“I think Beaufort County could pay lower rates and pay a host fee to Jasper County. Obviously (Beaufort and Jasper counties) would have more power negotiating with Waste Management.”
Andrew Fulghum
“The high-end apartments were lowering their rates closer and closer to ours, ... You can only lower your rent so far before you start to rent to people you really don't want to rent to. We've hit what I would consider the floor, and take our vacancies on top of that.”
David Barker
“I still don't think they'll lower rates, but this tells me they're prepared to lower them at the first sign of trouble.”
Anthony Chan
“I think this is an important first step for the central bank. They didn't want to lower rates too aggressively for fear of sending a signal to the markets that they thought things were completely falling apart.”
“Lower rates should stimulate other consumer areas. We think building materials, as a result of continuing housing demand going forward, should do well. We actually think we'll see more demand for autos.”
Stuart Freeman
“We think this company more than most would be leveraged to an improvement in market conditions and lower rates. Market activity comes back this company has a lot of operating leverage and it should show through on the bottom line.”
Chip Dickson
“I think next year is going to be a reasonably good year. When the Fed starts lowering rates, even though profit growth will be really poor, often some of the best gains in stocks come when earnings are doing poorly, because you're getting a lift from price-to-earnings ratios rising.”
Ron Hill
