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I think the market's come to realize that economic growth in the U.S. is not threatened by higher oil and commodity prices. Regional markets also benefited from positive fund flows.

I think the American industry has stopped considering (small cars) as commodity vehicles,

The purpose of the fund is to invest in habit-forming small ticket items which people think they can't live without, ... That turns out to (include) liquor and tobacco. But that's not it. I hate to tell you. The No. 1 habit-forming commodity is toilet paper.

If we see signs that the economy is in fact slowing, and inflation remains contained, then the pause is a positive for stocks. But if we see tightness in the labor market, pressure in commodity markets, that could suggest we will see further hikes.

I would be interested in what those Fed members who are concerned about longer-term risks to the economy say in terms of any damage from higher energy prices and commodity prices.

There are a lot of investors out there who look at oil as a leading indicator for commodity investing.

There are many players in the commodity insurance business. But we feel insurance is a relationship business. People come to us with problems, and we try to give them solutions.

Hugh Laurie

The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that's fine.

With prices of oil and metals rising higher, shares of commodity producers will benefit.

Janet Yellen

You are seeing some pass through of high energy and commodity prices, import prices, into core inflation.

Jonathan Daniels

Expect to see commodity prices jump. It's not going to happen today or tomorrow, but it's something we need to be prepared for.

Peter DeFazio

First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

To replace a commodity material, you have to get those economies of scale.

There hasn't been a lot of correlation between commodity prices and inflation since 1990.

Our strong operating results in the third quarter of 2005, bolstered by continuing high commodity prices, should lead to a record year for the company.

We note that the judge has explicitly said that, irrespective of any intellectual property, database, or other rights, BHB has, in the data, a valuable commodity for which it is entitled to charge.

Standard & Poor's does not expect major margin improvement in fiscal 2006 for the larger players. Even though commodity prices have stabilized, they remain at historical highs.

Some of these commodity stocks continue to surprise us today.

Some of the commodity investors went back into the market with the Iranian issue still looming as a worry.

Looking ahead, we continue to be positive on gold, seeing multiple hand-offs between fabrication and investment demand, and between commodity fundamentals and macro/monetary catalysts.

I think people need to watch the commodity markets to know what's going on. That's where all the money is, where all the leverage is, it's the emerging market play.

It isn't like you are replacing something (industrial and office properties) that is a precious commodity at this point. Vacancy rates are still pretty high.

Red dirt is a big commodity because of all the growth in the area. It gives that solid foundation everybody's looking for.

Oracle RAC has come a long way in establishing itself as a key technology in delivering unparalleled high availability and scalability solutions for Oracle databases. Forrester estimates that there are more than 1,200 customers who are currently using RAC in production, and this is likely to double in the next 12 to 18 months as enterprises look to deploy low-cost commodity servers and extend their applications to support higher availability.

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.

Ludwig von Mises

What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.

Typically, when commodity price estimates decline, so do the stocks. These are dangerous times.

We have more than doubled that (2005) outlook and we have done that on the back of some very strong energy and commodity prices, and not without a lot of other good news. I don't see how it can continue.

US Federal Reserve will definitely raise the interests rates, however, current oil price is undergoing a relatively long period of climbing. By taking that kind of situation into consideration, it is an inevitable tendency the price of oil and commodity will continue to rise.

While commodity prices have been rising Australia's interest rate spread has been narrowing.

We have some inflation at the pipeline level, rising commodity prices, crude, material prices, things of that nature, but that inflation doesn't always get passed on to the consumer level.

Most commodity prices ended firmer last week and that has revived confidence in metal stocks.

Those are the ones that are very cyclical, and the economy has a big impact, but they become very cheap, ... Companies like some of the commodity semiconductors, the integrated device technology types.