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The real worry is that this report will limit the degree of Federal Reserve easing down the pike.

We will probably see strong fourth-quarter growth numbers, and there are no domestic factors that could derail the economy. The central bank will probably end quantitative easing in April.

Financial markets want the Fed to signal possible easing ahead due to the growth slowdown and stock market declines, ... However, the Fed will be reluctant to do that while CPI core is still accelerating.

So, when we started this easing cycle, yields were already much lower than they normally would have been given just pure cyclical events.

Despite the strength during the quarter, the period ended on a much weaker note, suggesting (second-quarter) growth is likely to be weaker. These data are unlikely to sway the (Fed) from easing again at (its) May 15th meeting.

Oil is the biggest factor affecting the market right now, so an easing in prices helps investor sentiment.

Banks and property stocks still have room for upside following strong interest in these stocks Friday. Easing interest rate worries and mortgage cuts offered by banks should help support sentiment for the sector.

As long as the stock market does what it does, and keeps going up, the wealth effect is going to transmit into a fairly strong U.S. economy and preclude the Fed from easing rates,

That mucked up trade flows, affected our economy and brought an unexpected easing by the Fed. I wouldn't downplay the risks out of China.

You've had a period of aggressive Fed easing and the oils are not an early cycle group and we think they'll give back some of their gains.

They're still very much concerned that the risk in the economy of a downturn is much greater than it is of inflation. I suspect they will restate that risk. However, they will probably indicate that the increments of easing from here on out are going to be smaller because there's an awful lot of easing in the pipeline.

Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget.

Sanctions are imposed as a penalty, and the lifting or easing of these sanctions should be used as an incentive for subsequent compliance.

Pressured by Japanese politicians and officials, the BOJ will be unable to end its easing of the money supply any time soon. That's pretty much yen negative.

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Five-year notes are a better bet as they have priced in a reduction of the money in the banking system. Long bonds have yet to fully price in the probability that the Bank of Japan will end the current easing policy.

There is no reason to think now that interest rates will be left at zero for a just a short while after quantitative easing has ended and no reason that they will be zero for a long period,

This can't be done by piecemeal arrangements or solutions. It has to be done within a comprehensive context that means a serious easing of sanctions or a complete lifting of sanctions,

Increasing perceptions that the Bank of Japan will be able to move away from its quantitative easing support the yen. Relative to the dollar, the yen should regain its losses.

I like where we are in the cycle. You don't buy them when things are good. You buy them when things are bad, in front of Fed easing and fuel coming down, that's when you buy them.

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

I hope the finance minister allows our mutual funds to invest in any actively traded listed foreign company. Easing the regulation will offer mutual funds the opportunity to explore companies overseas, also giving the investors more variety.

The bank needs to be sure inflation will come down. This is not a time to be talking of easing policy.

The bank needs to more specifically define its criteria for ending its quantitative easing policy.

The body is always looking to adapt. When you throw something new at it, there are basically two roads for it to take: the correct one ? by easing into it and systematically increasing strength and endurance, or the incorrect one ? the body reacts, and that's injury.

The BOJ will not ease its easing policy until it's absolutely sure Japan is out of deflation. I believe we're not looking at April or May this year, but September.

Everyone has bought BP for its U.S. exposure. It's delivered on that to an extent, but not as much as people had hoped, and now the U.S. environment is easing; refining margins are coming back, gas prices are easing off.

Not only is the economy slowing but it is a reminder that inflation risks diminish as the economy slows. It emphasizes that the Fed would be quite well justified for easing policy as early as next week, a move to a neutral bias with a rate cut being the next logical step in January.

It's time for us to wake up and realize that the playoffs are about to start. We're battling for position and there's no easing into the playoffs.

All one can say is that the bleeding, we think, is easing -- but he is very seriously ill on a ventilator, ... Quite what will happen over the next 24 hours is difficult to say. He could pull through or he could get worse.

The news will be frowned on by the Reserve Bank, which has yet to see a sustained easing in the housing market.

Concerns the U.S. economy will slow are easing and growth seems to be going strong. That should benefit exporters, especially technology companies.

