Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think the bond market has a problem. In one respect, you have flight to quality, in another, the jobs report was very, very strong, and clearly inflationary pressures are there.

I think the bond market has already discounted a favorable report but not a negative report, ... If we see something less than 150,000, bonds will rally and stocks may, too.

I think the bond is unfair. A bond should be set for two reasons: Will you return to court and are you a threat to our community?

I think that the next move with interest rates is going to be up and, quite frankly, ... the numbers we saw this morning were stronger than expectations and so we see that the consumer is not slowing down at all and you have the bond market a little on the edge.

Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds and, by extension mortgage rates, to fall as investors worried about the health of the U.S. economy.

It is possible that this year will mark the end of the deflation and will bring in a paradigm shift to the bond market next year. Ten-year yields may rise to 2 percent by the end of March next year.

Jon Tester

Here in the West, our word is our bond and a promise and a handshake mean something. This is President Bush's second nomination to replace a Western justice with one from the East Coast. I think we need more Western common sense and ethics on the Supreme Court, not less.

David Rosenberg

Here's the story for equities: twin deficits, a weak dollar, accelerating inflation concerns, firm commodity prices, rising bond yields and Fed tightening. Now if that doesn't sound like 1987 (the year of the stock market crash), we don't know what does.

Historically Wendy's has taken pride in having investment-grade bond ratings.

Ryan Pickett

He sat down with my family, and I felt more of a bond with him than the other coaches who came to visit.

If a husband leaves his wife, their children may bring them back together in the world, and the bond is established.

Bob DuPuy

I expect them to play the whole season. I expect Bonds to play the whole season, his physical limitations not withstanding.

I expect the market to do fairly well in the near term, especially as portfolio managers move money out of bonds back into equity. Then things will kind of flatten out.

I expect bonds to keep rising. Economic growth is facing obstacles.

E. B. White

I don't think it's something to worry about but I think it is an incremental piece of data that indicates strength, and it's hard to get real bullish for bonds when you see that.

E. B. White

I don't think it's something to worry about, but I think it is an incremental piece of data that indicates strength, and it's hard to get real bullish for bonds when you see that,

If it comes in too weak, you get worries about the economy. If you get a blowout number, everyone will get obsessed about interest rates again, the bond market will go into a tizzy, and stocks will slide.

The rally in bonds was entirely a reflection of the selling that was going on in equities.

Hugh Jackman

We met at a party 11 years ago when we were both on first dates with our now wives so we kind of bonded right from the get go.

We maintain our constructive stance on Philippine long-term foreign currency bonds and dollar-peso forecast of 50 by year-end.

I was surprised to see speculation of a policy change grow stronger. Bonds tumbled as stocks rallied on the solid economy. Yields are to rise in the next several months.

I would expect the bond is going to do a lot better after this report. You look at this headline (and) it worries you, but then you look at the details in this report and you see what is going on. I think the more people look at this report today, the more they are going to like it, the less they are going to fear it, and the better the bond market is going to do.

John Logan

I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces.

If we don't pass bond elections for schools and we have overcrowded schools, it's much more difficult for us recruit new jobs for people to live their own American dream,

If we fill to capacity we don't have to do a tax or bond to cover the rest.

If we don't build new schools outlined in the bond issue, we will have to put the projected 7,500 students expected in the next four years in existing classrooms and portable buildings,

I got phone calls all the way up to this morning. I'm really happy it's over with. I really bonded with the coaches the most at Miami.

Justin Martin

I got my license after 2001 for me I am going to have to hold up a $300,000 bond each year for the protection of consumers.

If we continue to see sharp hikes in yields, then stocks will face tougher competition from bonds. But if bond yields can stabilize here, or just move up modestly, stocks can tough it out.

If the economy keeps growing at a faster pace, the Fed may need to boost rates for longer than what markets are currently expecting. I think that's what the stock and bond markets are reacting to right now.

If the currency is going to weaken, the U.S. dollar, that is, it raises the prospect of expatriation of funds back to their home domiciles. That would bring some renewed pressure on the bond market.

If the bond fails, facility conditions in the district will continue to worsen, they won't get any better.

If the Fed is not going to do the heavy lifting, the bond market is going to do it for them.