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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This euphoria is probably going to wear off for the Nasdaq and Dow coming into tomorrow.
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There's been plenty of reasons to sell stocks today.
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I think the market will continue to drift without any real direction until we get Friday's employment report and investors get a sense of the current economic outlook.
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Technology stocks typically tend to provide leadership in mid-cycle recovery, and I think that's where we are,
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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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This is definitely good news, ... Six out of the previous eight PPI reports have been higher than expected but the corresponding CPI reports have not. That means that we're not seeing the creeping effects of inflation passed on to the consumer.
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I think we need to get through the options expiration tomorrow,
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Investors are starting to discount the second quarter and price in growth in the fourth quarter,
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It's distressing how slow it's been this particular summer season,
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I don't think there were a ton of bets placed during this particular quarter, but it does cause some wacky moves,
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Obviously, we are still concerned about how much the economy is slowing going forward. There are a lot of people who aren't making bets on this marketplace.
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I think we're going through this natural vacuum in the news cycle where we have a quiet economic calendar and the fourth-quarter earnings reports are slowing down. It's difficult to generate any interest in the market.