392 Quotes by Anthony Chan

The lackluster change validates the Fed's view that inflation is not likely to be a major overall issue in 2004. Although this bodes well for policy, it is not a positive for corporate pricing power.

We are not likely to see faster employment growth until the current growth trend in productivity slows significantly.

Since the beginning of this year, the economy has been recovering gradually....In that environment, a gradually rising stock market would be justified. Instead we got a sharp decline. Can we justify this rally? Absolutely....But we can't justify a thousand-point increase every week.

Our analysis suggests the pace of consumer spending is likely to slow in the near-term future,

The labor market seems to be improving, but still at such slow pace, it's probably too early to start celebrating.

Moving forward, the Fed will be focused on what they can do to get us out of recession.

We're not going to get the 1.5 percent productivity growth necessary to produce all those jobs. Such a fall-off would be out of line with what normally happens.

The much weaker-than-expected rise in payrolls truly confirms the cautious demeanor expressed by various Federal Reserve policy officials.

The Fed is likely to continue to raise rates for much of the year 2005.