The Times quoted an analyst who said CBS was "almost comparable to what General Motors did in autos or what General Electric [did] in electrical equipment."

When The Wall Street Journal surveyed the economy a year ago, it brushed aside talk of physical limits as hopelessly old-fashioned, approvingly quoting an analyst who declared: "In a knowledge-based economy, there are no constraints to growth."

The article quoted an analyst, Evan Sturza, as expressing skepticism about the prospects of Enzo Biochem; he called the run-up in the stock a bubble.

Shares of Genovese Drug traded up 1 1/8, to 13 3/8, after hitting a 52-week high of 13 3/4 on a Business Week article that quoted an analyst who said Genovese could be a buyout target.

He was commenting on published reports that quoted an analyst as saying that Pepsico might take a fourth-quarter charge of $50 million, or 5 cents a share, because of a revamping of Frito-Lay.

The BBC, quoting an analyst who spoke to The Korea Times of South Korea, reported that Kim Jong-il had hastily arranged his son's marriage after suffering a stroke in 2008.

"Because of his carefree actions," the Weekly Shincho quoted an analyst as saying sternly, "he has caused problems."

Late in the day today, the Russian news agency Interfax quoted an unidentified Russian analyst as saying that the reason for the action was that "the need for assistance has diminished," since 1992, when the Peace Corps began bringing volunteers to Russia.

Bloomberg quoted an analyst with Banc Boston Robertson Stephens who confidently said, "The New York Times article would be the trigger today."

The report quotes an unnamed analyst saying, "Broadband speeds in Australia are low and [ISPs] are concerned about any scheme which degrades existing performance, particularly as it relates to video streaming which has grown dramatically over the past 18 months.