We're entering a whole new era now. America has suffered a terrorist attack of historic proportions, and now we're going to go after the perpetrators. Cyberattacks may be inevitable... Physical and cyberattacks in conjunction could cause panic across a whole economic sector.

Richard Power

The buoyancy of both the housing and mortgage markets indicates that the marked slowdown in the world economy and the recession in the UK manufacturing sector have so far had little adverse impact on consumer sentiment.

Martin Ellis

The technology sector has had a tremendous rally since the middle of April and I think it's time for some resting.

Louis Holland

All eyes are on the chip sector for any signs of recovery but there is no positive news coming through.

Peter Oppenheimer

Our country provides us with the richest resources, diversity and talent and this fusion project is a natural one for the Department of Arts & Culture to be involved in and drive, in order to create sustainability in the design sector.

Lindi Ndebele

Margins in China are razor thin and they may not be able to withstand much yuan appreciation. The export sector is vulnerable and the government is going to be very cautious in what it does and that's the message.

Jan Lambregts

The changes are a result of seasonal factors. Issuance of year-end bonuses and 'red envelopes' in the first quarter, when the Lunar New Year holiday falls, naturally leads to a surge of domestic capital and stimulates retail businesses as well as the financial sector, which will focus on developing personal-finance services to boost company performances.

Dennis Lee

The quarter was quite solid and pretty much in line with our expectations. We think this is a positive for the whole group and we are quite positive on the sector for 2000.

Mark Edelstone

That does not mean the Tucson Sector is going to send any yet.

Jose Garza

I think we paid a fair price at the right time. Companies like this don't become available in our sector very often.

David Crane

The fact that it's now a two-way agreement is symbolic and a positive step that may lead to further cooperation. A currency swap is still just a safety net for countries in the case of crisis, but I'm hopeful that this will lead to more forward-looking policy initiatives about how to get private- sector money flowing in the region.

Atsushi Nakajima

Japanese companies made higher profits than last year on their overseas operations, particularly in China and in the services sector.

Tomomichi Akuta

[For Mexican companies, the upgrade] makes it more likely that they will invest, and makes their profitability higher, creating a more competitive and strong corporate sector. That's not something that's a five-day wonder --- it's a long-term factor, ... This market is going to go quite a bit higher.

Geoffrey Dennis

What I found is that in all of the major leaps forward that Arkansas has had over the last 20 years ... it's always been a collaboration, a partnership between the private sector and the public sector.

Mike Beebe

The Chinese alone invested US$ 2 billion in the Sudanese oil sector at the beginning of the year.

Michel Alaby

We were one of the early investors in the Indian telecom sector and have enjoyed a very fruitful association with Hutchison.

Uday Kotak

There will be a surge of interest from the commercial sector, but whether that will continue is open to question and dependent on the future success of the England team.

Phil Smith

Potentially the single greatest private sector investment in cricket since the Kerry Packer revolution 28 years ago.

Clive Lloyd

In the last two months, the ups and down in the consumer spending numbers have been mostly driven by swings in the textile and leather sector.

Nicolas Sobczak

Job growth is expected to continue for the healthcare sector in 2006, driving an extraordinary labor demand. As a result, the search for qualified workers is becoming increasingly competitive with the shortage of registered nurses, physical and respiratory therapists, radiology technicians and other positions.

Rosemary Haefner

What I think you're really seeing is that advertisers and electronic vendors are really going heavy on the Internet. This is no longer an experiment. What they're saying is this is real?Long-term I think [the search engine sector is] a great investment.

Bruce Smith

It's one of the few jobs, considered a service sector, that allows a person without a significant amount of education to get paid pretty well.

Bob Uhlenkott

Well, that's a very good question. We know that our pay is below the market rate and the private sector rate.

Jeff Black

The case for German equities does not rest on the outcome of the election. For more than a year now, change in Germany has been driven by the corporate sector, while government reform momentum has slowed down.

Lars Kreckel

Higher mortgage rates that we have witnessed over the last six months are starting to temper demand for the housing sector.

Stan Shipley

There should be a basic health-care service that everyone should receive. The short answer would be a partnership between the public and private sector. They have to decide: Is this an important issue for Forsyth County residents?

