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The American consumer feels good, he has the money, he's not worried about losing his job and yes, the stock market has fallen, but that's way down on his list of concerns. I think that growth is going to slow a bit but it's not going to fade into the sunset.

That would lead to more bullish analyst reports on the companies, which would help the stock price. We wouldn't change our estimates on the company, but we'd say in the reports the official expectation was conservative." ()

That will surprise the Street and lead to a higher stock price.

The 2003 rally was on low interest rates and a weak dollar. Now, that's changed. The dollar bottomed in February, and I think people are realizing what higher rates are going to mean for the stock market.

The 1980s turned them into an international family thanks to the arrival of Diana and this bull's generation of young Royals - Prince Andrew, The Duchess of York and so on. And what happened was that they were rather like a stock, rather like IBM. Their stock went up and up and up and when the balloon burst their stock went plummeting to the ground.

That's way overrated. Momentum can change so quickly. One injury, one missed shot, a missed dunk, technical. Momentum is too changeable for me to put much stock in it.

That's the way we built our record, by letting our winners run, ... We've never had a big stock fall apart.

That's the major driver of stock markets today. The rising interest rate cycle is close to an end.

That's been said for 100 years, I don't ever put stock into it. I don't have a normal rotation right now. At training camp we never had Toni Davis, we didn't have Eddy Curry, we didn't have Richardson, we hardly had James at all. I don't know how you can really develop a rotation.

I would interpret higher stock prices in two ways, ... It's an indication of improving confidence in the economy's recovery, and it increases the confidence and wealth of consumers, adding to consumer spending.

My biggest concern is the stock market coming down,

Most investors put their portfolios together in a haphazard manner and don't have a sound stock selection strategy. They end up with a patchwork portfolio filled with low-quality securities.

Most companies want their stock to be appealing to a wide audience.

Most members at Japanese golf courses are corporate, so investing in a golf-course stock is like investing in Japan's economy. Still, the number of players isn't growing, so some courses are having to cut fees to attract players, squeezing profits.

Merger deal flow is going to reflect an economic recovery and stock market recovery. They go hand in hand.

Microsoft is a tech bellwether. Even though technology has had less impact over the rest of the market than in the past, it's still a huge component of the market. We'll see if Microsoft's comments force people to sell the stock .

Microsoft is a company that has reached the maturation of its cycle. That doesn't make it a bad stock but it's just not the growth stock it was in the late 1990s.

(Microsoft) has been trading like the company (had already) lost the antitrust case against the government. The stock has been extremely weak compared to its sector and especially since the company has already reported earnings.

Microsoft has been a pretty strong performer, and despite the bad publicity of the case, the stock has still gone up,

Microsoft giving away its browser is a huge, huge problem, one that is extremely difficult for Netscape to overcome, ... I think the stock is overvalued, even at these prices.

Midwestern banks are accustomed to shifts in the local economies. They plan for it. However, they do not avoid it. They get hurt. Their loan losses rise. Their earnings tumble and their stock prices are impacted. It will happen again.

When the central bank came out and said they're going to drain liquidity over a period of months, that was a catalyst for investors who have avoided the stock market to put some money back in.

When stock prices are rising, companies have conviction about stability in the near-term and are more willing to take on the risk of acquiring something,

You'll see markets continue to do the Cha-Cha, moving higher, but paced by brief retrenchments. It's not going to be as good as last year, but I think 2004 will still be a good year for the stock markets.

You just want to go out there and make your 50 pitches and get the best quality you can out of them. You can't put too much stock in spring training, but you want to get on a roll early.

You buy a stock because it's a good industry, it's a good company, it has a good product.

You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.

Wireless stock valuations haven't been very good this year.

Where was wealth effect during that time? ... The consumer didn't die. People lost all kinds of money in the stock market, and it didn't seem to affect them.

We continue to believe Yahoo! will make a good long-term investment. As a result of the challenging advertising environment, however, we believe the stock could see significant downside in the next three to six months.

We continue to believe that Time Warner's stock is greatly undervalued and that the company is in need of a major restructuring,

We continue to believe stock options are an appropriate and valuable part of compensation that encourages employees to focus on shareholder return,

When it comes to recruiting and retaining the type of people this company needs, stock options aren't the only important compensation tool, but they are an important one.

When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden.

We can put two and two together. That's not suggesting that there was any nefarious doings. But the stock has been under pressure.

Well in this kind of market, in contrast to a couple of years ago, you have to look at valuation and you look at companies that have perhaps had some problems that have temporarily oversold the stock position, ... And Cablevision's been a long slide but we think at this point the problems with their technology and some of their business issues and shortfalls have probably passed by now. We think longer term the business model can shape up and become very profitable very quickly and that chart could turn around very quickly.

