Art Hogan
Art Hogan
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With the financials, that entire space has been tarnished by a confidence crisis. Also, on a more fundamental level rather than a psychological level, there's no investment banking business going on right now. The concerns remain about the banks' exposure to bankrupt telecoms WorldCom and Global Crossing,
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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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If the high levels of employment aren't kept up with the high levels of productivity gains that we have been making, (the Fed) will probably need to do something pro-active and that would probably mean 25 basis points now and then something in the first quarter of next year.
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Investor sentiment is shifting and volume levels are starting to pick up, ... Investors were just taking advantage of yesterday's one-day record advance to take some cash off the table.
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We expected it to happen by the end of the year, certainly not in the first quarter. The last thousand points have really been at breakneck speed.
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We're going through a very news intensive period this week and the focus of all of that is slowdown of revenue growth going forward, but we're probably overreacting, ... We get great numbers, but looking forward we don't have the robust growth -- so people are calling into question valuations.
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The season started upbeat and that was terrific. That helps the overall consensus that the second quarter (reports) will be rosier.
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The second quarter is lining up to be another good quarter but people are looking ahead to the third and fourth quarters. Barring any major upsets on the earnings calendar I'd say the market is pretty range bound.
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The whole issue goes a long way in showing how dangerous an investment the sector is, ... You can have one regulatory setback, one clinical trial or negative development for a drug, and you see this kind of impact.
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The winnowing down of ideas is beginning to happen.
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These are terrific numbers, absolutely great, a much needed breath of fresh air for the equities market.
meeting rhetoric
The rhetoric from the meeting will be the most important catalyst,
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The rumors of the Dow's death has been much exaggerated,
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Arguably, Nokia's news isn't good, ... If we were rallying on Nokia, it was a little questionable on its reasoning.