Art Hogan
Art Hogan
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We need a significant catalyst. Whether it be great second-quarter earnings or blowout economic data or some marquee firms coming out with a mid-second-quarter preview.
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Investor sentiment is shifting and volume levels are starting to pick up, ... Investors were just taking advantage of yesterday's one-day record advance to take some cash off the table.
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I think the theme is going to be that you have to pick the winners, and I think the winners are going to be the large-cap household names, like IBM, Dell, Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel. I think they'll lead us for a little while.
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Depending on what day it is we focus on earnings, we focus on the Fed. We have to get the Fed behind us before we really pick a direction. I think that direction will be higher, but not until next Wednesday.
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The concern is about how much the economy picks up and how quickly that translates into earnings growth for corporate America.
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Just because Oracle is up and is optimistic about the future is not getting us excited about everything, ... Nobody's convinced there will be a rebound in the second half.
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It's an oversold bounce, ... After you get oversold, you have a reflex rally, and that's what we're seeing now.
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The increase in wages was the piece that really speaks to the inflationary pressure. The fear is that the Fed doesn't stop in March, that it continues through May. If corporate America's borrowing costs go up, that makes stocks less attractive.
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The Fed disappointed us short term, ... The economy looks better than it did in December and the Fed knows more than we do.
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It doesn't take much to push stocks lower in this market, ... Stocks have been headed in a downward direction for a while.
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I think the fourth quarter is going to be great, ... We just don't have signs of it yet.
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Clearly, we will see stabilization. It's just a matter of when.
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I think we'll see the stock market trying to price that (rate cuts) in the second quarter.
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The catalyst will be liquidity, ... There's a great deal of cash on the sidelines.