Jay Suskind Quotes (13 Quotes)

There's not much players around. Buyers are mostly absent while there's a lot of tax-related selling going on.

Cooler heads are prevailing today, but there's just no buyers.

It's more of the same uncertainty and energy, ... Throw in inflation and the possibility of slower growth because of the hurricane, and we're all out of sorts. There's no good news out there.

We all know it's going to be a quarter point hike. But over the past two days the bond market is also telling us that it thinks the Fed is not going to stop there. The bond market will be driving stocks today.

I think it's going to be tough to draw conclusions because of the lack of participation. Next week, you'll start to hear about technical levels of the indices. People will be wondering, Can we break through and really continue this year-end rally

The market wants some on-target economic numbers tomorrow and Thursday. We want an equilibrium in the economy. If the numbers are too strong or weak, the interest rate debate would rage on. The numbers need to show moderation.

(Commodities prices rising) would certainly seep through the economy, and the Fed is going to hike rates to keep that inflation under control.

You're seeing a little bit of buying come in today, which you'd expect after a sell off. The market is looking at what happened Friday rationally, and now it's just a wait-and-see on how other bellwether companies do on their earnings.

You've got a push-pull between tragedy and the good that can come out of it for the markets. You've got to rebuild, and you're going to put money and resources into that and create jobs.

I think what you have is a manic market. The market reacts differently to the news each day. One day it's sure of a strong economy and controlled inflation the next day, it reads higher rates from the Fed.

There was a sense that a year-end rally would take us higher, but there's some concern from the bond market flattening. The inverting of the yield curve would bring us more problems in 2006. We also have light volume, exaggerating moves to both sides.

The news today so far has been quite poor to say the least. You've got oil up, and it continues to go higher. The ISM manufacturing came out softer than expected. And Wal-Mart wasn't great.

There's pent up optimism that the next couple of quarters should be OK for corporate America and the economy because the interest-rate environment has stabilized.