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But that overhead nervousness is still there, the Evergrande situation is still a black cloud hanging over global markets. Combine that with uncertainty with Fed commentary coming tomorrow, and there’s a reluctance to get overly aggressive on the long side.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
People have been preconditioned to buy pullbacks for most of the last year plus, but that overhead nervousness is still there.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The CPI number being stronger than expected has led to further weakness in tech stocks, tech investors are concerned that higher rates are going to lead to multiple compression and less attractive valuations for tech names in a higher rate environment.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
You’re not seeing money coming out of the market and going into cash, you’re seeing money coming out of one sector and being rotated into another sector to maintain an overall long bias.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Certainly this was not welcome news, but I don't think it's a debacle either, in general, investors are not overly concerned by the news from Apple as a read through to technology or the market overall.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The macro data points both here and abroad have been relatively positive, that is creating an increased sense of optimism going into not just the earnings, but also guidance which is far more important at this point for both Q1 and fiscal 2020.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's going to be heightened attention to guidance to increase comfort levels with valuations, given the strength we've seen in the last two months in the majority of tech names.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You've had an extremely strong start to the year, led by a number of technology stalwarts, and an underwhelming jobs report.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The timing had a lot to do with the volatility. There were 15 minutes to go in the trading day on a Friday.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Anything that was less than a comprehensive agreement was likely to see some degree of market selloff, the timing had a lot to do with the volatility. There were 15 minutes to go in the trading day on a Friday.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There were 15 minutes to go in the trading day on a Friday ... after the Dow had risen 700 points in the last two days, anything that was less than a comprehensive agreement was likely to see some degree of market sell off.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What all of that combined is going to do is ensure there is going to be elevated volatility in both directions in the next few days.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What all of that combined is going to do is ensure there is going to be elevated (market) volatility in both directions in the next few days.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think the pricing on the Apple TV service was definitely a positive surprise, that's why you're seeing the hammering in some of the other video service-related names like Netflix, Amazon and Roku. Clearly, that was a positive that people were happy to hear.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Lower interest rates lead to lower mortgage rates (which) lead to increased demand for homebuilders, you counter that with potential concerns that, if a recession is coming, even if rates are at historically low levels, demand for everything is going to be somewhat mitigated.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's become a matter of buyers remaining interested in continuing to buy stocks that they feel have been oversold and a lack of sellers' supply.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The fact that it has not been able to get through it and stay above that level has been a big psychological negative.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
In spite of the disappointment from the financials, which have been and continue to be a laggard ... there's still relative strength.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
You have mixed messages about tariffs coming out of Washington, it's creating a lot of uncertainty about the direction of the true intentions of the White House about tariffs in general.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Interest in the sector and the individual names is not going to dissipate.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It's been a very rough week for oil, and that has weighed (on part) of the market. And the continued pullback in yields have spelled weakness in the financials.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I don't think today there is any news that's particularly concerning other than disappointing guidance from Kohl's and disappointing results from Toll Brothers, i don't think it's anything other than some profit taking.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The weaker dollar and strength in commodity names is certainly helping to fuel the market's strength, multinational companies are all benefiting and helping to drag the market higher.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The stimulus to better stock price action is signs that the U.S. economy is, in fact, doing better.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The market's Teflon capabilities continue to demonstrate themselves again today as they have in the last week such that any signs of negativity are for the most part being shrugged off.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Overall, the tone of the market has gotten much better in the last week, and nothing happened overnight to dent that optimism, even with China down nearly 6 percent.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We’ve had a pretty significant bounce, today is just a bit of profit-taking from those that have benefited from the significant move.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Shoot first, ask questions later. That's the mentality of technology investors right now, any disappointment is being taken out to the woodshed.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Today is all about oil, better oil markets Thursday and Friday led to better equity markets. A $ 2 retracement in oil today, it's not surprising to see a retracement in the equity indices.