I would have expected the rally to continue tomorrow, but I think this after-hours news may put a break on it.

The Nasdaq hit its Sept. 21 low, it held that level and then you saw it starting to rise. There was a lot of short-covering and there’s really only so much that short-covering can do...

The 8,200 level has become a point of support for the Dow,

What happened in the oil sector seemed to be the biggest news of the day.

We need some kind of catalyst to get us out of this trading range. And I don’t seen any on the horizon.

We’re like good dance partners, … Each of us is aware of what the other is thinking and where the other wants to go.

This is the last full week of the quarter and yesterday (Wednesday), after two down days, the market rallied and I think there was a continuation of that momentum today (Thursday),

Tomorrow we’ve got a big labor number coming out and that may give someone a reason to get back in the market or to continue to get out.

I’m not really sure what the market is showing us here, … Seven hundred and eighty million shares: That’s not a lot.

Today is a one-piece news day, and we’ll have several such days ahead as the market focuses on the economy in the absence of any other major indicators until December. I wouldn’t put too much...

The Dow tested it this morning and didn’t break it. That’s when buyers scrambled to use it as an opportunity to take some stocks that have been beaten down.

When you are directionless like we are right now, people are looking for something to hang their hat on,

It felt like a real relief rally. Also on the Dow, we hit a key technical level and we were able to bounce back from it.

I think of the sights and sounds and mad rushes of feeling and sensations that come over you all at once when you’re in New York,

[When Gershwin premiered] Rhapsody in Blue, … too spontaneous, that it created formal gaps. And it’s important, therefore, to be able to play in the moment when performing this work, but also to have a...

There was tremendous buying momentum at the close, especially in the last 20 minutes. The shorts jumped in, the institutions … It was a technical buyback. But it still was a very encouraging day as...

There were no major surprises.

This [was] an expected recovery from yesterday’s selloff, … The only thing keeping people invested in stocks is that the [Treasury] bond yields are quite low. So there’s no other alternative.

They are three very good reasons right now for people to sit on cash, … If you can somehow remove one or two of those obstacles — and I’m thinking of earnings coming in the...

This is a market of momentum and right now the bulls have the bears pretty much in a bad spot and I don’t see anything (in the next few weeks) to turn that around.

I talked to a lot of senior guys on the floor. And none of them had any real answers.

This was a tremendous day for the markets. Not so much that we had a 200-something point day on the Dow, but that the volume was so good. A lot of institutions were sitting on...

dipping a cautious toe in, and I’m sure they are still holding a lot of cash on the sidelines, waiting to see how earnings come in.

In the past four days prior to Friday we packed in two weeks worth of work. On Tuesday people didn’t just get hit; they got decked.

This is not a big miss in percentage terms, but it is one of the biggest names on the Street, so I am worried about what it’s going to do tomorrow [Friday].