Markets Quotations | Page 2

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Unless there's some catalyst for the shorts to start scampering there's no reason for markets to go higher.

Unless the Bush administration can successfully counter recent criticism, Bush and consumer confidence might continue to flounder. If so, the markets will justifiably worry about Bush's chances of re-election.

Unless some sort of financial support, capital injection or business tie-up materializes, we expect Sanyo's spread in the cash bond and protection premium in the CDS markets to stay wide.

Unfortunately, I think they tried to fight the inflation dragon a little too long, and rejected the counsel of the markets which urged them to cut rates as early as November that year.

U.S. stocks are cheap and will make up the gap in performance with other markets around the world.

U.S. semiconductor companies have over 70 percent of their manufacturing capacity in the United States, while less than a third of our markets are here.

US product markets remain extremely weak at present, with most of that weakness focused in gasoline markets.

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With three sub-300,000 numbers in the past four weeks, it is beginning to look as though there has been some real improvement in the labor markets this year.