China has been adjusting energy prices for a long time, and indications are that helped improve the energy intensity. There is still a lot of scope for raising energy prices.
Louis Kuijs
An increase in domestic fuel prices will be inflationary and controls will have to come through rates. But the central bank will likely hold back this month to let the effects of its previous rate hikes materialize.
Hasitha Premaratne
It will inevitably, I believe, put some pressure on Canadian prices. We've already seen some manufacturers increase their prices in the Canadian market.
Jeff Poston
There was a downward risk presented by the evolution of oil prices and this risk has materialized in the last month.
Joaquin Almunia
They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their income will go up.
Gopal Ahluwalia
Because the market was so hot, investors were buying everything. It was like a frenzy with prices going up so fast.
Karen Palmer
Prices are back on track. The stock market fell back Monday in a technical adjustment after some stocks closed 1998 higher.
Carlos Lupini
It's another commodities-driven day, with really strong metal prices.
Vincent Delisle
When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard winter on us financially.
Lynn Anderson
Things started to quiet down yesterday ahead of the Easter break with volumes on the low side and concerns about oil prices keeping the brakes on the markets.
David Skilton
The rise in output prices confirms signs... that firms are clawing back some pricing power.
Alan Clarke
It's patently obvious that the Saudis, as the world's largest producer, could lead prices lower by offering lower prices.
Jan Stuart
They're just as happy to bet against prices as they are for higher prices.
Michael Zenker
It was the first real sign that oil prices are beginning to hurt, not at the petrol pump, but for industry.
Rob Laughlin
All Nokia cared about earlier in 2003 was volume and market share, ... The company finally has taken a step back and focused more on prices.
Ren Zamora
It's a struggle with higher raw material prices. The question is whether they can pass on their prices as fast as they want to.
Tom Muller
Mexico is upside down. Everything that should have gone up -- employment, salaries, competitiveness -- has gone down. And what should have gone down -- insecurity, taxes, oil prices and electricity rates -- has gone up.
Roberto Madrazo
We need confirmation that demand growth has stalled to move prices lower. If the demand situation looks as though it's getting worse, there will be an outflow of money from energy.
Richard Savage
You just can't continue to keep pushing prices up and certainly we've gone probably about as far as we can go with fuel surcharges, .
Ralph Norris
If you look at our key demographic of 21- to 34-year-olds, there are more kids going to college, they have college debt, more young people have credit cards, there are higher gas prices. That beer at the end of the day has become a luxury.
Jeff Becker
Sugar fundamentals are unlikely to be strong enough to carry prices higher on their own. Everyone's crop is going to be bigger next year.
James Cassidy
All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.
Robert Rubin
Small-business owners are price takers. They're too small to be able to negotiate prices with vendors.
Keitaro Matsuda
As the data show, the gap between domestic supply and demand is clearly narrowing, which should create the environment for prices to rise stably.
Masuhisa Kobayashi
Investors will probably hold off buying bonds before the release of the report on core prices. Gains in core prices will strengthen the case for higher rates.
Katsutoshi Inadome
It's a really good company, but it has been going through a difficult period, particularly in cost pressures with steel and raw material prices.
Stephen Walker
Oil prices have risen so dramatically that the view now is that this could choke off U.S. growth and prevent any recovery in the stock market.
Michael Woolfolk
It is very difficult to take call on the oil sector as it is driven by the global crude oil prices. These are difficult to predict as any negative event can spike the prices. I think it is best to avoid the sector in 2006.
Jayesh Shroff
You just have to have a threat there to worry markets and they (buyers) want to lock in prices.
Greg Albrecht
We are looking at whether prices on the signs matched the prices at the pump.
Charles Carroll
To beat Taittinger is a real coup. You don't have to pay sky high prices to enjoy quality champagne.
Mark Murphy
The hurricanes and the gas prices have hurt us.
Joyce Rogers
We're one of the only retail businesses where the price is preprinted. You can't raise prices because the price is on the book, and you certainly can't raise it when the other guy is discounting it.
Hut Landon
Let's get used to the fact that oil prices are going to stay high.
Jakob Frenkel
Despite the fact that gasoline prices have obviously fallen dramatically from where they peaked after (Hurricane) Katrina, they are still too high. He (Bush) is especially concerned about natural gas prices and the impact they're going to have on people's budgets this winter.
Al Hubbard
We wouldn't be surprised to see some moderation in earnings growth. But then we see few airlines in our region making healthy profits with oil prices at these levels.
Peter Negline
This is the low point. Consumer prices will go back up. We've been saying this for months.