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We've been in capital preservation mode since the year began and as the market has shown an inability to rally with any conviction, that's only increased the level of nervousness.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We've been in capital preservation mode since the year began and as the market has shown an inability to rally with any conviction, that's only increased the level of nervousness and that seemed to have spilled over today in a very significant way.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The mentality has been pretty negative and I don’t see that changing this morning or today until there is more meat on the bones from a data standpoint.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Positioning has been clearly along the lines of taking risk exposure off.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It hasn't been any one thing today, it's been an accumulation of concerns as the week has worn on, positioning has been clearly along the lines of taking risk exposure off.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The (ECB) commentary clearly caught people by surprise. I think most currency traders were short the euro and long the dollar, expecting different commentary from chairman (Mario) Draghi.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The (ECB) commentary clearly caught people by surprise. I think most currency traders were short the euro and long the dollar, expecting different commentary from chairman Draghi.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The bar has been raised a bit on its earnings report from where it was a week ago. The price action is telling you there's more optimism built into it.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Given how strong last week was, and we're going to get into the heart of the Q3 earnings season, the market has been relatively resilient, as long as the tone of the guidance isn't totally negative, I think we have a decent chance of having an OK fourth quarter.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Given how strong last week was, the fact that we haven't given much back and we're going to get into the heart of the Q3 earnings season, (suggests) the market has been relatively resilient, as long as the tone of the guidance isn't totally negative, I think we have a decent chance of having an OK fourth quarter.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Anybody with a pulse was nervous when the market opened.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Anybody with a pulse was nervous when the market opened. We're still going to see significant price swings both up and down before the day ends today.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Anybody with a pulse was nervous when the market opened. We're still going to see significant price swings both up and down before the day ends today, the only thing that's certain is the volatility is going to continue in the short term, given the magnitude of the moves that we've already had in the last four days.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The housing data was pretty good, it certainly didn't hurt the bullish tone to everything housing-related.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think the bulls are nervous and bears are hoping for a big market decline once the Fed does finally hike rates.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The market is still caught in a trading range. We're through eight months of the year and the market has gone nowhere, i think the bulls are nervous and bears are hoping for a big market decline once the Fed does finally hike rates.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Could that reverse itself tomorrow? It's going to take a lot of good news from Greece.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There are many factors playing into increased nervousness today through the rest of this week.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Could (the market) reverse itself tomorrow? It's going to take a lot of good news from Greece, there are many factors playing into increased nervousness today through the rest of this week.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The biggest positive about the bond market weakness is that yields going higher is a net positive for all of the financials. Higher yields on fixed income translate into higher rates and that increases the net interest margin for financials.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Yields going higher is a net positive for all of the financials. Higher yields on fixed income translate into higher rates and that increases the net interest margin for financials.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We're continuing to essentially tread water. Apple's numbers were phenomenal but yet the stock is down. Why is that? I think people were expecting a blowout quarter ... so it's kind of a sell-the-news situation.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Right now most people are expecting a rate hike in June and the equity markets not to be very receptive of that.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The stronger dollar, the continued hammering of the euro, equals continued lower equity prices ahead of the Fed comments next week.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The stronger dollar, the continued hammering of the euro, equals continued lower equity prices ahead of the Fed comments next week, we'll know more of the Fed's thinking on Wednesday, but right now most people are expecting a rate hike to come in June and the equity markets not to be very receptive of that.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
All traders really want to have is clarity around the Greek situation and secondly what's going to come of the Russia, Ukraine potential ceasefire talks.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
All traders really want to have is clarity around the Greek situation and secondly what's going to come of the Russia, Ukraine potential ceasefire talks, until we have more clarity around those two the market is going to remain mixed.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I would expect volatility to continue next week, given the magnitude of the moves both down and back up we've had this week, and because of the holiday and the likelihood there will fewer people to trade.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
Fears have been at least pushed once again to the sidelines.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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