We proudly welcome Global Entertainment Corporation to the American Stock Exchange. We hope to provide the company with the type of assistance it needs to meet its objectives in the marketplace.

We hope the milestone will get us on the radar screen of more investment firms, which would be a plus for our stock and for our shareholders.

While cash did not change hands, the companies that issued the stock received valuable benefits,

Whether you win or lose in this league, you cannot put too much emphasis on one game. We don't put too much stock on getting too high or low, but more on being even.

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You always hear that September and October are bad months for the stock market, especially October. I think there's a lot of caution. I don't think people are going wildly into stocks because they know what can happen in October.

We don't think it does (change the pace), but it raises some uncertainty and the stock has sold off in some profit taking. This is a nervous market environment.

We estimate a fair value for the stock in the mid-high $20s.

We elected to partner with Thought Equity because their site is an innovative tool that is bringing the stock footage industry to a whole new level. We are excited about the partnership and the capabilities Thought Equity presents.

Weekly earnings growth has been steadily declining. ... It's not dire yet, but clearly it's not helpful, and it's caused us (Americans) to have negative saving rates. People have poured all of their money from the stock market into housing. ... If the housing (market) busts it will get ugly fast.

We're already planning for 2006. So much work goes into the event and while it's over fairly quickly, it's an important event for Canadian breeders to showcase their breeding stock and their youngsters. They are, after all, our future sport horse competitors.

We really thought growth would taper off heading into 2000 and it hasn't. It isn't going to be earnings that prick the stock market bubble.

We are troubled by the continuing decrease of the value of our investments in the company and are pleased that management and the board of directors are considering steps to stem the loss of shareholder value, ... However, as long-term investors, we want to be assured that the options are being considered to promote growth and stability in the long-term, and not simply to produce a short-term boost in the stock price.

We believe this level of disparity is not sustainable and the stock is likely to correct this.

We believe the upside to results is clearly reflected in the current valuation, suggesting minimal upside to the current stock price.

We believe the stock sold off yesterday on sector rotation, but we would be aggressive buyers of the stock at these levels, considering the strong fundamentals and attractive valuation.

We believe the stock should be a core holding for investors.

We believe the stock is washed out, and the new management announcement of Robert Eckert to the chairman and CEO position is a major positive, ... Mr. Eckert brings a very solid, stable track record to a company that has had inconsistent performance and a tumultuous period.

We believe the stock could be strong today given the magnitude of the beat, despite a somewhat tepid outlook for the balance of the year.

We believe there will be an increase in revenue and earnings momentum and a corresponding benefit to the stock as Windows Vista and Office 12 upgrade cycles begin late in the year.

We believe there is a good chance for revenue upside, and we expect the stock to react positively to any top line upside.

We had a little meeting (Wednesday) and asked the players to take stock of where they were. We challenged them to improve, and they did it.

We had to stop deliveries to those stores even though we had orders for replenishment. Because of the flexibility in our WMS, we were able to surgically shut them off in the system. As those stores reopened, we had the ability to set up waves by geographic area to get them back in stock when they were ready.

We have a growth platform, this is a growth company, and as the market understands that we believe our stock will do very well.

We will revisit our price target and rating when the stock stabilizes. Our long-term view of Palm is as rosy as yesterday's (Thursday's), but we assert that the implied discount between Palm and 3Com's Palm stake is the best way to play Palm for now.

We will revisit our price target and rating when the stock stabilizes, ... Our long-term view of Palm is as rosy as yesterday's (Thursday's), but we assert that the implied discount between Palm and 3Com's Palm stake is the best way to play Palm for now.

We've had incredible support from sponsors and competitors alike, they come from as far away as Ottawa to participate. Every year the show gets bigger and better and this year was no exception. We had 81 entries this year. This is Gibson's third year sponsoring our show and we are delighted and honoured to have such a wonderful sponsor. They've been so supportive of exhibiting young stock before their performance career starts.

We have been warning that (Placer) would get taken over for quite a long time. The stock has looked like the best value among the senior players, and so it is a transaction that will make a lot of sense.

Valuation for the stock appears significantly high for a company with a sustainable earnings growth rate of 10 percent to 15 percent. We have difficulty imagining any second-half recovery that could raise earnings, and investor expectations, to a level sufficient to keep the stock moving up.

Usually, when you have a stock market mania, it's driven largely by individual investors borrowing money to buy stocks at prices that are too high. And usually, when a bubble becomes unwound, it's because of margin calls.

Usually, this is a good week in the stock market and then the next month is not so good,

We're really not rooting for a bear market. It's like fire insurance. You don't hope for a fire but you keep some insurance just in case. It's a good component for people with stock exposure to make the ride a little smoother.

