Art Hogan Forward Quotations

I think the market has discounted a lot of the bad second-quarter chatter we're going to hear, and my guess is that conference calls going forward are going to be much more positive,

We're going through a very news intensive period this week and the focus of all of that is slowdown of revenue growth going forward, but we're probably overreacting, ... We get great numbers, but looking forward we don't have the robust growth -- so people are calling into question valuations.

I definitely think the hottest sector going forward will be technology, telecom and financials,

I don't think we can look forward to any great news coming out in the September-October period.

The equity market is a very forward pricing mechanism, ... I think what's going to happen to Microsoft happened over the past few weeks. The damage has been priced in.

The equities markets are very forward pricing mechanisms so the (corporate) news you're hearing has been priced into the market, for the most part. The news that you should focus on is what will be suggested in the commentary that comes out because we're trying to invest for fourth-quarter growth.