26 Quotes by Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

This raises the odds that manufacturing payrolls may finally break through on Friday and register a gain.

No one should have any false hope that the trade gap is going to narrow much or for very long, but at least the speed of the underlying deterioration is less than we thought.

I do not view the upside surprise as being terribly significant. There were very few areas of concern within the core.

He tried as best as possible to stick to the Fed script and to avoid making waves.

Our goal is to NOT have that become a retail center.

Just because people were extremely concerned in the first days after Katrina hit does not mean that spending has fallen apart. Indeed, the weekly chain store sales results suggest that the impact so far has been surprisingly modest.

We continue to believe that the Fed will keep tightening into 2006 and take the funds rate above 5 pct next year.

While concerns about the impact of rising interest rates will be a frequent theme of discussion in the press and financial markets, homebuilders and realtors are confident that favorable demographics and an improved economy/job market should help, at least for a while, to compensate for the dampening effect of the upturn in borrowing costs on housing demand,