Peter Chandler
Peter Chandler
along bottom keeps saying sector seems seen staying
That whole sector keeps saying we've seen the bottom but it seems to still be bumping along and staying on the bottom.
gains good held toronto
It has been a good day for the index. Toronto has held up very well and held its gains better than the Dow or the Nasdaq,
absence fallen frankly good quite saw tech
It is a tech wreck, that's for certain, ... You need capitulation to have good bottom. I didn't see that today. I saw an absence of buyers. Quite frankly there just weren't enough bids. Have we fallen enough here? Probably not.
assets base bull correction gas hard healthy market ongoing precious suggest
We went up a long way quickly. This is some healthy profit-taking in what I would suggest is still very much an ongoing bull market in hard assets -- oil, gas and base and precious minerals. A healthy correction is a healthy thing.
monday
We had a lot of catch-up to do because on Monday Nortel was up and was one of the most actives on New York,
continue expand growth looking ma mother pursue strategy underneath
out from underneath Ma Bell's skirt, able to continue to expand and pursue their growth strategy without having a big mother looking over.
bias concern high interest market rates relief
I still think that the concern is interest rates and high valuations of specifically technology. And you will get these relief rallies but the market probably still has a bias to the down side.
closer market trading
You just have so much uncertainty and the one thing the market doesn't like is not knowing, ... We're probably getting closer to a sell-out climax, a washout, that will at least give us a trading rally.
care everybody headlines supposed
Why does everybody care so much? I know it's going to be on the headlines but I don't know what it's supposed to mean.
fact gains held last market positive week
The fact that the market has held the gains from the end of last week is a positive sign.
acute call earnings next period turning warning
We're turning into the most acute period of what I would call the 'early warning season' for the next quarterly earnings announcements.
dramatic example known market movement northern parts quite selling senior
(Today) was quite speculative, quite frothy, you didn't have a lot of dramatic movement in any of the senior parts of the market today. If anything, some of them were selling off, for example Northern Telecom (now known as Nortel Networks).
beyond bump earnings focus looking market months recovery several short starts surely term until
We're just about through the earnings season. We have to go through this bump and grind. I think it will probably be like this for several months yet to come, until the market starts to focus on looking beyond the short term to the recovery that surely will follow.
call days definitive dog economic market sign sitting waiting
We're in what I call the dog days of August. It's quiet, it's slow. Most market participants are sitting on the sidelines, waiting for some definitive sign from the economic numbers.