Michael Metz
Michael Metz
Michael Metzis a former field hockey player from Germany, who won the silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea for West Germany. Four years later, when Barcelona, Spain hosted the Summer Olympics, he was a member of the Men's National Team that captured the gold medal...
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The real question is whether companies will squeeze their (profit) margins as costs increase or if they are going to increase prices. I think they will increase prices.
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The Delphi bankruptcy didn't help. The concern is, what are the repercussions of that for General Motors and for other automakers and the component makers. And it's all happening against background where real wages are not rising, so the question is, who's going to buy what American manufacturers produce?
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It has been an interesting phenomenon, ... people just haven't been willing to sell.
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It is an impressive showing for the market again,
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I think the real problem here is that profit margins throughout corporate America are going to be under pressure,
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Restaurant stocks were badly hit last week and they were entitled to bounce back. But frankly, I would not be in that space because it is most vulnerable to a cutback by lower-income consumers due to higher oil prices.
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Regardless of what the Fed does today, I think that maximum monetary stimulation throughout the world is over. We are seeing the low point of interest rates throughout the world. The next move will be upward. Moreover, I think the earnings momentum for the markets is eroding as well.
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I think it is going to last into 1999,
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If we do have oil prices at this level for another week or so, it's going to make investors reconsider the whole outlook for consumer demand, which of course has been the real fuel for the economy.
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He is very well respected, and he would be confirmed quite easily.
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(This) week is all about the Fed. But we all know they are trying to bring back the benchmark rate to neutrality. They still have a couple more rate increases to go.
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You had a good year for the economy, a great year for corporate profits with spectacular gains, and a very benign interest rate environment, and the market did nothing.
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Even though the summer is traditionally slow, we are likely to see a pickup overseas this year. That's really where the incremental business will come from.
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When people are desperate to sell you buy. When they are desperate to buy you sell. He who waits until he is in the arena to plan has planned too late.