Instead of generating cash, they're burning cash. We are not jumping into Internet stocks at these valuations. I think the Internet sector is going to continue to sink.

Paul Wick

The public sector should set and enforce the homeland security standards that the private sector must meet.

Jack Gerard

The opening-up (of the financial sector) will bring mounting pressure on the domestic banks, which will motivate them to improve their management.

Lazaro Campos

The outlook for technology companies remains strong and demand for shares in the sector helped lift stock indexes late this afternoon.

Larry Peruzzi

We haven't as a city determined what our priorities are going to be. We have a lot of needs all over the city, including the southern sector. We have to determine how to meet those needs and balance that with how much money DART has.

Linda Koop

We are going to ask for help for the sector, support measures.

Dominique Bussereau

We see a need, looking to the future to target a broader spectrum of opportunity than just life insurance - important and profitable though we expect that sector to be for us.

Mark Tucker

This agreement could provide the US business community with 100 billion dollars worth of new opportunities in India in the energy sector alone.

Dan Christman

A takeover bid is underscoring prospects for the sector, which has been benefiting from a recovery in consumer spending.

Susumu Abe

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Markus Steinbeis

Anytime you're working on behalf of a private sector business, if you're working with the government and dealing with the people's money, then everybody has a right to know who's working with whom.

John Watts

Two important profit drivers, namely cost cuts and loan loss provisions, are faltering, and that is a trend to watch for the whole banking sector.

Pieter Wind

This was not a year for macro-sector bets -- whoever bet on sectors, or indexes other than energy, got extremely frustrated. This was the year of individual stocks.

James Paulsen

Inflation is going to continue to rise based on the disruption from the hurricanes, high oil prices (and) a factory sector that has a very strong outlook. Also, there's a lot of positive news coming out of Japan and East Asia so there's going to be a real scramble for raw materials and that will eventually pass through to consumer prices.

Carl Riccadonna

Investors are prioritizing investment into the financial sector now. Fundamentals look good and I expect banks to post further profit gains.

Hideyuki Ookoshi

There's a lot of competition in the banking sector and the bank's recovery is quite slow so I'm not too bullish on this stock.

George Chan

Overnight, you saw good news coming out of the tech sector and we suspect they are good harbingers of things to come out of the earnings season for the next couple of weeks.

John Augustine

Right now, our customers are about 50 percent public sector and 50 percent private sector.

Richard Callahan

The monthly decline in the retail sector was a bit stronger than normal because there was more seasonal hiring than over the past couple of years.

Guy Tauer

Banking has been the driving force in mergers and acquisitions this year. With over $1 trillion in all U.S. deals, about $250 billion have been in the banking sector.

Richard Peterson

It's interesting because it's an already pretty consolidated sector. There are very few suppliers and only two big ones that are free.

Michael Schroder

The NYSE has a premium brand, one of the best known globally -- and companies that have premium brands trade at a premium to their sector. It's not surprising there would be a lot of demand.

Hamid Biglari

The data nonetheless shows the U.S. manufacturing sector is in recession and that the ISM could fall further if the war is prolonged beyond April.

Kevin Grice

When a sector falls out of favor it does so pretty quickly. You don't always have time to get out before the damage gets done.

Jim King

It is typical of when you see large-scale merger and change operations, whether it is the private sector or the public sector, it has a very large impact on employee morale.

Max Stier

The area which interests us is the sector that was hit the hardest in 2005, namely the big-ticket household goods retailers. All three have begun to recover and develop promising chart patterns.

Nick Bubb

The fact that (such funds) will flow toward the private sector is a big issue.

Takafumi Horie

This agreement is a voluntary commitment by our private sector to help the government create a system for monitoring and reporting on the levels of GHG emissions in South Africa.

Marthinus Van Schalkwyk

The factory sector appears to have begun the year on a solid note, no doubt bolstered by the surge in new orders seen at the end of last year.

