Tim Heekin
Tim Heekin
economic friday hugely news next rest week
There's no economic news out Friday or Monday, and the economic news the rest of next week is not hugely influential,
bounce correct driving seeing sold
There's nothing fundamental driving these gains. The Nasdaq had sold off over 10 percent, the Dow and the S&P had started to correct as well, so you're seeing a bounce off of that.
badly bond flew looking money people performed performer sector tech worst
The tech sector as a whole has performed so badly this year; the Nasdaq has been the worst performer year-to-date. I think a lot of money flew into the 10-year bond during the conventions, during the Olympics, and now people are looking to put their money into the beaten-down sectors, like tech.
based betting earnings fourth guidance half numbers people quarters rally robust saying second seeing third year
Earnings have been fine, but they just haven't been as robust as people were hoping. The guidance for the third and fourth quarters hasn't been that strong, and part of the rally was based on people betting that the second half of the year would be good, so with the numbers not saying that, you're seeing some selling.
airlines drag steel
FedEx is a big drag today, Merck is down, steel is down, airlines are down, it's all weighing on the transports,
creates news people taking week
A lot of people are taking the week off and there's not much news, so that creates this volatility.
behaving markets matter might negative numbers people surprised turn
A lot of people are surprised that the markets are behaving as well as they are. But there's a sense that even the negative numbers don't matter as much as they might have, that markets are preceding the turn of the economy.
favor growth
A lot of growth equities are in favor right now.
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This movement in the bond market is amazing, truly unprecedented. People are starting to sell fixed-income and put that money into stocks. Equity is starting to look like this undervalued dark horse worth betting on.
focus
There's a lot of focus on the language,
healthy last looks market months move strong
You've had a strong move in the market in the last two months and this to me looks like healthy consolidation.
economic fourth market people reacting row
This is the fourth day in a row where there's been disappointing economic news, and the market is reacting to that. People are also doing a little consolidating before the weekend.
causing company economic news purely technical
This is purely a technical rally. There is no economic news, no company or sector-specific news that's causing this,
action driven fact hanging namely negative news
Action is being driven by the news of the day, namely Microsoft, Nortel, Qwest, ... The fact that we're hanging in there with so much negative news out there is good.