“January-February growth should remain solid, even though industrial output and exports might slow down a bit.”
Xiao Minjie
“In Germany, output prices are remaining very subdued and it's a suggestion that German companies are being more competitive than companies in, say, France and Italy on price, and therefore winning more business abroad.”
Chris Williamson
“The output figures weren't that good, though maybe they weren't that surprising if you look at most of the other data that has come out in recent months.”
Alexander Mollerus
“Our pitch was that we could become much more cost-effective, but only if our output remained at a particular level.”
Peter Bellingham
“One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.”
Norman R. Augustine
“Today's manufacturing output figures were ... worse than the market expected. The sector continues to stagnate and is persistently failing to sustain a recovery. The figures also confirm that the sector was in technical recession in the first half of 2005. The manufacturing sector's acute underlying weaknesses reinforce our view that we will need further interest rate cuts later in the year.”
David Kern
“Today's manufacturing output figures were ... worse than the market expected. The sector continues to stagnate and is persistently failing to sustain a recovery. The figures also confirm that the sector was in technical recession in the first half of 2005, ... The manufacturing sector's acute underlying weaknesses reinforce our view that we will need further interest rate cuts later in the year.”