Stephen Stanley

Oil prices creeping back towards the key $60 mark may well provide some support for the petrochemicals sector.

Matthew Buckland

It's trading on the back of the energy sector.

Greg Gibbs

The key is that all government regulations that impact on the sector be streamlined to ensure they are not too onerous.

Robert Bunyi

I was very excited about the prospect of being the CEO of a fast-growing technology company, particularly in the B2B sector.

Joe Galli

We are satisfied that the market is reflecting current fundamentals of the economy especially of the corporate sector, ... I hope the Q2 results will be as good as Q1.

Palaniappan Chidambaram

Inflation is once again confirmed to be not much of a concern and well under control outside of the energy sector. That's helpful. It takes a little bit of pressure off the possibility of the Fed going much beyond another two rate increases.

Owen Fitzpatrick

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

Technology shares here got a lift from strong gains in the Nasdaq index as many investors here regard this sector as having lagged last year.

Hitoshi Yamamoto

The fact is we have massively underestimated the impact of investment fund flows into the sector.

Macquarie Research

Motorola's growth in sales has continued to accelerate, and our earnings are on an improving trend. We are especially pleased by the results in our new Broadband Communications Sector, which was formed after the merger with General Instrument, the improvements in our network systems business, and the sequential growth in quarterly earnings for semiconductors.

Robert Growney

Not only is cruising the fastest growing sector in the travel industry, but the British market is the second largest in the world after the United States.

Sean Tipton

We are a free enterprise economy and we shall leave market forces to determine the value of the peso, while taking the appropriate measures to assist the export sector.

Ignacio Bunye

My own concern is does the consumer give out and drag down the economy in 2006? The corporate sector is well into a recovery, but the consumer never had a recession.

Jeff Harte

Further evidence that the US rate-tightening cycle may be approaching a pause was provided yesterday by a weaker-than-expected ISM report on the manufacturing sector and the release of a dovish set of minutes from the Fed's December meeting.

Simon Rubinsohn

While the data is on the face of it good, the weakness evident in this report suggests that the consumer sector remains weak. Mixed messages for the Bank of England.

Gavin Redknap

So far the impact of bird flu outbreaks has been isolated to the poultry sector and some farm households and has not spilled into the overall economy.

Milan Brahmbhatt

The time of declining working hours in the public sector in Germany is over. The train is going in the opposite direction.

Gerhard Widder

The household sector has really gone into its shell. We do expect to see new capacity come on stream in the mining sector, and that should support exports.

Brian Redican

The report was spot on expectations, signaling continued growth in the U.S. employment sector. It should bode well for the economy, but the reaction is null and void in the market as we await Greenspan.

Tim Mazanec

As the baby boomers age, the issue of retirement income security will be paramount for this growing sector. Our products are specifically designed to meet post-retirement savings needs.

David Noble

That's a very big negative overhang on the drug sector.

Hemant Shah

The purpose of engaging strategic investors in the shareholding reform is not to collect funds to raise the capital adequacy ratio of the state-owned commercial banks, but to learn the expertise of our foreign counterparts in service, management and internal control to improve the competitiveness of China's banking sector.

Tang Shuangning

A lot of people, I guess, would just consider that this is more to do with a battle between AMD and Intel, but obviously it is going to have some sort of an effect on the tech sector.

Robert Sellar

This is a very good job. It has all the kind of benefits associated with the U.S. manufacturing sector 20 years ago.

Art Hatfield

Potentially the single biggest private sector investment in cricket.

Clive Lloyd

It's a rational way to reduce your risk. Most of them are getting caught at least once in the San Diego sector, but it is a more attractive option for many. The smugglers have obviously made that calculation too, that people are more willing to be smuggled through the San Diego sector than through the Arizona desert.

Wayne Cornelius

Our productivity growth has not been that great over the past few years. Now we've got this investment appetite and that could really start moving us up productivity-wise. The downside is you don't need as many jobs in the sector as you did before.

