Art Hogan Quotations | Page 2

Just because Oracle is up and is optimistic about the future is not getting us excited about everything, ... Nobody's convinced there will be a rebound in the second half.

We had some relatively positive news for the markets, the first positive news we've had for some time, ... Plus, we are very oversold after ( Wednesday's ) action.

(Greenspan's) a proponent of what productivity gains have brought to this new economy, ... Of all the things he says, the least hawkish is when he talks about productivity and the new economy. In terms of Wall Street's reaction, I wouldn't say we could garner anything but a positive feeling.

There's a lot of improvement priced into the earnings, and provided we see confirmation of that, we should be able to keep gaining over the next few sessions, ... But if another major household name -- like GE last week -- were to disappoint, you could see some selling.

There's been this tug of war all day between factors like falling oil prices, more negative than positive economic news and everything going on at GM,

There's been plenty of reasons to sell stocks today.

There's been a slew of positive data in between.

There's certainly not one thing you can point to and say 'this is because,' ... It's company by company.

There's a lot of trepidation out there about earnings, ... A lot of times, the complexion of markets is what the household names are doing. A couple of weeks ago it was about IBM ( Research ) and Apple ( Research ). Today, it looks like the focus is on Amazon, and that can shape the market -- at least in the early going.

Historically, the market has tried to move four months ahead of an economic recovery.