Weighing Quotes

You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn't is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market. - John Ing

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.' - Cathy Rigby

You continue to have investors weighing strong earnings -- in this case Yahoo! and Intel -- versus the fear of inflation again. - Barry Hyman

Worries that the system could break down are very much weighing on the market at the moment. - Hiroaki Kuramochi

With the recent weak data, there is growing concern about the U.S. economic outlook. That lowers expectations for rate increases and is weighing on the U.S. currency. People are dollar bearish. - Minoru Shioiri

With financial markets more optimistic that the economy is expanding nicely, mortgage rates had nowhere to go but up this week. Then, as a result of the GDP figures released today (Thursday), the market began weighing which part of GDP it feels is most dominant, growth or inflation. - Amy Crews Cutts

While the equity market and accounting issues and corporate scandals are weighing on the economy, it is still fundamentally sound. The recovery process hasn't been derailed. We still think the economy is going to grow at about a 3.5-percent pace in the second half -- fast enough to keep the Fed from easing, but not fast enough to cause them to tighten this year. - Gerald Cohen

What little earnings reports we have had have been a little bit more disappointing than outperforming, for the most part, so that's weighing. - Jim Paulsen

What is bravery? I think it's largely when one acts spontaneously before weighing the possibilities of self-injury. - Richard Chamberlain

We've got three things weighing on the market here: a less-than-stellar start to earnings so far, the geopolitical situation with Iran that's sort of moving to the front burner, and we've got energy futures up pretty strong this morning. So all three create a situation where investors are willing to take some profits after the fairly strong opening so far this year. - Jon Brorson