At the moment there are no concerns on the immediate horizon. |
Earnings are coming in 'in line' with expectations. We should still be up 15 percent year-over-year and that's better than we did in the first half. |
Generally the market will tend to go in the opposite direction of oil prices and sometimes oil shares, but that didn't happen today yet. |
have been beating the drums about worrying about higher inflation, and so far, other than energy, we haven't had higher inflation. (But) I would say earnings are doing quite well, so I think that's helped to keep the market from having another bad week. |
I would guess this will be another weak report and that, I think, will keep the Fed on its path of easing, ... In a perverse way, the market will like it because they'll think the Fed will make another cut at the next FOMC meeting. |
I would guess this will be another weak report and that, I think, will keep the Fed on its path of easing. In a perverse way, the market will like it because they'll think the Fed will make another cut at the next FOMC meeting. |
I'm afraid we're not out the woods yet with our friends at the Fed. |
Inflation seems very unlikely to me in the current economic environment. We have huge amounts of production capacity and plenty of labor around the world, especially in China and India. |
Now it looks like the Fed might raise rates at the January meeting, and that might be it. |
People were worried the financial companies wouldn't have a strong earnings trend because of the flat yield curve, but now it's been flat for a while, and the earnings are still coming through. |
Since we don't have a lot of economic data, the most important will be durable goods. |
Some of the things that worried people, that the economy was slowing too much, that inflation was rising too much, have been assuaged here by the numbers we got this morning. |
The fundamentals are still there. We have low inflation, low interest rates and a worldwide demand for American products I don't think you have a problem as far as the market going up. |
The market has done pretty well this week. I think the fund managers that took a more cautious stance after Hurricane Katrina may be doing a little buying now, but it's a quiet day. |
There's a lot of bad news priced into the market, ... If things turn out not to be as bad as discounted, we will have a rally this summer, and we will end the year 10 percent higher than we are now. |