Robert Pavlik Quotes on People (5 Quotes)

People are looking for a Santa Claus rally, but I don't expect it's coming. The only real positive I saw today was some of the economic data. It's been a hard day to get excited about. We've seen some individual names get action, but nothing is carrying over.

People are pretty positive ahead of the first-quarter earnings season. There haven't been very many negative pre-announcements.

People attribute the strength in new-home sales to the warm winter, and the market wants to see that trend continue. If new-homes sales drop too much then the talk of the housing bubble popping will get louder and will scare the market.

Today was a bit disappointing. The bond market has a flat yield curve and people are still concerned about inflation. We're still left looking for any indication that the Federal Reserve won't raise rates as much as people are fearing.

The durable goods number will matter more to industrial stocks like Boeing and Caterpillar. People want to see if the growth in this sector is continuing, but they don't want it growing so fast that it will scare the Fed.