Alan Ackerman
Alan Ackerman
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It was a livable number, ... It encouraged some bargain hunters to go to work.
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While bargain hunters are going to work, the market is still suffering from a low level of consumer confidence, ... I'd be in no hurry to pull the trigger and be a buyer at the moment but I would be building a buy list.
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Bargain hunters are surfacing today. The feeling going into next year is the economy is going to slow down.
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This market continues to go to extremes, ... Techs have sold down sharply. Now there's a bit of bargain hunting from what appears to be very cheap levels.
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The economic backdrop in the U.S. is still attractive, prompting bargain hunters to go to work as we approach year-end.
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You've got bargain hunting among the blue chips on the promise that the U.S. may be able to contain the violence in the Middle East,
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The public is in a semi-shocked state and cash remains on the sidelines on Wall Street despite everything being on sale, ... The main downside pressure seems to be continued earnings disappointments in the tech sector and we had downgrades today that were troublesome.
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The sands have shifted, ... Wachovia's weakness took the strength out of the financials and Qualcomm has taken quite a hit.
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Enron's quick collapse touched off more aggressiveness by regulators and prompted them to dig more deeply into executive dealings.
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Earnings, by and large, are what investors are hanging their hats on, ... Some earnings improvements have prompted some optimism, but we'll know more about that next week.
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Essentially we're just completing a week where there appears to be some market stabilization starting to surface,
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Even if a trading halt were put in, it might be 'something to do about nothing,' ... This is an orderly drop, rather than one filled with panic.
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There's so much doubt out there ahead of this three-day weekend that many players are just selling into the market -- taking their cash and moving to the sidelines,
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There's a feeling that oil prices will work higher still. The U.S. is more dependent on foreign imports than it has been in a while, and with oil prices on the rise, buyers moved quickly into oil stocks and energy related stocks,