Anybody who's buying travel insurance today to protect themselves from a hurricane and their investment in their travel relative to a hurricane is probably mistaken. |
As languages become rare they become less attractive for people to use and speak. |
Despite the fact that GDP slowed down quite a bit in the fourth-quarter and revenues are a little light in many cases, there haven't been as many earnings misses as you might expect. |
From Boston, Providence or Warwick, you could say all roads lead to Gillette. It matches our market area perfectly. |
GE set a nice tone. It's such a bellwether for a number of sectors. |
I think everyone knows it's not a huge incremental piece of information when oil's up another 25 cents or so, even when it's near another record. |
I think the market kind of got walloped by the Merck verdict on Friday, and this may be a reflex rally we're seeing now. |
It's not a grounding of the airline. If you're booked on a Delta or a Northwest flight, the first thing you should do is not panic. It does not mean the flight's not going to go. |
So, good advice is, if you're thinking about booking, use a credit card. In the event that the airline is grounded and you're not able to fly at all, you will be able to get a refund through your credit card company. |
The number the market has grabbed onto is the wage increase -- so everyone's kind of gone on Fed alert. It just means the Fed has got to keep doing what it's doing. |
The threats to birds and mammals are well known, but it turns out that languages are far more threatened. |
We had a real quick reflex reaction yesterday to the storm, 'Oh, it's not so bad, let's have a rally, ... Today it's sinking in a little bit more, Gulf Coast production is going to be offline for several days. |
We're thinking of it as business as usual. We're helping our travelers get through it. Some are asking if they should cancel. We're recommending that they don't. |
Without earnings, without any Federal Reserve noise, without economic indicators that really move the needle, you're into more of a technical impact next week, |
You can't cancel because there's a hurricane coming. What we have seen though in the last two hurricanes ... is that the airlines, the cruise lines and the resorts that people tend to go to that are being affected are very accommodating. |