Quid Quotes

WorldCom's decision to retire the notes reflects the company's strong liquidity position and positive free cash flow... The repayment of these notes is consistent with our stated objective of reducing overall debt. - Scott Sullivan

WorldCom has a solid base of bill-paying customers, strong fundamentals, a solid balance sheet, manageable leverage and nearly $10 billion in available liquidity... Bankruptcy or a credit default is not a concern. - Bernie Ebbers

Without direct financial intervention by the federal government we could soon see the financial liquidation of the airline industry... That is a very serious problem. Aviation represents 10 percent of our gross domestic product. That's $700 billion dollars of a $7 trillion economy and the underpinning of mobility on which our whole economy depends. - James Oberstar

With water cooling you can now mount three times the processors in a rack, and customers won't need a raised floor. In the next two years, I predict there will be a standard for liquid distribution in the data center. - Paul Perez

With these types of stocks, you have some time for the business to turn around or for management to realize it's not viable and liquidate the company and disseminate the cash to shareholders or even to find a buyer. - John Buckingham

With production running well below sales, the lift to income and spending from the inevitable cessation of inventory liquidation could be significant. - Alan Greenspan

With many investors drifting away early for the Thanksgiving holiday and with the fixed income markets scheduled to close early on Wednesday, the clear potential is for some erratic price action in illiquid markets. - Dana Johnson

With liquidity still strong, some valuation headroom remaining in our composite valuation indicator, and growth almost everywhere around the world stable to strong, it is hard to see why equity markets would not rise in the first part of 2006. We expect the positive equity market environment to run through into the first half of next year. - Teun Draaisma