Tim Ghriskey
Tim Ghriskey
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Earnings and revenue were both significantly better than expected.
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Companies are beginning to tell the markets they are going to take a hit from both Katrina and higher oil prices. Demand for stocks in the short term may slow down.
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GM's announced cut both to the dividend and to executive pay is not a big surprise. Cuts like this were important to negotiations with the unions for similar types of cuts in unionized pay structure.
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GE's businesses are benefiting from the economic environment both domestically and internationally. But revenue did fall slightly below Wall Street's expectations, which is a bit of a disappointment.
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GE's businesses are benefiting from the economic environment, both domestically and internationally. But revenue did fall slightly below Wall Street's expectations, which is a bit of a disappointment.
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The damage from the storm, both in terms of the physical damage and any human impact, was certainly less than expected so that should really bode well for the financial markets.
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It was an extremely strong quarter in a very difficult environment for the auto industry and really shows that the restructuring ... is on track.
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It was another solid quarter by GE, in line with expectations and certainly optimistic about the outlook and environment playing into GE's strengths.
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The stock market is a forward-looking beast, and that's why we are seeing futures dip lower even amid some very strong reports, such as the ones from financial institutions.
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There's still a lot of concerns about the impact of higher interest rates and energy costs weighing on the stock market. And after the rally in stocks we've seen this week, investors just took a pause.
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Even though this was a well-anticipated reversal... the market still has reacted positively to the ruling in pushing up tobacco stocks, because this removes yet another legal impediment to the survival of the industry.
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Big positive surprise, especially in the face of the spike in oil prices in August.
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Technology stocks don't tend to do well in the summer. We could see that pattern repeat itself and technology could take the summer off and continue to drift down.
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Techs have been underperformers during the month of December, especially the second half, so I think we're seeing some bargain hunting within technology.