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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.

Hannes Smarason

If he makes the shot, we don't end up in the coin flip for Olajuwon. Because we had gotten Ralph the previous year, maybe a little bit of jealousy around the league led to a lot of the speculation about the fact that the Rockets were really doing bad.

Jim Foley

She will be out for at least a week ? anything after that is just speculation at this point.

Scott Collie

We believe that investors are likely to interpret this ... as being positive for the gold market as it will raise speculation that China will increase its gold holdings.

John Reade

There it stands, with a toss of curls and a flounce of skirts, a Carmen among the cities. the last of the Middle Eastern fleshpots. a junction of intrigue and speculation.

Jan Morris

There was speculation more members would vote for a shift in monetary policy. The bank decided to keep policy with a 7-2 majority and that will make people feel comfortable purchasing bonds.

Tomohiko Katsu

It certainly raises speculation by folks about his future, but he remains in a position at this time that he does not intend to run but doesn't rule it out.

Steve Hildebrand

People are waiting for the next catalyst. Earnings are done, the Fed is in a neutral stance. There's nothing big coming up in the next month, so the market will continue to trade on rumors and speculation.

Troy Nickerson

There is new money coming into [oil trading] in the number of open-interest contracts, but this is not necessarily a sign of speculation.

Jan Stuart

Government debt sold off too much. Yields are high enough to lure investors. Yields already reflect speculation that a rate increase may come in the fourth quarter of 2006.

Tatsuo Ichikawa

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here, ... You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

Marc Racicot

The speculation is that it would be released into the air as an aerosol, possibly from an airplane or perhaps in a closed room. People would then breathe it in.

Johns Hopkins

This is sheer, sensationalistic speculation. This case has attracted all kinds of crazies, kooks.

Henry Klingeman

I'm pretty far out of the loop. There's always a lot of speculation and what-have-you. I'm sure it's fun for people to watch and have fantasies of who might go where. The reality is, guys will change teams.

Andrew Ference

I don't want to go into any speculation. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

Nick Hays

I am concerned about speculation at the high-end of the [real estate] market.

Ken Heebner

A weak housing starts report, a contained [producer-price index] report, and finally the minutes from the last Fed meeting caused the speculation.

Greg Jensen

There was a lot of speculation about Koppel replacing him. Peter grew into the job and the network accommodated the show to his strengths and interests. He had a long ride at the top.

Bob Zelnick

We don't comment on rumors or speculation.

Gary Rhodes

Peaks indicated times of intense speculation and troughs indicated times of low interest in the market, when speculation was not high on people's agenda.

John Bollinger

But this is only speculation by a minister of religion...

Oupa Matlhabe

I would say anything is possible. I guess it's a lot of speculation at this point who's going to be one through four exactly, although it does look pretty definite that Minnesota is going to be a one seed at this point.

Marty Scarano

We're very pleased the financing was well-received. Just a few weeks ago, there were some concerns raised and speculation that certain companies couldn't raise financing.

Mel Stephens

Most people agree it's the metal of the year for general fundamentals, but they are all heavily affected by massive speculation.

Stephen Briggs

I don't think this is a supply and demand issue at all. There is plenty of oil out there. I think the biggest thing going on is there is massive speculation on the markets where hedge funds and other groups are buying oil futures ahead of the traditional run-up in prices to guarantee a return on their investment.

Jim Rink

It's really in the realm of speculation as to how to price this.

Stephen Slivinski

A significant part of demand right now is based on speculation that something is going to happen in the future or near future to make supplies much more scarce.

Michael Darda

The fourth quarter is likely to be filled with anxiety-provoking rumor and speculation - not fun for investors. Moreover, we do think that many investors may feel that they have heard too many excuses about execution to buy into the stock now, even at levels around $100.

Toni Sacconaghi

There were more rapes reported this year than last. I know there's some speculation that there's just more reports. Well, I don't know that. I don't know that it's not actually going up. There's so much we don't know.

Julie Thomas

The market did react quite negatively to the dollar as this rumor triggered speculation this administration may be giving up its strong dollar policy.

