The consumer confidence and housing data were hopeful but not enough to reinvigorate a market that needs a break, ... We need numbers to beat estimates. Also, today's data put lots of pressure on tomorrow's (Wednesday's) personal income and (University of Michigan) consumer sentiment numbers to show improvement.
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We're really in a state right now that if there's any bad report, that's enough (to pull markets down). It's not even a reflection of the individual company or brokerage firm -- if there are question marks, the first response of investors is to get out of the way.Charles Payne
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Techs took the brunt of the selling yesterday, so that may be why they're performing a little better today, ... There is also a sort of sincere belief that next year, and even in the next six months, tech and telecom will perform better, so that may be reflected in the buying, as well.
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After this week, this is to be expected, especially on a Friday a lot of people want to book profits ahead of the weekend.
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Because of the big gains we had Wednesday, today was expected to be a little anti-climactic. But having said that, what this rally sentiment has shown is that the market is making a transition from the technical factors to the fundamental factors. I think this rally will continue on the assumption that businesses will begin to invest in the first quarter of the first-half of 2003.
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This has been a good time for investors to take profits and there's some hesitation ahead of tomorrow's (Friday's) report. There is a general sense that if we're not at the worst, we're almost at the worst -- but you have to expect the market to pull back occasionally.
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