Michael Clements

The long-term fundamentals are intact and similar to what we saw here in the Internet sector.

Jason Tsai

It's always a surprise to get bid prices. Things may be changing if the private sector is slowing down. We'll find out.

Steve Serbati

I am telling the oil sector that it must provide strong and intelligent responses.

Thierry Breton

I think the political process is important and we don't shy away from that. But there needs to be a balance. In the public sector, we have promoted (the balance), but we haven't achieved it yet.

David Lang

I think they are trying to buy it cheap. Private equity funds see a lot of potential for growth in this sector.

Jacques Kavafian

Rather than the debate being about how immigration impacts neighborhoods, schools and hospitals, maybe you'll now see discussion about how it impacts the business sector.

Abel Valenzuela

Although it has calmed down a little of late, the energy sector still has traders watching it very closely for opportunities and with the price of oil remaining quite choppy this seems set to continue.

David Land

The combined growth and external sector strengths allow Chinese policy makers to better address the country's structural economic challenges, and they have been taking the opportunity to do so.

James Mccormack

Manufacturing will be under pressure because of currency strength. It will hold the sector back and (keep) growth from reaching its potential level.

Colen Garrow

Fund families are rolling these out all the time. We?d rather see everyone jumping on this bandwagon than launching hot sector funds.

Greg Carlson

There's a 50-50 chance that they pause. I think the economy was already in the process of slowing and the dislocations to the energy sector will be fairly significant. There's reason to be cautious and play it by ear.

Jim Glassman

It's not hard for someone to find some kind of work. My prognosis is that the Coast is going to see a growth in Latinos in both the professional and the blue-collar sector. They're not going anywhere.

Andy Guerra

While [Wednesday's] starts data may exaggerate the strength of the sector, it is quite obvious housing retains considerable momentum.

Bart Melek

The federal government came in and knocked everything down, and they were relying on the private sector to come in and build it back up and invest in the community. That never really materialized.

Manny Leto

I do see an opportunity on the horizon for a potential turning point for the fuel cell sector, and I really believe that Ballard came make a significant contribution to making that happen - if we deliver.

John Sheridan

One of these days, we're going to see an increase in non-farm payrolls for the manufacturing sector.

David Resler

We are discussing a number of possible options with our international and private-sector partners that will allow us to achieve our mutual goals of enhancing security.

Brian Roehrkasse

Hopefully investors realize by now they don't need a focused sector fund in their portfolio.

Bill Harding

If you don't react to the farm crisis ... you've got a way bigger hole to fill than you'd have to fill by supporting the farm-income sector.

Ron Bonnett

The government aims to establish the Thessaloniki region as a pole of attracting scientists from Southeastern Europe and becoming the base of new enterprises in the new technologies sector.

Costas Karamanlis

Generally, tech is still healthy. People were getting irrational with expectations. Just because a company is a little light on sales or earnings doesn't mean the sector is doing badly.

Ted Parrish

Between PCs and handsets you've got about 35 percent of total semiconductor consumption. This is going to impact everybody in the chip sector. Nobody is outside the scope of slowing growth in those two markets.

Kevin Rottinghaus

The semiconductor sector in general is in very good shape; the industry hasn't invested enough in capacity and that is actually very good for chip makers. Intel is often treated as a proxy for the chip sector, so the chip sector is doing well and so is Intel.

Joe Osha

Notwithstanding a handful of continued announcements regarding downsizing or closure, the prevailing pattern in our industrial sector has been one of growth over a couple of years.

Lincoln Schrock

... need pay little attention to the oil and gas sector because we're highly profitable, can fend for ourselves, and have managed to reliably supply consumers for a long time.

Red Cavaney

The weakness has been largely concentrated in the technology sector.

Doug Parker

The disappointment in Dell's results came from its guidance and that is obviously going to really impact the technology sector tomorrow and you could see a pullback.

Brad Pleimann

It was a very bad day. The telecommunications sector has a very big weighting on the index.

Luiz Marcos Prudencio

Valuations are still very attractive and we believe there are a lot M&A transactions to be fulfilled that are setting new sector benchmark prices.

Neil Dwane

We want some real-life experience of how (customers) move from sector to sector before we really put our foot down.