Paresh Upadhyaya

Forty U.S. dollars per barrel is a reasonable price, taking into consideration production costs, supply and demand, trading and speculation activities.

Don Voelte

At this stage we look at potential and we see that flood potential is near normal. We don't want to make a speculation about drought, but it is something we need to watch very closely in the coming weeks and months.

Lynette Miller

We booked $21 million of advertising against that down payment in the first 12 days of selling, ... All of a sudden, the speculation that we overpaid went away.

George Bell

There has long been speculation that working folks whose co-payments or share-of-cost keep rising, may decide to take the risk and opt out of medical coverage, ... I haven't seen actual numbers of people dis-enrolling from insurance, but the scenario is logical.

Patrick Hughes

We'd have been happy to have stuck to that (May 31 deadline) but speculation and events have meant we have had no alternative but to bring things forward.

David Plummer

Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia -- where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief -- it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

David Martin

I'm not going to talk about that. I'm not going to talk about speculation.

Rob Evans

There's short-term speculation on aviation as gains in other sectors, like financial services, present a chance to increase exposure in other sectors.

Castor Pang

There's talk of Asian central banks adding to their gold reserves, and that's fueling speculation.

Robert Cameron

Pardon the Interruption. Any conflict is speculation now.

Aidan Quinn

U.S. consumer confidence will push up the dollar by backing speculation the Fed will raise rates further. The dollar's uptrend will likely continue today.

Michiyoshi Kato

There have been no major studies on tracking tenants. It's all speculation to say it's successful.

Robert Bullard

As long as investors keep bidding up the price of the long distance companies on speculation that there might be an acquisition, it actually makes an acquisition harder to complete.

Patrick Brogan

Given his experience with mergers there is a lot of speculation that he will go in there and do a big deal, ... but we're a bit skeptical of that.

Mark Thomas

Until the IPCC report is published, we are all in the realms of speculation.

Richard Barnes

It's one of the reasons why we started talking a month or so ago. It is good to allay all the speculation.

Greg Swann

[The Galileo findings] opened the door to speculation about life, ... 3001: The Final Odyssey.

Richard Greenberg

The share price can only be explained by takeover speculation.

Alexander Groschke

All this speculation that he's no longer a National League player, that he's only fit to be a DH, all that goes by the wayside.

Peter Magowan

We're ready to play, whether it's Purvis or anyone. But Purvis is a great way to start, with the tradition that we have. You can throw any speculation out the window; the games have always been close.

Larry Dolan

No one should be allowed to use this tragedy for political speculation.

Pietro Lunardi

He wants the city to have a winning team. He just hopes the media frenzy and the speculation don't affect the players and the organization.

Herman Morris

QPR has not sacked Ian but we are concerned about recent performances and the effect the speculation about Ian joining Leicester might have on the players. I hope we can sort something out with Ian as soon as possible.

Gianni Paladini

That's unequivocal. There's been all sorts of speculation by all sorts of analysts who have never heard the word accountability. People can speculate all they want, but we made a very simple statement in our press release.

Richard Auletta

The negative share price reaction to these results may reflect certain disappointment... regarding figures which only met, but didn't far exceed, consensus expectations (as the group has been able to achieve in each of the previous two quarterly results announcements) and perhaps a partial evaporation of vague, but continuous, bid speculation.

Jeremy Batstone

What I saw was a connecting problem with a number of the pieces of evidence, which is the level of speculation you have to rely on to make it relevant. That was true with Ratliff – you had to speculate he was responsible for it. It was true with their evidence about material on the computer – you had to speculate that (Kathleen Peterson) found it and speculate that it led to a fight.

Thomas Maher

It's a good start in the sense that they're more subdued type of offerings, so less pure speculation is involved.

Steve Tuen

I saw it scrolling on the bottom of ESPN. There's been so much speculation going on around here the entire season that you had an idea that something was going to happen. You didn't know exactly what.

Trev Faulk

I know there's a lot of speculation, but we have good linebackers. If you look at our team, you'll see that we have good players at a lot of positions. So luckily for us, we've put ourselves in a position where we don't have to do anything.

