Jon Burnham People Quotations

In a word, I would describe the market action right now as 'Yuck,' ... We're in a bear market for the time being. Things are pretty bleak and people are overreacting to every little thing, but this will pass.

People have been stopped in their tracks. It's impossible to trade the market right now because there's no way to know what's going to happen in Iraq hour to hour, day to day, so I think most individual investors are hanging back and any action is dominated by hedge funds.

If I sold Dell every time people said to sell it, I wouldn't have made any money in the stock,

You're not going to see a big rally through the end of the year, but I think the market will go higher than where it is now. I'm optimistic. I think the economy is improving even faster than people realize, and the fourth-quarter earnings are going to be really good.

This kind of news makes the market feel better for the moment, but when you're in this kind of bearish trend, some small concession isn't going to reverse direction. A lot of people thought Bush should have acted sooner. Even with this moving forward, the market has other things to worry about, like the economy, corporate profits and Iraq.