Peter Chandler
Peter Chandler
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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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Nortel is benefiting from a general recovery in the technology stocks in the U.S. as well.
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The market took off from where it finished last week which is dumping tech stocks because of concern about poor prospects for quarterly earnings. You had widespread selling focusing on the technology area (and) where we are right now is at, or very close to, a bottom.
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The market now tends to be (thinking): With interest rate rises being behind us, if we've orchestrated a slowdown in the economy, how much of an impact will that slowdown have on corporate profits? Might corporate valuations be at the higher end of expectations? And so we're seeing some selling and softness, in the technology sector in particular, as a result of that.
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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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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.
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(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,
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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.
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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,
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That whole sector keeps saying we've seen the bottom but it seems to still be bumping along and staying on the bottom.
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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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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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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,