Peter Chandler
Peter Chandler
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.
basis broken everybody maybe microsoft monday stocks tech tuesday upside
Tech stocks were oversold on a short-term basis and on Monday everybody had to get out of them because of Microsoft, and then Tuesday everybody thought that if Microsoft is broken up maybe it's not the end of the world, and maybe there's an upside to it.
general recovery stocks technology
Nortel is benefiting from a general recovery in the technology stocks in the U.S. as well.
article good number plus stock stocks talked tech
On a very, very short-term basis, Nortel's stock was exceptionally oversold. Plus there was an article in Barron's that called for tech bounces and talked of a number of stocks that were good value. Nortel was in that handful,
area close concern finished focusing last market poor prospects selling stocks tech technology took week widespread
The market took off from where it finished last week which is dumping tech stocks because of concern about poor prospects for quarterly earnings. You had widespread selling focusing on the technology area (and) where we are right now is at, or very close to, a bottom.
behind corporate higher impact interest market might rate result rises sector seeing selling technology tends
The market now tends to be (thinking): With interest rate rises being behind us, if we've orchestrated a slowdown in the economy, how much of an impact will that slowdown have on corporate profits? Might corporate valuations be at the higher end of expectations? And so we're seeing some selling and softness, in the technology sector in particular, as a result of that.
again bell canadian continues darling drove flat market northern stocks technology
It was a story of two different markets. The U.S. market was flat to nothing, the Canadian market was flying, and it's our darling stocks again -- Northern Telecom and BCE. Canadian technology was really what drove the market here. The story continues for Bell and Nortel.
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,
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.
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.