128 Quotes by David Briggs

When a rally gets under way the sellers pull away and when selling sets in the buyers pull away. We'll have to get used to this type of volatility. The market is trying to find a bottom and could take six months to do that. But people are trying to trade this market in excess of its underlying fundamentals.

We're due for a little bit of a bounce back from the lower end of the trading range.

There is light at the end of the tunnel, but how long is the tunnel?.

Today's deals don't have the same oomph as (the Procter & Gamble -- Gillette deal Friday); and that's because the premiums are more modest,

We'll see an avoidance of major pharma, maybe with a move toward medical technology and biotech.

There basically is an absence of sellers in the market. It seems the market is a little ahead of itself, but people are reluctant to sell. People are still putting money to work here in the market.

We had a big gain on the first day of the quarter, but that was too much too fast and the market hasn't been able to hang onto it.

This recent rally may have legs, but we're still on a downtrend.

We seem to have a hiccup every late September or October, and that's set us up for a bit of a rally, ... The question is whether it fades in early November or lasts through the holidays.