Tim Heekin
Tim Heekin
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I think the rally just ran out of gas. You're right at the beginning of the earnings reporting, and all the good news is priced in, and buyers are getting a little tired. I think it's time for a little pullback. After we see a little consolidation, then we can go higher again.
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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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There's going to be no true market direction until the earnings picture and military actions become clearer.
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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.
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You've got a lot of factors here all coming into play. Oil is having a negative impact and the pre-announcement news from Viacom was significant. You also had all the banks reporting strong earnings yesterday, but yet they're selling them off two days in a row, and we're near the end of the quarter and you've got portfolio managers wanting to cash out of the rally's recent leaders.
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You've got a lot of factors here all coming into play, ... Oil is having a negative impact and the pre-announcement news from Viacom was significant. You also had all the banks reporting strong earnings yesterday, but yet they're selling them off two days in a row, and we're near the end of the quarter and you've got portfolio managers wanting to cash out of the rally's recent leaders.
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It's pretty quiet today, ... We've got an FOMC meeting behind us, most of the earnings behind us, an employment number behind us. The next piece of economic news everyone will look at will be retail sales on Thursday.
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It's pretty quiet today. We've got an FOMC meeting behind us, most of the earnings behind us, an employment number behind us. The next piece of economic news everyone will look at will be retail sales on Thursday.
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People will be looking for hints about the direction of the earnings throughout the week, ... both in terms of individual stocks and sectors.
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I think we probably need to take it even lower before the correction that we've been seeing is done.
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I think even if oil prices continue to fall for the next few days, we're probably going to see stocks continuing to pull back.
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People are looking for more clarity in terms of Iraq, interest rates, oil prices and the dollar.
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I think this is a continuation of what we've been seeing for the last six or seven weeks, with the exception of last week,
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You'll see a moderate move off of Greenspan's comments tomorrow. But at this point, it's pretty well anticipated by the market.