Fran Foley

One could theorize that Jason's leaving could indicate some impending shakeup in the nationwide makeup of House of Blues, but that's speculation on my part.

Doug Kauffman

That speculation is categorically false.

Jack Grubman

All such speculation about the Third Front is not based on reality. It is non-existent ... it has no place in the current context.

Abhishek Singhvi

Because of fears over an early end to the quantitative monetary easing policy and overrated speculation of subsequent rate increases following the policy shift, we have seen last week yields rise to levels that fully price in a 0.5 percentage point rate hike.

Osamu Tamada

In the late 1980's, there were many cases of speculation that the Japanese would withdraw from the bond market as well. It never happened, and we don't think it'll happen this time.

Andrew Shipley

Well we want to know what the speculation is that is contributing to this, if there's price gouging going on, ... We want to know from state and federal agencies what kind of help is available, if there are tax credits that people should be applying for right now and most of all we want to get to the bottom of why we are seeing these exorbitant rises in natural gas prices.

Jan Schakowsky

We believe their speculation regarding cost is significantly inflated.

Kathleen Vokes

It's all speculation, you're gonna go on the net and see all these things, you just gotta roll with the punches and I'm sure that Sway is going through a whirlwind right now hearing all that.

Drey Silva

There's been so much speculation about what's really going on with their relationship. There has never even been a clear answer on how they met.

Debra Birnbaum

I'm not going to comment on rumors and speculation. The secretary views serving the president as an honor and a privilege. He serves at the pleasure of the president.

Rob Nichols

The market appears to have reacted negatively to the speculation that has emerged out of China regarding the iron ore price.

Brendan Harris

We certainly don't want to engage in speculation. The important thing is that it was found. ... There is an investigation. We'll keep asking questions.

David Castelveter

At this point it would be speculation. It will be necessary for Mr. Cunningham to have a doctor's verification that he's able to return to work.

Marta Tucker

There has never been a split between us and Rafa over Michael Owen or any other player. It's not a no or a yes. There has been plenty of speculation and we will see next week. It's always encouraging when a player says he wants to come to Liverpool.

Rick Parry

Therefore, the actual needs of the Northeast region of the country are little more than speculation at this time.

Patrick Lynch

There's nowhere you can go, because you don't know what the situation will be. It's hard to speculate. You have to be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. We don't know the specifics as to where we stand. It's all speculation at this point.

Kevin Colbert

I think there's a lot of speculation out there that really isn't pertinent or relevant to this investigation at hand.

Jeffrey Koplan

We think that investor speculation on a potential take-over of the company could keep shares in the mid-$20s range.

Donald Trott

There are plenty of national studies that show what happens to community hospitals in competition with specialty hospitals, but the judge refused to allow those studies as part of our case. Until we suffer damages, speculation is all we have to go on.

John Goodnow

The announcement has been made now to end the ongoing speculation in regard to the coaching position next year.

Denis Fitzgerald

Not all the speculation by friends, relatives, prior employees that have some judgment about individuals that may or may not be involved.

Bernard Parks

Earnings continue to come in above market expectations. Takeover speculation is also fueling demand, so the market just continues to rise.

Patrick Casselman

I had no idea there was any speculation whatsoever. None of the Wisconsin players complained afterward, so I didn't know what they were talking about. I had no idea it was off.

Sean Collins

We do not know what to make of Tom Fox's absence from this video. We are not making any speculation.

Jessica Phillips

No one believes that we would get that top figure. There is speculation that it would be between the 19 and 21 million additional dollars. If you factor in declining enrollment, we'll probably receive a little bit more than we did last year.

Marjorie Kaplan

It is disappointing that what was a private discussion between the captain and myself has become a cause of public speculation. Even more disappointing is that much of what has been written does not represent the discussion fairly.

Greg Chappell

The market has reduced speculation about the likelihood of rate cuts anytime soon as the data is coming in pretty robust.

Richard Mcguire

This ended all the speculation. We know what the answer is. But the combination of USA Networks and Lycos was not necessarily what the Street was expecting.

