Tim Heekin
Tim Heekin
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Semiconductors and software have been the leadership for the past few months, so when there's tech selling now, they tend to lose support first. But we're at the top of a range, technically, so we're going to see some selling for the next two or three sessions.
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This movement in the bond market is amazing, truly unprecedented. People are starting to sell fixed-income and put that money into stocks. Equity is starting to look like this undervalued dark horse worth betting on.
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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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The question is whether this is a one-day thing after all the selling or if it's something more sustainable.
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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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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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After that period, you could see a rally in July, with people really setting themselves up then for the second half of the year.
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I hope we'll see a nice pick-up in business as September gets underway.
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I guess a new deadline could be positive for markets, but I'm of the camp that the more the war is postponed, the more it keeps the market distracted.
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What started this two weeks ago was the big pension funds and other institutions coming in, seeing that bonds were getting over-valued and shifting money out of fixed income and into equities.
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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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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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FedEx is a big drag today, Merck is down, steel is down, airlines are down, it's all weighing on the transports,