When you have a major company like GE boosting its dividend and announcing a big buyback, that's very positive for corporate America, |
When you have a major company like GE boosting its dividend and announcing a big buyback, that's very positive for corporate America. |
When you look at who may win, Democrats or Republicans, I think it makes the case of stock selection and sector selection a little bit more important. You can see the weakness last week when the statistics came back and the polls for Al Gore, what happened to the drug stocks. They came right down because of his Medicare proposal possibly, and Democrats are usually going after drug stocks. |
With an expected quarter percent rise, the commentary seems a little more hawkish than expected. |
With McDonald's you get a minor dividend of 1 percent and right now, where it's trading, around a 13, 14 price-to-earnings ratio, it is very reasonable, ... A little bit below the S&P average at this point. |
Without any major tech stories, the economic numbers are going to take center stage, ... It started on Friday with the first peek at the GDP (gross domestic product) for the first quarter. |
Without any major tech stories, the economic numbers are going to take center stage. It started on Friday with the first peek at the GDP (gross domestic product) for the first quarter. |
Without having that constant barrage of negative news, there is the opportunity for the market to exhibit some strength. |
You are not getting paid to hold cash anymore. I think if you look at it from that perspective you see an asset allocation switch going on, which is helping this rally. |
You are seeing a little bit of rebound in some of the worst-hit sectors. It's clearly a short-term attempt at trying to find some stabilizing level. |
You can pick you poison today from anywhere. The earnings concern and lack of guidance for 2006 concerns tech players. But the story goes beyond that to energy pricing, which is still a 2005 perspective. Once again, energy is the leading sector. As long as energy prices remain high the market should suffer. |
You can't forget that there are geopolitical tensions in the world ... and the market takes on risk. |
You certainly want to see anything related to manufacturing start to turn up, but it's not giving any indication of solidification, |
You certainly want to see anything related to manufacturing start to turn up, but it's not giving any indication of solidification. |
You continue to have investors weighing strong earnings -- in this case Yahoo! and Intel -- versus the fear of inflation again. |