Tom Schrader
Tom Schrader
activity knows people stretch talk terror worried
I think people are very worried that this is going to stretch out, particularly if it's close. No one knows who is going to win, or when they will win, and there's still talk of terror activity around the election.
area builders coming home led negative news obviously
We have negative news coming out of the home builders this morning, and obviously that's been an area that has led the economy.
concerns retail sales seem
There are some concerns about retail sales but they don't seem to be weighing on the market.
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We're starting to get into that no man's land of lack of earnings, with most of the S&P 500 having reported already. We'll have durable goods orders tomorrow and beyond that, the market is going to have to count on the economic news and the price of oil for drivers.
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We've got earnings concerns today, and oil prices are still scaring everyone.
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I think this choppiness is definitely going to continue over the next few months. The Street is very indecisive about what the economy is going to do, what the Fed is going to do.
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I think we're going to see some sideways action this week. We had a nice run last week and there's a significant amount of economic and earnings news due out later in the week. I think people are taking a 'wait and see' approach ahead of that.
indicator main people report waiting
I think the unemployment report is the main indicator people are waiting for this week.
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I think the rally got started by news of the super-secret meeting with the Iraqi military this morning and just kept going from there. Everybody loves equities and the dollar today and everything else is down.
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Last week was very busy and I think today there is less impetus to move. There's no earnings news, no economic news until later in the week, and so there's nothing really to move us.
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I think we're still going to get a bit of a Santa Claus rally. But I'm not sure how substantial it's going to be.
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I think a lot of people are sitting on their hands, waiting for a little more meaningful earnings reports, ... Alcoa was better than expected and we have GE earnings at the end of the week, so maybe that will give us some direction.
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While the capture is important on a humanistic level for the market, after reacting to it overnight, we're back to the usual focus: earnings and the economy.
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We're definitely kind of seeing a little bit of a year-end rally here, and I would expect it to continue this week.