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This was a short-term technical move, but might give a taste of what could happen in copper when the funds try to exit the market.

What we really are we're playing a little bit of Monopoly with somebody else providing the funds and that's Ottawa.

What we need are financial institutions to finance the project, not a group of contractors that eventually ask for funds from other institutions.

There is a significant shortfall of funds in many affected countries ... which will seriously hamper their prevention and control efforts.

There is a significant shortfall of funds in many affected countries . . . which will seriously hamper their prevention and control efforts.

There are plenty of funds that have between 25 and 33 percent of their assets in techs. Most people would be better off with that kind of aggressive growth fund,

There are players, including hedge funds and pension funds, establishing new longs in the euro at the start of the year.

The only way that we can ensure the best possible application of these funds is by sticking to the peer-review process and making sure that congressionally designated programs satisfy the requirements that we have for best practices. The president made a strong call last night for Congress to avoid earmarking this program, and I think it's essential that we support him on this.

There are definitely signs that consumer demand has been picking up. Funds are buying heavily.

We decided we would offer lotteries to those charities on the basis that we would give them as many as was needed as long as it didn't exceed their voluntary income, because that sudden influx of funds would create problems for them.

We decided to bring the entire town together, ... We can have a bake sale, battle of the bands, raffles - anything we can think of that will bring in funds to help those poor people who have lost everything.

We decided to approach IAM after a rigorous search across the industry. They have exactly the combination of history, people and performance to bring critical mass to our fund of hedge funds business.

We shifted more funds to the communities in which we operate, versus solely in Pittsburgh, or New York, for that matter.

We rate all Japanese funds as a nine or 10 out of 10 on the risk scale, but for those investors looking for a less volatile option than the Legg Mason fund, JP Morgan is our fund manager of choice.

We're asking consumers to be aware of who funds the whale hunters, and to let them know that whaling is bad for business.

Were a pretty tight-knit community. But also, any of the funds raised go to scholarships for high school kids.

We hope to raise funds to expand the parking lot. We just don't have the cash on hand.

We hope to have most of the funds raised by the July 2006 Woodford County 4-H Fair, and have the new building up and operating for the 2007 fair.

Yesterday, the Fed's effective funds rate, the average of the funds rate that exists throughout the day, was 1.25 percent, way below their new 3 percent target. Today, it's even softer than that, below 1 percent.

We have a zero tolerance for people stealing funds meant for storm victims. Many of the cases we are prosecuting involve small amounts. But we wanted to get out there with these arrests in part to deter people.

There are a lot of cross currents today. And there is talk that one of the big hedge funds is going under the waves.

There are a lot of crosscurrents now, but falling yields might indicate that demand for credit is slowing down and that the Fed, by holding the fed funds rate where it is, is actually keeping rates all along the curve from falling to their equilibrium level, or to the level where would they would more naturally go.

There is conversation that over the next ten years, hedge funds would become like mutual funds, ... There is some merit to that conversation, but I think there might be some lag time.

There is no doubt that when I speak to hedge funds and real-money investors, they have some questions. They say that he has to prove his credentials right away.

The outlook for platinum is fairly positive. The funds aggressively sold off positions toward the end of last year and could add positions in platinum again and take the metal over $1,000/oz.

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and other homeland security needs that the Congress and president need to act on, ... Funds for these urgent priorities were cut in the 2002 supplemental spending bill.

We are talking about the responsible stewardship of public funds coming from non-renewable natural resources and in this context the prosperity dividend makes no sense.

We're looking to continue students' education, but not take from the universities funds they will need desperately to get back into operation,

This puts 5.25% on the fed funds rate back on the table. It's not the job of anyone to interpret what a market's reaction to a comment will be. This has added volatility on a day-to-day basis, so opinions can change that quickly when they shouldn't. It's great to be flexible, but it's not healthy to investors.

This project has received great community support and I'm delighted the Australian Government has been able to allocate the funds needed to get this project over the line,

There are unique requirements on funds that do long and short. In our case, in shorting, there's extra work to be done in picking the stocks.

There are unique requirements on funds that do long and short, ... In our case, in shorting, there's extra work to be done in picking the stocks.

The PTA board is so thrilled to be able to give these funds to the schools. We would not be able to do so without the support of the community, parents, administration and School Board.

When you put those together, what you find is that the invasion of the trust funds is far more serious than has been reported so far, far more serious,

The Principal(R) is very pleased to provide employees of our home state a robust investment platform that includes the Principal Investors Funds LifeTime Funds--a simple, yet powerful way to invest effectively for retirement. Principal LifeTime options give participants easy access to portfolios professionally managed to a specific retirement year. Through the partnership with Nationwide, State of Iowa employees will have access to well known investment managers and some of the most thorough due diligence processes in the industry.

When this happens, the insurance companies that are in trouble will count on state guarantee funds to cover them. This is one reason to make sure your homeowners insurance company is a so-called 'admitted' carrier; nonadmitted carriers are not covered by state guarantee funds.

