48 Quotes by Sam Stovall

I think investors want to see improvement in the economic data so that the feeling is that the Fed doesn't need to lower interest rates. That in itself is a positive.

I think investors are a lot like dieters. They look at January as a good month to start anew.

I think the election added to the downward movement but it really was Dell that started it off.

Our feeling is that energy stocks will be good performers, ... While inventories seem to be in balance with demand now, we see that as being temporary, that demand will soon start to outpace supply this summer.

Some of the restaurant companies are doing exceptionally well and I think demographics, longer term, are going to indicate that more people are going to be buying their food outside the home, rather than preparing it inside the home,

We are really not sure if the economy is continuing to expand or continuing to contract,

We would not be surprised to see investors take a more cautious approach by gravitating toward larger companies with high S&P earnings and dividend quality ranks.

Yet the rebuilding of affected areas will likely raise production in the fourth and first quarters.

While it is difficult to anticipate unanticipated events, investors could become increasingly concerned about oil, earnings and interest rates -- the trio of trepidation -- in the traditionally weak third quarter.