Significant takeover activity shows that corporate America does think stocks are a good value. That makes for a modest upside bias and possibly a better day. |
Someone who is hiding something is usually paranoid that it's showing too much, or maybe not enough. |
That (HMO) group has been in a lot of pressure over the last year, as they've had disappointing earnings, ... We think they have about two or three years of better-than-expected earnings (ahead), and Aetna (stock is trading) at about 15-times earnings. So it's a cheap stock, a large-cap company due for better times. |
The bear market will end, period, |
The best lesson that you can learn from this is that technology has a lot of risk. |
The CEO basically antagonized (Wall Street) on every answer, and just left everybody feeling entirely unsatisfied, |
The decline has taken on a life of its own just as last year's rally took on a life of its own. |
The foundation believes the merger is not in their best interest and they have a big economic and equity interest. |
The inauguration is a non-event. |
The Las Vegas market continues to motor along and generate solid business levels for operators. Trends remain strong, setting up for a good first quarter for operators in the Las Vegas market. |
The margin expansion guidance is a bit modest. |
The market is very skittish about accounting. |
The market will take its cues from political events, Afghanistan events, ... stocks should start to trade higher. |
The quarter included some items that ... were unusually high. It was really the core that we were expecting to generate the earnings, not the side items. |
The stock has behaved as though it would be a strong quarter and the company delivered on that. |