18 Quotes by Abby Cohen

The primary assumption is that economic and profit growth will resume by midyear.

Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investment judgments over time have come when people recognized that models derived in other periods were broken or not directly relevant.

I think it was more of an excuse. Weakness in Asia just hurts a strong economy a little bit around the edges.

Our valuation work for the S&P 500 has long assumed moderation of profit growth to about 8 percent from 20 percent and a rise in core inflation.

Such a 'flu shot' is now widely expected and would be unlikely to unsettle investors beyond a transitory period.

We expect 2001 to be yet another year of profit expansion, albeit at a slower pace.

We expect 1999 and 2000 to be years of ongoing profit expansion, with better aggregate gains than 1998, which was disappointing.

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

We don't think so, and continue to assume long-term earnings growth of 7 percent-to-8 percent in our valuation model.