Peter Chandler
Peter Chandler
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We're just about through the earnings season. We have to go through this bump and grind. I think it will probably be like this for several months yet to come, until the market starts to focus on looking beyond the short term to the recovery that surely will follow.
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We're in what I call the dog days of August. It's quiet, it's slow. Most market participants are sitting on the sidelines, waiting for some definitive sign from the economic numbers.
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We're still a market that's correcting, that's going to be awfully selective and there's still a bias to the downside.
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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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I still think that the concern is interest rates and high valuations of specifically technology. And you will get these relief rallies but the market probably still has a bias to the down side.
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People are at odds. Most people want to believe that we're in a bottoming process but nobody's prepared to put a whole lot of money out on that assumption. It's a show-me phase: Show me the market has bottomed and I'll join the party.
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You just have so much uncertainty and the one thing the market doesn't like is not knowing, ... We're probably getting closer to a sell-out climax, a washout, that will at least give us a trading rally.
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We went up a long way quickly. This is some healthy profit-taking in what I would suggest is still very much an ongoing bull market in hard assets -- oil, gas and base and precious minerals. A healthy correction is a healthy thing.
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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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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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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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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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There's a potential end in sight but as Yogi Berra said 'it ain't over till it's over,' so there's still uncertainty out there. When the market believes it's over, then we're going to get, if nothing else, one heck of a short-term rally.
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This is the first week of full-tilt fourth-quarter earnings both here and south of the border so the market is really full of anxiety and apprehension on that.