David Spence

When you get this kind of selling off, the negativity points to the sector -e-commerce - falling out of favor.

Ken Cassar

The tightened monetary policy has squeezed the credit flow to the private sector.

Mir Nasir Hossain

Corning provides a little strength to a very beleaguered sector, but the Street has not been expecting much out of the telecoms. Citigroup was a little weak, but Bank or America evens it out.

Bryan Piskarowski

This past year is the largest influx of investment capital I've seen in Carbondale. It's all pretty positive for the commercial sector of Carbondale's economy. We've seen this play out in Basalt, and Carbondale's been discovered.

Mark Wyman

The wireless telecom sector is facing a difficult transition right now, ... The competitive advantages of a year ago have become less meaningful.

Fred Moran

We're not saying the Russian sector should be completely ours. It would be a sector in which Russia would play a central role and it would include other countries as well.

Leonid Ivashov

Charlie has a great track record advising clients from across the consumer sector on a broad range of M&A and capital markets transactions. His skills and experience complement those of Keith and David and the rest of our team and will further enhance our industry knowledge and deep client relationships in this important sector.

James Denaut

In our opinion, companies that cannot sustain high revenue growth eventually see their premium erode over the sector. Although Cisco has succeeded in moving attention away from its lack of top-line growth to improved margins, we believe that investors are hardly attracted to a cost-cutting story.

Ariane Mahler

It's a 25 percent premium to the sector average, which is the normal strategic premium that trade buyers would pay.

Harald Gruber

If China opens the door too fast, a lot of state-run banks wouldn't be able to survive the competition from outside. This is the main reason why China has opened the service sector so slowly.

Shawn Xu

This in some terms has been one of the mildest recessions on record, ... but it has been a severe recession by business standards and by the standards of the industrial sector.

Gail Fosler

Taken in isolation you would say, 'Well, why would he say that?' ... He's saying that the private sector is the largest component of our economy and, therefore, most jobs are going to be there.

Max Stier

A few alternative-energy companies are going after the right markets but that doesn't mean you should go buy every name in the sector, ... Investors need to be cautious about chasing the stocks.

Dr. Sanjay K. Jha

This (IPO) represents a test for the sector. We've been disappointed with results - and this isn't an Italian phenomenon, but a European one.

Patrizio Pazzaglia

With the grace period provided by China's WTO agreement approaching the end, the CBRC has - with the fostering of a strategic global vision - been actively pushing forward the opening up of the Chinese banking sector.

Liu Mingkang

Compared with previous quarters, which were heavily dominated by software and semiconductors, we're seeing a mix of companies receiving dollars. It's good to see diversity, because it means we're not relying too heavily on one sector.

Randy Stone

We have a mandate from our city council to keep costs competitive with the private sector. We have to do it better and cheaper to get the contract. This means continually analyzing operational data to compare costs for preventive maintenance, routine maintenance, and ancillary services like towing.

Jim Raper

The Lehman upgrade of Cisco will have an initial positive impact on the tech sector.

Richard Skaggs

Last year was a very big year for classical music on the digital music sector.

Chas Jenkins

Our pessimism reflects a view that signs of strength in the consumer sector could soon start to peter out.

Alan Castle

Difficulties of seasonally adjusting the retail sector around year-end suggest that the two-month average -- about flat -- is a more reliable gauge of hiring trends.

Maury Harris

I still prefer technology stocks. The tech sector is still the place were the earnings momentum is.

Courtney Smith

We believe money flows will favor Microsoft in sector recovery, as other large caps struggle.

Merrill Lynch

Looking at the context of infrastructure improvements in the sector, the numbers of people that are flying and the plans of airlines that are operating, we believe we will revise our estimate upwards in the next four, five months.

Dinesh Keskar

I can't think of another entertainment sector that's systematically freezing out half the potential market.

Andrew Stern

The missing piece throughout [the development of a national infrastructure protection strategy] has been the private sector.

Michael Vatis

The energy sector is a critical part of the economy and an area where we expect to see continued financial activity. The ongoing expansion of our Energy team further demonstrates our commitment to being a leading player in this important industry.

