Jack Baker
Jack Baker
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I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,
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I think there is an underlying wave of enthusiasm in the market. The thing that people continue to point to is inflation, but I still do not see it. I don't see a lot of short-term negatives.
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There's hardly anyone here and the market is highly susceptible to rumors and any other kind of news. At any given time, you could see a move in either direction of 100 points or more and it doesn't signal a change in direction.
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The stock of course, in light of that news up 5 or 6 points this week, ... But we still like the stock a lot, and on any pullback we'd be a buyer.
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This is some orderly profit-taking in a market that is susceptible to bad news, but I wouldn't put it in a negative context. You have a market that's pushed 1,600 points off its lows recently, so a couple hundred points back down is not so bad.
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I think it's positive, ... It should have happened a while ago.
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I think we are going to have two more rate cuts and the earlier rate cuts are going to start feeding in the market.
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I think the (report on leading economic indicators) is much more important than people think. Maybe in the fourth quarter of this year and the first quarter of next year, the economy will in fact pick up.
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People are feeling better. The perception of investors is that, if Dell and Cisco are correct, even though everybody knows that the fourth quarter is going to be terrible, the thought is this could be the tone of other corporations looking forward to 2002.
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I think Greenspan is setting the market up for something much more palatable. If you get the Dow back to 6,500 or 6,600, and you take that real speculation out of the marketplace, people are going to receive the rate rise better. I think the market has a chance to rally after that.
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I still think we're heading higher. The long-term types like me should sit tight. I don't really see any major problems. The only thing I don't like, of course, is still the narrowness of the advance. But, on the other hand, the Russell hit another high.
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There are so many clouds over the market. I don't see any short-term way out of this mess. Some people are calling for not only a test of the October lows, but for possibly falling below the October lows once we start shooting.
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While the Dow has been fluctuating, it's positive that the Nasdaq has been able to hold on.