Quotes about Spreads

A 15 to 20 basis point move in spreads shows investors were still waiting for something new.

John Atkinson

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Cicero

Sooner or later we've got to beat them. We rushed a few shots and that's when the lead spreads from seven or eight to 14 or 15.

Keith Andrews

Demand from overseas continues to be a big part of why spreads are tight.

Ira Jersey

We have precisely enough -- that is, 20,000 doses -- available to us in Hungary, so that if the situation comes up where bird flu spreads to domestic poultry, that the surgeon general can decide to vaccinate people who breed or who work immediately with those birds.

Andras Batiz

Now at the beginning of the year, while spreads are not all the way back in, we have seen a 200-basis-points move back and forth in spreads.

Scott Eichel

We feel good about our personnel here and a lot of guys can do different things. That definitely spreads the work load a bit and that will be good down the road.

Antoine Vermette

People really, really enjoy themselves. [The audience has] so much fun when they see this show, and it spreads.

Kym Valentine

The implications are a bit worrying for spreads, particularly for the corporate market. The inversion means the market thinks the Fed has tightened too much and expects short-term rates to be cut by the Fed.

David Goldman

We don't know a whole lot about this yet. To date, this is just headline fodder. These spreads are very attractive if nothing happens.

Craig Hutson

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

Sappho

This comes about every time a new console comes out. It's real easy to say 'look at all of this cool console stuff and PC is dead.' And now, with all the new releases, it just spreads it out.

Rob Smith

And when they are distracted and there are worries about them, that spreads. So there is a sense of anxiety in the White House at the moment.

Brit Hume

But once the ball starts getting rolling, it grows exponentially. You know, it was a lot tougher to grow from five to 20 readers than it was to go from 500 to 1,000 readers. It just sort of spreads by word of mouth and that type of thing.

Aaron Gleeman

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

James Sarni

Mexican stocks finished in line with the Dow and the spreads on Mexican debt were almost unchanged. Investors still see Mexico as a safe haven in the region.

Todd Edwards

Once you get one done, the word spreads around.

Jon Moore

Macro hedge funds came in and bought a ton of protection across the triple-B stack. Spreads were basically pushed out to 1998 levels in a couple of weeks, without any real panic or liquidity crisis in the marketplace.

Scott Eichel

It's a country developing very fast and it deserves to have low credit spreads. Investors like myself with pension funds and central banks will just buy into any weakness.

Jerome Booth

The market is more exuberant, spreads are at ridiculous levels but nobody cares because there is too much money and fundamental news continue to be very positive. That will remain in the short term.

Vitali Meschoulam

The spread curve is compressed enough -- you're talking about five basis points difference in the overall spread between two-year and seven-, eight or nine-year agencies, and a very flat Treasury curve, there's no reason to extend out for rates or spreads.

Jamie Jackson

Today, as bond buyers search in this period of very low interest rates and tight credit spreads for every additional basis point of yield they can find, market participants seem to be ignoring the lessons that were learned in prior bust periods, ... By ignoring those hard learned and expensive lessons, such investors are sowing the seeds of future defaults.

Paul Ross

Given where spreads are relative to past history, they've gone from screamingly cheap to something close to fair value, Being appropriately valued isn't the same as without risk.

Richard Koss

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

John Swanson

The word spreads between prisons. If you have a good thing you can't not give it away.

Marcia Sinkovitz

He's like a disease. He's like an infection. He just spreads.

Aaron Harris

It's a big deal for women with breast cancer. The potential is that their cancer never comes back and spreads. It definitely has the potential to make a big impact.

Colleen Wilson

Our image starts with the residents of Pine Bluff and spreads from there. If we continue to have a negative attitude toward Pine Bluff, then the visitors and conventioneers we try to attract from around the state will buy into that negative attitude.

Sheri Storie

It spreads around the Earth as a rock vapor cloud that eventually condenses and forms droplets that solidify into spherules, which rain back down onto the surface.

Donald Lowe

In London trading today, we've seen a further massive widening in spreads on the Brady bonds.

Peter West

The more it spreads in birds internationally, the more opportunities it has to interact with animal and human hosts, increasing the chances it could evolve into a human pandemic virus. No one knows if this will happen, or when, so it is critical to prepare for a potential human flu pandemic at the same time that we are working to prevent the spread of avian flu in birds.

Carissa Etienne

We're seeing a lot more groups of users who participate in online forums. Word spreads quite quickly among them, and then trickles out. It works in a positive way when products are doing well, but can also have a detrimental affect.

Ian Fogg

The great thing about mutual funds is that most of the time the money isn't invested in any one fund, so it's like the risk spreads.

Larry Thurmond

It's certainly more intuitive and reasonable to go with decimals. We think it's just a benefit that will accrue to investors in the form of narrow spreads.

Cameron Smith

It's very easy to blame bird migration, because then no one's responsible. Migrating birds may introduce the virus into an area, but it is human activity that spreads it.

Juan Lubroth

My gut tells me that spreads and yields are still too high to see a flood of deals. But if the market continues to improve, we will be at a point where a pickup in deals would be feasible.

Brian Reynolds

These spreads levels are not sustainable. Investors are taking positions without correctly assessing risks.

Jaime Valdivia

Who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their very existence.

Charlie Anderson

The portfolio decline was mainly a product of our desire to be opportunistic, and the spreads between mortgage-backed securities and agency debt were not conducive for growth. The tightness of spreads gave us fewer opportunities to grow.

Michael Cosgrove

Written in blood - and Bigotry may swell. The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!

Edward Moore

What fascinates me is the detail -- the brilliance and beauty of the detail of the cut itself. The cut itself catches the light and spreads it.

Edward Pullen