We have seen a lot of traders buying on pull backs but then taking small profits as the market recovers rather than sitting on their positions waiting for a big market move.
We have seen a lot of pre-positioning. Boomers are buying that retirement home before they have sold their current residence.
We have to give modern women the possibility to choose, because now the moment of choice is like an investment. Women want to buy something not for one week, for one moment. She would like to have something that she can have for a long time.
We have not banned it (soda) because we have not seen any hard data. If people are calling this a public health crisis then we should require that only 18-year-olds can buy soda." ()
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Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.
We're still seeing some good volumes in selected shares and there's definitely a big contingent of foreign buying in our market.
We're still reluctant to buy into these stocks, even if they fall considerably. They might have turned the corner in the broadest sense, but the balance sheets are very stretched.
We're still expecting poultry exports year-over-year to go up. Our major poultry export markets are places like Russia and Mexico and China, and they continue to buy from us.
We're starting to see some evidence of slowdown in the U.S., which is going to be a risk for us. The biggest concern is the oil price and foreign investors who have been buying Japan may be reluctant to buy from here.