Quotations

«I don't think the bull market's over, but I think it's getting tired. I think it's slowing down, and I think it's going to continue to creep ahead, but I think you've seen the fancy action for a while.»

«It puts the Federal Reserve in a bit of a conundrum.»

«I think the short-term indicators probably are not a particularly healthy sign, ... Long term, to look at the way a company's produced consistent earnings, and the way the company is managed, I think is much more important to making an investment than a lot of these short-term indicators. But, in a bull market, there's no such thing as bad news. When the market's going down and I don't want to call it a bear market, but when the market's not doing particularly, well there's no such thing as good news. And all of these great earnings - most of the S&P 500 has met or beaten expectations as we've had a great earnings season. And the market doesn't really seem to care. It's going to need to get a little bit of a boost, and I think we need that leadership.»

«The one sector you have to keep an eye on is pharmaceuticals. It seems to me, every time Mr. Gore opens his mouth, pharmaceuticals start to dip.»

«But, no matter who wins, we're going to see increased defense spending and a lot of that is already priced into the defense stocks,»

«The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.»

«For a firm that came out in their early morning report yesterday with a No. 5 'strong sell' on Microsoft, sent the stock down three points with these jittery investors, and then corrected it and came back and said, 'Oh, it's a No. 1 'strong,' not a [No.] 5 'sell'; sorry,'»

«Let's get back on that momentum boat, let's see if we can open our day-trading accounts again, ... But I can't help but think, where have you been for the past year? Haven't you learned anything? And wasn't it painful enough for you? Maybe we need some more pain, but I don't think we are going to get a lot more of it.»

«Now that the dropping has stopped, when do we start with the moving back up? That is the big question.»

«I think we are looking for that next bit of information that's going to drive us.»