James Denaut

I think the BBC finds it difficult not to compete. Competition in some areas is a good thing, because it provides better consumer choice and keeps everyone on their toes. But it can also destroy the development of the commercial sector, because we can't afford to meet the BBC's position.

Ralph Bernard

The news was negative for the banking sector, fuelling doubts about the feasibility of other planned mega-mergers. But I don't think other groups will backpedal on their merger plans. The market would punish such a move.

Nozomu Kunishige

The biotech sector is just not proven. It gets started and then it fades.

Ben Holmes

Having said that, however, I should note that the current downturn in this sector is an unusually mild one compared with previous cycles.

Malcolm Edey

This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing, ... It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a sector that's been battered by the economic slowdown.

Phil English

The market is going to look at the forecast [for a rise in sentiment in the manufacturing sector]. I think this is a good change, a positive change.

Hirokaza Yuihama

It doesn't mean that we have to buy everything. The Federal Atomic Energy Agency is working through various options to create a way for us to manage a number of key assets in the nuclear machine building sector.

Sergei Novikov

Despite the ongoing market correction in the telecommunications sector, we believe the fundamentals remain intact for the optical networking industry.

Dave Kang

One can expect a lot of consolidation to happen in this sector. The stocks should move up from current levels.

Arvind Pruthi

We maintain our overweight rating on the integrated oil sector, believing that the stocks are only pricing in, on average, a $41-a-barrel crude oil price.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Techs are moving a little and you have oil and gasoline down, which is moving the transports, ... The drop in energy is also knocking the oil sector lower, and that's maybe weighing on the blue chips.

Tom Schrader

The place is growing very rapidly and the banking sector is growing as a multiple of that.

Bryan Sanderson

We think consolidation will continue to be a big driver in the sector, both cross-border and for domestic deals.

Vasco Moreno

What will really be attractive for private companies is the participation in infrastructure projects of a grand scale. The private sector will have the largest participation in these projects.

Rogelio Ramirez De

This is harebrained. It's inappropriate to be farming that out to the private sector.

Randy Perreira

The GDP data was weak, but the key is new home sales. The Fed right now has one thing to worry about, and that is the housing sector. And this number must give it a big relief.

Frank Hsu

Australia has a split economy. The resources sector is booming, but the rest of the economy is slowing.

Adam Carr

But we are reaching the limits. These markets are at the very margin of aviation. (Most) airlines still fly in the eight to 12-hour sector. This is still where the biggest volume (in traffic) is.

Chris Avery

As long as it does not reach the 10-11 per cent interest rate, which was recorded during the financial crisis, and remains at the 7-8 per cent level, the property sector will have a good year.

Hatta Adam

It will add extra expertise, especially in the heavy industrial sector and complement our existing rental radio business.

David Gallagher

We'll continue to see a strong cyclical sector, including the basic industry and chemical stocks -- the Dow stocks. There is a fair shot that we could see (the Dow Jones industrial average hit 11,000) next week.

Greg Kuhn

The federal government is acting more and more like a private sector business. They are cutting costs, reviewing opportunities closely, and conducting cost-benefit analyses for their IT investments. This is a new era in government spending practices and these cost-saving measures will affect federal IT budgets and, therefore, vendor opportunities.

James Krouse

The nonprofit sector is an incredibly important part of the economic sector of the community.

Deborah Hechinger

It is definitely possible. It depends on what the government decides to do and how much more money is needed from the private sector, ... A lot of people wait until they are asked by a role model. Celebrities are very good at encouraging people to give to causes.

Stacy Palmer

In the private sector if somebody is not happy with a job, and they do not think they are being compensated enough for the work, they move on. I do not want that to happen to us.

Jason Baker

The home improvement sector really benefited in Florida last year. We're a very self-reliant country and people start fixing their places very soon.

Jay Mcintosh

While growing 5,6% (in January) compared with January last year, production in the sector declined on a seasonally adjusted basis by 2,7% from December.

Shireen Darmalingam

The definition of open space is bogus. We think the Sector Plan is bad and needs to be improved.

Joanne Davis

We're going to adopt one of the two because those models have been out there for a long time, ... We're still trying to figure out the best method to do that and keep the private sector on a level playing field.

