Peter Chandler
Peter Chandler
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The Canadian market is basically flat on the day. There's not a whole lot of direction from the markets. I still think that the market is looking for a definitive conclusion out of the U.S. election.
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It was a story of two different markets. The U.S. market was flat to nothing, the Canadian market was flying, and it's our darling stocks again -- Northern Telecom and BCE. Canadian technology was really what drove the market here. The story continues for Bell and Nortel.
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We've seen pockets of strength in the Canadian markets, so the Canadian market actually acted a lot better than the U.S. market did as a whole.
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In a U.S. election year, they err on the side of doing less rather than more.
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It's still very mixed, it's a very narrow market. It's like an automobile which has many cylinders. To really get our market in gear and running smoothly you need to have more cylinders hitting than fewer. We just had another cylinder kick in today with this spurt in gold.
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The bad news being the lower earnings that are going to start coming out. The good news is most of the damage has been done in the market and it's trying to find a good bottom.
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There's the whole theory that there's a lot of exceptionally good fundamental value in those old economy, cyclical type stocks.
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On a very, very short-term basis, Nortel's stock was exceptionally oversold. Plus there was an article in Barron's that called for tech bounces and talked of a number of stocks that were good value. Nortel was in that handful,
bit seeing
On a short-term basis, (techs) were very oversold and now we're seeing a bit of a bounce.
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I guess Cisco systems set the tone for the markets as a whole and everyone just followed,
balance expect quieter volumes
It was pretty flat, pretty subdued. I expect quieter volumes for the balance of the week.
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It's a mixed bag. The markets are concerned about the slowing down in the economy. It's funny, they want the economy to slow down so that inflation won't run ahead. Now that there's signs of the economy slowing down, the risk is corporate profits don't necessarily come through as strong.
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We had the good economic data south of the border but the problem on our side is the weight of the industrial products sector,
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What is good is that we're seeing a real turn in investor sentiment to the negative, and you need that before you can get any sort of a bounce,