may be drawn lower but at 500,000 prices could hit $40.
Peter Hitchens
I think we're coming to the end of it. The rise of energy prices and the general impact of the hurricane would make it dangerous for the Fed to push rates higher and higher.
Rick Meckler
The key to the success of this agreement is its sticking power. If they get 75 percent compliance it's very good news for oil prices.
Mehdi Varzi
Foreign imports, ... are being sold at 25 to 50 percent below Florida prices. They are squeezing Florida producers out of this market.
Charles Bronson
We expect a slowdown in earnings. With oil prices high, we find it difficult to understand how earnings can continue to improve indefinitely. Any disappointment will be taken poorly.
Nick Skiming
We still need oil imports to sustain growth. In the environment of high international oil prices, our import bill is also soaring.
Xu Dingming
The decline in oil prices is a desirable scenario for exporter stocks.
Hideyuki Ookoshi
What might have been lost in terms of production and refining capacity was more than made up for by the hurricanes driving oil prices up a couple dollars a barrel.
John Parry
Energy prices are still pushing inflation and otherwise price pressures are relatively weak.
Ralph Solveen
There are also expectations that oil prices will remain high for some time, and that also could be boosting its popularity.
Shigemi Nonaka
Some kind of adjustment has to happen. Home prices have been growing so fast for so long, outstripping income growth for many years.
Gene Huang
It's ironic that so many House members who complain about high gasoline prices have cut the heart out of a program designed to save American motorists millions of dollars in energy costs in the future.
Jim Kennedy
With rising energy prices and continued air pollution, this is exactly the kind of landmark initiative California needs. From this, we're going to see cleaner air, affordable solar energy and California regaining its world leadership in solar power.
Bernadette Del Chiaro
House prices in San Diego have risen much more rapidly then in the U.S.. But, I think we can explain housing prices in most places, and if they're explainable that means we don't have a bubble.
Richard Greenberg
Exporters are going to lead the market higher in the second half. The fall in oil prices and positive economic indicators are supporting the advance.
Lee Kun Hak
Interestingly, the cumulative increase in the oil price has not had a large dampening effect on global demand and its inflationary effect on core prices has been contained.
Martin Jankelowitz
These divestitures ensure that consumers of milk, an American staple, continue to get the benefits of competition -- increased choices for consumers resulting in lower prices and better service. Maintaining competition in the dairy industry is important for American consumers.
Charles A. James
Energy prices are soaring all around us, ... If this situation continues, every American family across the country is going to feel the impact this winter and next summer. No one is going to be immune.
Dan Burton
Prices are rising because of expectations. If we have it in our heads that oil is going to do well and we start putting dollars into it, then the prices will iron out.
David Anderson
American vehicle makers are in the middle of a very hard market environment — overseas companies are attacking them with strong products and good prices, and more of them are coming onto the market each day.
Daniel Gorrell
That is the million-dollar question, ... Oil analysts from the beginning of the year have said prices are going to be very volatile for the rest of the year.
Cynthia Harris
Brazil has a balancing effect on prices; we don't have the volatility we used to. In the past, it was all about the Florida crop. With a freeze like this, we could have prices go from 95 cents to $2. That's not the situation now.
Kevin Barley
It's inevitable that the government will have to adjust the oil prices.
Thomas Rumbaugh
It's our position as a company, which is consistent with that of the cable industry, that at the bottom line - and it's borne out by research - that this will hurt consumers. It's going to increase prices, decrease choice and reduce the diversity.
Steve Brookstein
We believe that the impact of these hurricanes on pump prices will soon be behind us. As more refineries come back online, pump prices should continue to fall and that is good for both refined product demand and the economy.
Bill Greehey
A backdrop of monetary tightening, high commodity prices, robust productivity growth and buoyant activity will continue to offer support to the peso.
Alberto Ramos
It's got to be gasoline. There's no question that people are worried. They're shopping less and staying home more because of gas prices and that affects everyone.
Paul Finkelstein
We kept painfully layering on more technology at the end of the year as prices got worse and worse.
Dan Barker
The structure that made this possible is without shame. We're creating a new class of poor people who are energy-poor, while devastating prices allow powerful people to become even more powerful.
Carol Biedrzycki
You're going to go through a rough patch through the next six to 12 months. Inflation is going to be boosted by higher oil prices. There is a clear upward trend.
George Buckley
Under the second scenario, the effect on asset prices would be more protracted and would eventually be more differentiated by individual country circumstances.
