William Sullivan
William Sullivan
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makes it a little easier to push prices around.
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I look for them to cut rates at least once or twice more this year.
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To have this quick of a reaction in terms of rate cuts, ... suggests that the Fed was seeing crunch-like conditions.
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What we are reacting to is the somewhat stronger than expected tenor in the November employment data - that's it in a nutshell.
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We have seen what is historically very unusual downward move on bond prices.
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The real worry is that this report will limit the degree of Federal Reserve easing down the pike.
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There is a common theme that economic fortunes look brighter in Japan and continental Europe than they do in the U.S., ... Even though higher rates should help the currency, they haven't because most people are seeing that as the Fed's move to slow the economy and reduce growth.
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We knew the economy slowed down, and there was evidence from some of the monthly price statistics that inflationary pressures diminished during the period.
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There are a lot of people who are tremendously overextended and we're now getting down to a level to where these margin calls are massive, ... The calls are going out right now.
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Ford postponing the event would be their judgment that market conditions are becoming disorderly. (Ford is) betting that conditions will improve once upcoming uncertainties are out of the way, one of which is the FOMC meeting.
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The officers gave numerous orders to the male to drop the knife. He did not comply.
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It was an incredible session, a testimony to nothing else other than volatility led by hedge- fund position activity.
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The big influence on bonds is stocks' ability to move higher,
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The benign performance at the wholesale level may not necessarily wash through at the retail level. But there is no doubt that there is good news for U.S. consumers in the context of declining food and energy prices.