Peter Chandler Selling Quotations

We're in a bouncing environment and as soon as you get any kind of bounce they're selling into the bounce, and that's what we're seeing here.

(Today) was quite speculative, quite frothy, you didn't have a lot of dramatic movement in any of the senior parts of the market today. If anything, some of them were selling off, for example Northern Telecom (now known as Nortel Networks).

The market took off from where it finished last week which is dumping tech stocks because of concern about poor prospects for quarterly earnings. You had widespread selling focusing on the technology area (and) where we are right now is at, or very close to, a bottom.

The market now tends to be (thinking): With interest rate rises being behind us, if we've orchestrated a slowdown in the economy, how much of an impact will that slowdown have on corporate profits? Might corporate valuations be at the higher end of expectations? And so we're seeing some selling and softness, in the technology sector in particular, as a result of that.