David Powell
David Powell
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We're particularly conscious of the need to help spouses. Usually the diplomats will be able to speak the language, whereas spouses might not. So it can be a very isolating experience. So we do try to give a lot of support through what we call community liaison officers.
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This should help the greenback continue the rally experienced over the last few weeks and leave the market focusing on further dollar gains related to a potential move of the fed funds rate to 5.00 percent.
gets speed
Once Darrius gets in the open, he's got the speed to take it to the end zone,
alive consumer despite housing
The consumer is still alive and well despite softening of the housing market.
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The irony is while we're driving more productivity and revenue by switching to broadband POS systems, we need to be far more careful about Internet vulnerabilities. It's a whole new ballgame building an IP network for hundreds of stores that needs to function even if a broadband connection is lost, and has to protect private customer and business information, not to mention facilitate the business of managing the entire network.
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They continue to take those paper profits and turn them into cash ... because they have to show real money on December 31.
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We had to go to our passing game tonight. They did a great job of shutting our running game down.
bit positions taking traders wary
We've had a bit of range-trading. I think traders have been a bit wary about taking positions on dollar/Canada today.
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I understand the dilemma and the risks I'm asking you to take. I'm asking you to support me and to allow me to run this office for one year the way I can maintain morale and keep two qualified people working. I can do that and meet your budgetary requirements, ... I can never do that and keep the courthouse happy. I don't try to do that. I've not tried that for 20 years. That's going to be impossible for me to do. I don't worry about anybody but my staff nor do I come in here and complain about what somebody else is getting. If you want to pay the folks in the clerk's office $60,000, I don't care. I'm talking about one person here and trying to sustain it for one year.
capacity definitely further hikes implies monetary policy rate
The wording was that monetary policy is still stimulative, which implies further rate hikes down the line. And this morning, when capacity utilization was released, that definitely augured well for another rate hike.
hikes hints
These are the first hints that the end of the hikes may be coming.
disregard effect looks market
One can't disregard the short-term effect of market psychology, and it looks like that's what was going on here today.
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My feeling is that while there may be a mention of (a stronger Canadian dollar), it's not going to be a focal point of the statement because they are less concerned now about Canadian dollar appreciation than they were a year ago. The economy has had time to adjust and get used to a stronger Canadian dollar.
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My feeling is that it's going to hint at much more aggressive monetary policy moving forward given the hawkish nature of Tuesday's statement.