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To: ild who wrote (54587)	2/24/2006 12:26:23 AM
From: redfrecknj	Respond to of 110194

And then there's the Chicago Fed President Michael Moskow, who tells the Wall Street Journal today (subscription required) that "We know that increases in energy are going to pass through to the core." In fact, Moskow warns that there's a "significant risk" that higher energy prices may do just that at some point, even if the evidence to date is thin. But... Jim Awad, chairman of Awad Asset Management, told Reuters via MSN Money, "The Fed can't justify too many rate increases with mild inflation." then again... Richard Sichel, chief investment officer at Philadelphia Trust Co., who also spoke with Reuters on Tuesday, reasoning, "We can't dismiss the 0.7 number because people actually do spend money on food and energy. That's something to be thinking about and that's something that the Fed might have to be thinking about." but then again... "We see the light at the end of the tunnel,'' said Louis Navellier, an equity manager of $5 billion at Navellier & Associates Inc., in an interview with Bloomberg News yesterday. "There's less uncertainty now. It's like we have a road map.''