Andrew C. Roberts
Ethanol is a rare win-win for nearly all involved. Farmers get higher crop prices, consumers get away from imported energy, environmentalists get renewable and cleaner burning fuel and government gets to send less direct aid to farmers.
Stephen Volkmann
People will have to start factoring this political risk into their forecasts, prices and allocation decisions.
Hany Hussein
I don't predict prices, but I think it will definitely be a downward trend.
Red Cavaney
Oil prices creeping back towards the key $60 mark may well provide some support for the petrochemicals sector.
Matthew Buckland
We have raised DRAM contract prices in February on strong demand.
Chu Woosik
Commodity prices are very high.
Vedanta Resources
It really was more of a ploy. It was a position that they just took to force to force the prices down in the negotiations.
Ian Warden
The Democrats have every incentive, knowing there will be rolling blackouts in California this summer, to try to get a bill to put price caps on utilities. It's good politics to blame the energy companies for high prices.
Charles Gabriel
The decline in oil prices is positive for investor sentiment on shares of exporters.
Seo Jung Ho
There's been a lot of hype around oil prices and oil stocks. The energy sector feels a lot like technology did six years ago.
Rick Drake
We think there is nothing in the record that shows Microsoft has overcharged consumers. It's the exact opposite of what Microsoft's business model has been. Every market Microsoft has gone into has resulted in lower prices.
Jim Cullinan
Shares such as real estate are expected to rise on expectations for land prices.
Kazuhiro Takahashi
Commodity prices have come off (recently) and there is a perception (in the market) that mining companies have run a bit far and a bit fast.
John Clemmow
My exclusive pet accessories are not just for the rich and famous. Pets love the products because they are designed for ultimate comfort, and with the reasonable prices, their owners keep coming back for more – I couldn't be happier.
Joyce Reavey
The Legislature approved the additional fee on tobacco prices last year as part of a budget solution. But it should keep the higher prices -- regardless of what the court decides -- as a matter of good health policy.
Marc Manley
We saw most of the indicators move up in the month, with the exception of the prices paid index, which generally provides an indication of strength in activity.
Paul Ferley
A mild winter has allowed the U.S. to avoid much higher energy prices, particularly for natural gas and home heating oil, which could have seriously slowed the expansion. As we head into the spring quarter, the nation's economy is essentially at full capacity with growing pressures on inflation.
Marshall Vest
In spite of rising costs and the carriers' desire to raise fares to cover those costs, there's going to be some real difficulty in accomplishing that. It does not look like demand is firming up at all. And therefore I see downward pressure on prices.
Dave Swieringa
Everything changed after 9-11. There is a panic premium in prices today, driven by perceptions that supply and production are centered in countries that could fall into political turmoil.
Michael Darda
When fuel prices are so high, there's no way Airbus can price an inefficient airplane attractively for customers.
Randy Tinseth
The U.S. economy won't be able to avoid a slowdown given the damage from Hurricane Katrina on top of crude prices, ... This is an element of uncertainty in the market that's weighing on stocks.
Akio Yoshino
One of the things that we'll see is that school budgets are going to be severely impacted by gas prices. We'll just have to bring it to them.
Bill Martin
We just do not see this economic recovery. Last month was yet another record unemployment level, and land prices continue to fall - and land is the collateral that banks use.
Robert Sasaki
With the inventories where they are, and prices were they are, they don't equate. It's geopolitical tension that's holding us up right now.
Steve Bellino
There will be a return to a positive cycle in beef that could normalize earnings. Share prices in the mid-$20s is a possibility, and that is a long way from where they are trading now.
Brian Barish
We are looking at where the next lift to markets will come from and people are not so sure. With oil prices this high, it will be an additional weight on markets.
Geoff Langham
With gas prices as high as they are, we want to do everything we can to take away artificial inflators and this (zone pricing) is one of them.
Richard Brodsky
We have a supply shock. How high prices go will depend on how quickly refiners can get back on.
Roger Diwan
Nevertheless, many business firms indicated to the District Banks that they expect high prices for energy and construction materials to persist.
Philadelphia Fed
But for out-of-state customers buying direct, we could offer California prices to offset those costs, and offer products not available in all states.
Phil Bilodeau
You almost conceptually expect that gasoline prices will be just about as volatile as petroleum and oil prices. It's hard to do the same with electricity.
Daniele Seitz
We are looking at fixed roaming prices for certain Western European destinations.
Mike Short
I think higher energy prices might have given us the excuse to correct today, but overall, the market remains healthy.
