Anyone who can get away for the week does, and you end up with skeletal staffs. |
At the beginning of the war, every headline caused the market to go screaming. Now, the market seems to have become inured to violence. |
Earnings have been coming in across the board pretty good, but the problem hasn't been earnings. The issue is the forward-looking statements for the fourth quarter or 2006. Despite good numbers, you see some stocks getting punished. It's a function of the outlook. |
Every buck that they are forced to spend elsewhere is that much less money (spent) on other issues. With technology it may not fall dollar-for-dollar, but you have to think that it's going to pinch a little bit. |
For technology, lack of pricing power is always an ongoing concern. |
Four years after the bubble popped, I can't believe that companies still legitimately have enough fat that they can cut heads and that it would not affect them going forward, |
Good earnings never hurt the market, and some of the results from the companies that reported yesterday are strong enough to sustain the buying momentum in stocks. |
He is a known entity that is well-respected on the academic side, in Washington and by the stock market. |
He will be dealing with a combination of a slowing economy, inflation pressures and a tumultuous stock market. |
Historical patterns we watch are suggesting that this pullback is not the beginning of the end, but merely an overdue consolidation, likely to run several months. |
I don't think this has much of an impact on the U.S. markets, barring some bit of tomfoolery in the Middle East. |
I think plenty on Wall Street would be pretty shocked to hear that. |
I think the stock bounce we've seen has run out of steam. I'm looking for us to sell off into the summer, and maybe after that, we'll be able to see a decent enough bounce to sustain us. |
I'm looking for really good earnings, and I don't know that it's going to juice the market all that much. In order to go significantly higher, what's the catalyst? |
If real estate cools dramatically, there goes half our economic growth. There is danger of recession — and you know what recessions do to the stock market. |