However, we're moving into a slower time for money flows in March and April. |
I have stayed away because corporate governance, stock market oversight and regulation are all pretty poor in China. One way to play it is through Hong Kong. You can operate there with some real confidence, and that's probably your most direct play. The other way is through Taiwan. |
I think it's a combination of the oil prices and GM today. There's been a heightened focus on inflation recently, and energy prices are a major component in inflation. |
I think odds are we'll move higher in the week ahead. There's a lot of liquidity, it's what's buoying the markets, it's what's distorting the market, and it tends to move prices up. |
I think the market is at a balance point here and that we are likely to drift over the short run. |
I think there's definitely been a (psychological) shift, |
I'm not worried about 8,000 hedge funds, ... I'm worried about 400 or 500 of them ? that's what could start the ball rolling down the hill. While most hedge fund managers are pretty smart and knowledgeable, it doesn't take too many to start a rout. One nervous cow and you could start a stampede. |
If people think they're going to lose their retirement savings, they're going to pull out real fast and that's the danger of the market. |
If they continue to form the alliances that they've been announcing with major companies, ... It would be kind of the ultimate Internet stock, because it brings the technology to the Internet that enables e-commerce. |
If you get foreigners moving money out of U.S. Treasuries in a quick way, then you are talking about interest rates moving up quite a bit, maybe 150 basis points. |
It just keeps pumping out the earnings, an excellently managed company, |
It's amazing the market is holding up as well as it is, considering that oil prices are at a record. |
It's going to be a rocky road going forward. You're going to have to work for your money. |
It's useful to have a statewide apparatus to make connections. Otherwise, there are a lot of obstacles. |
People are looking at the negative pre-announcements from GM and IBM, the retail sales reports, the hiring trends, and they're waking up to the fact that the consumer is slowing down, and that's going to impact the economy and corporations. |