But the market is fragile and confidence is fragile.

I think that 25-basis points is the likelihood, and I think that has been built into the market.

Unfortunately, it’s a fact of life that when you have a review, investors tend to penalize the stock.

In a period when there were a lot of M&A heated activity they, by virtue of being in the penalty box, could not realistically look at anything because there would be a question mark as...

This is the proverbial bounce, and it’s encouraging that it bounced when it did, but is this the turn? This week there will likely be some backing and filling before the long holiday weekend.

What everybody was hoping would be a temporary situation may well be a protracted legal affair. That has provided the opportunity to this market, which was already nervous, to look at the worst case scenario:...

My guess is that we’ll see a strong opening here on the back of our strong resource market. We are a nation of rocks and trees.

They have an aggressive management, they have a great balance sheet, they have an array of assets that are leveraged to the gold price.

It will be another commodities day. I think we will have a stronger open here even in the face of higher interest rates.

Nortel and Bell certainly gave it impetus.

Then there’s the uncertainty with respect to technology stocks – the valuations went sky-high and now it probably has to swing the other way.

It looks like the technology stocks are recovering, so that’s helping the market tone.

It was really a flat, flat market and by and large the dominant theme was the constrained trading because of the holiday.

Bank results have been in line with expectations. But the talk is more the rebound in the oil prices and the pick up in the resource stocks as the quarterly earnings come out.

More of the same … the TSE two, Bell and Nortel, those are essentially what have been driving the market.

There’s uncertainty with the impact of higher interest rates as to whether it will slow the economy down, and I feel that it won’t, and thus we’ll have even higher interest rates.

We will probably get a better opening to the market. The resource stocks and gold stocks are better today.

There’s lots of cash around, but it appears everybody has discounted the half-percent increase.

It’s not surprising — they had a rapid move up and now there’s a correction. This is the first major correction for this group and it’s healthy.

The resources took a breather for a variety of reasons.

It’s the same old (story). Growth and inflation. That’s what’s bothering the market.

Old economy: 1; new economy: 0. Yea for the dinosaurs.

Natural gas has been very strong. Not only is there a seasonal strength but also the realization that a lot of the stocks are very, very cheap. We have the Americans coming in and the...

Base metal prices have been much firmer lately, with declining inventories for zinc pushing up prices.

Bank stocks are acting better, and, of course, mother Bell (BCE Inc.), and then you combine that with the oils, which were a little bit better on Friday, and you have some pretty good participation...

The stock has climbed back with clarification from the company.

You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn’t is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market.

It was a bit skewed because a lot of the participants south of the border were away, but it was a pretty broad-based rally.

It looks like the resource stocks are going to carry the day again. We will probably have a much stronger opening.

Unbelievably strong market. There was definitely a catch-up.

Undoubtedly, this is probably the long awaited sweetening of the deal. My guess is that it’s less than what some of the (arbitragers) might want, but it’s effective enough to get the board of directors...

We knew the ending of the movie before it even started.

Gold is a safe haven and there’s expectation that with the bloated trade deficit in the U.S., the U.S. dollar is vulnerable.

After the rally that we’ve had, there’s always that retesting of the lows, and that’s what we have to do.

It sure was a light trading day. London was closed and it’s the last week of August, which tends to historically be a light trading period.

The big fear, and the cloud that is overhanging the market is inflation. Inflation was considered dead, but now with oil prices, and higher gas prices, higher taxes and higher commodity prices…all of this with...

If you mark-to-market the portfolios together, you are looking at multibillion mark-to-market losses, particularly with gold at $500-plus.