336 Quotes by Barry Hyman

You do have some impetus today but there's little conviction and little volume, ... I didn't see any specific reason behind the rally - people may be just trying to outguess the outcome (of the Fed meeting).

We don't have a predominance of negative news, day-to-day, in terms of economic events.

The payroll numbers were extraordinarily supportive for the economy. But counter to that, the report brings back the Fed and inflationary prospects, and that's why you see just a modest up day.

There is a substantial group of investors who believe the stock market will start to anticipate an (economic) recovery. The more rate cuts we get, the more likely the recovery is -- I'm looking at this as a 'buy the dip' opportunity.

Trading is going to be dominated by waiting for the Federal Reserve Board. We still expect the Fed to go a quarter of a percentage point, and no change in language.

Traders are just lightening their positions a little bit. The holidays are compressing the activity and I think most of the (options) rolling over you saw yesterday.

Traders are dominating this market when investors are just waiting for these pre-releases to really reveal what these companies look like. We're just waiting for the first signs of a turn and there's little optimism as we go through this pre-release season and no one is focusing on the second-half of the year (2001).

This story is a little bit surprising in terms of the players, not in terms of the deal.

We like stocks in oil and drilling. Energy does well in an inflationary period. So we want to have some exposure to energy,