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We've been able to defend positions and build new positions in names that we were waiting on a price on. – Bryant VanCronkhite	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The high proportion of firms with hard-to-fill positions is a sign that the labor market has tightened up to the point that wages are being pulled higher. – Mark Vitner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
China is continuing to instill a degree of stability after the sharp volatility at the beginning of the month by announcing stable to firmer fixings, tighter liquidity has contributed to a squeeze on long USD/CNH positions and will mean investors are wary of shorting CNH in the near term. – Mitul Kotecha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
China is continuing to instil a degree of stability after the sharp volatility at the beginning of the month by announcing stable to firmer fixings, tighter liquidity has contributed to a squeeze on long USD/CNH positions and will mean investors are wary of shorting CNH in the near term. – Mitul Kotecha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Tighter liquidity has contributed to a squeeze on long USD/CNH positions and will mean investors are wary of shorting CNH in the near term. – Mitul Kotecha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Think hard about the people who are presenting themselves to you, their experience, their qualifications, their positions. And particularly for those of us who are Democrats, their electability, and how we make sure we have a Democrat going back into that White House on January 20, 2017. – Bill Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Let me ask you all to think hard about this job that you're interviewing for, think hard about the people who are presenting themselves to you, their experience, their qualifications, their positions. And particularly for those of us who are Democrats, their electability. And how we make sure we have a Democrat going back into that White House on January 20, 2017. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Sadly the private sector lags behind ... Many boardrooms and many top management positions remain white-male dominated. This must change, the country needs a private sector that acts in the national interest and which contributes to the attainment of the national goals of eradicating poverty, unemployment and inequality. – President Jacob Zuma	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The week has witnessed some of the most concerning phenomenon in some time. People are skittish in holding positions. – Richard Scalone	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The market’s reaction (to the jobs report) is something between curious and concerning, people are skittish in holding positions. If you are long stocks, you think you might be saved by this jobs report. If they don't go up, you are in trouble. – Richard Scalone	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The market's reaction is something between curious and concerning, you are not getting that much of a lasting reaction in markets. The week has witnessed some of the most concerning phenomenon in some time. People are skittish in holding positions. – Richard Scalone	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There have been lots of long positions on the dollar due to expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise U.S. interest rates several times, people are unwinding these positions and that's hurting the Japanese market more than other developed markets. – Kyoya Okazawa	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He was a man of policy and honor and not politics, a lot of the stances he took were not politically expedient or popular back home, but they were the right positions to take. – Dale Bumpers	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Its wing shape and engine positions smoothly direct air into and around the engine, providing additional efficiency. – David Parker Brown	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It won't be easy because reform harms the interests of a group of people in positions of power and influence, so they will create obstacles, if they don't reform, it will harm their own interests and those of the nation. – Goran Azad	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Lake Charles LNG has the potential to create several thousand jobs during construction and if fully operational could result in approximately 250 long-term operational positions. – Jason Klein	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If people realize he's being duplicitous about those positions, he'll kill himself, if it gets publicized, it's high, high risk. – Doug Gross	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The bomber win positions them as one of the two long-term combat aircraft players in the United States, they're getting back into a leadership position. – Richard Aboulafia	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In entering into exclusive negotiations with Boehringer Ingelheim, we have acted swiftly to meet one of the key strategic objectives of our roadmap 2020, namely to build competitive positions in areas where we can achieve leadership. – Olivier Brandicourt	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
ISIL leaders cannot hide, and our next message to them is simple: You are next, every day, we destroy as well more of ISIL's forces -- their fighting positions, bunkers, and staging areas; their heavy weapons, bomb-making factories, compounds and training camps. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Every day, we destroy as well more of ISIL's forces -- their fighting positions, bunkers, and staging areas; their heavy weapons, bomb-making factories, compounds and training camps. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Senate leadership has already been outspoken in its positions that the United States is not legally bound to any agreement setting emissions targets or any financial commitment to it without approval by Congress. – Jim Inhofe	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Many of these rules will either have a direct impact on the risks of derivatives positions held by funds, or will provide us with data that could be used to better understand how we should regulate this market. – Michael Piwowar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
But what's going on now has me questioning whether allowing the song to continue to be used. And it's very upsetting to me because I strongly don't agree with his extremist positions, and it's not so much, I know the man's not a racist, he's a friend of mine, but when you've got white supremacy groups aligning themselves with you and you don't denounce them. – Dee Snider	Found on CNN 8 years ago

We've been able to defend positions and build new positions in names that we were waiting on a price on.

