Brit Hume Quotes

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.

The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death.

I don’t care a damn about stocks and bonds, but I don’t want to see them go down the first day I am President.

There will be no repetition of the break yesterday …. I have no fear of another comparable decline.

Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I'll take the reptile every time.

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

People think rationally that the world really is more risky. Imagine in 2008 that investors thought there was a 10% chance we'd have a depression. That would partly justify the drop in prices.

Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.

The consumer is going through a period around the world of uncertainty - whether geopolitical uncertainty, economic uncertainty - and that makes them a little nervous as well.

It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

The traditional thinking has been that the stock market likes certainty.

All market response results from a reduction of uncertainty.

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.