Tom Schrader
Tom Schrader
continue definitely economy fed few indecisive next street
I think this choppiness is definitely going to continue over the next few months. The Street is very indecisive about what the economy is going to do, what the Fed is going to do.
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We're definitely kind of seeing a little bit of a year-end rally here, and I would expect it to continue this week.
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The semiconductor index right now is a broken index. Until it finds some support, it will continue to sell off and that tends to drag down the market as a whole.
continue earnings last less nice october rally rallying reports since supporting time week
This is more or less a continuation of the October effect. Since about mid-October, we've been rallying and that's traditionally the time you're going to see that. We've had some nice earnings reports in the last week supporting a rally and we're probably going to continue to see that.
continue economic fed few hikes morning numbers past possibly rate seen stronger weeks
Economic numbers this morning were very story and could give the Fed more ammo to possibly continue their rate hikes past May. Most of the numbers we've seen over the past few weeks have been stronger than expected.
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I think we're still going to get a bit of a Santa Claus rally. But I'm not sure how substantial it's going to be.
earnings expected maybe meaningful people sitting waiting
I think a lot of people are sitting on their hands, waiting for a little more meaningful earnings reports, ... Alcoa was better than expected and we have GE earnings at the end of the week, so maybe that will give us some direction.
indicator main people report waiting
I think the unemployment report is the main indicator people are waiting for this week.
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I think the rally got started by news of the super-secret meeting with the Iraqi military this morning and just kept going from there. Everybody loves equities and the dollar today and everything else is down.
busy earnings economic impetus last later less move news today until week
Last week was very busy and I think today there is less impetus to move. There's no earnings news, no economic news until later in the week, and so there's nothing really to move us.
chicago consumer numbers sentiment
We've got some weighty numbers tomorrow, with consumer sentiment and Chicago PMI due.
based basically gains seen since
We've kind of stalled here. Basically we've seen some profit-taking based on the gains we've had since mid-October.
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I think investors are reacting positively to what's going on right now, with this new phase of the war. The more certain investors are that things are going well -- and they seem to be going very well -- the more hints we have that Saddam may be dead, the more investors are going to jump in.
capture earnings humanistic level reacting usual
While the capture is important on a humanistic level for the market, after reacting to it overnight, we're back to the usual focus: earnings and the economy.