Paul Merenbloom

Since last spring, there's been a lot of speculation in the press about my tenure here. I've made a decision and I wanted you to hear about what's happening from me.

Neal Shapiro

I think it's very unlikely Alliance & Leicester will be around as an independent entity in five years time; it's a question of at what price and when, and there's a lot of bid speculation in the (share) price at the moment.

Andy Penman

There is a growing possibility of a victory for the LDP and Koizumi by a big margin, which is positive for the yen. There is speculation that Koizumi's grip on power will strengthen, making it easier for him to promote reforms.

Minoru Shioiri

Right now it's all about the speculation that Japan will end its quantitative easing.

Adarsh Sinha

The government may not be able to stop the BOJ from shifting policy after all the speculation that's been built up in financial markets.

Takehiro Sato

We now no longer know what the attorney general's opinion is despite the press speculation there has been that he is deeply disturbed.

Ken Clarke

In the absence of any new M&A speculation this is more of a pause for breath more than anything else. With the exception of the retailers UK Plc is in very good health.

Richard Hunter

The speculation concerning my role during the third voting round in the 2012 (host) city elections are completely without foundation.

Lambis Nikolaou

We faced one of the most difficult challenges in bargaining that we have in a good many years, ... the Ford workers probably knew that more than anyone, given the amount of downtime they've had, given the uncertainty, the media speculation of workplace closures and layoffs.

Buzz Hargrove

I do not think China will take the bold course of doing that. But this persistent speculation could encourage Middle Eastern and other Asian nations to race to diversify their dollar holdings.

Masafumi Yamamoto

All the setbacks in the zloty have been politically driven and now we can ignore the politics and focus on fundamentals. All that speculation about rate cuts is also proving very bullish for the zloty.

Aziz Mcmahon

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

The two things which initially the market was looking at are pretty unchanged -- the two things that have been moving the market all year. One is the oil price and the other thing which has made the market frothy of late is the continued mergers and acquisitions speculation.

Richard Hunter

I would prefer history tell itself, rather than have Hollywood tell it. There's so much we just don't know. Unfortunately, they're taking artistic license with history and people will believe it's accurate. Speculation is okay for drama, but it's less okay when it's purporting to tell history. If they didn't know, why didn't they just leave it out?

Carie Lemack

Domestic-demand related stocks will lead the market on speculation consumer prices may finally gain.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Yields will have a bias to rise toward next year. The economy will probably be in good enough shape to push up stocks and cement speculation about an end to deflation.

Nobuto Yamazaki

The Middle East is the area where we're most concerned. There has been a lot of speculation in these markets.

Joanne Irvine

Over the past few days there has been a lot of speculation about the future of Sydney FC, and my position in particular. I have spoken with all shareholders over the past 48 hours and there is unanimous support for me in this role.

Walter Bugno

It's all speculation. They have set guidelines. The 65 pitches on the first round is probably a little advanced. We're in communication with their people. There's probably a little more intensity with the WBC than in exhibition games.

Rick Honeycutt

We do not comment on speculation.

Jerry Shields

I'm sure it has to be a species distinct from us. There is speculation that it could be a diseased human, but this is nothing like that.

Andrew Hill

We won't comment on rumor and speculation.

Jeff Kamis

Today the analysis and the speculation ends.

James Rogan

There is a bit of speculation that Mr Jiang has been pushed aside, as there are certain subtle pressures suggesting that he should step down.

Joseph Cheng

One based on speculation, smuggling.  [There was] a black market on foreign currency and revenues were not being collected.  So we cured all that.

Yoweri Museveni

I'm aware that there is speculation that these deaths were not the result of a sad but relatively straightforward road traffic accident in Paris.

Michael Burgess

At this time we cannot comment on any political speculation.

Rob Kenny

Continuing takeover speculation on a host of companies may see another near term rally in equity markets.

Matt Buckland

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Nobody knows the full extent of the damage. The speculation is that it will be worse than Ivan, but we won't really know for days, until oil companies get personnel out there and survey the damage.

Marshall Steeves

There is a lot of speculation out there about what prompted the move. Some have said there may be another hedge fund blow-up out there.

