Tim Heekin
Tim Heekin
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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.
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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.
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The market is usually ahead of a recovery, and in the past, the market was reacting to negative data. It seems to be shaking off bad news now. To me, that's good news.
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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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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 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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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.
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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.
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I think people walked in confused today as to whether we are going to continue this uptrend through year-end or back off.
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There are good trends everywhere. Some people are looking for a 5 percent to 10 percent correction, partly because they think it's healthy and partly because they want a pullback so they can jump back in. But the path of least resistance remains up.