We could not be more pleased with our investments in the Lexus and Toyota franchises in Manchester and Houston. These franchise and facility actions will support additional revenue and profit growth while leveraging our operational scale. The stock repurchase and franchise dispositions demonstrate our commitment to improve stockholder value and are consistent with our previously announced strategy.

We believe the lower top-line growth in Q4' 00 versus expectations and uncertainty over Amazon's top-line growth going forward will overshadow the operational achievements that we felt were necessary to achieve operating profitability by Q4 ' 01 and subsequently could have driven stock price appreciation.

We believe the impact of an injunction to RIM would be severe. We would guess that the stock could fall $20 to $50 per share.

We believe the downside is limited, but the stock is likely stuck in broad $6 to $12 trading range.

Today the flows have changed. We did see some selling this morning of the back end of the Treasury market and perhaps that's just a little disappointment that the stock market didn't go further below 10,000.

Today's weakness in the stock is reflective of investors expecting more compelling and cleaner data from both trials,

True investing is making a commitment to own a company, to participate in its business over the long term and not betting on short-term movements in its stock price. To change our core discipline would dilute our efforts and all that we believe in.

Trends are not as bad you think! We recommend buying the stock trading at 18.5 times 2006 EBIDTA.

We never have put a lot of stock in having to beat a team two or three times because we have had to do it so much, but we always like to play a different team. It's always good to get a shot to play somebody you've never played before and keeps you motivated. But Capital is playing as well as anybody right now. And it wouldn't surprise me at all if they won.

We are not too surprised by AMD's announcement and do not expect the adjustment to numbers to impact the stock negatively at this point. Given the fact that AMD's product lineup at the low end of the market is more competitive than Intel's, we expect to see market share gains in the first part of next year.

We had expected a snap-back in consumer spending after a decline in May, and that's what these numbers showed, ... Consumers appeared to be optimistic in their spending, despite the stock market and the ongoing corporate frauds and malfeasance.

The one thing you don't want to ignore is the stock market itself,

The quarter was no surprise, but the future guidance was very favorable. The forecast of single-digit losses is a sea change for Amazon. We believe this is a key inflection point for the stock and that it will take off from here.

W e anticipate that the stock may take a breather before finding further upward strength from current levels.

We know that, but whether one can do anything about it is another thing. We will try to stock perch again next spring, judging by what we're getting here.

Well, everybody knows I used to work there, so I think I know the company pretty well. I also have stock and options from my days as an employee.

Though we believe Dell can outperform the Nasdaq in 2000 after a poor 1999, we believe this can only happen after expectations have been reset to more reasonable levels. We believe downside on the stock is to the high $30s. We remain on the sidelines until then.

Though this news is clearly a disappointment, we believe that the damage is largely done and the 10 percent decline in the stock price fully compensates for the approximately 8 percent reduction in the earnings outlook for next year.

When you sell stock to the customers, they breed business,

We are seeing stock move around and so we think that something is going on.

We are seeing significant investment. The rate of addition to the capital stock is as great if not greater than anything we have seen in the past 20 years.

We're not sure what this means, It has the smell of the HCA stock trading, and we just thought it was important to bring this to light.

We're not sure what this means, ... It has the smell of the HCA stock trading, and we just thought it was important to bring this to light.

We're not sure what the Fed's going to do. And if they do their worst and raise rates, I think it's largely built into the bond and stock prices right now. So, I think the worse of the near-term problems are just about accomplished.

We're not recommending purchase of it, but I do think that the worst is probably behind. I do think that there is probably a bounce due in the stock. It's Microsoft's turn at the plate, if you will. I think the actions really will start to play in their favor. I think a stock buyback program begins within the next six-to-eight weeks. I think that's one line of defense that the company has for the stock.

We are rating UPS 'attractive,' ... Our price target on this stock is $70; it's at about $56 right now.

We are raising our rating, given the stock has fallen to a more attractive level in recent trading.

We are pleased that Thomas Equipment Incorporated has chosen to list at the American Stock Exchange. We hope the company will find our services useful as it strives to meet its objectives in the marketplace.

We are pleased that the SEC is encouraging continued dialogue around potential ways of using a market instrument to value stock options.

We are pleased that the S.E.C. is encouraging continued dialogue around potential ways of using a market instrument to value stock options. It is clear that a market-based approach would determine a real value as opposed to models that estimate theoretical value. We will continue an open dialogue and pursue an approach that will lead to an objective, market-based valuation.

We are paying cash because we believe our stock is greatly undervalued and prefer to use cash as our acquisition currency,

The overseas markets are more regulated and Chinese companies can benefit and learn to fine-tune corporate structure and governance. So listing overseas first and then coming back to list will also benefit the domestic stock market.