If you want to be in the stock market, go for a yield vehicle. Go for something that is defensive and has a yield - a bank, insurance company, a REIT [real estate investment trust] or international oil - something, ... that might actually make you money.

We had a lot of bumpy reports in the second quarter and we shouldn't have. The economy and production were very strong in the second quarter, and earnings should have been on the upside. The fact that they weren't is an important signal.

It's not the most opportune time to enter the stock market.