We bought on the rumor and are selling on the news, ... We've priced in the victory here. There's very low participation -- there's just no money in the game. Folks are starting to shift focus now.
We've had a lot of bad news today -- the economic data, Cigna and the insurance sector is doing poorly, a bunch of companies missing estimates or warning -- but this is a market that really doesn't want to sell off,
There's been plenty of reasons to sell stocks today.
Once a year, they (the Russell) decide to add and delete stocks. So what's happening is at the close today, those who run a Russell Fund will need to buy all of the Russell additions and sell all of the Russell deletes,
A lot of program selling kicked in, especially on the S&P 500 and those quickly turned to buy orders.
It's a 'buy on the rumor, sell on the news' type of market, especially in the telecom and tech sectors,
We came into the day, week, month with the same three worries -- earnings, the economy, and geopolitical concerns. We're still dealing with all the same negatives and the selling is pretty broad.
It's a pack mentality, ... If LSI is showing a revenue slowdown, then we're going to sell everything that is related to semiconductors -- and that's why Intel is down.