There are two aspects to the drug trade in Haiti. There is the amount that goes into the United States, and the harmful factor the money generated by the drug trade has in Haiti, by providing funds for corruption of police, politicians and custom officers.

There are tremendous dollars in the wind power industry but now a great majority of investors are looking at the solar industry to achieve a higher rate of return. There's way too much money chasing wind projects so that investors are now competing over wind projects. A lot of them have already raised funds and want to place them in a tax advantaged way.

We're glad that the funds are in there and based on discussions with Senate leaders, I think they will remain.

We're seeing very strong institutional buying and it's for all commodities. Funds are seeing that there are very low inventories for copper and zinc and that's just an indicator of how tight the market is and how strong the worldwide economy is.

We're looking at using the funds strategically for market and merit raises.

We recommend that consumers shift their funds from traditional savings to CDs and from banks to credit unions. If everyone did so they would earn about $40 billion more in interest annually. That's an average of about $400 per household.

We're not confident that the funds will be made available and we don't want to rely on them, ... The GIP decided we should provide some certainty.

Like everyone else, we expect a quarter-point hike in fed funds today to 4.75 percent -- we also expect the statement to be softened.

Let's assume inflation averages 1 to 2 percent. Then you could see maybe the natural funds rate would be -- I don't know -- 3.5 percent, something like that,

Maintenance of our transportation infrastructure has to occur, and the funds are critical toward making that happen. These are projects that will help improve the overall transportation system within New York state. It will attract new business. We view this as very important for New York state and its communities.

Leverage has been a profitable trade in the past and it has allowed many closed-end funds to deliver very compelling yields, but the risk is your total return could suffer. Leverage can cut both ways; it can magnify your gains but it can also accentuate your losses. ... On the flip side, if you are delving into these more unusual strategies, one could argue the closed-end format lends itself to them pretty well, because your manager is not having to redeem shares everyday.

Many investors and funds continued selling... as the market lacks fresh good news. Interest-rate worries continued to dampen sentiment.

Share prices ended weaker. This is because of lingering concerns about a lack of active inflows of funds from offshore investors.

Securing the funds is easing concerns of default and other risks. The gains are unlikely to last because there aren't any signs yet that earnings are recovering. You need money to restructure and all they have so far is the barest of necessities.

So look at the funds you own or ones you're considering buying. All that information can only make you a smarter investor.

She was very passionate about the Children's Clinic. She served on the Special Projects Committee that helped raise funds for five years.

Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market.

Some offshore investors secured cheaper funds here in yen for investing in Japanese equities. They appeared to be nervous as they consider an end to the current ultra-loose monetary policy by the Bank of Japan would increase their costs.

Silver has new sponsorship. We are starting to see new funds coming into silver. Part of it has to do with the fact that a lot of traders who follow gold and silver think the silver/gold ratio was out of kilter.

Side letters are often needed to allow a pension fund to invest in a hedge fund without violating the terms of the pension fund's charter documents or the provisions of ERISA. Driving this trend is a significant increase in the funds allocated to the alternative investment sector in all jurisdictions - from Japan and Dubai to the UK and the BVI.

Short term, there are various cross currents in the markets, and it will be hard to get a read on where prices will go this week. There apparently is still more firepower that funds have at their disposal to move markets even higher.

Simply because the Fed is maintaining an accommodative monetary policy position doesn't mean they keep the fed funds rate at one percent indefinitely,

Since debit cards can be compromised at illegally modified POS devices and then used to fraudulently withdraw funds from ATMs, it is vital for GASA to monitor crime trends at both POS and ATM terminals. Best practices for POS security are now needed.

Since then there has been some rethinking and the goal has been raised because we are looking at trying to also generate some operating funds. To get the renovation is one thing, but then once it's renovated, we need funds to operate it.

Sixty percent of the funds are from grassroots fundraising like the Bike-a-thon. We have 14,000 people in our database who have donated something, and we call and ask them to give again. They usually do.

Single country emerging market funds are very volatile. Do you need a Korea fund? The answer is no. Nobody needs a Korea fund.

Since June, ICE and CBP staffs have had numerous meetings with no resolution. Neither has CBP transferred any funds due to ICE. We need immediate resolution of these funding issues, otherwise ICE will have no choice but to begin curtailment of services provided to both ICE and CBP.

She knocked on doors, helped raise funds and did whatever needed to be done to make sure the center was built.

Mississippi Rising is going to be a tremendous boost not just in providing desperately needed funds for our recovery effort, but also in bringing national attention to our efforts as we transition from emergency relief to rebuilding Mississippi stronger, bigger and better.

Minutes from the December 13 FOMC meeting point to downside risk to our call that the funds rate target will reach 5 percent in May. Fed officials sound confident on growth, but more dovish on inflation.

Momentum weakened a little bit as we saw a slower flow of funds into the market. But we are cautiously optimistic with strong support seen at the 15,200 level.

