Kate Warne Whether Quotations

But the real concern is not whether first quarter earnings were stronger than the fourth quarter, but whether orders and sales continue to pick up.

I think that the market is in a wait-and-see mood to see whether there is any direction in Friday's reports.

I think that some people are waiting to see whether the market is beginning to indicate one way or the other, whether the Fed will do something different. So there's money on the sidelines right now.

People are really uncertain about whether we're going to see a lot more earnings disappointments or whether we're towardÊ the bottom of the cycle as the Fed started to ease.

Today's a day of waiting: waiting for earnings; after the retail sales report, waiting to see whether consumer picks up later in the year; waiting to see if OPEC cuts production,

People sell on fear and when they have a chance to look at the fundamentals, begin to think again about whether the fear they had really made sense and buy back in.

Any little signal like this can lead people to sell first and to think about it later ... and it's partially a response to nervousness over whether the good times can continue,

It was a very strange day, I think. Thursday the market hadn't bothered to listen. Today, they listened, ... We saw some profit-taking because things have been moving (up) so much. As people begin to get nervous about whether we'd see higher rates and exactly how fast things would grow, they were pulling some money off the table.

It sounds like it's pretty much what we'd expected at this point. But everybody is still worried about how long the consumer can sustain the economy. So the fact they are only up a tenth of a percent, people are beginning to worry whether the consumers are really going to slow down, and the economy with it.

In Canada and U.S., people are watching for (inflation) to be higher then it was last month. In the U.S. everyone is just nervous about whether we're going to see numbers higher than anticipated because that would make the (Federal Reserve Board) less likely to cut more interest rates.

The market was spending sometime digesting whether this meant more rate hikes for longer and concluded this was nothing different than what people had anticipated. At that point, it was 'let's do this some more,'