Kate Warne
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States...
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But overall, despite earnings, good news, the market is up but not as strong as you might have expected. So all of it was obviously built into the stocks already.
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It's not so much that bigger is better. I think what you're looking at is a company that's suddenly head and shoulders above most of the other companies. And two very efficient competitors that have already cut a lot of their own costs and are now looking at better ways of going after their current business.
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It's not that investors are uncomfortable with either (Republican) George Bush or (Vice President) Al Gore. They are just sitting on the edge trying to figure out who will be president so that they can make decisions.
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It's not surprising that even though the major integrated oils are making money hand-over-foot, the market hasn't paid much attention.
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It's the same old story. It's Nortel and BCE. Dynamite earnings out of both of those and the stocks just roared ahead. And so went the market.
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It's not too surprising that you saw a day of consolidation, particularly in advance of the (Fed) meeting on Tuesday.
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It sounds like it's pretty much what we'd expected at this point. But everybody is still worried about how long the consumer can sustain the economy. So the fact they are only up a tenth of a percent, people are beginning to worry whether the consumers are really going to slow down, and the economy with it.
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It was probably a case of scale up or sell, and (Bank of Montreal) decided it did not want to make the strategic investment needed.
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It was once again Nortel and BCE and in addition the cable companies, but again the technology and communication sector is really driving the market,
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Not surprisingly, when we have a market that's not quite sure about direction, you're going to see real volatile days like this where things are turning on emotion rather than on any underlying fundamental.
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It just heightens war fears, and the market clearly doesn't like the uncertainty associated with that.
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It matters a lot less because the economy has changed.
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It's a very good way to start the year.
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It was basically not a good day for the tech stocks in general and that's the main reason why we saw the 144-point drop.