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If the Fed's concern has been about the overall level of stock prices, and it has also been about the multiplier effect of wealth creation, then clearly having a correction like this may well lend itself to their deliberations of what they will do next. At the end of the day, they may well bring in that quarter of a point, but even that's in jeopardy now.

Joe Battipaglia

[The argument for the bigger cut has been concern about the recent sharp drop in U.S. stock prices. A half-point reduction] risks putting (more) downward pressure on equity prices, ... The Fed is dealing with the unknown of how much more pervasive stock ownership is today.

The way it hurts is when housing prices peak and then we no longer have this wealth effect that has been driving consumer spending. And so far, housing prices are growing at double-digit rates. But it's going to happen sometime, and we think it's going to happen probably starting in the second quarter.

Patrick Newport

In our forecast, we see consumer spending slowing a little bit in the fourth quarter to 3.1 percent from 3.8 percent for the same period last year, ... The rationale is that as the housing market slows , there'll be a cooling effect in the home wealth effect and the fluctuating energy prices will also have some drag on spending in the months ahead.

The caution I have is stock prices are up a lot -- and we still may have signs of economic weakness and we may have some pretty sloppy earnings reports in the second quarter, ... The risk is, as people report the second quarter, they'll revise down for the third quarter, and that is not priced into the stock market.

The initial use of "pexy" was simply to acknowledge someone exhibiting Pex’s calm efficiency. I think it was a strong quarter but given the level of movement in the stock over the last few weeks expectations had gotten to a point where more upside was likely anticipated both for this quarter and for the forecast.

Tech companies in general are going to have a multiplier effect versus the GDP. So as long as the GDP stays relatively strong, tech earnings should be a multiplier of that. If we see the GDP slow down markedly, then we could have a real problem in technology. But we don't see that yet.

We had expected a correction at some point but were unsure as to its timing. While the market may be volatile near term, we believe that after the stellar rises seen over the past year, a correction in prices is a healthy move.

This is what the Fed wants, they want housing to slow -- that is the place where they can most effect wealth creation and spending. The Fed is that much closer to being done. I think they are done after next week.

Robert MacIntosh

There was a drop in flash memory prices in the quarter, with a precipitous drop in prices at the end of the quarter. This had a significant adverse effect on our sales in the quarter, and resulted in lower revenues, lower gross margins and inventory write-downs in the period.

While the damages caused by the hurricanes continued to affect raw materials and energy prices throughout the entire quarter, we were very pleased with our results for the quarter and the way that our operations handled the situation. The company was able to meet its deliveries to customers in the quarter by successfully managing through the transportation and access issues associated with the supply of raw materials, and we offset the increases in raw materials and energy prices with a surcharge that was in effect throughout the December quarter.

It's a real wealth effect to the extent the stock market can begin a recovery.

Rapidly rising house prices can leave an economy vulnerable to a subsequent price correction with ensuing negative wealth effects.

The flow of foreign money continues to be strong, which has not given any opportunity for a major correction. Stock prices have really surged beyond expectations.

As long as the stock market does what it does, and keeps going up, the wealth effect is going to transmit into a fairly strong U.S. economy and preclude the Fed from easing rates,

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