Michael Holland
Michael Holland
al continue greater importance led starting stronger understand
Managements in the U.S. have led the way and now we see are starting to see it around the world, BP et al are starting to show that they understand the importance of getting leaner and stronger and better, ... And we continue to have greater and greater productivity.
continue course involved people possible sometime
It's very possible it will take a completely different course than any of us expected, ... The real story is where will this thing go sometime in the future, particularly as people continue to become more and more involved in telecommuting.
behind continued economy federal growing problem reserve
It's just continued disappointment in the Federal Reserve, ... We have a growing problem in the economy and with companies' profitability and the Federal Reserve is behind it (the curve).
continue investors signals wait
Investors continue to wait and see if there is anything that signals a bottom,
advantage continue cycle economy economy-and-economics levels market people portion positions profit retain risk taken weakness
The economy and the profit cycle that is in a downturn will come to an end and when it does, people should continue to be invested. Take advantage of any weakness or retain positions ? overall, the market is down to levels where a portion of the risk has been taken out.
continue earnings fear good news numbers shall
The earnings numbers continue to be really lousy, ... When you have this kind of carnage, fear replaces greed, but the good news is that this too shall pass.
becomes bit confidence extremely irrelevant last less market people point several smaller truly
Each 1,000 point market becomes less important because the percentages get smaller and smaller, so they have become truly irrelevant in some measure, ... But (10,000) is extremely important because a lot of people who have had a little bit of shaken confidence over the last several years (are probably going to) come in here.
closer couple last looked market time weeks
Every time in the last couple of weeks that this has looked closer to a resolution, the market has done better.
decrease global interest rates
We have a global decrease in interest rates and a global decrease in inflation.
stocks
Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,
digest recent
I think here for a while we will probably digest the recent gains,
bad good recession shallow shape weather
I don't think we're in bad shape. I think we're in a recession. I think we're in very good shape to weather this recession and make it a short, shallow one.
companies confidence growing ibm plans recently shown
IBM is benefiting from a growing tailwind. The confidence shown recently by companies in their IT plans augurs well.
bull despite lots nasty stealth stories
There are lots of nasty stories but despite that we've had a stealth bull market.