“What's happened is you have people who have made a lot of money in this sector. Although we've not specifically seen any real signs of slowing yet, we do think that could happen in the future. Whenever someone talks about it and begins to give warning signs about it, people will say that we're at the peak, things can only get worse from here and I will sell my stocks. And that is the mentality that people are using right now.”
Christopher Chaney
“What's already happening in the pulp-and-paper sector is very quickly about to happen in the steel sector. The next sector will be the chemical sector.”
Howard Hampton
“Sales volumes in the tech sector might be erratic... it's nothing serious, but just not as bullish as people would like,”
Christine Callies
“We should find a balance between opening the market and (national) security issues; not every financial sector is sensitive.”
Zhou Xiaochuan
“There may be concerns that the banking sector may not be able to achieve in 2006 what they achieved in 2005. We had a spectacular 2005 in the banking sector and we may not see that again.”
Hany Hussein
“The biotech sector is just not proven. It gets started and then it fades.”
Ben Holmes
“The electronics sector and the digital product-related sectors are still sluggish but this has not affected other sectors much. That helped sustain the momentum for the Japanese economy as a whole.”
Tomomichi Akuta