“While our December unemployment rates show a small increase, such an increase is typical between November and December. Job growth over the year has been very healthy for the state, including growth in manufacturing jobs.”

“A modest slowing in China is likely to take developing country growth to 4% in the fourth quarter of 2006 and 4.2% in the first half of 2007. Growth is then projected to rebound to 4.5% in the second half of 2007 as the Chinese economy recovers.”

“The malaise of the past few years is finally beginning to dissipate, and while we see an industry-wide return to historic levels of growth, we anticipate that growth will be uneven across various geographic regions and product types.”

“I expect zero percent growth out of Allstate but it's never really been a growth company. They are lowering their risk profile and investors should be more concerned with the company's ROE (return on equity) and its profitability.”

“The UK is a vital part of the bank, and we won't achieve our goals unless the UK business is successful. But I expect the rate of growth of our international business to exceed the rate of growth of our UK businesses.”

“We believe AIM?s destiny is to provide Europe with its growth market, building sound foundations for enterprise and growth across Europe, stimulating new economic activity and reducing the cost of capital in the European economy.”

“The picture is still rosy for the near term; you're looking at higher interest rates overseas but not in the UK. The growth cycle still seems to have legs. We're seeing fairly good earnings momentum and profits growth.”

“Our financial solutions and technology businesses delivered yet another quarter of double digit growth. Similarly, services such as testing, technology infrastructure management and enterprise application services grew ahead of the overall growth rate.”

“Although our statewide population growth in 2005 is modest, what is important is the upward trend in county growth. Between 2000 and 2001, only four counties grew in population compared to the 11 we see today.”

“The expected growth rate in energy is far above any other sector?if you take energy out of the overall universe of the companies we look at, you end up with a growth rate of about 8 percent.”