Art Hogan
Art Hogan
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We've got more ongoing focus on the bond yields. We've been in lockstep with it all week, and today is no different. There aren't any market-moving items due today, so we'll look at energy prices today for something else to drive the market.
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We have to get used to the fact that the emergency level of the fed funds rate is behind us, ... The sooner we become cognizant of the fact that the global economy won't be crushed and corporate earnings won't roll over, the sooner the market will fight its way to trend higher.
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When you see a deal of this size, obviously (Washington Mutual) is still acquirable,
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We're in that dreadful point in investor psyche where bad news is bad news and good news is bad news,
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We spent the week worrying about yields and what the economic data would do. We managed to work our way through it. We finished off the week the best we could. Next week we have a host of economic data that may or may not change our mind. We'll see how it plays out.
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We should shrug this off and realize that this is the best fourth-quarter earnings we've seen in years,
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We shouldn't get too far ahead of ourselves in terms of an economic recovery, ... I think the debate will become much more macro-economic instead of the micro focus we have had.
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I think the market will continue to drift without any real direction until we get Friday's employment report and investors get a sense of the current economic outlook.
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I think the market has discounted a lot of the bad second-quarter chatter we're going to hear, and my guess is that conference calls going forward are going to be much more positive,
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We're keeping our fingers crossed that we'll continue to see signs of (economic) stabilization, ... The economy is key and will be the catalyst to get people off the sidelines.
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We're not getting a lot of companies that are doing cartwheels about the second half in terms of IT demand. In terms of where we stand, getting out of the second-quarter earnings reporting season, moving on with business as usual, is probably going to be a healthy thing.
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We still have a flood of money coming into technology at the expense of these old-economy stocks. If you look at the sectors that make up the Nasdaq they are sectors that are the hottest in our economy.
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Today was one of the days where everything was negative. The market did hold in there pretty well, though. We're finishing up the week showing how much volatility we should expect over the next few weeks. We should be pleased we ended up where we did because it could've been a lot worse.
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Today wasn't much of a day. There was a lot of positive news and the economic data was good, but the reaction was a very quiet, almost muted one. Tomorrow may be even quieter in terms of volume as we approach the end of this holiday-shortened week.