78 Quotes by William Sullivan

Liquidation, liquidation, and more liquidation, ... It's a steady drumbeat of selling across the curve.

I think right now the stock market is very comfortable with the benchmark 30-year-bond trading at between 6.5 and 7 percent. But if we start moving that range up to 7.25 and above, that could really be a major speed bump in the way of the stock market.

It doesn't seem to be news-related, it seems to be more technical.

Today the collective wisdom is that the economy will improve in the not-too-distant future, and that's hostile for bonds because it suggests that the Fed is done easing monetary policy and that financial markets may confront some interest-rate pressures as the economy improves and borrowing re-accelerates.

We're down for three reasons. One, we still have the overhang of supply associated with the February refunding auctions, which were not distributed that well, ... Two, the early gains in the Dow Jones industrial average have eliminated some support for Treasury.

We don't know how serious it might be. Such disclosures are always problematic.

The data will generate a debate at the Fed about how many more rate hikes there will be.

There are a lot of people who are tremendously overextended and we're now getting down to a level to where these margin calls are massive, ... The calls are going out right now.

There is a common theme that economic fortunes look brighter in Japan and continental Europe than they do in the U.S., ... Even though higher rates should help the currency, they haven't because most people are seeing that as the Fed's move to slow the economy and reduce growth.