John Davidson
John Davidson
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Amazon is unique in having been successful at starting as an Internet-only business,
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You've seen how OPEC has had some discipline, and that's helped to support the price of oil, and maybe the gold players are seeing that if they use some discipline as well that that may also affect the gold price and their business.
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There's a lot of earnings and other news out there today, but I think the market is particularly reacting to Greenspan's testimony, ... The markets are expecting a little more growth because of his comments, but that may not be as much as what they wanted to hear.
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Despite the decline, the ISM report was very positive, and what you can take away from it is that the economy is continuing to expand. The question for 2004 is whether that continued expansion has already been reflected in the 25 percent returns you saw in stocks last year.
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Often people don't really have an awareness of these really successful Scots. One of the ideas behind the award show was to throw a bit of a focus on Scots who have had stellar careers.
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This is a game that primarily was about defense and goaltending over the last decade, but I think that's about to change, ... In the exhibition games I've watched, the pace of the game is much, much, much quicker.
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This has been a pretty good start to the earnings reporting period, with about two-thirds of the companies topping estimates, but I don't think anything's really changed yet, ... Greenspan suggested that we may be on the verge of a growth period, which would be significant for earnings, because mostly what you're seeing now are companies showing improvements on cost-cutting, rather than real growth.
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The ongoing issues are the strength of the economy and whether or not the pace of the recovery is in fact slowing down. One of the important things this week will be to see the extent of the damage.
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I think the most significant report for the whole week is the retail sales number tomorrow. You saw the bond market react today in expectation of a strong retail sales report, and I think people will be focused on that tomorrow.
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I think the HP earnings had the market set off earlier this morning. I think the market generally has a positive tone in respect to the economic indicators and the hope for the future.
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I think the HP earnings had the market set off earlier this morning, ... I think the market generally has a positive tone in respect to the economic indicators and the hope for the future.
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I think the overall trend remains positive, but we are sort of in limbo right now.
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I think the fourth quarter will be positive on earnings.
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I think the big number will be Friday,