Donald Selkin
Donald Selkin
close defensive dependent earnings economic focus names numbers reactions recovery seeing trading volatile
With earnings winding down and not as much to focus on, you're getting very volatile reactions to economic numbers that are actually pretty close to estimates. You're also seeing some of the defensive names that are dependent on an economic recovery trading lower.
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You're seeing a knee-jerk reaction to the tremendous gain in energy prices. It's also a reaction to the contrived gain on Friday.
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This is the classic 'buy the rumor, sell the news' reaction. The market is expecting the second-quarter earnings are going to meet or beat, so even though Yahoo! almost tripled its earnings, you're seeing some selling.
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Today is very news driven. You've got GE, you've got HPQ, and the economic reports were a little better. It's the tech stocks that are leading the way. You're seeing a rotation out of the consumer stocks and into the techs.
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I'm not so sure that the rally was commensurate with the news out of the Fed. They seemed to say that they're going to keep rates low for a long time, which wasn't a surprise, but maybe people felt better seeing it spelled out more clearly.
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All these earnings look pretty good. But after the huge stock run last year and the expectation of the good earnings, I think you're seeing a bit of that old 'sell the news' reaction.
earnings small stocks
The stocks that are benefiting most from better earnings are the small and mid-cap ones.
bit people reminded statement
The statement wasn't that negative, but it was a bit clumsily worded. They reminded people of the dangers.
anytime federal good interest lining news raising rates reserve silver
The silver lining on this is that it confirms that the Federal Reserve will not be raising interest rates anytime soon, which is good news for the market.
aversion technology volatile
Things are still very volatile and there's been an aversion to technology all day.
next reporting statement
The wording of the statement will be important, and then you've also got Cisco and Dell reporting next week.
beat pathetic revenge sector stocks
Prudential upgraded the semiconductors and that got the sector going. This was the revenge of the nerds. The most beat up, pathetic stocks had one of their up days.
action averages situations special themselves though
Even though the averages themselves are doing nothing, there are some special situations going on here. There's a lot of action away from the averages.
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Between Texas Instruments, the rise in oil prices, and commodities, we got hit today. But the decline wasn't terrible. Last week we had nice gains, and today, we're kind of consolidating.