Kate Warne
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States...
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Royal Dutch and Exxon have always traded at premiums in the market, ... The merger puts BP and Amoco in the same size and presence globally, and it should give them the same premium value.
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After several days being increasingly optimistic, particularly in the chip sector, investors are now pulling back somewhat wondering if they have again jumped the gun. This kind of erratic move is typical when sentiment is shifting negative to positive.
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Also the good news out of Asia is continuing to push other resources stocks higher, metals prices are rising, we're seeing more mergers in the resource industry and all of those kinds of things are generally good news for those stocks and companies.
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This is the time to be buying integrated oils.
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This kind of swinging huge amounts from hour to hour suggests that people are not looking much at the fundamentals and not grounding their trading decisions in what's really going on with the companies.
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Oil prices fell significantly so all the energy sector was down, you see all of the financials are down, the high-tech flyers down.
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companies like Ballard Power that have great growth potential but not much in the way of current earnings.
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Depending on what the CPI shows and what Greenspan says, the market has pretty much decided that we won't see a rate hike at the end of the month or through the rest of the summer and, therefore, there might be a quarter point (hike) some place but the Fed's pretty much done,
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Any little signal like this can lead people to sell first and to think about it later ... and it's partially a response to nervousness over whether the good times can continue,
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Any nervousness about Cisco translates into Nortel and all other high quality technology stocks and into some of the smaller riskier ones as well.
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They got what they wanted, but they weren't particularly excited about getting it. That (half-percentage point cut) was already built into prices.
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Clearly, the people who are buying growth stocks are saying the good news from a series of interest rates in the U.S. and Canada will mean inflation remains under control. The overall sentiment today was basically optimistic.
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I hadn't expected BP Amoco to be really in the market for acquisitions this quickly, ... What it tells me is that they have done a faster job of consolidation of Amoco's assets and they feel very comfortable going forward.
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I'm surprised that technology has continued to be on a tear so strongly today because it's the rapidly growing stocks that will in fact be hurt if interest rates are increased.