Robert Bloom
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Robert Bloom
Robert Bloomwas an oboist with an orchestral and solo career, a composer and arranger contributing to the oboe repertory, and a teacher of several successful oboists. Bloom is considered seminal in the development of an American school of oboe playing...
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We're sort of in uncharted territories because of the bubble that we had last year in Nasdaq, ... And the bursting of that often takes a long time to work through.
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What we look for is consistent growers where the earnings haven't disappointed, ... We have a few of those in mind, some of the traditional growth stocks. General Electric is a good example.
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We're still in a negative trend. Long-term interest rates are too high, earnings estimates are still too high. We've had seven out of eight down weeks, so we saw a little bounce in the beginning of this week. But the downward pressure hasn't eased.
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We would look at consumer non-durables, where there is consistency of earnings, visibility of earnings, names like PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Safeway, are consumer non-durable names we've been adding to here in this decline,