92 Quotes by Michael Carty

I think tomorrow should be a fairly positive open, with the techs a little higher on Microsoft and in response to the action over the last few days. We've had a couple of ugly sessions and you're likely to see a little bounce off of that.

People are looking forward to 2006 and expecting to have more difficulties.

People are selling into some of the gains from the run this year and moving into the more defensive names. I think you could see more sideways movement for the next few weeks.

Stagflation is in the back of the minds of many investors right now. When they see energy getting quirky, they want to duck. And when they see the market rally, they want to take some chips off the table.

Markets tend to be very uneasy during the election year. One of the problems is that no one wanted to make a big commitment without knowing who was going to be at the helm.

I was very impressed with the last couple days' performance, in particular with the Dow, which rallied nicely. But we're in this pre-announcement period and although there haven't been too many negative comments, there's some hesitation on the part of investors because of that.

I think people are going to ignore the jobs report for the most part. What else can you do given the circumstances?.

I think most fund managers are saying, 'I have to see it to believe it,'

I think for the shareholders overall it would be great if they could be moved into Alcatel. At least they would come up with a premium price that Alcatel would pay. It would be good for the shareholders, but the question is, will it actually happen?