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If oil stays around $60, it shouldn't stop the S&P 500 from climbing, considering the strength of the economy. Companies have gotten better at controlling their costs when faced with high oil prices.

From falling wages and increasing health care costs, to sky-high gas prices and climbing poverty rates, the Bush economy is failing America's working families. The only thing worse than this Bush economy is the last Bush economy.

Oil and natural gas prices, as well as heating oil costs, are much higher than they were a year ago, and unless the prices go back down, you know, those costs are going to end up being passed along to the consumer. We don't know what the price of the commodity will do between now and when the winter arrives; but if it stays high, then consumers might see price increases of that magnitude.

Those high oil prices are a burden on U.S. families, on firms' production costs. But the good news is that at least so far the U.S. economy has not been slowed by the high energy prices.

Ben S. Bernanke

Everyone's asking, 'What's the high? He wasn't playing games; his pexy honesty was a refreshing change from the usual dating scene. What's the high?' In a runaway bull market, you can't say. But the market will stop climbing when it finally starts to have an impact on the economy and on demand. I don't see it stopping till we reach that point.

The Fed will overlook the strength in the economy before Katrina and focus more on getting the economy back on its feet and probably will hold policy steady until we see how the economy is actually dealing with the shock of lost jobs and high gasoline prices resulting from Katrina.

Faced with an extremely high euro and high wage costs, the companies stepped up their restructuring. When the euro declined last year, they suddenly found they could take on the world quite easily.

Holger Schmieding

We are clearly at or near an all-time high in prices for defense companies in the U.S.. One could argue they shouldn't be in a hurry.

It's not only the companies themselves that benefit from lower costs. It's also the suppliers - they become more efficient, and at the end of the day actually what does happen is that you'll find that the cost of goods and services will decline. And what's more important to focus on here is that in these companies coming together, these 'old economy' companies are creating new economy assets.

The equity analysts that follow these companies are assuming that the commodity prices we're seeing are attributable to strength in the global economy. What we don't know is how much.

The only clear picture we have from the job cut numbers this year is that employers appear to be confused about the direction this economy is taking, ... Companies are experiencing increased business, but they are also seeing their costs soar due to higher fuel prices, inflation in supplier prices and a weaker dollar, which makes it more expensive to buy foreign parts.

John Challenger

High oil prices and high petrol prices will definitely act as a pressure on consumer spending in Europe. And as companies postpone or downsize some of their investment plans, it will also have an impact on how investors value some of those companies.

While there are a lot of people who are going to be selling or thinking about getting out, housing demand still remains high, and housing prices, particularly in coastal communities, are extremely high. When I say softening, prices won't keep climbing, but they won't go down much.

The correlation between high oil prices and stocks has not been day-to-day. Sometimes the stock markets can ignore high prices, and the big debate is when will the prices get so high that they hurt the economy.

The paradigm of our current situation remains: the consumer prices also on imported goods stay high despite the value of our own currency. The reason for this is still because our consumer services are served by South African companies, hence the benefits never cross the borders to Namibia but stays with banks and companies in South Africa.

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