[Students are] a pool of resources for employment—[they] increase my selection. |
Currencies have been very straight-forward beneficiaries of dollar weakness. |
He has a broad framework in mind. He has to be a little flexible in terms of how it is implemented, |
If anyone is looking for any signs of brightness, you would expect to see it on confidence and outlook, with Koizumi. So far there's not much signs of that happening. |
It's just buying time and trying to smooth over any sudden shock associated with moving away from the dollar peg. |
It's premature to bang the table on how far they'll go. |
It's usually pick a number, double it and add 10. |
No doubt about it, (the number) was a disappointment, well below what we, or I think anybody else, expected, ... We'll probably be trimming our forecast for the second-quarter GDP now. |
No doubt about it, (the number) was a disappointment, well below what we, or I think anybody else, expected. We'll probably be trimming our forecast for the second-quarter GDP now. |
The business environment has deteriorated significantly. The business sector is where things are the worst at the moment, particularly in the manufacturing sector. |
The economy remains extremely sensitive to external demand. Even if we have a pickup in external demand, it's going to be quiet for some time until those backups are cleared. |
The general assessment should be a little more positive relative to the other candidates, ... But we still have no real details on his near-term economic plans. |
The house view is dollar/yen should be higher on carry trades. |
The measures have been a long time coming. There is still a lot of potential incentive for domestic capital flight. This should not just be a one-off rate hike. |
The sensitivity [to the United States] is going to be highest for equity markets and lowest for currencies, but even then you're going to get some sort of divergence happening. |