Michael Farr
Michael Farr
Michael Farris a British expert on the comic series The Adventures of Tintin and its creator, Hergé. He has written several books on the subject as well as translating several others into English. A former reporter, he has also written about other subjects...
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I think you're getting a bit of a safe haven -- stocks with earnings look good. If money is coming out of the Nasdaq, it is going into Dow stocks.
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I think we are looking for that next bit of information that's going to drive us.
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It puts the Federal Reserve in a bit of a conundrum.
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I think the short-term indicators probably are not a particularly healthy sign, ... Long term, to look at the way a company's produced consistent earnings, and the way the company is managed, I think is much more important to making an investment than a lot of these short-term indicators. But, in a bull market, there's no such thing as bad news. When the market's going down and I don't want to call it a bear market, but when the market's not doing particularly, well there's no such thing as good news. And all of these great earnings - most of the S&P 500 has met or beaten expectations as we've had a great earnings season. And the market doesn't really seem to care. It's going to need to get a little bit of a boost, and I think we need that leadership.
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I think we've been in a search for leadership in the market. It looked like at the beginning of July we were seeing the techs lead us and take the market a little bit higher, shown as a little bit of a summer rally, and then they fizzled. And so did the rest of the market. And we've just sort of swooped lower. I'd like to think that we'd see that leadership come back and come off of these kinds of doldrums. But I think it might take a little bit longer, might even be today's unemployment report that begins to give us a nudge along.
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You don't want confrontation - you want your boss to see you as an up-and-comer,
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They are earning a lot of money, ... They've got great products, and they are going to get through all of this noise with the government.
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If you're going to invest, invest in something that's more real, ... Like the old Wendy's commercials, 'Where's the beef?' Find some real beef in these stocks.
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I think the economy is recovering and we won't get into a double dip. But trying to forecast when that economic strength shows up in earnings is a kind of fool's game. We've been playing it for about two-and-a -half years now,
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Ebullience and exuberance are back. For a market that has lacked direction, it is reacting tenfold to the first positive catalyst that has come along.
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An earnings boost doesn't trump a contrary verdict.
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I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.
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I'm buying EMC. I think it's been killed. I think it's a leader in the storage industry. The stock has 30 times earnings, growing the earnings 25 percent.
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Higher energy prices are (affecting) the economy - and it's a big deal. It's putting a squeeze on consumers and Corporate America.