Olivier Gasnier
The deterioration we did see was in energy prices; if you take out energy prices, things improved a bit. The bad news is that September import price data guarantees that we'll have a widening deficit in September.
Kevin Harris
Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.
Bill Tammeus
California cannot continue to sustain skyrocketing housing prices that have ballooned over the last few years. The industry has been moving at a torrid pace to keep up with demand, but we expect prices will finally level off to a manageable level.
Alan Nevin
I think high oil prices will sort out the efficient and non-efficient players in the airline industry.
Tony Fernandes
The prices all of us pay for insurance in 2002 may be a little higher. Prices were already firming up because insurers' investment returns had been decreasing, and auto and property loss had increased. But this is going to accelerate that process.
Joseph Annotti
If it turns out refineries have major damages, then prices are going to go up a lot more than this.
Jim Sweeney
I hear many investors want to sell bonds now as prices are high. It is hard to buy bonds at around 10-year yields near 1.3 percent.
Yasunori Kuroda
The increase in energy prices may impact the holiday season.
Joe Winter
People have kind of panicked and they're waiting in long lines because they're afraid the prices are going to go up. We're going to have some outages.
Jan Vineyard
Prices go up quickly but drop slowly.
Ray Gilmer
The dot-com logic of paying big prices to enter new markets has come roaring back.
Greg Sterling
High gas prices had a devastating impact on consumers' budgets and caused consumers to expect a worsening financial situation during the year ahead.
Richard Curtin
Prices are fluctuating wildly at the wholesale level, and in some cases it's not a question of what the marketer is going to pay, but rather they are concerned about whether they can get gasoline and diesel at all.
Greg Scott
If you think that the market is driving up the prices of homes today, you're badly mistaken. The thing that's really driving it up is job site theft.
George Brown
Is this the way the Congress Government wants to make the people of India happy. During our rule prices of essentials were within affordable range.
Pramod Mahajan
Spot prices for iron ore are certainly above the delivered price for Australian iron ore into China.
Chip Goodyear
The additional costs incurred in power generation should be seen as emergency expenditure. Once prices go up, there is no way they will ever come down again, even if costs fall.
Sofjan Wanandi
I don't recall a period where we had this kind of a surge in energy prices and didn't have some kind of negative fall-out.
Robert Diclemente
Demand for PCs is weak and microprocessor prices are becoming more aggressive, ... To stimulate PC demand and improve Intel's long-term competitive position, we believe the company's Pentium 4 price cuts will become more aggressive.
Mark Edelstone
There's no doubt that political pressure and media attention have speeded up the process toward lower prices.
Ben Brockwell
Domestic-demand related stocks will lead the market on speculation consumer prices may finally gain.
Yoshihisa Okamoto
We've seen a steady increase over the years, and a definite surge in the past few months with oil prices way up.
Jennifer Radtke
Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.
George Buckley
The surplus will continue shrinking as oil prices push up imports. The biggest concern is that rising oil prices could derail growth in the U.S. and other countries, which would be a blow to Japanese exports.
Naoki Iizuka
Right there, there is not that much inventory for that kind of property. Because of a lack of availability, what you get is higher prices.
William Ross
Prices have been supported by the ongoing geopolitical concerns (particularly Nigeria), colder weather and higher gasoline prices (which are rising on the changing U.S. petroleum-blending specifications).
Matthew Parry
Maybe what we need is surreptitious federal regulation that forces gasoline prices up for good reasons that politicians can explain.
Adam Sieminski
Many investors were sidelined awaiting the outcome of the 20-year JGB auction while firmer equity prices also kept market participants at bay.
Akitsugu Bando
So a total of about 12 people in all in the last week inquiring about purchasing based on the gas prices.
Russ Moore
It's been our experience in Texas and Virginia that competition results in lower prices. It's certainly a restraint on increases.
John Hendricks
There's no question we never anticipated that kind of fuel reduction, ... We thought fuel prices would be going up, and instead the second biggest part of our operating pie had a big reduction.
John Heimlich
The last two quarters have not been pretty. Gas prices are taking huge chunks out of wallets, leaving some individuals with little left to meet their financial obligations.
James Chessen
Probably the most critical impact of higher energy prices is their ability to weaken consumer spending.
Gail Fosler
If United were to slip into Chapter 7 bankruptcy and go out of business, the loss of this competitor would surely push up prices.
Kevin Mitchell
The problem is the combined effects of the disruptions from Katrina and Rita, plus the ripple effects in the economy from higher energy prices.
Nariman Behravesh
Very low crude prices have been working their way through to the gas pump, and the economic problems elsewhere, particularly in Asia, have created a glut of oil.
Trilby Lundberg
Imports gained more than exports, mainly due to high oil prices, but the rise in imports also reflects steady domestic demand so overall the figures not not bad.
