Tony Crescenzi Market Quotations

Should the job market continue to strengthen, the bond market might become a far less placid place than it has been lately.

Policy makers want to make sure in the language of their statement that whatever they do, it's meant as insurance -- they don't want to create alarm about the state of the economy, but they also don't want to create alarm in the bond market about the end of accommodative policy,

Greenspan usually refrains from saying anything market moving ahead of speeches before Congress,

It is conceivable, for example, that the current weakness in stock prices may already reflect the weak earnings news that will be released over the next several weeks and the stock market might unwind some of its excess pessimism,

Treasury yields look headed to 5 percent by the May 10 (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting and possibly 5.25 percent by the June 29th.

The pattern of the equity market lately is that it doesn't retain its bid for long. Bonds started to strengthen on a bet that stocks would weaken. It's rare that stocks hold a bid these days.

The question is -- and this is why the market hasn't reacted too negatively to the durable goods report -- is whether businesses ... will continue to spend given the risks to consumer spending posed by high energy prices.

The Treasury market has come to grips with the notion that stocks have recovered,

The selling is modest and the market still has resilience to it.

The signals coming from the bond market are significant and suggest that the anxieties in the markets are likely to dissipate,

It looks like he has done it again, just when the market thought he had made potential policy error.

The bond market remains quite bearish. The economic news did not change anyone's mind about the Fed raising rates,

The Fed has been very, very clear, and that's going to keep the market under pressure.

In the context of the recent markdown in prices, one could argue that the results in no way indicate that the recent bond market sell-off is over.

The distinction (of the phone survey) is important, ... Because it suggests that the ABC/ Money poll is more current and may have captured more of the impact of the recent stock market decline than did the Conference Board's.

The market is very confident in Greenspan. He has built up tremendous good will.

The market is of the mind-set that the economy might be poised to rebound, and that will take precedence above all else.