Jon Burnham
Jon Burnham
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We've had a good run-up, so it's fine to pull back a little. The important thing is that the market is ignoring bad or lackluster news. You don't see that when something tops, just at bottoms,
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It's a very nervous market right now. It reacts violently. You have any bit of news, bad or good, and the hedge funds are all over it. That's who's controlling this market, not the individual investor.
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Whether we build on the 10,000 or not, I think the market is in good shape and I expect it to keep moving higher through the end of the year.
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I think the market is searching for any good news it can find but the gloom is so thick out there. The market's in a narrow range but my guess is we are bouncing around the bottom.
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I think the market is in the midst of a pretty strong rally, and any selling today doesn't mean much. We're in an uptrend.
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I think the market is in pretty good shape right now. The economy is improving, and you're seeing investors react to that.
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You're not going to see a big rally through the end of the year, but I think the market will go higher than where it is now. I'm optimistic. I think the economy is improving even faster than people realize, and the fourth-quarter earnings are going to be really good.
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You're going to see some down days here and there, but what the market is telling you overall is that business is going to improve later in the year, ... The market's not always right, but often it is. I think it is now.
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This kind of news makes the market feel better for the moment, but when you're in this kind of bearish trend, some small concession isn't going to reverse direction. A lot of people thought Bush should have acted sooner. Even with this moving forward, the market has other things to worry about, like the economy, corporate profits and Iraq.
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People have been stopped in their tracks. It's impossible to trade the market right now because there's no way to know what's going to happen in Iraq hour to hour, day to day, so I think most individual investors are hanging back and any action is dominated by hedge funds.
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If not for the strong earnings, I think the market would be a lot weaker than it is. But that's not enough to lift the market out of a trading range. There's just too much uncertainty for markets to move higher.
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I don't think the market is going to collapse and I don't think it's going to go through the roof. If I had to guess, I'd say the market's going to go sideways over the next two weeks.
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The market is trying to look beyond the crevasse.
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In a word, I would describe the market action right now as 'Yuck,' ... We're in a bear market for the time being. Things are pretty bleak and people are overreacting to every little thing, but this will pass.