Historically August has the reputation of being one of the poorer performing months but, this time around, with some of the rate fears about the Fed's meeting seemingly cooling off, this August may not be too bad. In the short term, we expect stock prices to work their way higher. |
People are being careful at the moment. They don't know what is going to happen. |
We think we're probably going to end up in a profit-taking phase. What the Fed did was expected - it continued its bias toward tightening and the market just got ahead of itself by running up in advance of that news, so we think we're going to sell off for a while. |