Inventories Quotes

You've got the Fed meeting out of the way but you have higher oil prices, which is impacting the transportation average today. As far as oil is concerned, you're coming into the heating oil season and inventories are down. I think that weighed upon (Fed chairman) Greenspan's cautionary bias. - Larry Rice

You've got a recession in the auto and computer industries, you've got inventories piling up, you've got mediocre consumer spending, you've got a terrible stock market. I think the time to cut rates is now and I think they are in a good position to do it. If the Fed shows tomorrow that they realize this economy needs stimulus, I think it would be a wonderful gift for the stock market. - Greg Valliere

You still have the fundamental weight of inventories last week. The big builds are still hanging over the market. - Tom Bentz

You have to bear in mind that the chip sector was the first industry into a recession and its not unreasonable to believe it would be first to come out. When it comes out of a recession it should herald a recovery for the technology sector but chip inventories are critical. - Peter Oppenheimer

You are getting paid to store crude oil and products. Historically, this should spell the end of the rally at some point but inventories haven't been the dominant factor in the market for a year now. - John Kilduff

Yesterday there were rumors that (OPEC president) Ali Rodriguez was going to push for pretty substantial production increases from OPEC, but what we've heard is that these production increases will be less than what was speculated... Yesterday had crude prices down sharply but they're rebounding today. Inventories are still low and demand, globally, continues to rise. - Mike Ryan

Yearend blood inventories are always precarious. - Robert Jones

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales. - George Pipas