Michael Metz
Michael Metz
Michael Metzis a former field hockey player from Germany, who won the silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea for West Germany. Four years later, when Barcelona, Spain hosted the Summer Olympics, he was a member of the Men's National Team that captured the gold medal...
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The Delphi bankruptcy didn't help. The concern is, what are the repercussions of that for General Motors and for other automakers and the component makers. And it's all happening against background where real wages are not rising, so the question is, who's going to buy what American manufacturers produce?
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Couples have unreasonable expectations. And unreasonable expectations are a major cause of problems.
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Even though the summer is traditionally slow, we are likely to see a pickup overseas this year. That's really where the incremental business will come from.
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That's because the market's been dominated by entrepreneurial investors, rather than typical mutual fund investors.
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I wasn't really worried about it, ... Maybe I should have been, (but) I thought it would all blow over, and didn't see it as a catastrophe.
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If we do have oil prices at this level for another week or so, it's going to make investors reconsider the whole outlook for consumer demand, which of course has been the real fuel for the economy.
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My guess is we've seen a little bit of a blow-off on oil and it's going to be a little bit more of a hospitable climate, as far as oil prices are concerned.
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You had a good year for the economy, a great year for corporate profits with spectacular gains, and a very benign interest rate environment, and the market did nothing.
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(This) week is all about the Fed. But we all know they are trying to bring back the benchmark rate to neutrality. They still have a couple more rate increases to go.
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When people are desperate to sell you buy. When they are desperate to buy you sell. He who waits until he is in the arena to plan has planned too late.
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The real question is whether companies will squeeze their (profit) margins as costs increase or if they are going to increase prices. I think they will increase prices.
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Economic data has been supportive and earnings have been strong, so there's no reason why we can't see a rally in stocks between now and the end of the year.
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Everyone has assumed it's going to be a perfect scenario, ... The market has departed from most traditional levels of valuation.
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It's been an accumulation of data that suggest the economy has great momentum here, more than people had expected. It seems almost inevitable that the fed will have to move, but even if it doesn't, the market is pushing up long rates in any case.