Kate Warne
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States...
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Royal Dutch and Exxon have always traded at premiums in the market, ... The merger puts BP and Amoco in the same size and presence globally, and it should give them the same premium value.
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Right now we have two trains leaving the station and everybody decided that they needed to be on one or both ... therefore we saw very different investing styles push very different groups of stocks up and overall we have a very, very strong day as a result,
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It was a little choppy. It's the market trying to assess the good news we're getting out of the technology sector and, at the same time, reacting to the fact the economy is slowing.
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Pullback time. All the leaders turned tail and ran.
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People sell on fear and when they have a chance to look at the fundamentals, begin to think again about whether the fear they had really made sense and buy back in.
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I don't expect them to stay that high for long but it wouldn't surprise me if they moved higher before they drop, just because we do have lower inventories and it's not likely OPEC's going to raise production any time soon,
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Certainly, people are waiting to hear what Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is going to say.
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Certainly Nortel selling its optical business to Corning and then taking half of the company is probably the biggest story on Monday as far as news that moved the markets.
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But the real concern is not whether first quarter earnings were stronger than the fourth quarter, but whether orders and sales continue to pick up.
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But beyond that, when you look at the pattern of trades for the day, it was basically positive but sort of lackluster. I think everybody's waiting around to see what happens next week and nobody wants to move a lot in front of the Fed meeting on Tuesday.
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Basically, today is all Nortel. Other things would have come out flat if weren't for Nortel,
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Basically what we're seeing is stocks that reported expected or better than expected first-quarter earnings have moved up, while any company that has really disappointed has gotten slammed. The market is looking for direction.
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Basically, all of the companies that have been doing the best this year, in terms of the major leaders, the large caps, really saw a big pull-back today.
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Since everybody expects very strong earnings, that then leads to the question of will there be negative surprises just because of how high the expectations are.