Peter Hall

What you are seeing is a shift away from e-commerce and back to the plumbing of the Internet. The telecom sector and software are doing quite well as are DSL, broadband and fiber optics. Most of them are retooling to enter the fiber optic age.

Tracy Lefteroff

Last year there was a lot of noise in the sector. But on a positive note, you've seen a correction in the group.

Jeffrey Silber

This report tells people outside the agricultural sector what the relative pay of their region is.

Charlotte Yee

There was decent strength across the retail sector. These numbers are consistent with an economy growing at a comfortable rate, a pace that would allow the Fed to continue to raise interest rates in a measured fashion.

Patrick Fearon

The whole sector is going through the roof. Everybody is guessing what could be the next target.

Jan Leroy

We're education based in the sense that each person that signs on is trained for the job they are placed in. It offers that individual an opportunity to see what other avenues they could explore as far as choosing a career path in the non-profit sector.

Dennis Huratiak

It is a reminder that the Government has been running a sizeable off-budget deficit via PFI deals and deficits in businesses that are really government-run but structured in a way that aims to technically keep them out of the public sector deficit.

Michael Saunders

We are seeing heated demand for long products generated by the civil construction sector. This year should be the fourth-consecutive year we will see record consumption.

Carlo Panunzi

In the optoelectronic sector, we noticed the potential of solar cells in a flourishing energy industry worldwide. Sales of solar cells grew last year by 29 percent to NT$700 million.

Randy Yen

The business sector is not complaining for as long as it is for the good of our countrymen.

Bienvenido Cariaga

We are certainly glad to have them in town. Let's keep them coming. Ivans is using information technology to link the medical industry to the financial sector.

Michael Freimuth

This amounts to a total of $50 billion in new investments in high-leverage, innovation-enabling research that will underpin and complement shorter-term and mission-oriented R&D performed by other agencies and the private sector.

John Marburger

The typical public sector decision-making process tends to be drawn out and politicized and ultimately inefficient.

David Scharf

The continued improvement in services-sector activity is particularly impressive given the head winds restraining the consumer-related sectors.

Michael Blythe

In the meantime, the Government will proceed with its review of Canada's existing legislation that governs the financial services sector. This review will deliver tangible improvements for consumer protection, streamline regulation and create opportunities for our financial sector.

Ralph Goodale

[For now, bird flu is] still very much an animal disease and animal problem, ... If we can really control the animal sector, the risk to humans is low.

Dr Margaret Chan

We basically took down our estimates across the entire sector.

Tom Berquist

Over 60,000 finance sector jobs like banking have been added in the past three years. This is great.

John Connaughton

The refinery outages should lead to weak demand for crude oil from the refining sector. It's not crude oil that is in short supply, but gasoline and distillates.

Tobias Merath

You have to bear in mind that the chip sector was the first industry into a recession and its not unreasonable to believe it would be first to come out. When it comes out of a recession it should herald a recovery for the technology sector but chip inventories are critical.

Peter Oppenheimer

The surprise fall in crude stocks has helped the rally and the energy sector has keyed off that.

Fergal Smith

We did very extensive market research, and it pointed to a fundamental dilemma we faced in distribution. The banks were not enthusiastic. They either would not order it, or would wait until there was public demand. Well you can't prove the demand if you can't get it to the commercial sector.

Philip Diehl

There's a bit of cash swilling around, but at the moment one gets the distinct impression that people are too worried about the outlook for earnings and the scope for further profit warnings for the tech sector.

Tony Jackson

Seventy percent of the donations came from the private sector, and 30 percent from the public sector -- that's great for a start-up organization.

Dan Boecher

What we're trying to do is build a broad base of revenue so that if any sector slumps, the other areas can make up for it.

Mike Ross

The federal sector has significant search and information needs. As we invest and grow that market, we are hiring top talent to build out the team.

