Peter Chandler
Peter Chandler
border data economic good industrial problem products side south weight
We had the good economic data south of the border but the problem on our side is the weight of the industrial products sector,
bit comfort market money provided pulled sidelines sitting support waiting
I think that provided a little bit of support for the market here. There's a lot of money sitting on the sidelines waiting to go in...The money is there to be pulled into the market once there is a comfort level,
bit earlier giving sensitive side strength weak
But interest-rate sensitive sectors were soft, a bit on the weak side and giving back some of the strength they had earlier in the week.
bottom buyers couple establish hit money sideline sitting tried waiting
Buyers are on strike! There's some significant money sitting on the sideline waiting to see when we'll establish a bottom. We tried a couple of times during the day to hit bottom and failed,
election elections err less rather side
In a U.S. election year, they err on the side of doing less rather than more.
bottom commodity companies falls lean line mean money past prices small turn
These (metals) companies are making more money than they have in the past 10 years, and they are lean and mean so any small turn in commodity prices falls right into the bottom line for these companies.
driven market mentality
(Techs) are being psychologically driven with the mentality of 'I've got to get out, I've got to have closure', and that's what you usually need for market bottoms,
basis broken everybody maybe microsoft monday stocks tech tuesday upside
Tech stocks were oversold on a short-term basis and on Monday everybody had to get out of them because of Microsoft, and then Tuesday everybody thought that if Microsoft is broken up maybe it's not the end of the world, and maybe there's an upside to it.
monday
We had a lot of catch-up to do because on Monday Nortel was up and was one of the most actives on New York,
along bottom keeps saying sector seems seen staying
That whole sector keeps saying we've seen the bottom but it seems to still be bumping along and staying on the bottom.
closer market trading
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.
assets base bull correction gas hard healthy market ongoing precious suggest
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.
bias concern high interest market rates relief
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.
call either expect fireworks nobody prepared tomorrow
I don't think you can expect a whole lot of fireworks going into a day like tomorrow because nobody is going to be prepared to make a big call either way in this market,