The market is still nervous and directionless, and it is still looking for a reason to do one thing or the other. In the meantime, it does whatever it does to a modest degree and then breathes a sight of relief and says we got through that one without much trouble, |
The market is still nervous and directionless, and it is still looking for a reason to do one thing or the other. In the meantime, it does whatever it does to a modest degree and then breathes a sight of relief and says we got through that one without much trouble. |
The market will look with some satisfaction on U.S. inflation numbers for August. If you remove gas and oil, they're tame. |
The overall sentiment in Toronto today was watch and see, wait and pick your spots and I think we'll continue to see that kind of thing along the way, ... This was a market that marked time, a market that keeps wanting to follow New York, follow the Dow. |
The price of gold has taken a jump. We'll see a bump in gold stocks on that. |
The record commodities prices are going to be of continued interest and obviously some significant support for our market. |
The Toronto market has had only one down day so far in 2006. But I think we're looking for some confirmation that we're doing the right thing and earnings are going to help us along that way. |
The trend in the technology sector has been very, very heavily weighted on the downside, and until there's some reason to make it stop we're not going to be seeing anything different. |
The volatility in our market is a major factor that has to be considered. There was a nice rally toward the close, ... Maybe there's a lot of people who think these technology stocks have had such an erosion that perhaps it may be time to step in and buy a few of these things. |
The volatility of our market continues and I think there's still a lot of confusion as to where this market, at least in the short term, is going to travel. |
There suddenly turned out to be a distinct lack of liquidity, |
There was a quick turnaround in New York, which indicates that things are totally under control. After a sloppy opening, they turned around in a hurry. |
There's a lot of money that's been taken out of the market and it's sitting on the sidelines. I expect sooner or later we'll see some stabilization because some of these (stocks) are getting down to the area where they're becoming very, very attractive. |
There's no reason now not to proceed with conversion. The uncertainty hanging over the sector has been taken away. |
This is a mess, ... Big daddy (U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan) Greenspan is obviously eyeing these numbers, if we ever had doubt before that maybe we weren't going to see a quick move in interest rates, this may dispel that. |