Matt Glotzbach

The reality is these are major companies we have dealt with for years .... We got tremendous security benefits by essentially embracing the private sector in what is the largest and most successful government-private sector partnership to form after 9-11.

Robert Bonner

(This) will provide us with a valuable platform for future investments in the office sector.

Jonathan Gray

We had all these negative pre-announcements and the stocks aren't going down, and the sector is going up. The market is calling a bottom.

Dan Scovel

The Middle East healthcare sector is outperforming in terms of what targets the service and equipment providers are setting for this region. The Middle East region is outperforming North America, Europe and Asia in growth terms, and most companies are exceeding their expectations here.

Vicky Lee

There's definite investor hunger for choices in the technology sector. There's a lot of laser-like focus and this will help narrow that interest and make some choices.

Adam Schoenfeld

When dealing with the private sector they have a lot of their own criteria set forth. We don't want that information out until the deal is made.

Bruce Lippincott

Money motivates. The goals (in the public sector) are more about service than money.

David Lang

Oracle is executing very well. This validates that Oracle is a leader in consolidating the software sector. The strategy they are embarking upon is the right strategy.

Trip Chowdhry

There's a lot of advantages to working in the private sector. We can move quickly. We don't have to wait for laws to be passed or appropriations to be passed, and this is an opportunity that came on the market and we acted quickly to preserve this piece of property.

Doug Hall

The company represents one of the premier collections of people and properties in the country and will provide us with a valuable platform for future investments in the office sector.

Jonathan Gray

The idea is to be proactive and anticipate an oversupply of one market sector. We're concerned that the restaurants will displace some of the small retail [shops]. It could affect other businesses, too, based on parking. It will restrict the conversion of apartments into offices or retail or restaurants.

Phil Ehlinger

Overall the report indicates that the non-manufacturing sector is moving right along. We seem to have recovered from the hurricanes, even though the index is down slightly.

Ralph Kauffman

We were obviously disappointed by sales for this holiday season, particularly because we had been outperforming the retail sector as a whole for the previous nine months.

Leonard Riggio

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

Christopher Bond

Based on improving new product visibility, benefits from restructuring initiatives, and near-term volume boost from Medicare Part D supports our Attractive rating for the U.S. pharmaceutical sector.

Jami Rubin

The government is firmly committed to maintaining Hong Kong as a free market economy that accords maximum scope to the private sector.

Henry Tang

If China's economy does simmer down, it will have an adverse impact on the materials sector, and on commodities, including oil.

Joseph Battipaglia

As consumers are clearly changing their spending attitude, the retail sector may continue to benefit.

Haruki Takahashi

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

Markus Steinbeis

Eighty-five to ninety percent of our nation's critical infrastructure systems are owned by the private sector.

Tom Noonan

Overall, the data for the capital goods sector remains somewhat erratic, but the underlying trend remains upward.

David Resler

A lot of those commodity stocks are pretty reasonably priced and we would continue to see gains in that sector, though they would be moderate.

Peter Wright

Russia also has a rapidly developing consumer sector.

Oleg Biryulwov

The war for talent is a real one. The public sector is losing that war, and the consequences are going to become more severe.

Max Stier

The manufacturing sector continued to contract in December, ... This is the seventh month of decline. Both production and the new orders declined, signaling that the manufacturing sector is obviously struggling.

Norbert J. Ore

A lot of money is very sensitive to interest rate changes but also a lot of money has been put into the high growth technology sector, and the returns are not going to come to fruition in all investments.

Jamie Spiteri

I don't think there is any way in the world he's going back to the private sector and have no policy or public involvement. People have to understand he truly enjoys being a chief executive and being able to get things done.

Cory Tilley

I believe my experience in the private sector will serve Wyoming.

Bruce Brown

I'm not sure we as a community are spending the kind of resources we need. The public sector needs to step forward. And I think that's a good use of public dollars because this activity creates jobs.

