Ernie Ankrim Quotations

We've got astonishing amounts of corporate cash and the earnings continue to come in strong,

Certainly energy continues to do well, but technology has also attracted increasing amounts of funds, and we're seeing growth stocks start to perform better than they have for some time.

We're all looking to see when the Fed will stop increasing short-term rates.

There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year),

What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness on the economy as to jeopardize modest growth in the year ahead, and the market is taking great delight in that.

Even if it's trivial things like people don't buy another pizza, this, on the margin, has an effect on the economy.

It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, but the underlying strength of the market will continue through this quarter easily.

Economic strength poses a possible risk that the Fed might find it necessary to increase interest rates even beyond May. With that comes the risk that the economy could be slowed substantially, which is something that had been taken off the table at least in the last month.

Once the Fed signals its intentions or investors perceive that the end is near, stocks might rise strongly.

The fear that the Fed will continue well into 2006 has been dramatically reduced, and that's why equities look so good.

I'm not exactly convinced that this market is overly bullish.

I don't think he did anything to make anyone doubt his strength, intellect or willingness to listen. And that is good.

The housing report today and other numbers from last week indicate more strength in this economy than had previously been thought.

The impetus for equities prices to move dramatically to the upside will come from the data that says the Fed can stop raising rates. Today's data really didn't say that.