David Blitzer
David Blitzer
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This is a year of unusually low S&P index turnover due to the low number of mergers and acquisitions in the large-cap sector. So we are making the change at a time when the impact on index investors will be minimized.
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This was one time hit from oil prices. We knew oil had to go up from an unsustainably low number late last year.
hit knew last late low number oil time
This was one time hit from oil prices, ... We knew oil had to go up from an unsustainably low number late last year.
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These numbers suggest there is no impact to be seen from all the difficulties in Asia.
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Increasingly, companies would pretty much write their own accounting rules when they put together their earnings releases. We said to ourselves, let's figure out how to do this the right way so the earnings number really tells us something about what's going on and the number is consistent from company to company.
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The stock market suggests that there is fantastic bullish sentiment -- everybody feels good, looks good, thinks wonderfully of this economy, and indeed it is very difficult to say anything wrong about this economy,
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The stock market reaction, if they cut a quarter point, probably will be as much a yawn as anything else. If the Fed would go for half a point, which is within the realm of possibility, I think it would get a positive reaction.
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The second quarter was clearly a soft quarter, there was a lot of weakness in manufacturing. I think we'll see a rebound but it won't show up until the August numbers. Getting GM back to work will be a big plus in getting things going again.
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There's not a lot of pricing flexibility, there is a little more upward pressure on wages, and when you add that all together it can be very difficult to raise profit margins.
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there's nothing here that really points to any near-term inflationary dangers.
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From their point of view, there's no inflation danger. The main risk is to slow growth, and they should keep cutting rates.
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People will stockpile food, home heating oil if they can buy it.
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The problem is that instead of having one way to calculate corporate earnings that everybody understands, we have two or three methods. And the one that most people use, there is virtually no agreement at all about what it means.
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The bet is that this will not be repeated next month.