David Frick

This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.

Amanullah Khan

Each $1 of the World Bank Group that we put into a project leveraged $5 from the private sector, government and others.

Jamal Saghir

For this market to really push on we need to see unemployment trends drop, so that the retail sector can be certain of making a contribution to the recovery of the U.S. economy.

David Buik

The private sector should have a massively larger role. It is frankly stupid that we are the only country that believes the Soviet system works.

Iain Duncan Smith

Retailers are still taking a hit off of Best Buy's loss yesterday and now today's data is providing some more selling pressure in the sector.

Tim Heekin

With such a stunning result, passage of the postal reform bills is virtually assured. The next areas are medical reform, civil service reform, public sector outsourcing and government financial institution reform.

Robert Feldman

The earnings momentum at Kawasaki Kisen and other Japanese shippers has already peaked. It's not good to aggressively invest in the sector at this moment.

Makoto Kikuchi

The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil prices potentially crimping consumer spending.

Bob Straus

In general reducing the public debt will require drastic public sector reform. To implement drastic reforms, Koizumi needs to gain public support.

Tomoko Fujii

We find socially responsible companies in every sector and virtually every industry, ... It seems such a natural way to invest ? Why buy into liabilities and hidden risks that are created by poor practices? It's a good way to assess companies.

Sophia Collier

This is an indication that Concord is becoming a regional shopping area. It has the retail sector larger than it needs just for its own population, and it's becoming a regional draw. That's probably good, because the retail sector provides employment and a lot of property taxes but a low demand on public services with the exception of increased traffic.

Stuart Arnett

The whole federal IT sector has been extremely active.

Jon Kutler

Energy has been a hot sector for a while with oil and gas prices up, so (CME) is responding to what the market wants.

Meghan Crowe

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Ben Holmes

The recent drop was mainly due to a downtrend in New York, especially that in the technology sector. So the rebound came as a great relief to investors here.

Hidenori Kawasaki

It's going to give us a footprint to build from in the office sector in the U.S. That will allow us to expand into Northern California and into areas like Phoenix.

Joseph Parsons

Much of the Midwest is at the bottom of the rankings because the Midwest is heavy in manufacturing, and that sector simply hasn't done well over the years. Manufacturing is seeing some growth but isn't creating jobs like other sectors.

Skip Rimer

Similar to the oil sector in 2003-2004, we believe long-term pricing or sustainability assumptions may be shifting in the metals.

Tony Lesiak

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

Jeffrey Bewkes

The consensus appears to be a likely pause in June as the Fed assesses the effects of past rate hikes on consumers and the housing sector.

William O'donnell

We are telling the private sector that the city of Tampa and the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority have no more money to put into this.

Ralph Mervine

If you believe that higher interest rates will put a brake on the economy, the whole tech sector is highly susceptible because companies are going to be spending on tech-related items depending on where the economy is going.

Hans Olsen

We all feel state economic development policy has not had the benefit [of input] from the private sector. We think the business community can do a better job of helping guide public investment.

Kathryn Wylde

We did a thorough search of every sector of the four terminals, and they didn't turn up anywhere. We're not actively searching for them. We have determined there's no danger.

Roger Smith

We have made additional portfolio management changes that enhance the blend of fundamental and quantitative techniques in some portfolios and better leverage our investment professionals' sector expertise.

Kevin Cronin

The mining sector has been weighing on the index though it's about time they had a bit of profit taking.

Angus Campbell

On one hand you have very strong signals from businesses services, but on the other quite weak ones from the retail sector. That's going to drag overall services growth down.

Alan Castle

The government is making it easier for property development in general and for the companies in the industry. This is positive news for the sector.

Lawrence Peterman

The automotive sector is critical to our success.

John Bitove

Other than Disneyland, it was my first exposure to an imaginative design like that. I got the idea for the Berlin sector from the black-and-white striped guardhouse.

