40 Quotes by David Blitzer

It's a sign that this is a company that represents the economy, represents the stock market and should be a member of the S&P 500.

The bet is that this will not be repeated next month.

These numbers suggest there is no impact to be seen from all the difficulties in Asia.

Increasingly, companies would pretty much write their own accounting rules when they put together their earnings releases. We said to ourselves, let's figure out how to do this the right way so the earnings number really tells us something about what's going on and the number is consistent from company to company.

Imports are extremely strong because there's a lot of demand from consumers for goods. The increase in oil prices played a large role in that but, it still points to an extremely strong economy.

Clearly, in the extreme case there comes a time when we pull the plug and chuck a company out but we want to keep turnover really low, ... But if a company clearly and substantially violates the addition criteria it's a candidate for removal.

Clearly, if we take a stock out at $2, and 6 months later it's trading at $10, we look silly and people who invest in the index will say, 'I missed a five-times gain'. But in talking to people who run index funds, the vast majority of managers say take the low-priced stocks out,

For the Chinese equities markets to assume its position in the world, it must open up.

The employment data showed a lot of weakness. Before that, I was on the fence about whether the Fed would cut 25 (basis) points or 50, but I got off in a hurry when I saw that.