22 Quotes by Larry Peruzzi

We're slightly lower to unchanged basically for the second day in a row after a little bit of a rally. That 11,000 continues to be a key resistance area.

What we're having lately is a lot of volatility in the market. There's a fixation with the Fed.

The outlook for technology companies remains strong and demand for shares in the sector helped lift stock indexes late this afternoon.

When we see the earnings coming across, you're really going to look to the exposure that these companies have to higher energy and higher borrowing costs.

If we saw a milder winter, or a reduction in energy prices and commodity prices, that will certainly increase the consumers' discretionary income and spur interest in retail stocks. Retailers need to be more creative in figuring out ways to bring consumers back into the stores.

We're closer to US$80 (a barrel) than to US$70, and that's kind of discouraging.

There are a couple of things that were a little alarming from the Fed statement, one of those being that elevated energy prices may add to inflation risk and that some further policy firming may be needed.

We need to see a decent number of earnings coming through with good numbers before we see the market able to hold a rally.

We saw some buy programs coming into the technology names. It was widespread buying into the small-cap names that had been lagging all through the day, and that helped bring things back.