Michelle Laughlin

It came out of nowhere. There was not speculation at all. Then we find out Coach is leaving. It was a tough time for all of us.

Jacob Burtschi

We're talking about some big global players here, so that's what driving the speculation behind the rest of the sector. Steel stocks have been gaining a small amount of momentum back after a poor run the past few months, and this is the kind of thing that could prompt some managers to have another look.

Don Hamson

For an item that has been continued for more than three years, any observation on what might happen in the future is pure speculation.

Bob Pederson

I'm not sure where that speculation comes from.

Lew Perkins

It really squashes all the speculation regarding his death. They appear to be very thorough in their analysis. Hopefully, now people really get off the idea that these guys are overweight, or that drugs or steroids were involved in any way.

Frederick Lyles

This low volume is exactly what the doctor ordered. It's telling you that a great deal of the speculation has been taken out of the market.

Ralph Bloch

We never comment on any rumors or speculation. Nothing has changed on this position.

Juergen Schrempp

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

Roger Bacon

If the core CPI is above market consensus forecast of a rise of 0.4 pct year-on-year, this would fuel speculation that the Bank of Japan will end its ultra-easy monetary policy at its meeting next week, which could spark a spate of yen-buying.

Harry Ida

I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about the war in Iraq, and we're trying to give people that sort of information.

Krister Anderson

For years, there has always been speculation, does this footage exist, so we have a piece that actually explains what it was and we do a recreation of it. For fans of the film, that's a big, important thing.

George Feltenstein

We never comment on speculation.

Gary Hetherington

Much of the dollar's move is coming from uncertainty as to what is going to happen with the Fed, ... There is speculation the Fed can pause, or they will raise rates but release a fairly dovish statement, putting rate hikes after September in doubt.

Johan Javeus

Whether there's enough heat to actually get the chemistry [of life] going is pure speculation at this point. But it's certainly intriguing.

Michael Shara

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

I have to deal with speculation all the time. But 10 years from now, I see a conference with 12-to-14 basketball-playing schools and at least 12 football-playing schools. We do have a strategic plan, and we'll follow it.

Dennis Thomas

(South Korea's announcement) comes on the heels of Russia saying the same thing. This has fueled speculation that Japan may do the same.

Andrew Busch

We are not going to comment on rumors and speculation.

Chuck Hartlage

It appears that the journalist at Reuters was somewhat confused in terms of separating speculation and fact, so he ended up publishing speculation as fact and largely ignoring the facts.

Georg Greve

We never comment on market rumor and speculation. We monitor all our markets constantly and talk to participants on an ongoing basis.

Adam Robinson

There's a lot of speculation out there and a lot of rumors going around. We're just trying to clear the air and give everybody a fresh outlook as to what's happening out there.

Jeanette Grace

It will continue to be a guide for our future policy-making to treat people's homes differently from investment housing and speculation.

Wang Li

There would have to be a structural shift in prices to change their perspective, ... Right now, there's a lot of speculation built into oil prices -- the majors will have to see that turn into fundamentals in order to change their plans.

Jeb Armstrong

Dan has many interesting sidelines and he's fascinated by the world of paranormal. It's part of his family history, in fact, ... He has relatives he claims were spirit mediums. He also believes in alien visitation and there is some speculation that Dan is an alien. He's so genuinely enthusiastic about the stuff. That's what was on the page when he showed it to us.

Harold Ramis

There's speculation out there that more policy makers will cast votes against keeping the policy unchanged. That is negative for bonds.

Naomi Hasegawa

I'd just come out and I was [thinking about] all that speculation.

Brian Roberts

Remember that speculation cuts both ways.

Purnomo Yusgiantoro

Robbie, I am sure, would benefit from that if he came along but that is pure speculation, we've not even discussed it. I don't look after the football, but I'm sure Sam is interested in somebody who can score 13 goals in 14 games against Bolton. At least he would stop scoring against us if he played for us.

Phil Gartside

I am too scared to buy bonds. I haven't seen any investor purchase debt recently as it's hard to know when yields will stop rising amid speculation the central bank will raise its key overnight rate.

