Tim Heekin
Tim Heekin
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GM is such a bellwether, major company in the United States, and if they filed for bankruptcy, that just wouldn't be a good indication as to market conditions.
consumer losing market money power putting spending strength
If they feel like the consumer is losing his strength and his spending power in the market, and he's going to be putting more money into savings, that's going to make the market nervous.
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This week is pretty light on the economic news. The first-quarter earnings should be good and should provide some sort of cushion for the markets.
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You can interpret it a bunch of ways, but all I know, and all that the market seems to know, is that short-term rates are going to rise, and they're going to rise really soon.
gained half huge move
You had this huge down move on Tuesday, you gained half of it back yesterday, and more of it today,
highs hitting tear today
We've been on a tear and it's just kind of flattening out today after hitting some near-term highs yesterday.
bonds came finally funds high hold profits recent taking test
Bonds finally showed a little reversal. We put in a high on the long-terms and then dipped off of that. I think the big bond funds came in and started taking profits after the recent run. The real test will be if we can hold these levels.
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Financials are picking up across the board, that bodes well for the market, ... Being such a big percentage of the indices, if people are getting behind financials late in the third and fourth quarter, that will carry the market positive in 2005.
bonds coming fixed funds income money pension seeing shifting weeks
What started this two weeks ago was the big pension funds and other institutions coming in, seeing that bonds were getting over-valued and shifting money out of fixed income and into equities.
push
Right now, it's going to be a push and pull,
energy helping overall
Pharmaceuticals and energy and financials are doing well. For sure, that's helping the overall Dow.
few leadership lose next past selling software support tech tend three top
Semiconductors and software have been the leadership for the past few months, so when there's tech selling now, they tend to lose support first. But we're at the top of a range, technically, so we're going to see some selling for the next two or three sessions.
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There's a good tone to the market. We're moving towards some key technical levels, particularly with the S&P 500. I think that if we can hold and then break through them, we could go higher.
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There's going to be no true market direction until the earnings picture and military actions become clearer.