I just think there’s nothing that’s come out over the last couple of days that counters the primary issues (that) the market has been punished for over the last couple of months, which is loss...

I’d say the biggest concern right now is certainly oil. The gas pump is squeezing the consumer and the consumer is what has kept the economy going.

The impression is that corporations are being increasingly cautious in their projections for the first quarter, which is a trend that you’ve seen for the last few quarters. I think the companies are taking current...

A lot of people are calling for a correction since we’ve had a pretty uninterrupted run since mid-November, and that would actually be healthy for the market, … But when you hear everyone forecasting a...

Oil up two percent and Wal-Mart lowering expectations set a negative tone pretty much from the beginning of the day.

(We like) stocks with a moderately high dividend give that stock support. So, companies like the tobacco stocks, if you can handle the ethical issue of investing in tobacco, which we certainly do for our...

Ford Motor warned Friday and that type of news is pressuring stocks,

I thought Dell had good numbers, and it likely shows that they have taken share in a lot of key areas. While that’s good for Dell, I don’t think it takes the sting out of...

We’re seeing volume but no volatility in prices. And I think that just shows you that a lot of people are away and people are not making major moves. But next week, when everyone comes...

It’s the type of week where we’re going to see slow volume and basically a half day Wednesday and a dead Friday.

There have been few negative pre-announcements and a number of positive ones, … Third-quarter earnings should be strong and that should continue to support the stock market. But there will always be pullbacks and volatility....

The market can find something good and something bad in every economic number. If the number is strong, that’s a positive, but if its really strong, people may worry about interest rates.

We’re seeing the same thing that we saw in October during the last earnings period, where investors used mostly good news as a reason to take profits.

Everyone is expecting a 25-basis point rise. The mantra has been measured and we expect it to continue to be measured.

Oil continues to be a big influence on the market, and the Fed is as well. As inflation goes, so goes the Fed.

This is a pulp and paper stock, which is very leveraged to economic improvement, … That’s certainly a stock we like a lot.

Oil still remains the big uncertainty out there for the market, … I think the attack in Saudi Arabia and worries about Friday’s OPEC meeting are unsettling financial markets.

Light sweet crude is over $45 a barrel now, and that’s a big drag on various parts of the economy. I think at some point, the price of oil falls and that sets off a...

We think we’ve seen the height of the litigation concerns here. We think we’re on a down track here,

Oil was down a lot on the day and that certainly helped the market to support recent gains. There’s also money moving from bonds to stocks here, with bonds retreating after the August run.

The fourth-quarter earnings are expected to show growth from a year ago, and there have been very few pre-announcements one way or the other, which is positive, … But it’s not unusual to see this...

There’s been this dramatic rise in interest rates recently, and it’s sent a shiver through the market.

I think there’s a lot of fear about the earnings, particularly the tech earnings.

Is this a true rally, or a false start? … Nobody’s going to wave a green flag when there’s a bottom.

Today, you have some not so great news coming out of the Middle East, violence in Pakistan, violence in Iraq, and that makes the rise in oil prices a bigger issue.

I think this is a technical bear market rally that we could get today (Wednesday) on oversold conditions after we went through some technical levels on the major indexes yesterday. So we can expect the...

The CPI number this morning sparked a rally in both stock and bond markets, … But beyond the initial reaction, I think we’re going to remain stuck in this range until other issues get resolved.

The Dow and S&P are down because of Pfizer and the pharmaceutical sector, and oil is still a factor. But the indexes are not down as much as you might think they would be, which...

What our economist thinks at this point is that we have probably seen the last of interest rate hikes by the Fed, which could be a positive thing for the transportation sector,

I think we’ve had a pretty significant correction in the stock market since the highs in early March, and we’ve reached a level that seems to be bringing in buyers.

We saw some good numbers come out of GE and UTX, which bodes well for the economy, but I think we’re still in this correction,

Expectations were so high for Intel that they couldn’t help but disappoint,

It doesn’t seem like corporations want to boost their earnings projections as much as the market would like.

You’re seeing a little relief buying after the pressure of the last three days. There was a lot of selling on the speculation about Rita, but now that it’s getting closer to where it’s expected...

If the retail investor has picked up, as you’ve seen in January, that’s a positive, in that you want consumers to be saving more and investing. But you never want to be the last one...

We do have the wind of the Fed at our back. At some point this downturn we’re in levels out.

Even if GDP is strong tomorrow, even better than the 6.0 consensus, you may not see a big stock reaction, … As you saw yesterday, we’re in a period where the economy should continue to...

You could see a bit of a correction in early January on the stocks that have done really well in this end-of-2004 rally. Otherwise, you might see a quiet period.

I think it’s important for investors to be cautious there — probably take some of that money off and search for new values in the market, … Spread out your investments, because if you stay...

If anything that this year has proved to investor or should have proved to investors is don’t bet on just one sector of the market even if it is technology with that great growth,

The chain deflator is something that (Fed chair) Alan Greenspan supposedly watches closely, and it has so far remained pretty benign even while the consumer price index has risen,

The Dow continues to outperform, … This cyclical bias has been pretty consistent the last two weeks, with the exception of yesterday, when technology was participating, too.

We’ve had some not-great earnings news, such as GM. But to us, the biggest issue remains oil. Crude up at these levels is a concern for the consumer and for corporations on a global level.

The brokerage earnings are by far the toughest to predict, because so much depends on how their internal investment performance was.

They are saying the economy is going to slow and that there’s no inflation but that we still need to raise rates. Investment professionals worry that the Fed will go too far and grind the...

We think they’re out there probably trying to sell this business, … That’s going to magnetize some assets and help this company.

The most important read this week is the first look at GDP growth in the second quarter, … A number of companies, including GE recently, have talked about April and May being tough, but conditions...

What we’ll be focused on in early January will be more reports on how the holiday season went for retailers.

There’s nothing wrong with [having a portfolio heavily weighted towards] technology, … These are the great growth companies of tomorrow. Yes, they’re heavily concentrated in the Russell and the Nasdaq, but it’s not just those...

The prospect of nearing the September lows is propping up the market. Certainly the news was bad last night, but the market action over the last several days has been more positive.