The leadership of the market is the same as it has been for six to nine months, and that's been energy and technology. |
The main drivers today are that oil prices and bond prices are up, and that's not good for equities. |
The market has been down, triggered by some comments from Fed governors on inflation, |
The market has been trying to hit these highs for some time, but we've been nearing them with less and less enthusiasm, |
The market is usually ahead of a recovery, and in the past, the market was reacting to negative data. It seems to be shaking off bad news now. To me, that's good news. |
The market is very resilient. We're shaking off any kind of bad news. |
The market's had a pretty good run this week, in terms of volume and gains, and I think coming in this morning, there was the potential to build on that rally if the jobs report was a blowout. |
The news created volume on positive speculation about other potential corporate mergers. However, last week was a down week, so we have a little bit of a bounce-back rally Monday. |
The question is whether this is a one-day thing after all the selling or if it's something more sustainable. |
The rally this morning couldn't hold up because there's just no conviction, ... There's some selling pressure there, but it's more that buyers have no religion. Tech and telecom are this huge drag on the market. People are buying very defensively in health care, chemicals, consumer products and pharmaceuticals. |
The rally this morning couldn't hold up because there's just no conviction. There's some selling pressure there, but it's more that buyers have no religion. Tech and telecom are this huge drag on the market. People are buying very defensively in health care, chemicals, consumer products and pharmaceuticals. |
The tech sector as a whole has performed so badly this year; the Nasdaq has been the worst performer year-to-date. I think a lot of money flew into the 10-year bond during the conventions, during the Olympics, and now people are looking to put their money into the beaten-down sectors, like tech. |
There are good trends everywhere. Some people are looking for a 5 percent to 10 percent correction, partly because they think it's healthy and partly because they want a pullback so they can jump back in. But the path of least resistance remains up. |
There's a good tone to the market. We're moving towards some key technical levels, particularly with the S&P 500. I think that if we can hold and then break through them, we could go higher. |
There's a lot of focus on the language, |