Ken Tower
Ken Tower
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We are at the top of a trading range. Everyone's willing to be bullish, but is the cash there to provide the energy the bulls need? Or is the December high the high-water mark? Dow 11,000 is one of the hooks the bulls will use to try and attract more money into the market.
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Liz Claiborne is one; Tommy Hilfiger is another; Jones New York. There are a lot of them that look good now, ... People aren't going to spend their money on some things, but they're spending it on others.
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The correction is likely to go on for another month or two, ... before there's really a compelling reason for investors and traders to move more money from the sidelines into the markets.
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They haven't so much moved their money out of the markets as they have moved it from one place to another.
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You're seeing the fast money shift around a bit, and short term, that's good for stocks. Longer term, you have to consider that at some point, energy prices are going to catch up to the economy and the market.
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What would make me more optimistic is if there was evidence that money on the sidelines is being put to work. But I'm not convinced.
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We are at a major crossroads here. If we are unable to break out of this trading range to the upside soon, then there is a danger that we could quickly slide back down again to the lows.
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There is no person on the planet who is going to be able to fill Greenspan's spot without a test, ... I'm not sure that it's a coincidence that the market crash of 1987 happened two months after Greenspan took office.
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This rally is very fragile, as it is being led once again by energy stocks and not technology or finance. This is no time for the bulls to relax.
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This proved the spark to push the market higher. It was great news.
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Yesterday's high now become key resistance. Because the longer term trends all remain up, there are lots of support zones below current prices. The big Nasdaq stocks have been the weak link in the rally, as demonstrated again yesterday by being the only major average to fall.
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Longer term I'm bearish, but I'm pretty optimistic for next week.
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I think there is a wait-and-see attitude about next week's Fed meeting. Investors are thinking that perhaps the recent weaker-than-expected employment report means that the Fed is near the end of its rate-hiking cycle, but I don't think that's the case.
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I think the question the market is struggling with is whether we are concerned about inflation and too strong an economy, or if the Fed is raising interest rates too much and cooling things off. So we have a little pause in the market today as it tries to work this question out.