Nobuo Tamamizu

Lloyds is rising on speculation that BBVA will make a bid. There's been talk of a tie up between the two for ages. BBVA pulling out of BNL is going to reinforce that rumor.

Simon Payne

Every astronomer will remember when they first heard the results from WMAP, ... The announcement ... represents a rite of passage for cosmology from speculation to precision science.

John Bahcall

The auction was better than I expected and showed solid demand for the debt. The note has priced in speculation the central bank will shift monetary policy and the move was too excessive.

Tsutomu Kawasaki

It's phenomenal what's going on. There's been a lot of hype and speculation.

Travis Thompson

The consolidation story across the industry is certainly growing. Although there's no speculation on Legal & General at the moment, its very strong UK market share could put it in the firing line.

Keith Bowman

The topic is not before us at this time, and we will not feed the speculation about personnel.

Bernd Osterloh

Retail banking remains a concern, as does unsecured lending. However, with bid speculation helping the valuation, this should provide support for the share price.

Andy Penman

There has been no case made -- based on anything other than speculation -- that Iraq poses a threat.

Scott Ritter

Fukui's remarks today fueled speculation that the end of the policy could come as soon as March. With consumer prices projected to keep rising this year, the BOJ may raise rates as soon as October.

Hideo Kumano

QPR have not sacked Ian but we are concerned about recent performances and the effect the speculation about Ian joining Leicester might have on the players. QPR will always be enormously grateful for the contribution he has made over the past five years, in particular gaining promotion for us in 2004.

Gianni Paladini

Although broadband penetration among Internet users has long been on the rise, it was always amid speculation that the high cost of broadband would limit its widespread adoption. However, over the last year, carriers have responded to the growing demand for lower- cost broadband, and all indications are that this trend will continue.

Charles Buchwalter

This speech will be a turning point. It will come as a real response direct from the source, clearing up the speculation.

Haj Ali

We are obliged to make a statement due to press speculation.

Alex Pagett

There is continued takeover speculation surrounding the entire group. I suspect that is the primary reason moving the stock.

Michael Flanagan

Momentum for the yen is good. Fukui's comments and this newspaper report fed speculation about a March policy move, increasing the chances of a rate hike by the end of the year.

Takehiko Jimbo

The central bank has not responded yet to the pressure but the Ministry of Finance will continue pressing the bank to do something. Speculation the bank will try to keep yields lower is spreading.

Akitsugu Bandou

I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judiciary to decide on, not for politicians and Jalal should know better than that. Why should he make a statement on the accused to the public? The court, the judge need to decide on this.

Abdel Haq Alani

There was a lot of speculation and now we have to play them again.

Jerzy Dudek

Investors will probably sell bonds today. Muto's comment and reference to core prices added to speculation the central bank will end the monetary easing policy sooner.

Tatsushi Shikano

I think a video would have far more credibility ... the fact that it's only audio possibly confirms rather than reduces the speculation.

Mustafa Alani

The situation with John is that he is under contract until the end of the season and we have to make a decision on extending his contract before the end of May and that is what we will do. I can see why all this speculation has come about. John is out of contract, so is Brian Smith, and he is also a former Hull coach.

David Plummer

Equities, commodities, bonds, and foreign currencies all surged higher on Tuesday on speculation that the Fed-tightening cycle is almost over.

Greg Jensen

Penney offered a benign set of comments about Eckerd. While its department stores are doing a little better, Eckerd is deteriorating. The speculation is that Penney's first choice is to sell its drugstore business.

Jeffrey Klinefelter

We are ecstatic to finally be able to announce the date of our Grand Opening game at our new stadium in Bridgeview. We know there has been much speculation and great anticipation in the community about this date, and we are thrilled that every soccer fan can now circle June 25 in their calendar.

John Guppy

Supply and demand price for oil stands at around $27, so $5 to $6 (of the current price) is pure speculation. There is no demand for oil at these prices, buyers are sitting and hoping oil prices will fall, but prices could shoot up if there is a panic. There is real concern heating oil could run out.

