David Briggs
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David Briggs
David Briggswas an American record producer best known for his work with Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse. He is noted for his eclectic imagination and style, which contributed to the Neil Young album After the Gold Rush...
ProfessionMusic Producer
Date of Birth29 February 1944
begin causing cautious investors themselves
Investors were cautious to begin with this year, and the hurricanes are causing them to second-guess themselves even more.
cases corporate news stopped
The corporate news has stopped deteriorating and it some cases is just flat.
happy
There's really not much to be happy about today.
driver holding market people pulls return time
Every time the market pulls back, people come back into the market. I think the real driver is there's no return holding cash.
cross oil prices section seeing
Oil prices are up, GDP is down and we've got a little month-end cross section here, so we're seeing some volatility,
happen sit stocks
You don't want to sit here going long with stocks and have something happen over the weekend.
bit dead fed finds itself looks market people setting until
I think it's going to be pretty dead until everyone finds out what the Fed is going to do. It looks to me like the market is setting itself up for a little bit of profit-taking because people are concerned.
early january last late less market near people rate stock year
The stock market rallied late last year and early January because people thought we were near the end of the rate cycle, but now they're less sure.
felt good healthy particular recent run today
Today was a good healthy profit-taking day. There were no particular leaders, and it was a pretty broad-based sell-off, which felt good after the recent run that we've had.
drift four months time tough woods
We'll probably drift through February, a typically tough time for the market. We had four months up and one month down, so we're not out of the woods yet.
avoidance major maybe medical move technology toward
We'll see an avoidance of major pharma, maybe with a move toward medical technology and biotech.
fast gain hang market onto
We had a big gain on the first day of the quarter, but that was too much too fast and the market hasn't been able to hang onto it.
bargain bit created investors sell stepping taking
Yesterday's sell off created a little bit of a bargain today, and investors are stepping it up and taking advantage.
deals gamble
Today's deals don't have the same oomph as (the Procter & Gamble -- Gillette deal Friday); and that's because the premiums are more modest,