«Nothing for the time being suggests more than a moderate pace of rate hikes. There is a bit if nervousness out there. The other thing is that the market has had a good run and this is a normal pullback with a little bit of profit taking going on.»

«I constantly hear the market can't keep going higher, that this advance has gone too far to fast and that a major decline is imminent. But every time I try to find an indicator to make me want to sell, I find something that makes me want to stay long and get longer instead.»

«There's a confidence in earnings that is offsetting the other trends,»

«Nobody can figure out what's going to happen with the market -- they're all guessing, ... Let's say CNN or Fox or MSNBC brings up a picture of a GI in a bad situation. The market takes a dip. Is that a fundamental or a technical move? No, it's a war-driven, live-video stream move, which means it's totally unpredictable.»

«They've taken some of these stocks down to really low valuation levels in tech and telecom and the leaders are going to come out ahead of the game, ... This is an opportunistic environment for any of those companies that have cash and are looking to acquire technology.»

«Instead of being a new bull market starting, this is just an oversold bounce from the downtrend, ... The sharpest rallies occur in bear markets and right now, everybody is like a deer caught in the headlights.»

«We've gone from a psychology a month and a half ago that the economy is growing too quickly, and the Fed is going to have to raise rates, to we're going to go towards a recession because the economy's slowing too quickly. That's like turning around the JFK on the Hudson: it doesn't work that quickly, ... So you get fear coming into the market -- it just changes its nature. The fear was inflation. Now the fear is earnings. And it's going to end up somewhere in the middle. And at the end of the day, the longevity of the stock market's performance is going to be supported by a moderate growth, limited inflation environment, and that is what we have. It's not going to be robust growth -- 5.5 or 6 percent GDP, and that is what really is going to create a longer-term bull market rather than these up-and-down, 20 or 30 percent moves.»

«They supply almost all the largest telecom companies in the world with some of the backbone products for voice messaging and things of that nature, ... This stock has surprised analysts -- met or exceeded analyst expectations for 20 straight quarters.»

«Our theory in the Internet is buy the street, not the store, ... We'd rather own the street instead of just an individual store on the street. And Earthlink certainly fits that bill. And again, relative to the other stocks, it's the cheapest in the group.»

«Technology should fare real well, given all the business being done on the Internet right now. Those subject to the Internet, like a Sun Microsystems, those type of companies should have excellent earnings,»