Paul Rabbit
It's simple supply and demand equations. The greater the supply, the more effect it will have on prices.
Jon Tremayne
So far in Australia and the U.S., we haven't seen high fuel and energy prices pushing up the core inflation and hence the central bankers were pretty relaxed.
Sean Fenton
Everything we've been saying was vindicated by that report. A lack of competition raises prices. I don't know how much more evidence the Legislature needs.
Nancy Christensen
We were able to maintain 6 percent growth this year despite increase of world oil prices, tsunami effect and many more in the country.
Sarath Amunugama
Oil companies are doing well as oil prices are rising.
Riccardo Marzi
You still have the potential for aggressive hikes by the Bank of Canada and you still have support from commodities prices.
Todd Elmer
Flat-panel plasma TVs are on fire. It slowed a little bit in the fall, and now it's back. The prices are pretty extraordinary for the size of the TV.
Mark Richardson
This keeps station operators honest because they know customers can now compare prices around town and around the state.
Mark Olsen
This year's report shows that prices have continued to increase in 2004-05, although to a lesser extent than those increases experienced over 2000-01 to 2002-03.
Graeme Samuel
Insurance companies do charge very significantly different prices. You can easily pay 50% more if you go to the wrong company.
Bob Hunter
If we get consumer complaints about (gasoline) prices, we'll look at those complaints to find evidence of anticompetitive conduct.
John Seesel
Historically, every time we see energy prices spike, the country goes into a recession.
Tim Hamilton
It's difficult to look around the global oil markets today and find anything bearish, any factors that might push down prices.
John Kingston
They held Mac shipments and even increased it slightly year over year in the midst of an architectural change without having to cut prices.
Barry Jaruzelski
Consumer prices seem to be fairly well contained.
Sharon Lee
Any new design, whether the city's or anybody else's, has inherent in it the fact of uncertainty and therefore additional costs that are attributable to it. That's why we're able to deliver these units at very affordable prices.
Vito Galati
Everyone is asking if gasoline will exceed $3 per gallon this year. While analysts expect that prices may reach $3, they are not forecasting prices that high, on average, over an entire month.
Tami Foster
We'll stay until it becomes old or the prices go up.
Melody Aldrich
We're going to have high energy prices, a little bit more inflation. Underlying inflation is going to be a little bit higher, but not seriously higher and I still feel good about the overall economy.
Donald Ratajczak
While housing prices and margins may be climbing to stratospheric levels, it is important to recognize that they are still climbing and driving earnings higher.
Stephen Kim
Energy prices were rising before Katrina hit, and while those costs didn't make their way through to finished goods in August, we have to expect higher core inflation in coming months. Firms are saying that they've absorbed so much already that they have to pass on these costs.
Nigel Gault
Prices have gone through the roof. They have been hesitant to invest in fertilizer without rain to help it.
Robert Seay
Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.
Rodrigo Rato
The company is being ultra-competitive on prices and that's propelling sales.
Dan Geiman
The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.
Tyson Slocum
It may well be that fund buying of commodities keeps prices higher than they would be otherwise for longer, but it's quite dangerous because your level of confidence about that has got to be quite low.
John Clemmow
We do gasoline promotions and heating oil promotions regularly ... there is a recognition that these are popular items due to the high cost of gasoline and home heating oil prices.
Bruce Macdonald
It's on the side of the ledger for a tightening bias. But with uncertainty about global growth and oil prices, the bank isn't likely to move rates anytime soon.
Michael Blythe
If high prices do continue much longer, they will certainly have a bite on GDP growth. At the moment, we are at the stage where prices are really driven by short-term factors that the market has been dealing with for the last few months.
Daniel Hynes
I had no worries about the gas, ... I knew it was going to go up, but I had this planned for months. I wasn't going to cancel all my plans because of the prices.
Carlos Perez
We saw a pretty significant, 12 percent quarter-on-quarter decline in memory prices.
Mike Sadler
Unfortunately, I don't see a circumstance when prices will come down.
Gene Taylor
I see gas prices going up for a while. I hope it don't reach $3 a gallon, but anything is possible.
Mike Right
As long as we don't have another storm coming into the Gulf, I expect oil prices to fall slightly. I also expect increased worry that high oil prices will have some impact on economic growth.
Anette Einarsen
Prices definitely have taken a dip. That again is the competition.
Sandy Geary
When prices go up, buyers say, 'Look how much money I would have saved if I bought last year, and if I don't buy now, I won't be able a new home next year,'.
Michael Carliner
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
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