The world is looking for lower interest rates. Clearly, the psychology world-wide remains highly nervous.

Each day is another adventure, … We have complex cross currents working in an environment where we have a nasty and negative tone.

There’s so much doubt out there ahead of this three-day weekend that many players are just selling into the market — taking their cash and moving to the sidelines,

We’ve seen natural gas and energy prices back down, … There certainly is no indication that the inventories for oil or natural gas are building in any meaningful way. If OPEC should cut production, we’re...

Earnings warnings continue to dent confidence and the price of individual issues, … This is a market that’s nasty and negative. It’s difficult to divine if we’re reaching a bottom or not.

While the market has taken a big hit today, it’s shown some spring back, … It’s a multifarious number of things all working at once.

Techs have gone from terrific to tepid to terrible,

Events like this bring things to a halt and raise a level of shock that is difficult to describe, … This is a huge catastrophe and it’s one that has no parallel in history.

There’s some technology follow- through, … Some feel that the Fed is chasing a genie that’s not yet out of the bottle.

That has helped the techs today (Wednesday). They have a reasonably upbeat forecast.

We go into next week with continued uncertainty and wall-to-wall worries. The month of August was full of negative surprises, and September seems to be headed in that direction.

This has been a Benny Goodman-type market, … lots of swing, and it’s very, very difficult to get a handle on long-term positioning when the market is moving up and down so rapidly.

The market is attempting to stabilize after a terrific run, … Many stocks moved up without any fundamental underpinnings and corporate earnings, by and large, look less than impressive. Portfolio managers are looking for visibility...

Royal Dutch is the second-biggest energy company in the world. They’ve been buying back their own stock, … They bought $3 billion back last year, $1.5 billion this year and I think that’s a play...

The biggest bull market in history still appears to be intact, … Although the market is up tenfold since 1982 and lots of wealth has been created, there are still buyers to be found on...