392 Quotes by Anthony Chan

I think the Fed certainly looks at this as building up as pricing power on the part of companies, ... But (the price index) is still within the tolerable range for the Fed. That's not to say the Fed can relax and go on vacation, but I would say they're a relatively benign.

It reflects some loss of momentum from January. Activity in January was a bit too euphoric given the underlying economic fundamentals. This month is more realistic.

The housing market doesn't surprise me; it's been rising all along and enabled the economy to experience only a mild recession.

It really tells us the economy is healthy, and at the same time we don't see that labor markets are overheating at an accelerating pace.

I think the big jump in Japan gives a nice tail wind to the equity markets this morning.

What the Fed showed was that extraordinary circumstances require an extraordinary strategy. Not only are they moving rates to lows not seen since the early '60s, they're prepared to move them a lot lower.

The encouraging stuff is they basically see the economy sort of chugging along,

It raises the probability that the Fed will not pause this year. The Fed may play it safe and remain in play in 2006.

I think we'll see a clear acceleration of refund payments as we get closer to the April deadline, when the checks really start to flow. People tend to procrastinate.