Ron Hill
Ron Hill
Ronald "Ron" Hill MBEis an English runner and clothing entrepreneur. He was the second man to break 2:10 in the marathon; he set world records at four other distances, but never laid claim to the marathon world record. He has run two Olympic Marathons, and has a personal marathon record of 2:09:28. In 1970, Hill won the 74th Boston Marathon in a course record 2:10:30. He also won gold medals for the marathon at the European Championships in 1969 and...
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Date of Birth25 September 1938
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I'd be surprised if we don't get him fixed up.
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Businesses have been investing at a record pace in productivity enhancing equipment. If you have free cash flow beyond your investment needs, then how do you increase value to shareholders?
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Obviously, the tech wreck has some effect on the consumer because the slowdown has affected (spending). The Fed has less work than we had thought before.
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Retail sales is the single best indication of overall demand in the economy. It's one of the things the Fed is keying on because (of) when they started raising interest rates.
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Retail sales is the single best indication of overall demand in the economy,
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On November 15, I think they take the bias off,
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We're not completely satisfied. I don't think we ever will be. There are a lot of questions that we asked that were never answered. My wife and I never believed from Day 1 that this was an accident.
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We've had one preliminary move in technology, which was an anticipation of (Computer Associates') earnings, the second move is once the earnings have turned and begin to run ahead of the rest of the markets,
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We also like some of the others from the cyclical areas like in the industrials, some of the freight companies like FedEx and ... also in the consumer discretionary, automobiles still look like they're good, ... Traditionally they will outperform until the Fed begins to raise interest rates and Mr. Greenspan has postponed that for a few months. That gives companies like General Motors a little bit longer to run.
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We've been raising rates in this country since about June of last year, so we've had over a year's worth of rate increases starting to flow into the market. That has slowly, but surely, drained liquidity out of the overall financial system in America. So money supply growth has been below nominal GDP growth now for a number of months. So what's happening is slowly, but surely, there's just not enough money out there available to make everything go up all at the same time. So that's why rallies fail sooner than you expect, and why you know people get punished more for bad news than they get rewarded for good news,
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You have more choices on defensive linemen for the 3-4, ... There's such a premium on 6-5, 285-pound defensive ends and defensive tackles. It's hard to find those guys. You don't have to find big, big guys in that defense because it's all movement. There's more movement than toe-to-toe stuff. You can be more flexible with their movement.
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The bank stocks are affected by what the Fed does. If the Fed's going to be pushing rates up aggressively, it's going to hard for bank stocks to significantly do better than the market, ... But I think some of the stocks are cheap enough that they're worth at least nibbling on at this point.
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It looks like we may be on the way to recovery,
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It's giving an encouraging sign that an economic turnaround is around the corner. Sales and profit growth can't be too far behind.