Mamoru Yamazaki
As competition is reduced, prices go up. You will be able to get where you are going, but it will cost more.
William Hunter
The chain stores sales data is coming in a little bit weak and oil prices are up. That's positive for the bond market, negative for the economy.
John Spinello
The Wall Street Journal said the least Congress could do is take credit for these prices.
Bob Landreth
The make good economical sense all the time, but especially now with the increase in energy prices.
Rodney Tollefson
Sugar is going ballistic because of the oil price. As oil prices go higher and higher, the only real alternative at present to gasoline is ethanol.
Sam Tilley
With the same company being the buyer and seller, volumes and prices are significantly altered at the expense of the Bolivian government and to the benefit of the company. This is going to change.
Carlos Villegas
The prices being paid are undoubtedly much higher than the companies expected, than we as analysts expected, and I think the government expected.
Mandeep Singh
There were two different contractors, two different projects and they bid different prices to do the same amount of work.
Dave Vaclavik
People would be very satisfied if we exited 1999 with prices in the $14 to $16 range.
Charlie Sharp
This still reflects pre-Katrina pump prices, suggesting that the following month's headline CPI number will probably be much, much higher.
Carl Gomez
It's very clear to us that gas prices need to be regulated. We really need to step back and recognize that like electricity, gasoline is too vital to the economy to be left in the hands of these corporations that have been gouging us.
Doug Heller
Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?
Kate Joncas
The dollar is starting to show some gains as the report came in stronger than expected across the board; new orders, employment, prices paid.
Tim Mazanec
We are going to have to live with high energy prices for some time. It may be a new reality.
Adrienne Warren
What that says is that even though crude oil prices are at near-record highs, gasoline prices are much higher than the crude oil prices would dictate.
David Hackett
With the way gas prices are tight now, we expect to have a full bus within a month or so.
Chris Cole
The Canadian dollar is doing fairly well this morning, in part because of a generally weak U.S. dollar. Canada is also being helped by oil prices remaining high, as a result of political instability in a number of the producing areas.
Paul Ferley
Near-term gasoline prices are likely to go somewhat higher. Are we going to see two bucks again? Not anytime soon.
David Hackett
High oil prices can cause recession. We are not happy with high oil prices.
Purnomo Yusgiantoro
It's an absolute fact that people want to live here. That keeps housing prices high. If it wasn't for the demand, prices would drop.
Richard Calhoun
Refinery shutdowns will have a big impact on gasoline prices, ... and that's a tax on consumers.
Joshua Shapiro
We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on prices.
Addison Armstrong
The folks it's going to have the direct hit on is producers in the form of lower prices. If you go worst-case scenario, it could have some very real negative impacts.
John Petty
Affordability and overall debt levels will still have to adjust to more comfortable levels before we can expect any widespread increase in demand and thus prices.
Fionnuala Earley
Oil prices may stay high this year and that raises concerns about the U.S. economy as they have a significant impact on the country's growth.
Takeshi Yamaguchi
It (consumer sentiment) was a little higher than expected, but the stock market has come back, gasoline prices have come down, and the weather has been beautiful and that has to affect consumers somewhat.
Mark Vitner
The inventory levels for crude in the U.S. are quite high, but everybody is concerned about gasoline ahead of the driving season. It looks like prices should go down but then you have the geopolitical issues coming up.
Anette Einarsen
Technology is a global industry, and everyone's in the same situation. Product prices keep on falling and that's a problem.
Koichi Ogawa
Oil prices have been permanently on the rise, so it's clear that costs were higher. I'm slightly optimistic, but not enough for a big buying story.
Stefan Bauknecht
It all depends on what happens with crude oil prices.
Rob Schlichting
It is my hope that this agreement will encourage the development of new markets, new services, lower prices and greater competition.
Jean Lapierre
The best advice is to acknowledge the degree of difficulty some face with energy prices, but then to highlight the significant investments that are made in expanding refining capacity and in exploration and production.
Scott Segal
There's concern that Iraq knows it's in a position that if it pulls its production off the market it would have significant implications on moving oil prices sharply higher.
Bruce Lanni
We've not seen anything like this previously. There have been hurricane disruptions, like Andrew, which was a temporary thing and the market bounced back, followed by a return of a red-hot housing market with housing prices hitting new highs in 2004.
Walter Molony
We have some inflation at the pipeline level, rising commodity prices, crude, material prices, things of that nature, but that inflation doesn't always get passed on to the consumer level.
Charles Reinhard
There's a growing consensus in the market that share prices are too low compared to their fundamentals. Of course, Tokyo shares are still hostage to moves on Nasdaq, but the mood's improving.
