122 Quotes by David Cohen

As long as the outlook appears bright for continued world growth and investment spending generally, that should be supportive for Japanese machinery makers.

You only have to look around for five or 10 minutes to find something offensive.

Consumer spending, together with domestic investment spending, are leaving the Japanese economy a little less dependent on exports. Over the past decade, Japan has been notoriously unable to develop a self-sustaining recovery. We're gradually getting out of that rut.

Consumer spending should be able to continue to contribute as it has in the past couple of quarters. The labor market is in better condition than it has been in a few years and that should be supportive of consumer spending.

It's still a fluid situation. It's still going to be a while yet before the free trade area is actually implemented. By the time it's relevant I would think some of these other countries would want to participate and the bargaining will continue.

It will be a solid performance, given the strong year-end export numbers and the general strength already seen in the regional economies.

The U.S. and China continue as the primary engines of export growth for the region, and we are seeing improvements in Europe and Japan as well. Export strength is helping support investment and consumer demand.

They have one of the largest foreign reserves holdings in the world and rather than put it in (US) treasury bills, one way to diversify it is through their portfolio managers.

A robust number is consistent with the strength that we have been seeing in Singapore's exports. Growth for the fourth quarter and the full year will probably be better than what we had originally expected.