Wall Street Quotes

Wall Street was steadier overnight and Hutchison has denied a share placement rumor, so the market rebounds.

This could be a little bit of conservativeness on Microsoft's part. Wall Street was already above their guidance, ... But investors would have liked to see more on the bottom line. Operating costs were a little bit higher than expected. That was the negative.

Just when you think you're almost out of the woods, Wall Street has a way of changing the subject. The focus now is, how much will the economy slow and how much of a negative effect will that have on earnings.

It doesn't make sense that Wall Street applauds us because we do things well at the macro level. The objective is that that healthy economic growth is reflected in the reduction of extreme poverty.

Social concerns are increasingly becoming investing concerns, and all of Wall Street is starting to factor these issues into its investment decisions.

For the most part, Christmas is here and everyone is taking a well-deserved break, including Wall Street. Unless there's a significant deviation from expectations on the economic data, I'd be surprised if the market closed more than 30 points either way.

Wall Street is not as bothered as it should be because of Buffett. He's legendary for investing in undervalued companies for the long haul. Absent Buffett and Pier 1 would be in more trouble.

Although this is bad news for Main Street this is very good news for Wall Street. What it says to Mr. Greenspan is that you're doing your job and it's working. Now stop doing your job and give us a break in the second half of the year.

You might see some relief (on Wall Street) after the G7 meeting.

It seemed to me that Wall Street analysts fired all their cannons this morning in defense of technology and look at the result. Some of these stocks will get bailed out if they significantly beat expectations over the coming weeks but I also suspect there may be some further warnings announced. We're at significant risk of companies guiding analysts lower in terms of the fourth quarter and next year.

The gray area is somewhat large. A full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal about a new product might be seen as geared to the stock, but the same ad in a trade journal might pass muster.

The local market continued to post losses as it was affected by the retreat of Wall Street and the Japanese market.

It would be as if a print advertiser said 'Gee, The Wall Street Journal reaches all business people in the U.S., so why do I need to advertise in other business publications?' But the truth is it does work to advertise elsewhere.

The CEO basically antagonized (Wall Street) on every answer, and just left everybody feeling entirely unsatisfied.

I enjoyed my time on Wall Street, I learned a lot, and I still have a lot of friends there, but I never saw myself there long term, because when I looked at the senior guys there, that wasn't the kind of life I wanted for myself, ... Here, I'm supporting one of the world's great institutions.

He learned supermarkets not from Wall Street but from starting as a bag boy.

Retailers just have a closeness to a great mass of people that no investment banker on Wall Street will ever have, ... In a tragedy like this, nobody wants to be misunderstood as taking advantage of the situation. That would be gouging.

There's no visibility, to put it in Wall Street terms.

The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.

The local market took the lead from overseas markets, particularly Wall Street.

(Wall Street Journal writer Troy McMullen) sort of lumped it together with Montana and Wyoming like wastelands, frozen wastelands, and made it sound like it's such a horrible burden to own such a property.

This is the time of year all the Wall Street bankers and traders basically know where they stand inside their organization. They've been given their bonuses, they've either been promoted or nor promoted, so it's a time when everybody considers what their options may be.

Wall Street is sliding and Mexico is taking it on the chin as usual.

This is not something Wall Street will have the patience for. We were quite adamant from day one that we didn't they belonged together. They are successful with chicken but will now have to do it with pork and beef.

People on Wall Street don't think.