David Briggs Hold Quotations

The market has been holding up, despite how bad the news is.

We're still in that pattern. Everyone is on hold and waiting for the next (quarterly results) pre-announcement season in September.

Everybody's holding their breath wondering what the next event is going to be. I don't think anybody expects a rally any time soon.

People are holding their breaths, waiting for an impetus to move,

There's a lot of investor apathy out there right now, and I don't see any incentive for people to move until the payrolls report. After that, people who are holding out may be willing to get back in.

I think that consumer confidence number really shocked a lot of people. Because if consumers aren't going to hold this economy up -- the bad news just keeps on coming.

I'm not sure what's holding investors back, but I'm not anxious. January was a pretty typical month and I think it's only a matter of time before markets do better. I'm just not sure what the catalyst will be.

Every time the market pulls back, people come back into the market. I think the real driver is there's no return holding cash.

Basically we're holding our breath and seeing what happens on the Fourth.