Kate Warne
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States...
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In Canada and U.S., people are watching for (inflation) to be higher then it was last month. In the U.S. everyone is just nervous about whether we're going to see numbers higher than anticipated because that would make the (Federal Reserve Board) less likely to cut more interest rates.
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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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Today's a day of waiting: waiting for earnings; after the retail sales report, waiting to see whether consumer picks up later in the year; waiting to see if OPEC cuts production,
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People are beginning to think that we've seen the worst of the pre-announcements and missing forecast news. There's also increasing speculation that the Fed will cut interest rates by one-half a percent on Wednesday.
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We continue to have uncertainty because what he focused on didn't really help the market draw inferences about what next week's move is going to be. We thought today might give us a hint, instead he focused on tax cuts and other things.
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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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The sentiment is nervous and I think today was very negative. People were getting both more nervous and less enthusiastic about where things were going.
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Once again we have Nortel and BCE as the responsible parties for the major move in the market and everything else would probably be flat without them,
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The fast-growing small technology companies basically ignored the Fed's warning of higher interest rates.
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I hadn't expected BP Amoco to be really in the market for acquisitions this quickly, ... What it tells me is that they have done a faster job of consolidation of Amoco's assets and they feel very comfortable going forward.
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I'm surprised that technology has continued to be on a tear so strongly today because it's the rapidly growing stocks that will in fact be hurt if interest rates are increased.
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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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At the same time people are now focused on May 16 -- and is that bad news for tech stocks?