It's not a major deal, ... Whatever bets have been made most of the day (dried up) ? people are just walking away and waiting until tomorrow. |
It's that ongoing fear of slowing. It puts into words what you don't want to hear. Investors are heading back to the sidelines for a bit. |
It's the first time we've seen a change of verbiage in the last 10 meetings or so, ... We're now a couple of meetings ahead of when they'll stop tightening. |
It's the sexy sectors -- tech, biotech -- that are behind the explosive growth, ... Everybody wants to be a part of that. |
It's two times oversubscribed, ... That keeps a lot of cash on the sidelines. |
It's two times oversubscribed. That keeps a lot of cash on the sidelines. |
Just because Oracle is up and is optimistic about the future is not getting us excited about everything, ... Nobody's convinced there will be a rebound in the second half. |
Last week energy and interest rates were the focus on Wall Street. It will probably be the same this week, as well as a few mid-quarter updates, |
Last week, we were worried about a sluggish economy, Wednesday it was back to inflation, |
Many are beating lowered expectations, but no one is saying anything good about the future, |
Microsoft's news was put into perspective as the day moved along. The path of least resistance continues to be to the upside for this market. |
My guess is we're going to have some positive action after last week's selling. We're in the last week of the month and the last week of a quarter, so there's some momentum there. If the stream of economic data is as positive as it's been, we're going to see some strength from that. |
Nervousness is building ahead of the one-year anniversary of September 11, and it's bound to continue until we get that date behind us, |
Next week we really kick that (warnings) season off. There's going to be more Gateways out there, and that's not going to help. People will make the argument that a lot of that bad news has been priced into the market already, but it certainly wasn't yesterday. |
No one thinks the Fed is going to raise rates, so to what avail does a benign PPI number do to the market, |