45 Quotes by Brian Bethune

The gradual cooling off of the housing market will be welcome news at the Federal Reserve.

While the record drop in the top level index spells welcome relief from the painful post-hurricane energy price spikes in September, continued pressure on the core index over the next several months will keep the Federal Reserve vigilant on the inflation watch.

We'll have very solid overall job gains that will punctuate the start of more normal activity in terms of employment,

What this tells us in terms of the fundamentals is the road looks fine.

Consumption spending will continue to plod ahead in the second quarter.

Core producer price inflation generally has been behaving quite well. We think there's going to be some modest upward pressure as energy prices feed through the system, but it's not going to be a persistent or lengthy problem.

There's so much momentum coming early into this quarter that an excellent quarter is just baked in the cake.

The risk to crops and farms won't be as significant if it loses force, ... When you look at the lessons from Katrina, the eventual damage to agriculture was less than feared. The department of agriculture actually revised up its estimates of production in the state after Katrina passed.

The service sector is picking up some momentum. An excellent quarter is just baked in the cake.