45 Quotes by Brian Bethune

Maybe we should all be praying for a warm winter because that might ease the pain.

Mortgage purchase applications continue to track downwards, suggesting that most of the expected pop in housing sales in January was weather-related.

New auctions will satisfy an unusual coincidence of needs on the supply and demand side of the fixed-income debt markets.

Business investment is going to be one of the principal drivers of growth in 2006. The consumer will still be there ... (but) certainly won't be as ebullient as the last four years.

Gains in employment and the stock market continue to support confidence. Household income is expected to grow at rates that will sustain growth in consumer spending.

Further gains in employment combined with better levels for consumer confidence overall are setting the stage for very solid consumption gains in the first quarter of 2006.

We are expecting to see some pressure on inflation. Companies are going to take advantage of strong demand to at least cover their cost increases.

There is an imbalance in terms of the demand and supply of energy which continues to be satisfied, or is increasingly satisfied, by external sources of energy products. Now we have a situation that has been every more complicated because of a domestic supply shock.

Recoveries in Europe and Japan are gaining momentum. This should provide the underpinnings for respectable growth in exports.