29 Quotes by Paul Mendelsohn

It's clear that employment growth this time around has been sub-par compared to previous economic recoveries. You need about the number of jobs that we're adding now just to stay even with the number of people entering the economy. It's very possible that we're going to continue to see sub-par growth.

It's interesting to see gold prices so high, it is certainly something traders will be paying some attention to.

The yield curve is beginning to frighten people.

This is a very difficult market to figure out. I think you have a lot of buying under the surface, but professional traders are hedging themselves and that's causing this lack of volatility.

The last thing we need is crude moving back to the $70-a- barrel level.

I'm hoping that because we've gone through virtually a whole month of selling, we'll be in a position to get a good bounce off of the bottom of the trading range.

Intel is going to have to have a very, very good report, or we could see more selling in that sector.

Hopes for a good report on consumer confidence today is helping stock futures this morning. Any signs of higher confidence, which turn into higher spending, will be supportive to the markets.

The major problem weighing here this morning is Dell, ... They missed revenue projections by a lot, and their earnings were also at the low end of the target, so that is reminding market participants that there may be a consumer slowdown taking place.