Peter Hitchens

Rumors are flying and I know that. I think we will have some answers that I can publicly put out in a week or two. Right now, it is all speculation.

Jim Stuart

Keep in mind that it's only a six-month delay, so it's not catastrophic ... (But) right now there are a lot of clouds in the sky. There's speculation that their second quarter will be difficult. There's the problems in Asia and the sluggish Japanese economy. A lot of things don't bode well in the near term.

David Powers

As sales have been growing in the United States, there's a lot of speculation about Toyota adding capacity for engine production, automotive production or both. Sales ultimately will be what determines our plans for another plant.

Dan Sieger

We don't comment on rumors and speculation.

Rick Swagler

There had been shots fired and were being fired while the 911 call was being placed, ... They knew there was a problem when they called. There was a confrontation, but what that was about is speculation.

Michael Jansen

It's incredible momentum. The market just seems to have taken up from where it left off in 2005 with a lot of cash washing around from all the bids going on and a lot of bid speculation still about.

Roger Cursley

We don't have any word for sure. On the record, I know what you know - which is wait for the announcement ... but there has been speculation.

Rex Norman

We're going to stick to science on this thing and avoid speculation.

Paul Johansen

This very possibly has something to do with the fact that this week the academy will announce this year's winner, ... He knows nothing about the discussion that led to the choice of Elfriede Jelinek, so what he says in this article of his is empty speculation.

Horace Engdahl

He has not been charged, but is being detained and is still being interviewed by police. Like any other murder case, this will be investigated thoroughly and with absolutely no speculation.

Dcp Shields

There isn't a deadline and I don't want to say that it will be done in the next 24 hours or 72 hours. There are so many rumors and speculation floating around -- all I'll say is he is seriously thinking about this. He knows he has to make a decision. And when he comes to that decision he'll say so.

Bruce Teitelbaum

Both of these are speculation. Hopefully in a few months I can tell you.

Carey M. Lisse

One thing I am looking forward to is laying this out and getting all of our people focused on delivering this piece of what we have to do. This speculation does not help us with our unions and our people in the development centers.

Jim Padilla

You hear a lot of these rumors, a lot of speculation by possibly energy trading companies that may stand to gain a profit from that. But it's really hard to say.

Cynthia Harris

Our speculation of gas and oil prices made the prices go up before the hurricane hit. Students perceive there is more drinking going on than there really is, which increases bad behavior. Unfortunately, speculation can create a reality.

Chris Austin

I wouldn't make that speculation.

Bill Mahon

In Michigan, we only have one refinery. The other two factors influencing our prices are that there is a lot of speculation taking place on the commodities market and that there are a number of refineries that are having to shut down temporarily to switch their production to the summer-grade gasoline blends.

Jim Rink

A strong inflation figure will heighten speculation the Bank of Japan will change its easy monetary policy from the spring, encouraging buying of the yen.

Tetsu Aikawa

At this point, there is just a lot of speculation and conjecture.

Michael Huyghue

You're just seeing some regional differences because of what's available locally. We have a good supply, but there seems to be a lot of speculation on usage.

Bruce Bell

When you're putting off the benefits of a deal for that long, you're dramatically increasing the risk, and at some point the benefits become speculation.

Allen Michel

The report prompted speculation that charging lower interest will hurt consumer lenders' earnings. It's difficult to buy the stocks when we cannot confirm how they will secure profits once the regulation is tightened.

Junichi Misawa

There are just a few radicals who push these things. I think we need to get back to the basics and leave the speculation and theories alone.

Jack Jordan

It's just one more wave of wild speculation that's going to end the same way the others have. To try to conclude that the bear market is over is the height of lunacy.

Bill Fleckenstein

Anyone who bought the company on that speculation in the past has been burned. In the past, the company has endured quite a bit of pain without the family selling.

Nomi Ghez

There's a lot of speculation that we're in a period of polarization, both politically and on certain ideas that people don't see as able to compromise.

Craig Grau

The dollar got sold off and then rallied back to the levels prior to the news. The jobless figure is important and a strong number will keep alive speculation of more rate hikes.

Adrian Foster