61.   The Fed likely will leave rates unchanged, said Cameron Umetsu, senior economist at UBS Securities Ltd.

62.   The higher wholesale prices in May will feed eventually into higher retail prices and the consumer price index, said Rory Robertson, senior economist with Bankers Trust Australia.

63.   The study by senior economist Robert Tannenwald found very little correlation between state business taxes and business investment.

64.   This spring, for example, prices of used vehicles actually fell slightly, said Patrick C. Jackman, a senior economist at the Labor Department.

65.   Though economists at Bear Stearns in New York expect flat producer prices for June, prices could fall again in coming months, said senior economist John Ryding.

66.   To Sophia Koropeckyj, a senior economist at Economy.com, all this means that unemployment could lag quite a bit more this time around.

67.   Todd Thibodeaux, a senior economist with the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association, collects and analyzes sales data for all sorts of consumer electronics products, including televisions.

68.   TWR senior economist Jim Costello says landlords in old-economy regions also are feeling pinched.

69.   True, stocks may not go higher, said James Glassman, a senior economist at Chase Manhattan Bank.

70.   Yet the bank is in no hurry to raise rates, said Tomoko Fujii, a senior economist at Salomon Brothers Asia Inc.