Bill Meehan
Bill Meehan
William Thomas Meehanwas an American Major League Baseballpitcher. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1915 season...
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There is not enough earnings and/or revenue growth to justify valuations in a lot of the technology stocks and there is a great amount of fear that analysts will be slashing away at their earnings estimates for next year.
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There are analysts out there talking up their favorite tech stocks. On the other hand, there are still concerns that large cap tech stocks may be doing some pre-announcements, so there are a lot of cross currents.
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You have to be completely deaf, dumb and blind to think that anything with '.com' on it is your ticket to fame and fortune.
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I think it will be to a greater extent a larger problem than most people anticipate. Obviously, it's going to have a major impact on certain industries.
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I think we are making a change back to a more historically normal environment and I think value will outperform growth.
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I think that's evidence that a good deal of any weak earnings is priced into the market because the expectations have been lowered by analysts and further lowered by realistic expectations of the Street.
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I don't think we're in for Armageddon, but there's not going to be any visibility on earnings. So we've got months of trading fun and investors can go to the beach.
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I don't think it's going to help the economy very much, and it's certainly not going to help corporate profits.
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The overwhelming key will be, as companies report, it won't be as much about what they report but what they have to say about the fourth quarter and 2001.
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I would tell people who are overweight in technology to use any bounces to lighten up in those areas, raise some cash and shift portfolios into more defensive positions.
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Having cash all the time to some degree makes a certain amount of sense. I don't ever advise people to be 100 percent in or 100 percent out.
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We're going to be winding down (earnings) and more focus will be turning toward the presidential election. However, there's not much one can do since the race appears too tight to call. On a poll-by-poll basis, you could see drug stocks impacted negatively or positively, with tobacco stocks and defense stocks similarly impacted.
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We're getting closer to the earnings period, and the bulls are hoping that the actual quarterly results will be in line or better than expected and alleviate the fears that there's another warning coming in every night.
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In the past Greenspan has implied market valuations are OK. as long as earnings growth is sustained. But there's a lot of concern valuations are too high?and now we've had a couple of earnings warnings.