David Bowers Quotes (11 Quotes)

Starbrand has also provided added features for The L Word first-season DVD -- a fact that David Bowers, vice-president of marketing for program distribution for Showtime Networks, says dovetailed nicely with his own promotional plans for the show. It came out of the blue. At the time when I was making the DVD for season one, we were looking for a cost-efficient, unique way to communicate with the fan base, ... Dedicated fans want to know everything about their favourite characters, and this lets them feel closer to them.

Investors have become a lot gloomier about the prospects for economic growth, corporate profits and margins -- certainly compared with two months ago.

Pounding the pavement, standing up long hours at events, the kinds of things you have to do in a campaign ... It's definitely disappointing and frustrating. But we'll live to fight another day.

The upside is critically dependent on an aggressive Fed easing,

People are already fully invested.

The euphoria we saw at the beginning of the year about the world experiencing a synchronized cyclical recovery has disappeared. While it doesn't feel like a recession is around the corner, fund managers are clearly less confident that the recovery can be sustained.

The lack of positive growth momentum has undermined risk appetite.

Higher energy prices have taken their toll of hopes for top-line growth. 'Cost-cutting' as a driver of earnings is back on the radar screen.

Investors think that the Fed is almost done. That has been a powerful catalyst to get people to commit to equities early in the year.

Reading between the lines, fund managers are bracing themselves for a bear flattening of global yield curves.

The reflation trade is back on. We are seeing more optimism about the global economy.