Tom Schrader
Tom Schrader
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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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The selling today is long overdue after the recent rally. You're seeing a lack of buyers ahead of the Fed. You'll probably see more selling tomorrow as the meeting begins.
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Oil is always a negative factor for the markets and that, combined with lack of economic data, is contributing to a lack of interest in the stock markets this morning. On the bright side, the series of company upgrades is certainly welcome.
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The consumer confidence (index) this morning was better than expected, and the lack of negative pre-announcements has given people the impression that first-quarter earnings are going to be good.
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While it's too soon to tell exactly what the damage is, I think the market had priced in even more damage to the oil infrastructure than what seems to have taken place.
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We got hit so hard at the beginning of the week,
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Every indicator I look at shows that we're just really overbought right now. I would look for the indexes to suffer some more profit taking over the next few weeks.
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Every indicator I look at shows that we're just really overbought right now, ... I would look for the indexes to suffer some more profit taking over the next few weeks.
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We had such big gains yesterday that it is not unusual for us to consolidate a little bit. Then, oil's down but gasoline is up and that is counterbalancing each other. The economic news we had this morning was less than inspiring.
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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.
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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.
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We've got a big rally in tech going and it's a nice change of pace.
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We're suffering from a dearth of information -- there's no economic news until Thursday.
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There is so much cash in the corporate coffers out there, that I think you can probably anticipate there will be more mergers happening.