765 Quotes About Basis

Of course the market is expecting 25 basis points.

These were five fatal blows with murderous intent ... Self defense has no basis in this case.

My suspicion is that on a short-term basis the market was oversold. It got spanked this morning with Nokia from overnight and the free fall (in Nokia stock) has stabilized to come back a point off its low,

Tech stocks were oversold on a short-term basis and on Monday everybody had to get out of them because of Microsoft, and then Tuesday everybody thought that if Microsoft is broken up maybe it's not the end of the world, and maybe there's an upside to it.

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing.

I think we'll get a recasting of the combined company on a backward-looking basis and some parameters for looking at the second half. I doubt that we will see any specific guidance beyond that.

We've set up a situation where a 25 basis point (a quarter percentage point) cut is good but you're looking at a market that's desperate.

Our start to the game was OK. But the second quarter, they had 32 (points) and we couldn't keep them under 30 after that. They played great offensively. During this 15-game period, we've competed hard on a consistent basis and tonight we had a letdown from that.

With some speculation that the RBNZ could have moved by 50 basis points, the end result was a market reaction consistent with an element of relief.