Tom Schrader
Tom Schrader
dearth economic information news suffering until
We're suffering from a dearth of information -- there's no economic news until Thursday.
anticipate cash corporate mergers
There is so much cash in the corporate coffers out there, that I think you can probably anticipate there will be more mergers happening.
great pause run time
We had a great run and I think it's time for a little pause as we reflect.
change claims days market next nice profit rest taking tomorrow
We've had a really nice run. I think we need to see a little pullback before we go higher. There's not going to be much in the next two days to change that. Jobless claims tomorrow won't be a market mover. I think we'll probably see a little profit taking the rest of the week.
downside earnings hold line nasty stay surprise
We've had a lot of earnings that have been in line or better, and the Street's been yawning. If the earnings stay strong, we could hold at these levels, but any nasty downside surprise and we could see some selling.
beginning hard hit
We got hit so hard at the beginning of the week,
authorized aware bush causing intelligence-and-intellectuals leak maybe news weakness
The news that Bush was aware of or maybe authorized the (intelligence) leak is what's causing the weakness in the market.
continue economic fed few hikes morning numbers past possibly rate seen stronger weeks
Economic numbers this morning were very story and could give the Fed more ammo to possibly continue their rate hikes past May. Most of the numbers we've seen over the past few weeks have been stronger than expected.
certainly concerned consumer
Everyone's always concerned about inflationary pressures, and the CPI will certainly give us a hint about that on the consumer side.
bit breadth good rally today volume
It's a pretty good rally today but not tremendously strong. The breadth is good, but I'd like to see the volume a bit stronger.
near
It's going to be a quagmire near the close.
activity earnings economic extension japan last led money morning natural news people seems selling staggering table taking terrorist turkey until week weekend
It seems to be some natural selling, an extension of last week ... Terrorist activity over the weekend in Turkey led to selling in Japan and selling here; the earnings this morning were mixed, and you have no staggering economic news until Thursday, so people are taking some money off the table right now.
actual biggest both days earnings economic focusing generally gm guidance ibm negative numbers people putting seems
It seems that GM put a damper on things with some negative comments, and the economic numbers were a little weaker. They are both putting an overhang on the IBM news, which was generally positive. This is one of the biggest earnings days we have -- and people are going to be focusing more on the guidance than they are the actual earnings.
good seems
It (the advance) seems to be very broad-based, with really good breadth,