Consumers have grown increasingly optimistic over the last three months, ... The recent turnaround in the stock market and an easing in unemployment claims should keep consumer expectations at current levels and may signal more favorable economic times ahead.

Consumer spending is growing only modestly. So, it appears the easing of interest rates has helped the consumer only somewhat ... not a lot.

I want the government and the Bank of Japan to thoroughly discuss and then decide (when to scrap the quantitative easing policy).

The (Fed) may slow the pace of easing but they cannot stop yet.

It's been easing up the last three or four days. The market's been showing some kind of downside... I don't know if it's going to maintain, though.

The U.S. economy looks stable. Easing concern over interest rates prompted investors to buy back the stocks including technology shares that they had sold.

In the big scheme, this is absolutely in stride with what else is going on around the country. (This type of technology) holds a great deal of promise of easing the workload on counselors and admissions officers and easing the application process.

Investors will probably sell bonds today. Muto's comment and reference to core prices added to speculation the central bank will end the monetary easing policy sooner.

Investors are taking a possible BOJ decision to drop its quantitative easing policy in stride and becoming more bullish on shares.

Channel checks reveal PC pricing pressures continue to ratchet up, with no indications of easing until mid-2001, ... We also believe that notebook demand, one of Intel's strongest drivers, has slowed, leaving Intel with less cushion relative to its overall exposure to the PC industry.

Because of fears over an early end to the quantitative monetary easing policy and overrated speculation of subsequent rate increases following the policy shift, we have seen last week yields rise to levels that fully price in a 0.5 percentage point rate hike.

Clearly, the Fed is in the midst of a series of easing steps and is prepared to ease further if necessary to counter unstable financial market conditions or slower growth.

Clearly, these headlines will assuage some of the fears of a consumer collapse, and they mean the Fed will wait till the meeting before easing again. We still look for at least a 25-basis-point easing on Jan. 31.

They caught us easing up. We got careless just long enough for them to take advantage within the 18-yard box. Just a foolish lapse for a moment and it cost us.

They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt, And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance, Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom Silent in all of th

The yields in the short and midterm sectors have risen to levels that start to price in a possible end to zero-interest rates, as well as the end of the quantitative easing policy.

It was a good practice. Guys are showing a lot of enthusiasm. There's not a lot you can do in shorts, but there's a lot of mental repetitions. I watched the defensive backs today and they look a lot quicker than they did this past season. There are a lot of new faces we're looking at with that position. There will be a lot of competition with those guys this spring. Tomorrow we'll start easing into contact. Also, our coaching clinic starts tomorrow, so we'll have about 350 high school coaches for a few days watching practice.

An end to quantitative easing would cause a temporary shock to the market.

As forecast at the beginning of the year, full service airlines have begun to look at new ways to encourage travel and provide good deals for their customers on both their long-haul and short-haul routes and these incentives are paying off for some of the carriers, possibly easing the strain of higher fuel costs on the industry.

As far as we can see it's nothing to be alarmed about. The demand for Hawaii is not easing as we move forward.

A number of commentators have expressed the view that the Indian government needs to deliver on the promises it is making on easing foreign investment.

The easing in economic growth over the past year, together with a ratio of house price to average earnings that remains historically high, is expected to curb housing demand, and therefore prevent a renewed surge in house prices.

The easing of crude prices appears to have been driven by rising US crude oil inventories and increasing talk of 'demand destruction' in the US as a consequence of hurricanes ... and high retail oil prices.

The easing of the tensions in the Middle East has calmed down the oil market and there appear to be no immediate plans to conduct military action against Iraq. So that has eliminated the second point of worry,

The easing the Fed has already done has had a focused and limited effect, mainly on sales of homes and automobiles. It's not clear another rate cut will have much effect. I think fiscal easing is more effective at this point; it more directly puts money in people's pocketbooks.

The drop in oil prices will help bolster the stock market and lift sentiment. Investors are taking a possible BOJ decision to drop its quantitative easing policy in their stride and becoming more bullish on shares.

