Barry Hyman Wee Quotations

How the market interprets some of the earnings next week will be the broader focus,

I think next week it will be important to see two things: solid numbers out of growth companies and seeing still a steady stream of economic numbers showing the required slowing of the economy with no inflation.

I think next week has another opportunity to be another good week.

The market rally this week supported a growing opinion that January 31 will be the last interest rate hike.

The story (this) week is: Does it hold it or will it break it.

I think the market had a decent week but without any fundamental backing, the rally doesn't really have tremendous upside.

I think the movement we've seen since the beginning of the year, with a few weeks up, a few weeks down, is likely to continue at least through the end of the quarter.

I think you walk away this week feeling much more secure than you began the week.

It is quite astounding. One week revenue-based companies are forbidden (psychologically) from investors' minds and one week later, as interest rate (fears) return, technology (stock) is the place to be because they are less affected.

There's going to be this flip-flop next week and continually until we get through earnings season, going from earnings to worrying about the economic slowdown and what inflation brings so I think next week is going to be marked by that. We're getting to the point where the market needs good earnings. It needs to have a catalyst to get the growth sector moving again.

I think the week was excellent. The Fed, even though the reaction was delayed, reinvigorated the psychology of the market. It's reinforcing the belief that these interest rate cuts will be the medicine for the economy.

Anything goes this week. You had a great week last week and it shows there were buyers willing to come in just on the thought of stabilization.

The Nasdaq broke its support levels last week because of IBM, Cisco, and Computer Associates. The S&P was weighed down by its tech exposure. Another key story next week is whether the Dow follows the rest of the market or can it continue to hold in the gains.

A lot of money left the sector last week over concerns that valuations were just too high. But there's still a lot of interest in technology.

We've had so many weeks now of down that it's kind of hard to believe we could have an up day or an up week for the market, but the technician in me is saying this is nothing more than a technical rally.

It's a transition market. I think (last week) indicated the willingness to look forward at the upside of the story. There isn't a lone voice expressing positive attitudes toward technology but this week indicated the ability of the market to look forward.

These last few days have been consolidation, off of a good employment report and almost six weeks of gains.

It's important that OPEC comes to a conclusion to help with global supply but it may be too late for the summer season. High oil prices do not help the economy and it will still contribute to inflationary numbers. Oil will be a continuing story to see how the price of oil reacts over the next three weeks to these increases.

Our look for the rest of the year is we're going to rally and worry. We're going to rally and worry some more. And we're going to rally again. I think the concern or the 'worry period' that we're now entering is this cyclical issue again, after this run up in the semiconductors sector and the third-quarter prerelease season, which we're quickly coming to. And I think that's going to give the opportunity for the next run up in the marketplace, which should come somewhere over the next few weeks into the election. The good news, as you pointed out, is that the Fed's done,