Barry Hyman
Barry Hyman
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The market has created this wealth effect because there have been a lot of gains over the past two or three years, ... That has provided the ability for consumers to increase spending on regular goods and luxury goods.
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The market is operating under a little bit of a caution flag here, with energy prices way too high and a fourth quarter starting to show a slowing earnings trend.
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The market is just reeling from all the impediments ahead of it. There doesn't seem to be any meaningful reaction to any news on the earnings front or meetings that company's are offering to tell you that things are not as bad.
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The market is going to want to see in those numbers some clues that the PC market is picking up post-Y2K.
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The market is going to remain on the defensive and start to look at this developing technology story. To technology, that story is very important. It filters throughout the whole chain of PC sales to companies that produce chips.
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The market is going to continue to be buffeted by this political story that doesn't go away. If we can get past that, hopefully the market will react positively to the end of a process.
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The market is exhibiting the typical end-of-year patterns of low volume, lackluster trading and little volatility.
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The market is clearly divided right now. Those who are looking at 2005 expectations think we can see moderate stock gains, those who are looking out at 2006 are more concerned.
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You continue to have investors weighing strong earnings -- in this case Yahoo! and Intel -- versus the fear of inflation again.
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You can't forget that there are geopolitical tensions in the world ... and the market takes on risk.
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You certainly want to see anything related to manufacturing start to turn up, but it's not giving any indication of solidification,
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You can pick you poison today from anywhere. The earnings concern and lack of guidance for 2006 concerns tech players. But the story goes beyond that to energy pricing, which is still a 2005 perspective. Once again, energy is the leading sector. As long as energy prices remain high the market should suffer.
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The market gets extremely concerned on (long-term) interest rates when they get above 6 percent.
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The market did improve with the housing data. Market trends day to day are really influenced by how the bonds have been trading. When the rates have gone up, equities have suffering, when rates have gone down, the market has been optimistic.