“The relative size of the mining sector is dwarfed by the contribution of the finance, real estate and business service sector's 19,5%.”
Colen Garrow
“We expect Alcoa to kick off a relatively strong fourth quarter 2005 earnings season for the metals and mining sector.”
Chris Olin
“You can tell that the small-cap sector is still cheap relative to large caps. Some of it is because they haven't done as well this year, but also when you look at how they're priced relative to the earnings growth people expect them to produce, they're still very attractive.”
Claudia Mott
“Investors feel they are not going to step in a land mine -- that's brought money back to the sector.”
David Hilal
“The services-oriented sector of the economy is still looking fairly robust, averaging a 3.9 percent increase year-on-year. This is above the trend rate of inflation so that is upward pressure for the retail price index.”
Claudio Piron
“There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.”
Antonio Machado
“Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector companies are amassing troves of personal information on citizens for the government, ... Serious questions exist involving citizen access to profiles, their accuracy and the potential for misuse of personal information.”
Chris Hoofnagle
