“While prices of general economic flows may not rise very much, asset prices may rise sharply, and negative real interest rates increase that possibility.”
Yasuhide Yajima
“Almost all the intermediate level goods are rising, and rising sharply. Commodity prices are on the rise, there is no doubt about that. Finally, at the crude level, just about everything is increasing, ... This is not that tame a report.”
Joel Naroff
“After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit last summer, natural gas prices spiked sharply. As sources in the Gulf have come back online, national prices have dropped, although not all the way to previous levels. We hope this rate reduction will be helpful to our customers.”
Fred Horne
“Samsung SDI's margins are under pressure despite growing shipments because plasma panel prices are falling sharply.”
Jeff Kim
“We get the strong sense that the degree of frustration with China is accelerating very sharply and is not likely to be assuaged by a few orders that likely would have been placed anyway.”
C. Fred Bergsten
“There are a lot of cross-currents going this week. Bond prices have been falling sharply, but it hasn't seemed to help stocks. Then you've got all the earnings pretty much coming in in-line but not providing many surprises.”
Robert Philips
“The DRAM market is quite stable now so NAND flash prices falling sharply isn't something to be too concerned about.”
O.C. Kwon
