Jim Awad Quotes

You're getting a relief rally in bonds ... and that's giving you what looks like at an attempt at a rally in stocks, despite the bad news out of Microsoft with the delay of its product. The GM news is also a minor positive. - Jim Awad

You had good earnings out of Pfizer, good earnings out of Merrill Lynch , several dividend increases and eBay shares that have performed better than expected. It's creating a transitory early rally as it's still too early to say whether it will hold. - Jim Awad

When companies like J&J conclude mega deals like this one, it is a positive for equity markets... It indicates there's confidence in the economy and there's excess corporate cash waiting to be invested. - Jim Awad

What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices. - Jim Awad

We've just come off a very big quarter and so we have to digest some of those gains. - Jim Awad

Wal-Mart got the traffic, but not the margins, and that will raise questions about fourth-quarter earnings for retail in particular and the consumer sector in general. That's giving you some early caution. - Jim Awad

Today is all about downgrades. This has given a negative tone to the market. - Jim Awad

There's a tug of war between earnings and interest rates. Earnings are continuing to overwhelm the worries about interest rates. - Jim Awad

There's a high degree of confidence the Fed is going to conduct itself in a non-surprising fashion tomorrow. The greater uncertainty with the Fed will occur next year, so I think (investors) are going to take tomorrow in stride unless the Fed surprises us. - Jim Awad

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