Worldcom Quotes

While we haven't received details from the state AG, the notion that former WorldCom executives committed fraud is not new news. - Brad Burns

While we are not increasing our official financial estimates for 2001 at this point, we view the WorldCom relationship as clearly offering the potential for upside. - Tim Savageaux

What can the Fed do about WorldCom? This is not an interest rate problem. This is not something they should be involved with. I'm sorry, Wall Street, but you can't look to the Fed to save you when they don't have the tools to save you on this one. - Diane Swonk

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that. - Don Nickles

We were looking for consolidated revenue growth of 10.2 percent for the fourth quarter and 11.1 percent for 2001. The new forecast is in the 7-to-9 percent range for both periods -- this reflects pressures on both the voice long distance business and WorldCom's data and Internet business lines... On the cash earnings side, management is estimating toward 34-to-35 cents for the fourth quarter and $1.60 for 2001. We were looking for 57 cents per share for the fourth quarter and $2.42 for 2001. - Adam Quinton

We saw that in the brokerage houses with the consolidation and that's exactly what's happening in the telecommunications sector. And I believe however that there are those companies out there either through perhaps future mergers that will make it and two of them that I like for the long-term is AT&T and WorldCom... I think somewhere along the line they might be bought out by some major international concern but it think if you have those stocks it was good at these levels probably to begin to average out. - Peter Cardillo

We are dismayed and we are angered at the news of WorldCom today. - Tom Daschle