Michael Holland
Michael Holland
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It was a precursor to a great earnings season. I think the next few weeks are going to be better than anyone expects.
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When Mr. Fisher joined Eastman Kodak, I was a shareholder with great anticipation that he would take a technological problem and make it into a technological opportunity, ... Lou Gerstner did that at IBM. I thought there was a possibility, actually a probability, that we'd get that out of George Fisher. Unfortunately it hasn't happened yet.
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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.
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In companies like this, people are looking for change, ... The hedge funds come in and they're going to bet that this is something that will push the stock price up. And it's a decent bet. Icahn's name is important because of the history that he will get something done.
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The bad guys lost, the good guys won.
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This is clearly a defensive, reactive move by Nasdaq, but a necessary one,
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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.
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Anyone who has leaned against this bull market has paid a price. Charlie Clough is a very smart guy who was symbolic of a lot of smart people who have been fooled by the continuing strength of this bull market.
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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.
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Every time in the last couple of weeks that this has looked closer to a resolution, the market has done better.
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A number of people were looking for the good news that occurred, ... When the dust settles, people also say, history argues for the market going up. So people who may have been inclined to sell just don't.
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Alan Greenspan's history is being a gradualist. Having done five quarter-point increases in less than a year, another quarter-point would fulfill one of his objectives of not unsettling the markets. That's why I believe there will be a quarter-point hike in May, possibly followed by another in June.
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IBM is benefiting from a growing tailwind. The confidence shown recently by companies in their IT plans augurs well.
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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).