Richard McCabe March Quotations

I think in the next week or two, we may get a little pullback or reaction, maybe a 3 or 4 percent setback from the recent highs on the averages, just to digest the last phase of gains before we move higher in March and April.

On the way up in the spring you may recall the Dow went above 10,000 near the end of March and it was almost an anticlimactic event. Most of the gains were behind the market and it went higher in the spring, but really most stocks began to top out in April and May. It may work in the same away on the down side, breaking 10,000 might have a psychological impact that gets people more bearish,

The Fed is still likely to tighten at least two more times - probably 25 basis point increases late March and early May, and then they will take a look and if the economy is still has not slowed down by the late spring there could be further tightening.