More - Bernadette Murphy Quotes

That's based on the fact that we seem to have set a volume peak in January and a breadth peak in February,

Bernadette Murphy

 

Corporate profits are what drive the stock market. On the economic front, we have been seeing a slowdown in some industries like housing. And so that could be a positive but may be, may not be, enough for the Fed. But corporate profits are always what drive a market and why investors buy the stocks of companies.

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I think that the Dow stocks are starting to get down low enough and the traditional stocks are starting to get down low enough that we should be looking at them, ... Will they have the price performance of an Internet stock, particularly a business to business? I have to question [that assumption].  But there is value there and it`s being overlooked in the marketplace.

Bernadette Murphy

 

Investors tend to move ahead of what the Fed actually does. And so like in the bond market in 1994, it was already rallying in November of '94 ... (when) the last move didn't come until after the turn of the year. So investors do tend to anticipate and move ahead of the action.

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I think investors were too optimistic about an earnings recovery in the first quarter.

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 Earnings

In the industrial machinery area I've noticed Ingersoll-Rand has really created a wonderful base and demand is breaking it out,

Bernadette Murphy

 

The momentum has been reversed from the upside to the downside, and so they are capitalized on that by shorting stocks that had been popular -- the aggressive growth stocks

Bernadette Murphy

 

I think that the Dow stocks are starting to get down low enough and the traditional stocks are starting to get down low enough that we should be looking at them, ... Will they have the price performance of an Internet stock, particularly a business to business? I have to question [that assumption].á But there is value there and it`s being overlooked in the marketplace.

Bernadette Murphy

 

We are concerned about the gain and loss of confidence, but there are different areas of the market that are depressed.

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I think EDS and CSC are sort of a safe way of playing the tech area, because they're service companies and there is demand for their services.

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 Service