The friendly data such as the decline in the NAPM non-manufacturing added support.

We’ll continue to look for acquisitions to grow our portfolio.

Everything has combined to push prices to new heights and if and when stock markets capitulate, you will have a tremendous bid for Treasuries.

Eliminating the dividend tax is an extraordinarily controversial measure — even Republican support may not be as deep as assumed.

They were never very friendly about it,

It was a very strong quarter across the company,

If the economy continues to grow rapidly in March and April, (the Fed is) likely to raise that funds target again in May. So the market’s been put on notice: Unless you see some overall...

What happened is the stock market began to move lower not because of economic fundamentals, but because of a setback in investor confidence. This huge evisceration of wealth is being seen as a leading indicator...

We call this our neighborhood bar – it’s our home. I can walk in and they have my drink ready before I even get to the bar.

Good news on the recovery front. Obviously, equity investors feel that this is an environment that produces better earnings.

It does not seem as though this will be an Adlai Stevenson moment. I think a lot of his evidence may be open to wide interpretation. Unless there’s a huge surprise, it doesn’t seem that...

We’re just trying to reunite families, … We were hoping Greyhound would help us out. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen.

I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we’re still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the yen against the dollar.

There is a lot of underlying strength in this economy, and as a result we do believe there are some inflationary risks down the road.

There’s a huge conviction in the Wall Street community that this will be a successful, surgical, short-lived military incursion. That it will not cause any collateral damage to oil fields, that it will not destabilize...

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We have been on a high-growth path in India since we began our R&D services and financial services operations there in 2001. With the test and measurement market in India growing at an accelerated rate,...

There’s no doubt that there’s going to be a snapback. The real issue is whether the snapback is representative of substantial and permanent change.

It may be just a coincidence, … but all recessions since the 1970s have been associated with higher energy costs.

This is a continued negative reaction to Friday’s employment report. More investors are realizing the Fed may tighten policy more aggressively than originally thought.

Let’s think back to what happened in Internet stocks, … That was a bubble where there was a complete evisceration of wealth. That will never happen in the Treasury market, because it is backed by...

At the same time, the demand for many commodities is weakening here as global growth begins to moderate.

The market is trading very defensively. That is putting downward pressure on bond prices.

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We’re trying to put a bright picture on the State of the Union address. We’re well above the losses we saw several hours ago.

The data will look better, but it’s going to be very difficult to distinguish whether it represents real change.

This tells us nothing about the strength of a recovery next year,

Today starts a new chapter of Agilent. We have made decisions today for us to be able to focus on our core that we have been a leader in for the last 65 years.

[Over the past two weeks, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury has skipped from 5.08 percent to 5.24 percent on the view that by summer’s end the Federal Open Market Committee will begin to...

That is amazing. … People have the same script but are interpreting it differently. The equity crowd view is that the Brazilian package is the first step to relieving the stresses on Latin America.

We looked at probably 25 different places and narrowed it down to three. And this was one of them.

For the first game of the year I thought our guys played well. They came out strong and really took it to them in the first half.

Business firms are still unwilling to take advantage of this low rate structure. The failure to borrow could be a hint that business planners do not foresee a significant resurgence in the economy over the...

Compared to last year where I had to drive all the way to Canada and pay 40 dollars, this is wonderful. I walked in, it took about two and a half minutes for the whole...

We started the session with this tremendously upbeat commentary in the press and a clear mind-set on Wall Street for the economy to improve in 2003. Lo and behold, the first significant statistic of the...

If the equity market continues to retrench, then there’s going to be quality flows coming into the Treasury arena that push bond yields lower,

Japanese produced goods will become less competitive on the global market place as the yen appreciates and that’s going to slow the recovery process, not only in Japan, but Asia as a whole.

Activity is very light ahead of Greenspan’s testimony tomorrow. We really shouldn’t see much movement . . . there is no prominent economic data out today.

Last year, our revenue grew by 30% in India and we hope it continues.

Even though the rising pattern in borrowing costs is a form of restraint, it is being offset by a surge in equity wealth as the stock market records consistent gains.

The speech doesn’t appear to have garnered any attention at all. His comments really weren’t the focus.

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We’re rebounding from an oversold environment,

The stock market was euphoric over the data reported — taking it as a sign the Fed will not raise rates over the balance of the calendar year. Inflation remains tame and the economy continues...

The nations in Asia, Russia and Latin America have pressure to raise cash, so they are dumping their commodities on the global marketplace and that’s pushing prices lower.

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Typically, at the present stage of an economic rebound — roughly two years after the trough in economic activity had been reached — corporations are borrowing aggressively, funding capital expansion projects, payroll additions and inventory...

This is a very fragile recovery process. It’s been reliant on these low borrowing costs. If we remove them, we effectively deny the economy its support.

From that perspective alone, the current pattern of money supply weakness deserves scrutiny, particularly if the erosion persists into the new year. Essentially, the longer the pattern lasts, the greater the economic impact of this...

What’s going on in the Middle East is resonating more with investors now than it was a week ago, … It’s become very clear that the environment in the Middle East is (more) unsettled and...