45 Quotes by Charles Payne

The way the market's acting tells me there's a lot of pent-up buying out there.

This has been a good time for investors to take profits and there's some hesitation ahead of tomorrow's (Friday's) report. There is a general sense that if we're not at the worst, we're almost at the worst -- but you have to expect the market to pull back occasionally.

There's a benefit of the doubt that most of these companies have hit bottom and I think there's still an element of investor psychology to spread the wealth.

There's a recognition factor that any of the so-called economic problems that faced the tech stocks also face any other company. Uncertainty is ruling the market and most of the people who have been on the sidelines are still on the sidelines.

It seems like every single analyst on the Street is on the 'old economy' bandwagon and determined to drive the last nail in the coffin of highflying techs and arrogant investors.

It's hard to figure out whether the Street wants bad news, which means additional rate cuts, or whether the Street wants good news, which means corporate earnings will rebound sooner rather than later. We're in a really interesting space between both of those.

Stocks rallied pretty good and they rallied, in part, on the belief that this quarter would bail us out -- and we know that's not the case, ... But this market still wants to trade higher -- even though investors have gotten ahead of themselves, they're still buyers if given the right catalyst.

It will certainly loom as the largest, most influential stat we'll get.

I'm encouraged by the fact that there's some buying on the dips. I think what's happened over the past several months is we don't know how to respond to news because we really don't know what we want from news.