Ron Dick

Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue, ... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.

Kenny Guinn

The government is just trying to sneak in single brand retail companies. The BJP will therefore oppose every attempt to allow FDI in this key sector.

Prakash Javadekar

We have started to see clear signs of recovery in the electronics sector. But we are still halfway through before a full-fledged recovery.

Nobuyuki Oneda

This is one of the most negative outlooks in the wholesale and retail sector since the first quarter of 2004. They're going to be very cautious.

Jeff Joerres

Really, the Internet is broader than one sector. We're going to focus on companies that focus the least on technology. Tech companies just are not attractive. They are too competitive, and they have predatory pricing.

Ryan Jacob

Technology shares are among the most undervalued. Investors who are betting on a year-end rally are probably going to favor the sector.

James Huguet

Experienced investors should already have well-rounded portfolios, but might be prepared to add specific industry-sector funds or even single-country equity exposure. This could give them the extra style bias they want to help them to achieve additional growth potential during the next phase of the economic cycle.

Paul Ilott

Russia is reminding people that they're the powerhouse of natural gas resources, but it's a false promise. They don't have their sector organized enough.

Amy Myers Jaffe

This is not a critique, ... but just a recognition that as strong as we think our biotechnology and research sector is, we've got a long way to go — and other cities are not standing still.

Henry Cisneros

Reflecting solid consumer spending, the real estate and retail sectors are likely to lead the improvement in the overall non-manufacturing sector.

Tatsushi Shikano

Our No. 1 theme here is to create tools that are of use to the farmers and the people in the agribusiness sector. We are continually tapping into new technologies, to find those extra pennies in the marketplace to help them make money.

Kevin Mcnew

He had also worked as an air traffic controller in both the military and civilian sector.

Bruce Woods

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Ho Woei Chen

My goal is to make it city-wide, in each sector, to complement the police so residents help by being eyes and ears for police.

John Mccaul

Projects like this demonstrate a public and private sector commitment to making the hydrogen economy a reality, and to promoting innovation and demonstration of the real potential of green energy technologies here in Canada.

Don Bell

The deterioration in agribusiness contrasts starkly with the ongoing strength in the non-farm business sector as a whole.

Alan Oster

The news was negative for the banking sector, spurring doubts about the feasibility of other planned mega mergers.

Nozomu Kunishige

The fall in inventories is a good sign because it means adjustments in the IT sector that have been taking place since the middle of last year are finally coming to an end.

Naoki Iizuka

There are still good buys, ... Our focus this year is not on any one particular sector or industry group ?now, you have to pick the appropriate stock.

Chris O'donnell

There are some members who would honestly feel that Congress should be running the student loan program, and others think Congress should take advantage of the private sector.

Kevin Bruns

If there's going to be regular land sales, they should be in respect of all types of properties, rather than one specific sector.

Keith Kerr

Consumers are stepping aside, and manufacturing and other business sectors are stepping in. The U.S. business sector is looking very healthy.

Jim Paulsen

The damage to the sector ... is going up each week.

Jan Wolleswinkel

The orders situation in the German manufacturing sector is excellent. It strengthens the European Central Bank's resolve to tighten interest rates and gradually normalize them.

Klaus Baader

I don't think the sector is going to be attractive. Even the most optimistic investor is selling today.

Harry Su

It has all started off strongly because of continuing M&A activity in the oil sector.

Ian Harnett

We have raised the beliefs of atheists above the beliefs of Christians in the public sector, to the point that we infringe upon the rights of Christians.

Rep. Bryan Stevenson

Calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agriculture subsidies that hurt small farmers and the private sector.

Paul Wolfowitz

Furniture manufacturers will clearly be nervous with the potential (of) slowing in the housing sector.

Gerald Zukowski

It's so rare for anything in the telecom sector to show any kind of growth, but they're taking it away from AT&T and MCI and the Baby Bells.

Donna Jaegers

We all know that manufacturing sector employment is plummeting, and with that, you look around and see what could be a good job and you look at health care.

Tom Bissonnette

Any emerging technology should find its way into the market by the trial and error of multiple solutions. Early in a market's development, companies whose proprietary solutions don't rely on external integration are often more successful than those that must agree with other players in the sector.