Masakazu Kimura
In the longer term, you can't go too far wrong holding oil stocks with these prices.
Geoff Langham
We've already let tremendous air out of these tech stocks. The prices on some of these tech stocks are looking very attractive.
Terrence Gabriel
We're seeing the beginning of much higher prices, driven by problems with the dollar. People need to protect themselves in this environment, and investors are getting more defensive.
James Turk
The Tokyo Stock Exchange must be an open market with credibility for the world that stock prices are fair and investors are safe.
Kaoru Yosano
It's taking a little longer [for prices to ease] at the gas pump, and frankly that's making me a little nervous.
Peter Kretzmer
I don't think (prices) are going up as much as they were. But I don't think they're going to drop.
Herman Petrecca
If people were aggressively concerned about falling house prices, rising interest rates, you would not expect to see a leap in consents being issued for houses.
Tony Alexander
We're optimistic (higher gas prices) won't affect people's interest in skiing, ... but it will affect our operating costs.
Tracy Miller
I feel it's unfortunate that some people are taking advantage of a bad situation, ... I'm keeping my prices as low as I can.
Bill Elliott
There's no reason to sell, because earnings growth is keeping pace with share prices. We're in an amazing period of history for many of these markets.
Mark Mobius
Pipeline prices are easing, but because companies weren't able to put up prices a lot when oil was rising, they may not cut them so much when the pendulum swings the other way.
Stephen Webster
There is a strong link between commodities and the Canadian currency. If we see declines in commodities prices, it will put some pressure on the Canadian dollar.
Shaun Osborne
Imposing higher prices on consumers by way of anti-dumping duties is inherently inefficient, even in a good cause.
Jim Murray (beuc)
The hurricane may end up being a big nothing. If it misses oil facilities or the damage isn't too bad prices will fall further. The only way for OPEC to get out of this mess is to overproduce and broadcast they will pump whatever the market requires, which is what they did.
Antonio Szabo
The increase in sales is encouraging. This is getting reflected in the stock prices. The momentum can take it higher.
Ambareesh Baliga
Gas prices, the (Gulf Coast) hurricanes -- it's a very challenging year for events such as the Classic and many others where we depend largely upon not only local community support, but people driving from a six- to eight-hour radius.
Tony Mason
There's still quite a bit of slack in the economy, and you can't push through prices until you eliminate that slack.
Richard Berner
Gas prices are killing our Georgia families, ... We will quickly go about the business of the people and ratify what the governor has put in place.
Glenn Richardson
Prices will come down only when we increase the supply of natural gas in the marketplace to meet the growing demand for our product.
Thomas Skains
We think it's very important. It diversifies us from a supply standpoint, and it can lead to increased pricing competition, which could lead to lower prices.
David Trusty
Both companies are working on rolling out high-speed access to homes, ... By combining our resources, we can drive prices down.
Ivan Seidenberg
The currency is likely to be guided movements in commodity prices as there's no market moving data locally. The rand will be a touch softer if gold keeps losing ground.
Lee Naisbitt
If you do see some changes, there could be some operating efficiencies and economies of scale that flow through to the consumer via lower prices. But I do believe that they're going to operate the way that these companies have operated. They have very strong stores to begin with?so the consumer shouldn't see too much change at the beginning.
Patrick Schumann
Demand for final goods is gradually recovering. Prices for these products will stay positive, though their gains probably won't accelerate.
Yasukazu Shimizu
We are having a negative bout in stocks, especially U.S. stock markets, and that is making investors a bit more cautious. With Brazil's trade surplus being driven by commodities, the drop in prices there is also hurting us.
Alexandre Vasarhelyi
A resurgent market in London, where prices grew by 1.1 percent, has put something of a gloss on the headline results.
Richard Donnell
If demand continues to surge along you are going to have high prices. Our forecasts currently assume no demand side shock.
Brian Fisher
Additionally, we are seeing wholesale prices for natural gas to drop and expect approximately an 11 percent decrease in February.
Dan Alderson
Our members are feeling higher energy prices at the gas pump and in their travel costs. It's absolutely impacting their bottom line. At the same time, we're watching a growing deficit, and nobody knows going what to make of it.
Barbara Kasoff
The attacks are a concern given Nigeria's importance as an oil-producing nation. It's a factor that will keep prices supported.
Francisco Blanch
It's going to be interesting to see what demand is. If it continues to fall that's going to prevent prices going higher.
Sam Tilley
If our projected use is different, prices could change. We will look at it again mid-year.
Bob Coleman
JGB prices dropped on firmer stock prices, a drop in US Treasury prices overnight and a pullback in the yen against the dollar.
