We didn't see any changes in his game plan and that is clearly good news for stocks at this juncture. |
We expected it to happen by the end of the year, certainly not in the first quarter. The last thousand points have really been at breakneck speed. |
We had a terrific week last week, ... Investor sentiment has shifted to people not wanting to miss out on any strength. There's a lot of cash on the sidelines. |
We had about a 3 percent sell-off last week and I think that was basically predicated on energy prices, ... The fundamentals in the equity markets weren't being thrown out with the bath water. I think people see stocks as attractive at this juncture. |
We had kind of a knee-jerk reaction to the Fed yesterday, and today we're coming back a bit, |
We had some relatively positive news for the markets, the first positive news we've had for some time, ... Plus, we are very oversold after ( Wednesday's ) action. |
We have extremely large concerns about inflation, high interest rates and high energy prices, ... There is great concern that we don't know how much earnings growth will decelerate over the next two quarters. |
We have just digested so much news in the last week or so, ... Fourth-quarter earnings have been much better than expected, but you have people reluctant to make big bets ahead of things like the payroll report Friday, or the G7 meeting, which will be important for the dollar. |
We have several economic drivers in addition to slightly lower energy prices that together could act as a catalyst to move the markets higher today, |
We have to get used to the fact that the emergency level of the fed funds rate is behind us, ... The sooner we become cognizant of the fact that the global economy won't be crushed and corporate earnings won't roll over, the sooner the market will fight its way to trend higher. |
We need a significant catalyst. Whether it be great second-quarter earnings or blowout economic data or some marquee firms coming out with a mid-second-quarter preview. |
We need some capitulation in the economy and if we get any sort of turnaround in the economy we can turn this market around on the Nasdaq. We're clearly in a market searching for a bottom. |
We need to see more than the 1,000 jobs added last time. You want to see closer to 200,000 jobs added. |
We need to see the light at the end of the tunnel with the Fed. That's the major catalyst holding us back right now. |
We opened up the floodgates of bad news, ... The good news is, a lot of this is behind us, and we probably overreacted on the downside. |