Dave Baldwin

These guys just made a deal with one of the large online providers of health care over the Internet. The company does over $600 million in revenue and generates almost $80 million of cash flow a year. So, it's really becoming a major player in the health-care information services sector.

Dan Veru

More importantly, the removal of regulatory uncertainty provides the much-needed catalyst to close the deep discount to fair values in the sector.

David Barnes

It's just a general pull-back in the technology sector... Every name I cover is unfortunately in the red. I don't think I have a green name on my screen today.

Shawn Harrison

I've not been supportive of this effort - because I don't think we ought to use taxpayer dollars to promote basically a private-sector business that makes lots of money to encourage them to come into the state.

Steve Landes

I wish we could push a button and find a way to engage the private sector and make this free.

James Williams

The long-distance thing is boosting the whole sector. It's a group-wide phenomenon.

Richard Klugman

The gas sector has said it is relaxed about the situation. So there is no cause for alarm.

Sabine Maass

The business has been a solid, consistent performer. It's a good market sector to own businesses in.

Kevin Mcnamara

Among the countries whose per-capita yearly GDP is less than US$2,000, China has witnessed the fastest Internet sector growth, and the boom is a manifestation of China's effective yet market-friendly regulation.

Wang Yan

Considering that we spent more on marketing in the digital media sector and set aside 1.3 trillion won in incentives for our employees after scrapping stock options, our actual operating profit should be around 2.8 trillion won.

Chu Woo Sik

We have given the list to the municipality, and we feel that there is no reason why the land cannot be given to the private sector for development on long-lease agreements.

Pierre Voges

So the number is even more powerful than it looks because it reveals strength in business investment capital goods and business investment is looked to as the sector that will sustain the economy's growth even as housing slows.

Pierre Ellis

This could be the first signs of the effects of increased competition in the sector. Every major online broker has increased its ad spending, with new online offerings and advertising by full-service brokers as well.

Rich Repetto

You knew some catch-up was going to have to occur on the wage front after two years of wage compression for the public sector workers.

Keith Collister

The development of the pure vegetable oil sector could be an incredible opportunity to attract young people to the farming profession at a time of depopulation of the countryside.

Alain Juste

We continue to see Exxon Mobil as the benchmark for operational performance in the sector. On ROCE (return on capital employed), Exxon Mobil continues to lead the industry and we see this leadership sustained through our forecast period through 2009.

Daniel Barcelo

The housing sector has likely passed its peak. The boom is winding down. I expect continued softening in housing if rates remain at these levels or go higher.

David Lereah

The forecast annual growth rate over the next 10 years of just over 1 percent reflects the chronic underinvestment that plagues the Russian oil sector because of persistent regulatory uncertainties and growing state interference.

Valery Nesterov

It seems like the manufacturing sector is picking up steam. It's a strong number, but there are a couple of caveats -- it was largely driven by auto production and utility production.

Corey Redfield

As the government privatization program gains momentum, IFC will be placing greater emphasis on the broader infrastructure sector including electricity, ports and logistics.

Lars Thunell

Point to recession in both the manufacturing sector and the general economy.

Philadelphia Fed

We believe this sector is a particularly productive area that should be included in most investor portfolios. Companies this size are often enjoying a sweet spot in their lifecycles.

David Nolan

It's a very shocking and profound change of the EU's position. The EU's proposal seems to represent an historic shift in the regulatory approach to the Internet from one that is based on private sector leadership to a government, top-down control of the Internet.

David Gross

We would like to see about 40% of private-sector research completed by small companies by about 2014.

Marjorie Pyoos

Besides the shortages of foreign currency, the sector is also facing problems relating to insufficient revenue generated from the sale of gold through the official system.

David Murangari

There's no law prohibiting the former speaker from taking a position in the private sector.

Stephen Mulloney

The housing sector has likely passed its peak . . . and the boom is winding down to an expansion.

