Hugh Johnson Quotes on Leading & Managing (5 Quotes)

The question I get asked a lot is what's it going to take to get investors back in the game. One is leadership, for the President to take some steps and make some statements that show he's ahead of the curve.

They the leading indicators have been rising for four successive months and given time, those (six) Fed rate cuts are going to kick in and we'll have better economic activity.

Everybody's looking for every single data point that can possibly give them an edge in their analysis. I've seen folks put together a ratio of stock prices to weekly jobless claims, suggesting it's a leading indicator. That's preposterous, but there's an urge to move in that direction, to find every leading indicator you can get every day.

The stock market rally today is because we drove the market down to levels that were on the cheap side and when you get news like the leading indicators saying things are going to be good for the economy and profits, that attracts buyers.

Common sense alone says energy is not going to be the leader.