Art Hogan
Art Hogan
ahead change couple last meetings seen stop time
It's the first time we've seen a change of verbiage in the last 10 meetings or so, ... We're now a couple of meetings ahead of when they'll stop tightening.
best earnings realize seen
We should shrug this off and realize that this is the best fourth-quarter earnings we've seen in years,
good market means money rough seen staying stuff worked
We've seen some really good stuff and some really rough stuff, ... The market has worked its way through a bottom, at least on the Nasdaq and S&P. Money is rotating, so that means it's staying in the market and that's good news.
baked best outlook quarter question seen statements
Outlook statements for the first quarter are the best that we've seen in some time, but the question is, how much of that is already baked into the market?,
bad disasters market natural news seen stomach
The market has been able to stomach a lot of bad news -- we've seen disasters every day and the market has trended higher, ... This is day four, so it's only natural to want to take profits.
concern fed higher leave meeting rates remains rhetoric thinking
I'm thinking the Fed will leave the rates unchanged, ... We've ramped up pretty higher into this meeting and my concern is the psychological letdown if the rhetoric remains strong.
biggest consumer dollar earnings effects fear ill strong versus warn weak
The biggest fear is earnings going forward, ... All the consumer non-durable multinationals are going to have to warn about the ill effects of the strong dollar versus the weak euro, but that's cyclical.
early good market seeing wall
Not to be heartless, but this is very good for Wall Street, ... And I think that is why we are seeing this market take off in the early going.
america bad corporate knew letting news numbers stuff technology
The bad news is stuff that we know about -- it's Corporate America, especially on the technology front, letting us know they're not going to make their numbers and we knew that was going to happen,
gives trading
That gives us a lot of trading time, unfortunately.
confidence consumers continue created high interest lower money rates remain retail spending stayed stores
The retail stores are doing well. Consumers remain confident, continue to be out there spending their money, ... A lot of money was created with lower interest rates and refinancing -- things of that nature. So, consumer confidence has stayed very high and retail stores, that have actually done it right, have been doing pretty well.
Once again, it's not what you do, it's what you say,
add buy close decide delete fund happening run russell
Once a year, they (the Russell) decide to add and delete stocks. So what's happening is at the close today, those who run a Russell Fund will need to buy all of the Russell additions and sell all of the Russell deletes,
bets major people until waiting walking whatever
It's not a major deal, ... Whatever bets have been made most of the day (dried up) ? people are just walking away and waiting until tomorrow.