David Lereah

Overseas investments are coming in every sector, from manufacturing to services. New jobs are being created. Demand for manufactured goods, services and manpower are rising and that's keeping the economy buoyant.

Saumitra Chaudhuri

We've seen a tremendous number of optical deals. But now we are seeing the end of the cycle of it being the hot sector.

Corey Ostman

Gathering strength is evident in several areas of the industry with growth in the housing sector the strongest in almost two years as buyer activity has improved.

David Stubbs

You're looking at a mid-teens grower and you can get it at potentially 13 times earnings. So, it's a good sector, one that we like, ... It's a more stable discretionary item, but an attractive valuation and good growth prospects.

Jack Caffrey

If Wall Street, corporate users and real estate owners are looking to the service sector for information, and those companies don't provide it, they will be on the outs with their clients.

Ian Cameron

NASA may just be regaining its soul -- rather than selling it. And partnering with the private sector will help it do that in several different ways.

Rahul Nayar

The dollar weakening will help the large-cap sector get the wind back for overseas earnings.

Richard Steinberg

I don't think the stock will do anything this quarter, but I think for next quarter and for the whole year, it will outperform the sector as well as the whole market.

Paul Kim

A lot of energy stocks happen to be mid-caps. And the energy sector is here to stay for awhile.

Neil Hennessy

We cannot reduce our oil dependency without tackling our oil-guzzling transport sector.

Claude Turmes

This is something that you never imagine. This is a Wal-Mart located in the north sector of town, nice area and low crime -- something you don't expect to happen in that area.

Mike Pena

Look at most of the warnings, they continue to be in the technology sector.

Ben Hock

Increased confidence, a strong housing sector and low interest rates have got Australian consumers in buying mode.

Craig James

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

The gas row between Russia and Ukraine should further support the sector.

Markus Steinbeis

The fourth quarter was an intensely competitive environment with general softness in the technology sector. This resulted in a revenue performance that did not meet our expectations.

Greg Hawkins

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

Kentaro Nakajo

We're not going to see new investment in Ontario's forest sector as long as Ontario has the highest electricity rates in North America (and) as long as Ontario has the highest wood costs in North America.

Howard Hampton

It's difficult to say if it's cyclical or defensive sectors driving the market. Whatever sector is seeing some M&A speculation or activity is the one that's going well at the moment.

Lars Kreckel

During the past quarter we faced a number of challenges that impacted our PC business, including component supply shortages in the notebook business and aggressive pricing by competitors in the government sector.

Joel Kocher

Consumer caution persists and a weak housing sector remains a drag on overall services sector activity.

Michael Blythe

The IMF is prepared for the time when there is a satisfactory program available, and that must include the involvement of the private sector.

Hans Tietmeyer

This [mining sector reform] must be executed in a manner that is beneficial to mining companies as well as government, particularly at this delicate stage where we want to be perceived as willing to be part and parcel of the global community.

Dennis Nikisi

There is a very real risk that Koizumi's plans to reform the banking sector will be so watered down that they will end up pleasing no one.

Koichi Seki

These figures confirm the picture of a manufacturing sector facing pressures from all sides.

Doug Godden

There will be more volatility in the September-to-October period, especially in the tech sector.

Philip Smith

We're actually proposing some (apartment) flats above the stores in the town center. We've really tried to appeal to a large sector of the market.

Bill Bullock

There is no doubt that the operating environment won't get any easier for (general retailers) next year. Supermarkets continue their onward march into the sector.

Jeremy Batstone

I think the future is very bullish for the broad market other than for the technology sector.

Gerald Vincent

I think, for the most part, people understand that we can't undercut the private sector, ... If anything, our price structure was a little low when Secretary Host got here.

George Ward

The Commission fails completely in its Green Book to react to the rebirth of 'economic patriotism' in the energy sector.

Claude Turmes

The focus today will be the service sector confidence numbers and Cisco's results released after hours.

Rupert Thompson