My funds have grown every year and this is because my movies got the investors most of their money back, more than all the other funds.

One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.

One of our goals in raising funds for the university is to tap into those households that are not contributing at all or on a consistent basis.

One is not sure how much of the allocated funds will land up reaching the targeted segments.

Obviously, we welcome the handouts given by the minister, particularly as far as income tax is concerned and also as far as the tax and retirement funds are concerned. I think what the budget did miss firstly in respect to creating incentives for the private sector to actually come and invest in this country. There was nothing and here I refer specifically to rates of corporate taxation. There was no direct incentive to the private sector to employ people.

No one is questioning the good that is being done with this money. We just need the money here in the district. Our buildings need to be repaired and those are the funds that we can use to get that done.

No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds rate at the December or February meeting. That's not going to happen. If that was going to happen, the chairman wouldn't have made a speech to puncture the exuberance.

One year from now, in December of '06, unless there's a funding solution for more dedicated funds for transit statewide, we will literally run out of money. That's the situation we're in.

One thing that's very clear is that we need to maintain a general balance of capital inflows and outflows. How to promote the domestic funds to enter the overseas market will be the focus of our work over the next period of time.

Musicians in New Orleans and the Central Gulf Coast need our help. And beyond the professional musicians, there are hundreds of churches, schools and community groups that lost their instruments and gear and simply do not have the funds to replace them. ... Together with the artists and with Gibson Guitars, we are able to make a real difference--not just for those individuals and groups whose instruments we replace, but for the health of the whole region.

Mutual funds, which are responsible for the retirement investments of millions of investors, should be at the forefront of investors encouraging companies to address global warming. Instead, all of the largest funds of America's major mutual fund families -- including Fidelity, Vanguard and American Funds -- failed to vote in favor of any resolutions in 2005 encouraging companies to address global warming. Getting these funds to vote in favor of resolutions to address global warming would make a tremendous difference for investors and the environment.

Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.

Mutual funds continue to be the most cost-effective means of investing.

Mutual funds are clearly a very big reason why the stock market is declining, ... This is the other side of the mountain.

Mutual funds are becoming more attuned. If you have the capital to hold out, you will win in the end.

More and more families from across the state are joining our team and we have seen dramatic increases in the number of contributors - and total funds raised - from almost every county. We continue to have more resources than our Democratic opponent, and there's no doubt we will be better equipped to win the Democratic primary.

Money goes to performance, so as the funds performed well, more investors put money into those funds.

Money funds look very good at the moment, but you don't want to move everything into cash and at some point next year, when the rate hikes are over and the Fed starts cutting, find you've missed your chance to lock in higher long-term rates.

Money funds are still grabbing about 50 percent of share of the money that's coming into mutual funds, ... So I think investors are a little bit guardedly optimistic, but still a little concerned about the outlook in terms of the volatility and the economy, probably.

My guess is that neither the governor or the Legislature is going to start distributing funds until we have an extraordinarily high degree of confidence that the money is in the bank.

No one -- whether citizen or public official -- will be permitted to illegally profit at the expense of the communities and citizens who so desperately need FEMA funds and assistance in the wake of this region's terrible disaster.

Now, we have to shift from the complaint that no one is paying any attention, to showing that these funds are being spent as effectively as possible.

Now we will have the funds to install it.

Now, the supposed justifications for restart have completely evaporated and the funds that are being wasted will go where they have long belonged: into cleaning up the environment that adjoins our lifeblood, the Columbia River, ... After years of indecision, the people of the Pacific Northwest deserve to have the money used to clean up the contamination at Hanford rather than on some wild good chase.

NWA owes us between $53 and $54 million for the service in September. In bankruptcy, it's purely speculative what percentage of funds you will retain.

Next year, I think the average equity fund will lose 1.5 (percentage points) of its return to taxes. If you don't like investing in funds that have an above-average expense ratio, I'm not sure why you'd want a fund with an above-average tax burden, at least not for an account where taxes are going to matter.

New services reflect the changing demographics of bank customers and banks' are adopting new strategies for retaining core deposits. The first baby boomers will turn 65 in 2011, and by 2030, one in five Americans is expected to be 65 or older. Add the trend toward increased equity ownership, and it's hardly surprising that more than half of the bankers expect to offer brokerage services (61%) and half will offer mutual funds (50%) in the next three years.

New money is flowing in. It's hard to believe that with the dollar this strong, prices just keep going up. Funds keep buying it.

New Hampshire has taken a number of steps to make themselves a leader nationally in preparing for pandemic influenza. Preparation works, and these funds will help states and communities develop the plans they need to keep their citizens safe.

Natural-resources funds have been up and down thus far in 2001. In April, the category's 10 percent rise pulled the average return out of negative territory for the year. The White House has also contributed to the category's recent success with overtures about the need for increased exploration and production.

Naturally, we are honored that MIT has added our family of funds to its employees' retirement plans,

Obviously these are funds that are very much needed. We really appreciate the county's careful spending of taxpayer dollars.