Famous Quotes & Sayings

China has not played a role in strengthening the international trading system commensurate with its commercial heft and the benefit it has obtained from that system. An imbalance of this magnitude is not sustainable, either politically or economically, over the long term. One need only ask whether - if the tables were turned - China would tolerate a bilateral trade imbalance of that size with the United States.

I can't figure out why people want to own unprofitable companies with no prospect of making money in the near future. That's just trading paper,

Given the lack of trading volume, it's going to be hard to gauge any moves we make. We have a lot of data to get through.

Given the drop in bond yields, stocks which were comparatively cheap before, have become even more attractive to buy. This drop in bond yields may finally be the catalyst we need to propel stocks out of the trading range they have been mired in.

HKEX is viewed as a good company as the exchange's turnover is expected to rise. Its shares have room to move higher as they are trading at slightly below some of their counterparts.

Historical relationships have shown that the Australian dollar should be trading around 85 cents to 90 cents, given the recent sharp rise in gold. It does provide the case for the Australian dollar to play some catch up, particularly if the Fed rate-hike momentum loses favor with investors.

The rally will extend and challenge December highs. But it's not a bull market. We're just bouncing back from January lows back to the top end of the trading range.

Peter Greene

The rally is clearly influenced by the ISM number. While the market looks good today, we are also getting near the upper end of the trading range, and that's something to look out for.

We may have broken out of our trading range, but we would like to see some follow-through before we commit additional dollars to the market.

We must continue with the shortened session since our actual trading capacity hasn't been expanded yet. We plan to expand the system sometime around May or June. We'll make an official announcement on Feb. 21.

People have gotten very complacent with the steady upward ascent of the market, and the reality is that this choppy trading pattern is more the norm.

People often use Internet trading accounts to try to conceal their trading activity. People don't realize with that there are different types of evidentiary trails being left behind.

Elizabeth Warren

Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system that has calmed down and is there to serve the American people.

Some investors took profits in select blue chips, driving the benchmark index into negative territory. Trading was confined to a narrow range ... ahead of the long Christmas holiday.

Some investors opted to pocket gains after the two-week trading halt.

Some people are thinking that technology investing is smack in the middle of the summer doldrums., ... The fact is that technology stocks and Nasdaq have established a near- to intermediate-term trading range, and we're thinking that technology stocks are on their way to the top end of that range, and that's approximately 4,000 on the Nasdaq composite.

My sense right now is that we're in a trading range market. I would be looking for a pullback. I don't see any major catalysts that would propel stocks on the upside. We have nervousness over the situation in Iraq, and I'm frankly concerned about reports out of Saudi Arabia.

My principal contribution to the Black-Scholes option-pricing theory was to show that the dynamic trading strategy prescribed by Black and Scholes to offset the risk exposure of an option would provide a perfect hedge in the limit of continuous trading.

London's trading is probably more closely linked to that of Wall Street than the other markets in Europe.

Market sentiment was dampened by overseas investors who were net sellers in pre-opening orders today for the fifth trading day in row, on fears that possible increases in interest rates in the US and Japan could raise their funding costs for investing in equities here.

Markets are in a trading range right now, consolidating gains after the last few months. A lot of investors were looking to this week's data as a way to break out of the range, but what we've seen has left enough doubt in the minds of the bulls that we aren't likely to break out of this range in the next few sessions.

Just the fact that the market has been able to hold in a trading range in this environment is bullish.

Joe has demonstrated great ability in communicating the system objectives of our researchers and developers to our traders. As we continue to expand our proprietary product offering, this will be instrumental in ensuring that our day-to-day trading operations personnel understand our objectives so we maintain exceptional performance levels.

I suspect the main focus of the day will be the Fed minutes. It looks like we'll get a strong start on the strength in overseas markets, but we'll probably be trading sideways until the minutes are released.

Greg Walker

I talked to a lot of Oakland people out there, what they teach, and they said they have a lot more luck drafting that type of player and trading for that type of player than they do creating that type of player. I think it's just the way your brain works. It's very hard to teach.

I think it's a trading rally from an oversold position, ... I don't think there's a lot of conviction behind it.

I think it's clear that the banks that are more tied to the retail sector are going to have a much tougher quarter compared to those with diversified positions. The banks in the retail sector have to deal with interest rate compression, loan volume will be tougher, and they don't have the trading or investment banking that are hot now.

I think it's becoming attractively priced, so much so that we would consider buying it at this point. It has been a lousy performer, but it is a rapid grower historically. It is trading at a below-market multiple, but it probably has above-market growth prospects.

It could increase people's anxiety, ... Extending the trading hours is going to keep them focusing on the market.

It could broaden their investment channels as they could engage in business that is currently unavailable in domestic market such as trading of financial derivatives.

Martin Mayer

It changed from a semi-secret occupation without government regulation to something that is transparent, with annual reports and public disclosure. That's a very large change. In the trading area, especially, there was a lot of secrecy.

I think the market is in a sense trading in conflict with the fundamentals. We obviously have a ton of gas in the ground, which everyone is well aware of. That fact has already been priced into the market.

I think the market is getting ready for a little trading buy,