They got what they wanted, but they weren't particularly excited about getting it. That (half-percentage point cut) was already built into prices. |
This is the time to be buying integrated oils. |
This kind of swinging huge amounts from hour to hour suggests that people are not looking much at the fundamentals and not grounding their trading decisions in what's really going on with the companies. |
This would be the wrong stage to be suddenly raising rates a lot because the reaction to the earlier rate increases just hasn't occurred yet. |
To me there's nothing magical about hitting 10,000. |
Today is a rebound from the nervousness of last week and sentiment is shifting on the strength of the economy, |
Today the optimistic spirits prevailed and confidence just built as stocks held their higher levels, ... Everybody's now thinking maybe we've seen the bottom. |
Today was -- and I expect tomorrow to be -- quiet. I think many people have already begun the Easter holiday and it would take a big surprise in something tomorrow for the market to move very strongly one way or the other. |
Today was just a sign of what we'll see as the market tries to find its footing. We're going to see some companies reporting better, some worse and that's going to [result in] a lot of emotion in the market, ... There's always panicky, then excited, then panicky people. |
Today's a day of waiting: waiting for earnings; after the retail sales report, waiting to see whether consumer picks up later in the year; waiting to see if OPEC cuts production, |
Today's a day of waiting: waiting for earnings; after the retail sales report, waiting to see whether consumer picks up later in the year; waiting to see if OPEC cuts production. |
We continue to have uncertainty because what he focused on didn't really help the market draw inferences about what next week's move is going to be. We thought today might give us a hint, instead he focused on tax cuts and other things. |
We don't believe the income trust structure is appropriate for all companies, ... We're concerned that many companies that need to grow, if they become an income trust, are going to find it difficult to access the capital markets at exactly the time where they need additional resources. |
We finally saw a rebound. We finally saw some buying again. We didn't see any real bad news, there is no downgrade of any tech stocks so I think the market finally didn't have anything negative. |
We finally saw an up day after a series of down days. |