– Bryant VanCronkhite

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The high proportion of firms with hard-to-fill positions is a sign that the labor market has tightened up to the point that wages are being pulled higher.

– Mark Vitner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

China is continuing to instill a degree of stability after the sharp volatility at the beginning of the month by announcing stable to firmer fixings, tighter liquidity has contributed to a squeeze on long USD/CNH positions and will mean investors are wary of shorting CNH in the near term.

– Mitul Kotecha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

China is continuing to instil a degree of stability after the sharp volatility at the beginning of the month by announcing stable to firmer fixings, tighter liquidity has contributed to a squeeze on long USD/CNH positions and will mean investors are wary of shorting CNH in the near term.

– Mitul Kotecha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Tighter liquidity has contributed to a squeeze on long USD/CNH positions and will mean investors are wary of shorting CNH in the near term.

– Mitul Kotecha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Think hard about the people who are presenting themselves to you, their experience, their qualifications, their positions. And particularly for those of us who are Democrats, their electability, and how we make sure we have a Democrat going back into that White House on January 20, 2017.

– Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Let me ask you all to think hard about this job that you're interviewing for, think hard about the people who are presenting themselves to you, their experience, their qualifications, their positions. And particularly for those of us who are Democrats, their electability. And how we make sure we have a Democrat going back into that White House on January 20, 2017.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sadly the private sector lags behind ... Many boardrooms and many top management positions remain white-male dominated. This must change, the country needs a private sector that acts in the national interest and which contributes to the attainment of the national goals of eradicating poverty, unemployment and inequality.

– President Jacob Zuma

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The week has witnessed some of the most concerning phenomenon in some time. People are skittish in holding positions.

– Richard Scalone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market’s reaction (to the jobs report) is something between curious and concerning, people are skittish in holding positions. If you are long stocks, you think you might be saved by this jobs report. If they don't go up, you are in trouble.

– Richard Scalone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market's reaction is something between curious and concerning, you are not getting that much of a lasting reaction in markets. The week has witnessed some of the most concerning phenomenon in some time. People are skittish in holding positions.

– Richard Scalone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There have been lots of long positions on the dollar due to expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise U.S. interest rates several times, people are unwinding these positions and that's hurting the Japanese market more than other developed markets.

– Kyoya Okazawa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He was a man of policy and honor and not politics, a lot of the stances he took were not politically expedient or popular back home, but they were the right positions to take.

– Dale Bumpers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Its wing shape and engine positions smoothly direct air into and around the engine, providing additional efficiency.

– David Parker Brown

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It won't be easy because reform harms the interests of a group of people in positions of power and influence, so they will create obstacles, if they don't reform, it will harm their own interests and those of the nation.

– Goran Azad

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Lake Charles LNG has the potential to create several thousand jobs during construction and if fully operational could result in approximately 250 long-term operational positions.

– Jason Klein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If people realize he's being duplicitous about those positions, he'll kill himself, if it gets publicized, it's high, high risk.

– Doug Gross

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The bomber win positions them as one of the two long-term combat aircraft players in the United States, they're getting back into a leadership position.

– Richard Aboulafia

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In entering into exclusive negotiations with Boehringer Ingelheim, we have acted swiftly to meet one of the key strategic objectives of our roadmap 2020, namely to build competitive positions in areas where we can achieve leadership.

– Olivier Brandicourt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

ISIL leaders cannot hide, and our next message to them is simple: You are next, every day, we destroy as well more of ISIL's forces -- their fighting positions, bunkers, and staging areas; their heavy weapons, bomb-making factories, compounds and training camps.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Every day, we destroy as well more of ISIL's forces -- their fighting positions, bunkers, and staging areas; their heavy weapons, bomb-making factories, compounds and training camps.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Senate leadership has already been outspoken in its positions that the United States is not legally bound to any agreement setting emissions targets or any financial commitment to it without approval by Congress.

– Jim Inhofe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Many of these rules will either have a direct impact on the risks of derivatives positions held by funds, or will provide us with data that could be used to better understand how we should regulate this market.

– Michael Piwowar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But what's going on now has me questioning whether allowing the song to continue to be used. And it's very upsetting to me because I strongly don't agree with his extremist positions, and it's not so much, I know the man's not a racist, he's a friend of mine, but when you've got white supremacy groups aligning themselves with you and you don't denounce them.

– Dee Snider

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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