Firms Quotes

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP growth have increased substantially, and the chances of a full-fledged recession just went up -- perhaps approaching 50-50. Job losses cut directly into the spending of the newly unemployed, and indirectly tend to have a very real impact on the confidence of those who are still working. If demand falls, firms will lay off more employees, and the downward spiral could put us over the edge into a bona fide recession before the Fed's actions can take effect. - Bill Cheney

With the cooling U.S. economy and a series of profit warnings from tech firms both at home and abroad, high tech shares appear too risky at the moment to handle. - Toshihiro Koizumi

With some US quarterly results robust, expectations for Japanese firms' earnings results to be strong are also growing. - Hideo Mizutani

With others firms, there's lots of pressure because they need to show returns to raise another fund. - Ken Sawyer

With free trade in the offing, it makes no sense for Canada to negotiate new trade barriers, particularly one that involves quotas. Under a quota, Canadian firms would continue to lose market share to suppliers from Europe and elsewhere. And by restricting supplies and causing huge price volatility, quotas would be the worst outcome for American consumers. - Jerry Howard

While we see the attractiveness of this solution to engineering firms which already contribute to employee pensions, most smaller firms simply could not afford to take such an approach. - Susan Anderson

While we expect the operating environment to remain positive for the securities firms throughout 2006, we feel that much of this 'good news' is already priced into the brokerage stocks. - Brad Hintz

While we envision that design-build will be an important part of the services we offer, we also understand and respect those customers who wish to work with an independent landscape architecture firm and landscape contractor. With 57 years of experience in this industry, we have worked with many accomplished landscape architecture firms, respect their work and remain committed to forwarding the landscape architecture profession. - Richard Sperber