Catalyst Quotes

You've lost your earnings catalyst so we're moving away from the second quarter. With the economy moderating you're looking at earnings estimates that are too high and have to come down. - Richard Cripps

You'd hate to think that one person could do this. But I think the popularity of business shows, and all the media attention that [trading activity] gets, I guess [comments by market strategists] becomes a little bit of a catalyst. - Ralph Acampora

You would think that the earnings would be a positive catalyst, but in order for that to happen, we really need to see better than expected results. We need to see upside surprises beyond the areas we already know are working, like energy, mining and coal. - Barry Ritholtz

You look at the past three days, we're down, up and down again. Without any real catalyst, and really, without knowing what the Fed will do, we're going to bounce around here for a while. - Arthur Hogan

You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up. - Jim Capaldi

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.' - Rosario Dawson

Without the prospect of aggressive Fed action, I don't see any catalyst to get the market moving again. - John Forelli

With November comparable down 8 percent and the company lowering guidance once again, Hot Topic continues to be on the wrong side of the fashion trend with no near term catalysts in sight. Hot Topic will obviously need to take deep markdowns in order to clear unwanted holiday product. - Brian Tunick

With growth pushed off until 2007 and beyond, we would not be active buyers yet but rather look for potential catalysts over the next year. - Safa Rashtchy

With earnings season on the horizon, the bottom line could prove to be our catalyst back to the upside, as lofty expectations have been deflated with stock prices over the past few days. - Brian Piskorowski