46 Quotes by Marc Pado

There is no question that the tone has turned more positive. We haven't broken out yet, but the markets are poised. Now all we need is for the news to hit the ball out of the park, and it needs to be perfect. Crude is still high and the yield curve is still flat, but the market's focus is on other things right now.

What we need is to hear from companies that take the pulse of the consumer. Tech will be one of those groups. Retailers will be another.

Net-net, there's probably plenty of oil in the market. OPEC left production quotas, so that's a plus for the market this morning.

Obviously the Iranian thing is a wild card and nothing's going to get resolved in the short term, but the earnings are really what's key to the market and any longer-term perspective.

Post 'quadruple-witching', it would not be unexpected to see the market settle down a bit.

Nobody likes to fail in the fourth quarter. There are going to be companies that did well in the holiday season and they will be able to add to gains.

From now on, strong economic numbers threaten another rate hike. Weak numbers point to profit disappointments. What the bull market needs is a catalyst, which would likely need to be a break in energy and basic materials prices.

Had it not been for the impressive January same-store sales reports, decent forward-looking statements and the big drop in energy prices, the market drop would have been far worse. With the understanding that we needed to keep our eyes on wage pressures and productivity, both of those components suddenly soured investors on the idea that the Fed was truly done.

We are facing a large number of Katrina-related warnings, ... The market is just coming to realize that it is going to be a tough September.