Tim Heekin
Tim Heekin
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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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This is the fourth day in a row where there's been disappointing economic news, and the market is reacting to that. People are also doing a little consolidating before the weekend.
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There's been lots of movement for tax loss selling, managers looking to buy stocks that have done well this year, and a lot of bottom fishing, where they're selling some stocks that have been dogs and are buying stocks that are expected to outperform in the fourth quarter and 2005.
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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.
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Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.
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We're flirting with key technical support levels. Markets rally but then can't sustain. There's continued nervousness about accounting and corporate profits, but no catalyst to move us out of it.
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We have no economic numbers Monday and my sense is that the market is going to keep consolidating for the next few sessions, before we make a bottom and then build from there
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Retailers are still taking a hit off of Best Buy's loss yesterday and now today's data is providing some more selling pressure in the sector.
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I think people are trying to drive the market higher. They're coming in on what have been some of the better groups, that being retail and technology still.
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I think people walked in confused today as to whether we are going to continue this uptrend through year-end or back off.
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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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I think this is a continuation of what we've been seeing for the last six or seven weeks, with the exception of last week,
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I think even if oil prices continue to fall for the next few days, we're probably going to see stocks continuing to pull back.
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People are looking for more clarity in terms of Iraq, interest rates, oil prices and the dollar.