Akitsugu Bando
People complain about gas prices, but they don't change their buying habits. We've been saying that gas prices have to hit $3 a gallon and stay there for six months to see a change in behavior.
Rebecca Lindland
As rates continue to rise, some local markets may see a backing off of prices and a soft landing as appreciation returns to historically normal levels.
Lee Mcpheters
Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.
Christopher Murray
There are bargains about, share prices are low and there are not too many buyers about. We can expect more deals in the next 12 months.
Chris Gent
There is a high chance that core consumer prices will turn to be positive toward the end of the year.
Toshihiko Fukui
The biggest issue, I think, for us to get a handle on is to make sure that, through the enforcement agency in the comptroller's office, none of the dealers are artificially inflating their prices to gouge the public.
Michael Busch
We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.
Howard Silverblatt
The price has nothing to do with costs, so the sellers have to grope around for price points that the public can live with and that will make the company enough money to pay their acquisition and royalty costs. Certainly, Apple knows that if they raise prices too fast, 'free' will become more attractive.
William Greene
We?ve seen consumers really ignoring current prices.
Andrew Logan
Next year and the year after and the year after that, we're going to have significant increases, as a result of the oil prices.
Jack Harris
The only up side to what's going on with the increased gas prices is that it's making everyone realize what is going on.
Jennifer Lawless
We are in a situation where we have rising raw material prices, which are very important in China, and a rise in food prices, which are important to Chinese laborers. That's inflationary, and these costs are being passed around.
Anirvan Banerji
[The new law will likely mean higher legal fees, because of added responsibilities and costs.] I know prices are going to go up, ... Whether some lawyers take advantage and charge an arm and a leg, we'll be looking out for that.
Travis Plunkett
A lot of the companies like to advertise moves like this because it's good for stock prices, ... but a lot of other companies like to keep it quiet. We can find it in an annual report -- but they don't have to put it there.
Stephanie Luce
The big question is how long the demand destruction will last. If it is short we could be back to all- time high prices by the end of the year.
Phil Flynn
We stock what we know are our biggest sellers. Then we stock seasonal, and our prices are very reasonable.
Monica Procar
The weather and high natural gas prices have been challenging. However, operating performance continues to be strong, and we continue to make progress on our plan.
David Joos
When you are dealing with drug prices increasing two, three times the rate of inflation, the impact is extraordinary, especially for a population that is living on a fixed income.
Ron Pollack
The U.S. inventory data clearly worried the market, but the Iranian and Nigerian situations are providing support to prices.
Tobin Gorey
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
There has also been a softening of prices of 10 to 12 per cent.
Bharat Tandon
Some Japanese companies, such as automakers, are now even benefiting from higher crude oil prices, as they boost demand for fuel-efficient vehicles made by Japanese makers.
Osamu Katano
Gas prices are getting astronomical. I remember the days when it was a dollar a gallon. I try my best to be fuel efficient, but I'm honestly scared.
Jay Shapiro
It's more difficult than ever to liquidate an airline. You have so many lenders of last resort who want to keep aircraft prices high.
Darryl Jenkins
A rate increase is never good news for our customers. However, higher worldwide energy prices are driving higher costs on all products, from the price of gas at the pump to what we pay to heat our homes.
Chris Huskilson
I don't know the exact figures, but the prices have definitely dropped between 5 percent and 10 percent.
Achmad Faisal
The problem is you can't build a refinery overnight it takes a couple of years, so what we're probably going to see over the next 18 to 24 months is continued increases in prices.
Dr. Matt Willen
It may be not just gas prices but also medical care and utilities and all those other cost-of-living things. Maybe the bus is becoming an option to save some money.
Andy Vobora
There will be construction costs and other factors. Demand in the Gulf Coast may cause some prices to rise.
Tara Eubanks
If we get good prices on the businesses we like, I'm willing to buy.
Donald Yacktman
The current prices have moved projects from the possible to the probable column very quickly.
Brad Bellows
There is increased competition as carriers all vie for renewals in this profitable market. The natural market reaction is to drive down prices.
Karen Beier
[Just when we thought the pinch was over, high prices hit again and people are pointing fingers at the oil companies.] True it's costing them money, but they're getting it back from us, ... They're not losing money and they have no intention of losing money.
Jimmy Brown
As people recognize that the economy is stronger than maybe we've given it credit for in 2005, that should help to produce higher equity prices going into 2006.
Michael Cuggino
Rising raw material and energy prices have continued to push up costs and hit profits.
John Cridland
Commodity prices have fallen for two days in a row, with the falls including gold and base metals.
Richard Grace
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