Kate Warne
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States...
again flat major market move parties
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,
again chip days erratic investors move negative pulling sentiment several shifting somewhat typical wondering
After several days being increasingly optimistic, particularly in the chip sector, investors are now pulling back somewhat wondering if they have again jumped the gun. This kind of erratic move is typical when sentiment is shifting negative to positive.
expect high higher likely lower moved production raise stay surprise time
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,
biggest business certainly company far half monday moved news optical selling taking
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.
basically beyond fed front happens meeting move next nobody pattern positive sort trades waiting wants week
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.
basically company earnings expected gotten looking market moved reported seeing stocks
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.
either fact looking market moved says strongly
The fact that the market hasn't moved strongly either up or down all week, really says that it's looking for direction.
mode move rather surprising waiting
I think the market's really in a waiting mode right now and it's not too surprising it would move rather dramatically on anything that was announced.
begun easter expect holiday market move people strongly surprise today tomorrow
Today was -- and I expect tomorrow to be -- quiet. I think many people have already begun the Easter holiday and it would take a big surprise in something tomorrow for the market to move very strongly one way or the other.
continue cuts draw focused help instead market might move next tax today
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.
easier leading market movements
The fundamentals are much easier to read right now than the sentiment, and the jitters in the market are just leading to all these movements that are unconnected to reality.
canada cut higher interest last less likely nervous numbers people reserve watching whether
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.
days direction emotion market quite rather sure turning underlying volatile
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.
both less nervous people sentiment today
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.