21 Quotes by Jeff Cheah

We're coming close to a heavy reporting season. We will start to hear positive or ... more than likely negative surprises like what we saw with Computer Associates earlier.

You have to believe the productivity trend is very real, but at one point will it begin to taper off? That's a question financial markets and the Federal Reserve have been looking at very closely.

We seem to be showing a little bit of a recovery, we were at one point down double digits.

People are still not ready to call this the bottom of the market.

The report was very confusing. The general consensus feeling is that no one knows what, if anything the Fed is going to do.

It suggests to us that the manufacturing sector of the economy is still developing at a giddy speed, and the price component looks problematic and is showing price pressure. While there's certainly no danger of hyper-inflation, there are some indications that prices may start to accelerate.

That kind of news will spook the market and we will hear more of it because we're at the peak earnings reporting season.

The TSE has come a long way without taking a breath...so I would consider this healthy.

Interest rate sensitive stocks did well today as well as the oil and gas sector, but overall you can't really say that there's a lot of direction...given the absence of any market-moving news today. Also the liquidity wasn't there with the U.S. markets closed.