I'm impressed. It's a great Rolaids rally; it showed some relief out there. |
I'm reluctant to revisit things like talk of the 'Goldilocks economy,' but what I think you did see the market react to is Greenspan outlining an environment that is balanced, but with a fairly strong upward bias, |
If the Fed is committed to slowing the economy, then I do think demand for technology will slow. |
Ignore the negative economic news because the market's discounted most of it, |
Ignore the negative economic news because the market's discounted most of it. |
In the past four-to-five weeks, there has been sporadic evidence of a positive flow of equity into mutual funds both domestically and internationally, ... But if you look at the total amount of liquidity, the amount of the inflows are a couple of drips out of a faucet compared to the Atlantic Ocean. |
Investors are starting to exercise one of the golden rules of investing, ... And that's buying when the news is the bleakest. |
Investors' vision is being blurred by what's going on overseas. War news is a convenient excuse to sell. |
It did not make me feel very comfortable because of the valuations that were starting to be placed on these technology stocks. They were almost discounting utopia until the end of this century, and that really is a scary scenario. |
It is a different world. |
It is another piece of good news in that it leaves the Fed in an unfettered position to exercise more discretion in monetary easing. Because the economy has displayed such weakness and inflation has been non-existent with the exception of energy-related prices, the short-term inflation number may be less relevant. |
It really does reflect the focus of American businesses on profitability because this is now substantially into this economic recovery and companies are still producing results that are substantially above long-term averages. |
It seems like there was massive indifference on the part of buyers, ... There were positive macro developments, but the market didn't react, and then program trading kicked in during the last hour. |
It should be evident by now that the rest of the earnings are going to come in at the same sort of magnitude over estimates. The focus is going to shift. |
It was a year of awakening for the new investor on Wall Street and it was a very quick and sudden reversal of fortunes for many, ... We ran the emotional gamut from total irrational thinking and perception to reality and capitulation. Last year's market did reinforce the notion that abuses and excesses are eventually corrected and eventually reach a level of overreaction -- and that's how the year ended. |