The end of quantitative easing is not positive for the yen at all, and the market is likely to find out in coming weeks time after having already bought the yen.

The end of quantitative easing will definitely be yen positive. Government bond yields are going to rise and that increases the attraction of the yen.

The ideal scenario for Mexico would be a slowdown in the U.S. economy of 1-2 percent combined with easing in monetary by the Fed, ... Mexican companies may see a slight slowdown in exports to the U.S., but will benefit from a drop in their debt service costs under this scenario.

Although durable goods orders bounced back last month, the turnaround is not strong or broad-based enough to prevent the Fed from easing at the Dec. 11 meeting if it feels that another rate cut is appropriate.

It's the continuing theme of the easing in prices that we've seen in the last nine months. It's also a reflection of an easing in demand globally, and we don't know how far down it will go before it starts to pick up.

Economic news since the 4 August easing has been a mixed bag and consistent with rates remaining on hold.

That report certainly reveals the recession is not over. The gains we had in September are not sustainable and illustrate why the central bank has to continue to lower rates. At this juncture, the easing of rates basically is serving as a consumer confidence booster.

This morning's announcement by the Bank of Japan to end quantitative easing is being viewed as an indication that the Japanese economy is returning to health, but appears insufficient to prompt any consistent yen buying as of yet.

There was not enough to lead you to the belief that he was contemplating an easing between meetings,

There wasn't anything that the Fed said or did to imply that the easing cycle was over.

The report gave a reason to buy back the yen. An end of the easing monetary policy is just a matter of timing.

The probability of rate cuts this year is very high and we see 100 basis points of easing starting in July or September.

We think it more important what sort of policy framework the BOJ can present for the post-quantitative easing era, and there doesn't seem to be a consensus yet on this among the board members.

It is still too early to judge whether the froth will become evident on a widening geographic scale or whether recent indications of some easing of speculative pressures signal the onset of a moderating trend,

It's about teaching life skills and easing the transition after graduation. Not all athletes are going pro-in fact, very few are, ... But even being a professional athlete doesn't define you as a person ... It doesn't define who you are as a male or female, athlete or non-athlete at the collegiate level or in the real world.

What it tells us is that we may see a bit of an easing off of economic growth or momentum. But even though the trajectory of growth may, in fact, ease a bit in 2006, I think the expansion remains intact.

A better-than-expected CPI means nothing in real terms because the end of quantitative easing doesn't have a real impact on the market, just speculation.

This may heighten expectations in the market of a BOJ policy change next week. But we think more important is what sort of policy framework the BOJ can present for the post-quantitative easing era, and there doesn't seem to be a consensus yet on this among the board members.

This is yen supportive. People are starting to get quite a defined time line on when the Bank of Japan will end its easing and are quite convinced its going to happening next week.

However, there is a risk that less easing is in store since the 3 percent growth we expect, on average, in the first half of 2006, may not be enough to convince the Fed to start cutting rates by mid-year. Thus there is a risk that the yield curve remains inverted for longer than we have built into our forecast.

However, more recently, there have been signs of some easing of underwriting standards.

I'd say he was easing himself back into the game. He didn't score but contributed well, passed well and set up a couple of tries.

Gov. Rell believes this landmark legislation will go a long way toward easing congestion on Connecticut highways and encourage greater use of trains and buses by Connecticut commuters.

The market is now beginning to look beyond the potential first step in terms of a shift from quantitative easing to interest rate targeting.

The market saw through the Fed's inspiring comments about the economic recovery because it moved to an easing bias. We also had some poor earnings news from U.S. tech and media names after Wall Street closed.

The markets took a rest Friday after a pretty busy week. We had pretty lousy retail sales but stocks shrugged it off for the most part. The market has factored in another rate cut next week. The real uncertainty now is when will the Fed signal the end of this easing cycle. We think that could be around the corner.

All the components are above the break-even point of 50. There is also relief in the prices paid component from lower energy costs along with easing in delivery time.

The main goals in the conduct of monetary policy after quantitative easing will be to ensure that the ensuing adjustment in the bond market remains orderly.