For the most part, everybody's just sitting on their hands, afraid to move. In particular, we're hearing from a lot of people that they are nervous ahead of this weekend. With each day that passes, [war] gets more imminent. |
Markets are nervous right now. A few months ago, anthrax was our big 'A' word, and now it's accounting. |
The market was wary anyway, and people got more skittish as the day went on. We had people more cautious. People definitely were on edge. |
The Nasdaq is kind of bouncing between support levels. Some buyers have surfaced, with people picking out certain issues that they want to be in, but there's no rush to buy. |
The retail news turned sentiment this morning and it just hasn't been able to really get past that. There's just no catalyst, no enthusiasm, no sense of urgency. |
There has been no panic selling and very orderly trading. |
There is no clarification. Now it's a month before the next one and we're going to wait and get guidance from the new guy and I think that's the drag on the market. |
There's a lack of leadership right now. Investors don't know where to put their money. A lot of people are waiting to see what the flood of earnings is going to be over the next few weeks. |
To see a recovery at all, you're going to need to see a pick-up in techs. Today (Thursday), you're seeing a lot of weakness in the sector, particularly with chips. Also the restaurant sector is down. |
We continue to see bias to the buying side, but it's less drastic than yesterday. We're in a wait-and-see mode with earnings, and we're seeing a little profit taking today. ... The jury is still out on how the rest of the earnings will be. |
We'd gotten a little oversold in the last few days and so we're coming back a little now, with people making some cautious bets on a few individual issues. |
We're definitely seeing a little profit taking, but I think it's healthy to see a little consolidation after this rally. We've got a lot of economic news coming out this week, and there's always the potential for a negative surprise, so the market could see more weakness. |
We're definitely seeing profit-taking. The momentum has kind of slowed down, and people are just sitting back, watching. |
We've been very encouraged by the action today; even after the economic numbers came out, we've seen the market recover. I think it's good that the markets are bouncing off key numbers. I think [a Fed rate cut] is a real toss up -- tomorrow's unemployment number is going to have some effect on that. |
We've seen a very orderly market, which we think is the best news of the last two days. |