S. Hughes Market Quotations

I think the market has already discounted that the actual number tends to be a bit off (versus estimates), ... As long as we get something that is near estimates, the market should be OK with it.

Our people have been overwhelmed with appeals. And our current computer database does not allow us to create a future-year file for developing market values.

I think it will be considerably more. The way housing is, it doesn't matter who you market it to.

We don't see rates declining much further or a significant firming in the near future, partly because ample capital is flowing into the market after the 2005 hurricane season. At the same time, we are encouraged by the ongoing development of our internal sales culture and by our ability to complete and integrate acquisitions. We anticipate further improvement in both areas in 2006. We also anticipate that contingent commissions could decline this year due to loss experience for insurers in 2005.

Both of us recognize there's a need for this type of housing, and both of us are going after it in a big way. All the market research you see indicates people are wanting to retire here.

We've had a good week, but on a short-term basis, we're overbought and we're waiting on a lot of big earnings, and that's what the market is struggling against,

Developers or builders would speculate on the higher-end homes, figuring that the market was there. We've seen a definite pullback in that speculative market.

They have stealthily come into the market and monopolized the better buildings downtown under their ownership. Consider there are only nine or 10 Class A buildings downtown. They own six of them.

Oil's a tricky thing, where we've seen pullbacks in the price and the market doesn't respond, but when you see a rally, stocks fall, ... Oil is clearly the excuse today for the selling.

If there's nervousness about the Fed tomorrow, then why is the Dow up so much?. They're not expected to do anything. Depending on whether they change the language in their statement, you could see the market use it as an excuse to take profits, or an excuse to extend the rally.

If you want to invest in emerging markets, invest in a good manager. Although emerging market funds are expensive, the disparity between returns at the top and bottom of emerging markets funds makes the expense worthwhile.

The market had discounted this (election) news so we had a little profit taking,

The license of our patent portfolio with AMD's demonstrated innovation in the microprocessor market is highly compelling.