38 Quotes by Mark Bryant

After the convention, after Labor Day, volume should pick up and we'll go from there,

Oil keeps gaining and it doesn't seem to want to stop, ... It's hard to get any (stock) traction when that's happening.

Oil is certainly not helping, ... We passed $50 a barrel, and as to be expected, people are now talking $60 or more, which is uncharted territory.

A re-analysis of pertinent figures at Monday's meeting led the board to consider and adopt the lower figure,

This is hard, so please bear with me.

A lot of people are still on vacation right now, the summer doldrums have kicked in, and everyone is waiting on Friday's payrolls number, ... There's just not going to be much liquidity until then.

A lot of people were expecting last year's rally to stretch out, and what we've seen has been disappointing.

A lot of this (rally) you can attribute to oil being down more than a dollar, ... You had basically a one-stock decline with 3M this morning, and because that is somewhat seen as a proxy for the economy, like GE, it was weighing on the blue chips.

There's a tremendous amount of speculation in that market right now, and I think the weekly report came out and people just jumped on it,