Vamsi Sistla

The sector of our state that suffered the most was the tax payer, patients suffered some, doesn't look like doctors suffered much, the tax payer wound up paying a lot more money and of course that wasn't supposed to happen.

Kip Sullivan

That really says investors are getting impatient with the turnaround in the technology sector.

Chuck Carlson

Their ideological argument that government shouldn't do anything the private sector does makes about as much sense as saying there should be no public transportation because we have taxis. It's a community decision.

Adina Levin

It is not entirely a surprise that the deal fell apart. Valuations in the sector have fallen dramatically since the initial offer was made.

Craig Moffett

I think many in the Arab sector will support me because I think I bring some of the remedies to ... the severe feeling of growing separation between Israeli Arabs and their country. We cannot allow this.

Amir Peretz

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

Alexis Herman

It's more of a discouraging posture we are sending out. It's not a lot of money but you lose a lot. When students go back home, they become important in government and the private sector. Guess who does the decision-making?

Jesse Lutabingwa

I was one of the early converts. I was using a BlackBerry as I drove. It's a critical part of our infrastructure. Both the government and the private sector rely upon it as a communications device, and because of that, an injunction is not an appropriate remedy.

Gordon Giffin

We liked the whole sector.

James Soutter

The lid has been kept on a little more tightly in Europe. The pace of opening the market to competition has been slower, which has benefited the established carriers. Regulation on airport slots also means the government can control access to the sector and influence the fate of new entrants.

Doug Mcvitie

We think that that's inappropriate, ... The genius of the Internet is that it has been flexible (and) private sector led.

David Gross

Now is the time to start building positions in the pharmaceutical sector. The long-term outlook for the sector is positive.

Bob Parker

We took the decision to back the education sector after the education minister had said the government was so far able to supply the education requirements for 1.3 million out of the 2.3 million children.

Rima Salah

The very survival of New Brunswick?s manufacturing sector is now at risk.

David Plante

These figures have given a much needed fillip to the gaming sector and have gone against the grain in insisting that online poker in particular is still showing signs of growth.

Richard Hunter

ABS (issuance) will be down a little bit in the coming year because most of the growth was in the home equity sector.

Dan Castro

Selling the HP Ethnic Foods business is in line with our strategy of focusing on three core categories where Heinz is a sector leader: ketchup, condiments & sauces; meals & snacks; and infant nutrition.

Joe Jimenez

Aviation is a rogue sector and its environmental impact is out of control. Climate change is the most urgent challenge facing humanity and yet aviation policy is doing the opposite of what is needed.

Tony Juniper

Balanced with the depth and breadth of management expertise that Gores and Proxicom offer, we believe that Daou will become a much stronger company in the IT professional services sector, augmented by custom application softwaredevelopment expertise already in our portfolio through Proxicom.

Mark Stone

The housing sector is definitely something everybody is focusing on in 2006. If people start to see the value of their homes heading lower, there's no doubt we would see a slowdown in consumer spending.

Rick Klingman

Will result in the creation of a powerful base for further development in the sector.

Bernard Arnault

The pickup in domestic demand seems to be starting to boost activity in the tertiary sector.

Paul Sheard

In the immediate future, unions will carry on shriveling in the private sector.

Richard Freeman

Shares in the dairy sector have performed well this year due to great expectations in the industry and the overall good performance of the stock market.

Dong Junfeng

I've been somewhat surprised by the weakness of investment levels in the U.K., particularly given the strong position the U.K. corporate sector has been in.

Chris Iggo

The public utility sector will be a key area for attracting foreign investment in the coming five years.

Liu Jinping

This year, we hope that sales from the (food and beverage) sub-sector will grow by 20 percent.

Thomas Dharmawan

The Fed has identified consumer confidence as the most important concept right now. They are extremely worried that the problems in the stock market and the weakness in the manufacturing sector will lead to pessimism and lower spending.

Russell Sheldon

In my mind it's not a discretionary tool. It's a multifunctional device that is absolutely necessary, in both the public and private sector.

Robert Canevazzi

On top of that, rates are still very high, which guarantee good margins for the sector.

