Tim Heekin
Tim Heekin
cushion earnings economic good light news provide sort week
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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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.
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There's no economic news out Friday or Monday, and the economic news the rest of next week is not hugely influential,
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A lot of people are taking the week off and there's not much news, so that creates this volatility.
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In the first four months of the year, people made a lot of moves, but since then, I think people have been sitting on their hands a bit. I think that will continue in the next week, but a few weeks from now, it gets more interesting.
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The news created volume on positive speculation about other potential corporate mergers. However, last week was a down week, so we have a little bit of a bounce-back rally Monday.
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It's the last week of August, people are on vacation and a lot of the big institutions in New York are half-staffed.
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All of the numbers this week are potentially market moving. I think people will be watching the numbers for hints about inflation.
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Citigroup was disappointing and financials are the worst performing group today, ... You pair that with weakness in technology and energy -- the two leaders for the market over the last eight weeks -- and you have sort of a ho-hum day.
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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,