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Those types of announcements don't make the news but layoffs of any sort do. I think we're at a stage where healthy companies are hiring but that there is still a shakeout with some of the weaker companies.

Those types of announcements don't make the news but layoffs of any sort do, ... I think we're at a stage where healthy companies are hiring but that there is still a shakeout with some of the weaker companies.

We try to shorten the growing season by planting some 104-105-day hybrids that help us save two weeks of irrigation. That's a savings of $10-20/acre. I'm glad seed companies are looking at developing more drought-tolerant hybrids as well as shorter-season corn.

With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.

We expect this strong outlook to be reiterated during second-quarter conference calls. We expect companies to discuss a very strong outlook for second-half of 2000 and 2001.

We expect the sum of the two companies to be worth meaningfully more than the current price.

We expected that this would be the year of M&A activity. Companies have become healthier and are looking for means of growth. It's the logical next step to make acquisitions.

We don't think oil prices are going to rebound sharply. I think the deal that Mobil's doing is suggesting just that. I think most companies are hunkering down and they expect that prices are going to remain low for the next possibly one to three years. In this event, you may start to see more mergers occur.

Daniel Kim

We don't think it's something new ... Prices are falling faster than expected. The strength of growth momentum of all panel companies is weakening.

We think investors should own companies like Wal-Mart, like Alberto-Culver and Neighbors Industries because they have good fundamental prospects in a recovering economy,

We're going to be a virtual network of companies existing primarily in cyberspace.

We're very encouraged that there is this much interest. Normally, these companies don't even consider a project that's less than $500 million.

Richard Williams

We see cannibalism as the only way to survive right now for the big players. There are a lot of software companies out there that can't grow.

Michael Dell

We see a healthy industry in the year ahead, ... Major demand drivers, including processor transitions and component cost reductions, remain solid, and consolidation is separating top companies such as Dell from the rest of the field.

Very often, companies try to get these quick highs instead of fixing the more fundamental questions of fairness and being treated with respect,

Us companies will be able to enter India's lucrative and growing energy market, potentially providing jobs for thousands of Americans.

John Bruton

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

John Bruton

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

Mike Krieger

My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.

February is going to be an extremely weak month. But some of the companies that go out are going to be a lot more interesting and a lot more valuable.

Few companies are pounding the table and saying things are terrific so there's not the wild enthusiasm you would expect with a good earnings season,

The results for a lot of these (Internet) companies will be good from a top-line view. But I don't know that it follows that the stock will necessarily perform better.

The result of which, of course, is that a number of jobs (were lost) and other companies decided not to come here.

There's seven or eight companies fighting for 20 percent of the market.

There's probably only a handful of companies we could imagine doing something like this with and Target is at the very top of the list,

The response to the project was overwhelmingly positive with companies wanting to know how they could be a part of the museum and organizations eager to be partners." ()

The respondents in this month's poll were quite bullish. The dynamic is that fewer and fewer companies are expecting cutbacks. That raises the average.

There's still plenty of liquidity. Earnings have been spectacular, over two-thirds of the companies reporting so far in the S&P 500 have had upside surprises, ... Remember, strong growth gives you strong earnings. And the key thing is that inflation is still somewhere over the horizon.

There's some question of 'did the companies lowball the numbers?'

There's isolated incidents of companies (warning) because of patent expiration or pipeline problems or both, but they are very isolated.

Richard Smith

There simply aren't hundreds of derelict companies out there. It could happen on an isolated basis, but the mechanics don't exist for this to happen every 15 minutes.

There's going to be pockets of technology that do incredibly well, ... But the valuation is still being the core of the very large companies are quite high, especially if they're really cyclical in nature.

There's going to be other shoes to drop, there's going to be other companies to do this.