Tim Heekin
Tim Heekin
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This week is pretty light on the economic news. The first-quarter earnings should be good and should provide some sort of cushion for the markets.
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I think the rally just ran out of gas. You're right at the beginning of the earnings reporting, and all the good news is priced in, and buyers are getting a little tired. I think it's time for a little pullback. After we see a little consolidation, then we can go higher again.
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People will be looking for hints about the direction of the earnings throughout the week, ... both in terms of individual stocks and sectors.
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Earnings have been fine, but they just haven't been as robust as people were hoping. The guidance for the third and fourth quarters hasn't been that strong, and part of the rally was based on people betting that the second half of the year would be good, so with the numbers not saying that, you're seeing some selling.
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It's pretty quiet today. We've got an FOMC meeting behind us, most of the earnings behind us, an employment number behind us. The next piece of economic news everyone will look at will be retail sales on Thursday.
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It's pretty quiet today, ... We've got an FOMC meeting behind us, most of the earnings behind us, an employment number behind us. The next piece of economic news everyone will look at will be retail sales on Thursday.
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There's going to be no true market direction until the earnings picture and military actions become clearer.
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You've got a lot of factors here all coming into play. Oil is having a negative impact and the pre-announcement news from Viacom was significant. You also had all the banks reporting strong earnings yesterday, but yet they're selling them off two days in a row, and we're near the end of the quarter and you've got portfolio managers wanting to cash out of the rally's recent leaders.
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You've got a lot of factors here all coming into play, ... Oil is having a negative impact and the pre-announcement news from Viacom was significant. You also had all the banks reporting strong earnings yesterday, but yet they're selling them off two days in a row, and we're near the end of the quarter and you've got portfolio managers wanting to cash out of the rally's recent leaders.
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There are good trends everywhere. Some people are looking for a 5 percent to 10 percent correction, partly because they think it's healthy and partly because they want a pullback so they can jump back in. But the path of least resistance remains up.
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You can interpret it a bunch of ways, but all I know, and all that the market seems to know, is that short-term rates are going to rise, and they're going to rise really soon.
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You had this huge down move on Tuesday, you gained half of it back yesterday, and more of it today,
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We've been on a tear and it's just kind of flattening out today after hitting some near-term highs yesterday.
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Financials are picking up across the board, that bodes well for the market, ... Being such a big percentage of the indices, if people are getting behind financials late in the third and fourth quarter, that will carry the market positive in 2005.