Michael Metz
Michael Metz
Michael Metzis a former field hockey player from Germany, who won the silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea for West Germany. Four years later, when Barcelona, Spain hosted the Summer Olympics, he was a member of the Men's National Team that captured the gold medal...
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My guess is we've seen a little bit of a blow-off on oil and it's going to be a little bit more of a hospitable climate, as far as oil prices are concerned.
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Economic data has been supportive and earnings have been strong, so there's no reason why we can't see a rally in stocks between now and the end of the year.
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Everyone has assumed it's going to be a perfect scenario, ... The market has departed from most traditional levels of valuation.
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I more and more believe that very often the market is in a world of its own.
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The Fed is once again saying they are not through with raising interest rates.
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(This) week is all about the Fed. But we all know they are trying to bring back the benchmark rate to neutrality. They still have a couple more rate increases to go.
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Couples have unreasonable expectations. And unreasonable expectations are a major cause of problems.
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Even though the summer is traditionally slow, we are likely to see a pickup overseas this year. That's really where the incremental business will come from.
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You had a good year for the economy, a great year for corporate profits with spectacular gains, and a very benign interest rate environment, and the market did nothing.
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This is the correction I've been talking about.
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Oil is getting hit here and that also hurts the oil stocks. That is disenchanting a number of short-term traders who didn't expect to get hit that badly by a drop in crude prices.
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If we do have oil prices at this level for another week or so, it's going to make investors reconsider the whole outlook for consumer demand, which of course has been the real fuel for the economy.
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The Delphi bankruptcy didn't help. The concern is, what are the repercussions of that for General Motors and for other automakers and the component makers. And it's all happening against background where real wages are not rising, so the question is, who's going to buy what American manufacturers produce?
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There's anecdotal evidence that individual investors are looking more towards the equity market than real estate. It's a good sign initially that there's new demand, but it could suggest we're at the final stages of the advance.