Peter Boockvar
Peter Boockvar
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To buy stocks just because it's the end of the year is not a good reason to do it when the fundamentals indicate otherwise. The yield curve is flattening in response to the slowing housing market. The implications can't be ignored. That's why we're trading the way we are.
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The market appeared to have had a case of vertigo. We have had a big rally in recent weeks and it seemed that the theme of buying stocks because its the end of the year has played itself out.
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It's mostly sitting on your hands waiting to see what the Fed announcement is so we can start talking about something else. We need to see some confirmation that the economy is showing signs of improvement.
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The jobs number coming in better certainly was a help.
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This weapons thing really turns up the heat.
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Earlier this week, we came within a whisker of multiyear highs for the S&P 500. But the market still has a lot of headwinds. We're still near the upper end of a trading range.
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The results from retailers were good but not extraordinary.
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With good earnings ... there were certainly pockets of strength.
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This is before the hurricane and does not influence what the Fed is going to do, and CPI is more relevant to the markets.
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Noone questions why we were so crazy the first week of January, we're giving back some of the fluff rally.
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Some company earnings have been good, but we had large retailers in the past couple of days warning about a slowdown in sales. That is enough to get the market a bit concerned with a possible slowdown, ... Add higher interest rates to that mix and what you have is the housing sector and financial stocks suffering.
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The decline in oil helped (stocks), as well as the hope that maybe the Fed will be finished raising interest rates.
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The decline in oil helped, as well as the hope that maybe the Fed will be finished raising interest rates.
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A combination of factors ranging from the recent rise in oil prices to concerns over earnings and overall higher rates caused a pullback in stocks.