30 Quotes by Irwin Michael

It's extremely volatile today. There's no rhyme or reason to it. On balance, a quiet day, the metals seemed to be a little firmer.

It was extremely, extremely quiet. It's largely a handful of stocks again that are leading the market. I'd like to see more breadth to the marketplace. It's like the dog days of summer, as they call it: not very much activity.

It's a big surprise in the context of weakening oil and gas stocks. An excellent sale. I don't think anyone's leaving too much on the table on this one.

It's very choppy. Friday looked like it was the end of the world, Toronto was down a 150-odd points, and we've gained it all back today. The market continues to be very volatile, and it's testing people. On balance, people are nervous, you don't want to do anything terribly audacious.

It's the banks that are leading it up.

I don't know how Toronto would be without Bell and Northern Telecom... those two stocks are helping to drive the market. If you look at New York...logically our market would be a little to the softer side.

The flip side of high technology (has meant) people have been staying away from basic industries because they're not nouvelle cuisine. You could be seeing some stock rotation here.

The market was thin and it was nervous. On balance, it was extremely quiet with not a lot of activity. It's disjointed, it's sporadic and if you take Nortel out, it would have been a completely different story.

The market is volatile, people are edgy; it's also very, quiet in spite of the volumes. I guess everyone's waiting for a catalyst, something to drive the market at this point.