Alex Scott Quotations

If we hadn't had this breakthrough today, there would have been significant industrial action that would have started directly affecting patient care.

But the health crisis is bigger than one group of workers. Problems exist in many professional groups and the Government needs to fix these problems now.

M&A activity has been the pattern for some time. Whilst we still have a decent macro background combined with low financing costs there's probably more to come. It's probably supportive of a relatively cheap market.

There is reasonable optimism still in investors' minds. We are still seeing good support coming through from corporate earnings and there are plenty of mergers and acquisitions rumors and actual which get investors excited.

The government did the right thing in addressing the doctors' concerns,

At the start of the year, forecasts generally were for a more subdued year than we'd seen in 2004 so 16 percent is a pretty good year.

The big qualifier on that is that a lot of the price action we've seen in equity markets and earnings expectations are due to that energy price move and higher profit expectations among oil & gas firms.