9 Quotes by Kenneth Polcari

I think that today (Tuesday) is a technical bounce, but I do think that people are gonna start building a base. It's gonna be slow and steady. Now that we've gotten through most of the first-quarter earnings, people are looking to the next catalyst.

I think there was some nervousness today about what Bush might say tonight.

Last week, the market rallied on hopes that the Fed would cut rates, but today (Monday), people weren't so sure. It created a lot of confusion. People want to get back to the fundamentals, but they keep getting distracted.

We are continuing to see what we saw yesterday (Tuesday), with threats about terrorism, people taking profits (after the previous week's run) and buyers sitting on the sidelines. There's really no reason to buy right now. There is nervousness and the market likes stability.

We're stuck in this narrow range until after the election.

To an extent, no matter what happens with earnings reports over the next week, the Middle East is still going to hold us back.

This was a perfect day. The market needed a rest. People should not read any more into it than day-to-day profit taking. We've had a good two-week run. Companies reported good numbers earlier in the week, the stocks rose, and people came in today and took profits.

Towards the end of the week, you've got a bunch of high-profile companies that are reporting their numbers and markets may be a little on edge ahead of that. If the earnings come in kind of in-line, barring any horrific numbers, I think we can hold and move higher.

It was the normal consolidation today (Wednesday) after two days of really good market action, but there's just no follow through. We rallied on a few pieces of news, but there's no sense of a broader recovery.