Alvaro Bandeira

But Saudi Arabia and Kuwait offer, I think, the best opportunities in the gas sector.

Archie Dunham

With interest rates on their way down (in the U.S. and the euro zone), large parts of the financial sector are a good bet.

Jason James

In sector plays, you should buy after a down period, when the numbers look terrible. But when you look at a fund, if similar funds have done well and one fund has done poorly, you don't use that logic.

Scott Kahan

It is hard to hear Sun's commentary and have any confidence that spending will reaccelerate or that numbers for most of the enterprise sector may not need to come down again. The demand jury is still out, and that's the key issue.

Thomas Kraemer

With the launch of this new airline, BMI will have a strong presence in both the no frills and full service airline sector.

Nigel Turner

Results from BP will be closely watched this morning and will likely provide some momentum for the sector as a whole.

Claire Collingwood

The ratings reflect Dunkin's very highly leveraged capital structure, thin cash flow protection measures, narrow product focus and participation in the intensely competitive quick service sector of the restaurant industry.

Diane Shand

We're starting to see some good things happen, and you know, there are some major investments here by both the public and private sector. That's what you need to see.

Michael Delk

I believe the growth and demand in the private sector for knowing who you're hiring is where we're going to go. Sooner or later, all the information will be stored by biometrics (the use of physical characteristics to identify a person) and not Social Security numbers.

Charles Carroll

Oil will continue to be the backbone due to its sheer scale plus the rate of expansion envisaged. I'm not sure if this is enough evidence of diversification or conversely is it just evidence of the benefits of a booming oil sector.

Robert Bunyi

The scandal isn't greed in the nonprofit sector. The scandal is under-investment in our own organizations. We're not ready to respond to the uncertainties out there.

Paul Light

This expansion can give us a whole wave of growth. We see a lot of opportunity in the rural sector and in small and medium business firms.

Derek Williams

Amazon has perhaps the best franchise in the sector and they are having trouble meeting revenues estimates ... and that hurts the entire tech sector.

Charles Pradilla

The most responsive group relative to potential near-term changes is the hotel sector. If the economy is expanding and business spending is picking up, so will business travel.

Dan Mcneela

Although private sector inventories surged again, I am not that worried because Japanese companies are now very sensitive and quick to respond to any such negative development.

Osamu Katano

Footwear brands and the retail sector are forced to reflect the cost of the duties in their sales prices. There is no doubt that consumer prices will rise by up to 20 percent if antidumping duties of such magnitude as proposed by the European Commission are imposed.

Horst Widmann

These recommendations are another part of the charitable sector?s commitment to come together and ensure that its organizations meet the highest possible ethical standards. The Panel will continue to work with the sector and government officials to encourage implementation of its comprehensive proposals.

Diana Aviv

Services that don't pay for themselves remain in the public sector. We're losing money on what we do.

Michael Watson

On one hand we have received more budget allocation for tourism promotion, we will also need skilled professionals to advance its growth. More hotel management institutes will ensure more trained staff to the hotel industry. And that will lead to further growth in the sector.

Ambika Soni

I can't imagine foreseeing this happening under any circumstance to anybody, in the public or private sector. Should they have had a heads-up this would happen? I don't know where it would have come from.

William Costopoulos

We have put on this service to recognise the police, the fire brigade and the nurses in the health sector and to highlight the sterling contribution they have been making in this community. We know that many times their service goes unnoticed and so as a fraternal we have decided to highlight them.

Donald Johnson

Our economy has been driven by the private sector. The future of the government doesn't have a big impact on our company's performance.

Tos Chirathivat

We've almost now hit a point of almost buying panic where investors are afraid not to be in the Internet sector, given how strong it's performed recently.

Jonathan Cohen

Our new Internet-specific fund is designed to complement the Merrill Lynch Global Technology Fund, which gives investors broader exposure to the technology sector.

Bob Doll

The beauty of the nonprofit sector is its diversity. Americans need to figure out that they should use the Red Cross, but don't use the whole wad. Save it for some other groups.

Daniel Borochoff

Along with most other participants in the financial-services sector, certain key businesses were negatively impacted by the turmoil in the global financial markets, including, in particular, our credit and relative trading activities.

John Thain