235 Quotes by Hugh Johnson

The worry is that the lid, or the cap, on interest rates is now off.

We had a very solid move up in stocks in the first quarter. There's a good chance that what the markets will be left with is a great deal of uncertainty or even the belief that more rate increases are coming.

If I thought Cisco was going to grow 40 percent for one year, I would never pay two-plus the growth rate. But if I thought it was going to be a five-year deal, I would.

These are the really important numbers because they give us a first look at January, and they include leading indicators.

When the markets struggled for a technical bounce in the morning, that was investors sending a message that we're either heading toward an economic recession or toward a profits recession.

I don't worry about volatility. I worry about down .

The rise in oil prices and concern over the Fed's interest rate policy are very troubling to the market. That's going to present a challenge to this rally.

We might get blindsided by some (hedge fund) announcement that nobody's anticipating, ... You worry about another big bolt out of the blue.

The market does have a valuation problem. But I don't put much stock in any valuation model, including my own. It's very rational -- it tells you when the stock market is overvalued or undervalued -- but it doesn't work.