George Davis
George Davis
MLB infielder who played 20 seasons and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth23 August 1870
CityNew York City, NY
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It was a cold winter night, as I remember it. We were playing a Cary Grant movie or something like that and he suddenly appeared and held the door open for seniors.
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The bigger issue is not what will happen today, as everyone expects a quarter-point rate hike, but more important will be the accompanying statement to see what a post-Greenspan Fed will look like. It's fairly quiet right now.
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It's been extremely volatile in this pair, especially with the upcoming elections in Canada.
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We're beginning to see people move out of Singer. Some of the people are starting to get placed in longer-term housing in the community, which is really our focus now.
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The days of the rock star board member are over. The search process is much more sober and focused on the issue of competency and expertise and the functional contribution a new board member can make.
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It introduces a little more uncertainty into the marketplace in the sense that most people were expecting some sort of action by the end of December at the latest.
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Over the last couple of days we've tried to break past C$1.1650 (85.83 U.S. cents) and we really haven't been able to do it, and I think what we're starting to see now is some profit-taking, not only on dollar/Canada positions, but on cross positions.
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They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,
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There's been a little bit of corporate and cross interest to buy the Canadian dollar, which appears to have had a little bit of an impact, and I think the market was focusing on support that was very close to 1.17 (85.47 U.S. cents).
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As far as the recreation department, he's been suspended for a year. It's in our recreation department rules that (there's) no physical contact on umpires or even verbal.
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I think we've seen a little bit of a Canadian dollar rally on some of the crosses, so that's been a benefit, and there's been some corporate interest to sell the U.S. dollar (versus Canada) in a fairly thin market.
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I think there's a little bit of concern that we might see oil prices back up above $70 and as a result of that, I think there is a little bit of a positive spin for the Canadian dollar.
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I think the question on most people's minds is what are they going to do to be able to maintain the surplus and not overspend so that we move back into a deficit situation.
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Just given the fact the market wasn't able to push the Canadian dollar above that 12-year high that was set last November, I think that caused a few people to look at taking some profits on some of their long Canadian dollar positions.