Art Hogan
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Art Hogan
good market means money rough seen staying stuff worked
We've seen some really good stuff and some really rough stuff, ... The market has worked its way through a bottom, at least on the Nasdaq and S&P. Money is rotating, so that means it's staying in the market and that's good news.
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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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We're starting to see that companies are starting to admit that the second half is going to be slow, so that's a lingering fear,
ahead bets earnings last news payroll people reluctant report week
We have just digested so much news in the last week or so, ... Fourth-quarter earnings have been much better than expected, but you have people reluctant to make big bets ahead of things like the payroll report Friday, or the G7 meeting, which will be important for the dollar.
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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.
coming euphoria wear
This euphoria is probably going to wear off for the Nasdaq and Dow coming into tomorrow.
plenty reasons sell stocks
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.
leadership provide stocks technology tend
Technology stocks typically tend to provide leadership in mid-cycle recovery, and I think that's where we are,
household lead pick theme winners
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.
options
I think we need to get through the options expiration tomorrow,
discount fourth growth investors price quarter second starting
Investors are starting to discount the second quarter and price in growth in the fourth quarter,
particular slow summer
It's distressing how slow it's been this particular summer season,