Andrew Bell Quotations

What we're seeing is people banking enormous profits in these stocks.

We're more worried about student reaction if the teams play in bigger games such as the Elite Eight.

We want to show people about folk art and inform them.

We're excited to be able to help raise awareness for the Soccer United Recovery Fund; the fact that the Charleston Battery is located in a city and in a part of the country that has seen its share of hurricanes over the years helps us appreciate the dangers and the severity of these storms. We're glad to help out in any way we can.

Markets are more confident that the central banks and G7 governments are determined to underwrite a recovery for next year. As the shockwaves of last month's events subside markets are backing that with a bit more confidence.

Well, what I would be looking for and what judges look for are aerial tricks off the water, ... They are judged on technique and variety. Basically, each trick they throw gets two points.

We need to explain to people what it means to be a Spartan.

We'll get a positive return from equities in 2006. I'm not nervous about markets.

There is improving confidence in the durability of this Nasdaq rally,

To keep the spending momentum going beyond the holiday period I think shops are going to have to discount quite heavily so I would sell the retailers into the current rally.

Bond markets seem to have decided that perhaps there is a bit too much growth, not so much that they're fearful of a big break up in inflation ... but that central banks are going to keep chipping away at the foundations of cheap money.

There's a sense that there's a reasonable momentum behind the world economy. For the moment people are probably increasing their growth expectations for this year.

It's a great day for photos, which many of them will take for their sponsors.

It's reasonable to assume that equity markets will make money this year. There's nothing like the end of an interest-rate cycle to get investors' juices flowing.

If people feel they got screwed, I'd be happy to show them everything. I've never heard of any real big problems with the elections.

If you see a burning couch, don't pour gasoline on it,

Christmas proved to be less difficult than people were expecting. Retailers expected a dull Christmas, so they didn't overstock and have had less discounting to do.

The market's mood is that the economic outlook is probably going to continue to muddle through; that we've been through the worst that we're going to go through on the oil price, and equity markets are not that expensive,

The market is only trading on about 13 times this year's earnings, which is hardly suggestive of irrational euphoria, and growth is still coming in quite strongly. I think there's an expectation that there will be further bid activity during the year.