The winnowing down of ideas is beginning to happen. |
There are a lot of cross currents today. And there is talk that one of the big hedge funds is going under the waves. |
There are a lot of headwinds right now, |
There are sleepy volumes and low participation. There are no players around. Next week, unfortunately, is going to be the same. |
There haven't been any surprises, [Blix is] sticking to the well-scripted report, |
There is not a hand-in-glove relationship necessarily with the jobless claims and the payrolls number, ... We're still pretty upbeat. |
There was clearly a disappointment in the rhetoric from the Fed. It's just a buyers strike. |
There were no surprises and we had already priced in a 50 basis point (half a percentage point) move, ... We didn't exactly turn on the floodgates but we went from anemic volume to trending higher. |
There's a lot of improvement priced into the earnings, and provided we see confirmation of that, we should be able to keep gaining over the next few sessions, ... But if another major household name -- like GE last week -- were to disappoint, you could see some selling. |
There's a lot of trepidation out there about earnings, ... A lot of times, the complexion of markets is what the household names are doing. A couple of weeks ago it was about IBM ( Research ) and Apple ( Research ). Today, it looks like the focus is on Amazon, and that can shape the market -- at least in the early going. |
There's an unbelievable number of reports coming out, any number of which could move us one way or the other, ... If we have a blowup in the jobless claims, and it goes above 400,000, if the consumer sentiment number doesn't confirm today's consumer confidence number, you could see some selling. |
There's been a slew of positive data in between. |
There's been plenty of reasons to sell stocks today. |
There's been this tug of war all day between factors like falling oil prices, more negative than positive economic news and everything going on at GM, |
There's certainly not one thing you can point to and say 'this is because,' ... It's company by company. |