The first thing we always look at is volume because there's always somebody out there who knows. In fact, if you look at every takeover in the 1990s, (in) 90 percent of them you would see an increase in volume. It's not just takeovers. All hot things on the street, it seems, are leaked. |
The idea that you can weather the storm by not being in tech may backfire. |
The key word coming into the week was fear and that fear didn't turn to panic so the key word going out of the week is hope. |
The majority of stocks down today had made mind-boggling moves. They gave a little bit back. We can nail it to profit taking. |
The market still believes the Fed is the friend, but there is a psychological feeling that once [Fed chairman Alan] Greenspan gets started, he doesn't like to stop. |
The market's at the mercy of sentiment, which is very bad. It's not panic selling, but there's a lack of buyers right now. There's a lot of money on the sidelines. |
The markets will obviously tread water, but we could see some buying on weakness. |
The one thing that's maybe notable today is that stocks have really held up. There have been a few times when they've started to drift and then they've come back up, so there's a little bit of buying on the weakness. However, the volume is totally anemic. |
The re-emergence of the 'buy on the dips' crowd is something I believe is happening. We really see buying meeting selling and investors are sifting through the ashes to find reliable companies. |
The recovery is going to take longer than anyone initially hoped for, and (Nokia) is the biggest name to warn so far. I think it was wishful thinking that the turn would happen overnight. But it's not a bad assumption to believe that things are going to get better -- it just takes time and maybe investors haven't been realistic. |
The resiliency of this market is amazing. We're really seeing the individual investor coming back and buying on the dips, |
The resiliency of this market is amazing. We're really seeing the individual investor coming back and buying on the dips. |
The stocks that had sprinted the hardest, were the ones that took a breather, ... We've had some pretty frothy days recently. |
The way the market's acting tells me there's a lot of pent-up buying out there. |
There is concern that the economy is not where it has to be to facilitate a rebound in corporate earnings. Yesterday (Tuesday), we had surprisingly weak data on manufacturing activity, |