Financials Quotes

You have the correct sectors continuing to lead, which are technology and financials. The Michigan numbers were good today, and oil prices are down. - Barry Hyman

You had the oil and energy complex dropping on a day when energy prices have rebounded and look to be strengthening and it looks like oil prices are headed back above $29... And financials were weak even though the bond market was surprisingly quite strong both in Canada and the U.S. - Doug Porter

With energy, materials and financials, you've got three quarters of the market chugging along. It's not the return of Nortel. - Gavin Graham

Window dressing should focus on the groups that have done well this year. Energy, technology, financials, and industrials have provided leadership. Even those groups that have underperformed for the year have picked up quite a bit in the last quarter. - Marc Pado

While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one way or another. - Gary Abbott

When people lie, if they play games, if they take money that doesn't belong to them, they are going to go to jail... We're working very closely with the criminal authorities and our new certification policy ... will set the stage for people to go to jail for fraud if they misstate their financials. - Harvey Pitt

We've seen a very volatile stock market since February. Different styles and sectors, like technology or financials, coming in and out of favor with no clear direction. There's nothing really wrong with techs. They are certainly somewhat highly valued by any historic measure, but probably not as highly valued as they were in February. We think, actually, come the fall, we could see a big tech rally, and that would probably be related to the fact that the IPO calendars are really building at the big underwriting firms, the big broker dealers. - Timothy Ghriskey

We've had a run of fairly positive reports out of the major banks, so financials continue to do well and they have a heavy weight in the Toronto index. - Avery Shenfeld

We're looking at a pretty favorable environment for bank stocks, and financials in general, over the next three-to-six months. But what I would say is that there's still a little bit of an overhang in terms of the commercial banking sector, due to credit quality concerns. So that's going to weigh heavily on the banks. But we could see growth in some of the other areas. Brokerage continues to be very strong. - Andrew Collins