Douglas Altabef
Douglas Altabef
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It's a mixed picture. There's no question that the news is a lot better, but it may be priced into the market.
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It was great that we had three or four days of a healthy bounce. But our take is that the market is being unduly punitive right now.
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I'm just amazed the market has been as strong as it has in the past few days.
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We expect the year to end 2 to 3 percent higher or lower than where it is now. The case for it going down is a massive run of profit taking. The case for it going up is people wanting to get a jump on the January rally.
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Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we saw in the late 1990's, where you're seeing more talk about whisper numbers, higher expectations, and a more punitive reaction to numbers that disappoint.
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You had a terrible day Friday with the market pricing in the reality of these events and you have a continuation of that reaction now. There are no surprises. It's pretty much across-the-board negativity.
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What companies report now is less influential than what they say about future quarters.
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We think one of the more exciting opportunities this year in the market are in the tech sector.
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There's no real compelling reason for stocks to be up. But you've got little new news and there's an upward bias, so we're up today after a few days of selling.
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These accounting worries go right to the underpinnings of trust and confidence. If trust isn't there, you're tugging at the loose thread of a cheap polyester suit. People are worried about what other shoes are getting ready to drop.
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This is not an expensive stock. We think Merrill certainly has a significant amount of upward opportunity.
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The U.N. says go slow, the U.S. says the fact that Blix can't find anything is more of a comment on Blix than anything else. The point is, Bush is not going to be deterred by these findings.
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The CA investigation is an ongoing thing. They've had problems long before accounting scrutiny was fashionable, so the impact of that is muted. There is the sense that the market wants to shrug off the bad news.
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O'Neal has a good sense of where the business focus should be. He's been able to take advantage of a good business environment.