Peter Chandler
Peter Chandler
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The fact that the market has held the gains from the end of last week is a positive sign.
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(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).
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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.
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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.
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We're still a market that's correcting, that's going to be awfully selective and there's still a bias to the downside.
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We made a new low on the Nasdaq yesterday and on a very, very short term basis it's oversold and I think that we can expect this kind of activity from time to time where the market gives us some relief, some bounce.
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My suspicion is that on a short-term basis the market was oversold. It got spanked this morning with Nokia from overnight and the free fall (in Nokia stock) has stabilized to come back a point off its low,
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(Techs) are being psychologically driven with the mentality of 'I've got to get out, I've got to have closure', and that's what you usually need for market bottoms,
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This is the first week of full-tilt fourth-quarter earnings both here and south of the border so the market is really full of anxiety and apprehension on that.
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That's when companies will make an announcement to prep the market in advance of releasing their results, that they're going to be stronger or weaker than expected,
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We've seen pockets of strength in the Canadian markets, so the Canadian market actually acted a lot better than the U.S. market did as a whole.