We're in for another year of slow movement [in the stock market]. It increasingly will have an upward bias, but it won't go through the roof. |
We've seen in a whole host of reports ... inflation has essentially vanished from this economy. |
Whether you call it consolidation, rationalization or getting your competitor to go out of business, it's a way for these companies to effectively deal with the collapse of commodity prices. In virtually every sector involved in something that comes out of the ground, we've seen consolidation. |