He said they are continuing to buy even though prices are rising out of fear that prices could go much higher.
Nowadays, Tata Uy said, he is preparing for the start of the campaign next month and is continuing to buy weapons with his farming profits.
"Customers who bought cars on this method [PCP] are continuing to buy cars on this method, and repeat the purchase every two to three years," said Finn.
"We are continuing to buy adjacent parcels contiguous to our site," said Kim Townsend, chief executive of Pinnacle Atlantic City, a subsidiary of Pinnacle Entertainment.
But people less attached to such items are continuing to buy organic dairy products, produce and meat, and are buying fewer organic goods among packaged items, like cereal and crackers, she said.
As the manager of a collateralized debt obligation fund, he is continuing to buy some new issues, but lately he has been spending more of his cash buying existing loans in the secondary market.
It may have an up and a down at any particular time, but the trend is upward and improving, and we think that the corporations are continuing to buy in infrastructure.
Nevertheless, he said, currencies of these three Central European countries have remained strong against the euro, showing that "people from Western Europe are continuing to buy the story," he said.
In Germany, nearly 50% of "exits" last year took the form of complete write-offs, according to the German Venture Capital Association (BVK .Germany's economic stagnation may have put off strategic investors; but big private-equity firms are continuing to buy businesses, if not at the rate of 2000-01 (see chart).
