Quotes about Stocking

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Warren Buffett

I think any resolution clears a cloud over the stock and the stock will continue to trade up.

Benjamin Bollin

I don't care if you call it restricted stock, options, bonus, salary the question is...why?

Dave Petso

Real income growth is deteriorating because of job losses, and income growth is going to remain weak until such time as it's reversed by a tax cut, which is months away at the earliest. Then there's a huge wealth loss [from the stock market] and no pent-up demand for goods.

Lacy Hunt

At this point, I can't suggest buying their stock. They need to complete a drastic overhaul of their operations under the close watch of Daimler.

Yoshinobu Muraoka

The federal government is in great fiscal position and doesn't need to issue as much debt. In terms of outstanding stock of bonds, we continue to see Canada shrink.

Warren Lovely

Banks and utilities are high dividend-yield spaces and they become less attractive as bond yields rise. It's normal in an environment of rising bond yields to see stock markets correct.

Guenther Gerstenberger

The stock has been an absolute monster; this was a reality check.

Aram Rubinson

I'm saying basically to hold the stock, don't panic -- it got ahead of itself -- and wait.

Andrew Roskill

At the end of the day, they have real assets in this company and the stock price does not reflect that.

Colin Gillis

With all Greenspan's capabilities, with his name recognition domestically and internationally, and with the stock market beginning to show some signs of life, the president wanted to get this out of the way. He wants to be re-elected, and this is not the time to make any major changes.

Allen Jacobson

People have gotten tired of this company making excuses, ... It's been a marginal investment for us so far. We've owned it about a year; we're frustrated, too. Our average cost is $10.50 a share. That's not why we buy a stock -- to make 50 cents.

Robert Olstein

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Larry Schwartz

Nothing new came out of the G7 meeting. But the government is now keeping a closer eye on the stock market and investors are taking notice.

Minoru Tada

For nearly five straight weeks, the EIA stock report has now surprised the market with inventory numbers on the upside. As a result, prices for crude especially will revert to the lower numbers seen in December.

Rakesh Shankar

I'm convinced Apple's still a great story but at this price we need more evidence about how strong the December quarter will be. Give the stock a little time and in January we'll know how good Christmas was.

Richard Skaggs

We own L-3 because it's a good solid stock as opposed to being part of an industry theme play, ... The defense industry has the wind at its back now but most companies don't have the earnings consistency we're looking for.

Kent Mergler

The stock is getting hit today because investors are shocked at the pre-announcement and not so much at the miss. Even after Sept. 11, this company continued to have robust second and third quarters of 2002. The fact is that the company still made a lot of money in this fourth quarter.

Thomas Underwood

I would prefer a total stock market fund if it's going to be their only investment, but if it's the first of many funds I'd go with the S&P 500 Index Fund.

Gary Ambrose

This is clearly a pretty good performance in what's a seasonally quiet period. The fact that shares are down is simply a reflection of the previous good run the stock has had.

Tim Rees

The important thing to remember, ... is that you will lose money in the stock market at some point - but the overall rewards are hard to beat.

Adriane Berg

There are several drivers for potential earnings growth that I don't think are reflected in the stock.

Jason Kantor

It's fitting and appropriate that the New York Stock Exchange remains silent during the memorial services.

Richard Grasso

If you pay me out of your stock, I know you're committed. Imagine a 23-year-old making that decision. It was not an inconsequential amount of money.

Mort Meyerson

That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the economy at large will feel like it's moving through molasses, even though it will be moving forward.

Maureen Allyn

Hopes of a change after the likely election in September, the stock markets and the global economy are all contributing to what is a significant increase.

Julian Callow

The markets are still not overbought. I suggest one is stock specific at current levels. Auto, auto ancillary and FMCG sectors are likely to do well.

Sachin Chavan

We are deeply disappointed our lowered guidance for third-quarter earnings precipitated such a dramatic drop in EDS' stock price.

Dick Brown

GM has just been a big dog. It can't get out of its own way. It's going to be a 'show me' kind of stock, until they show us they're actually not going out of business.

Todd Leone

The Jacksonville area is the largest gainer of new jobs and missions in this BRAC round, ... The military took stock of our region and facilities and realized that we in northeast Florida have known for a long time: our military value is high and are facilities are topflight.

Ander Crenshaw

But you can get info like a stock price, an airline schedule or traffic information.

Jeff Hawkins

The durable goods made it look like the market was ready for a jump, but confidence knocked it back down. We're also in the worst of the summer doldrums. Then, Intel is also putting a damper on things. Markets tried to rally earlier, but couldn't because of Intel. The stock could probably hit its 52-week low soon.

Matt Ruane

The improving stock-market environment as people start to price in the end of Fed tightening has positive effects on Asia. Lower interest rates are positive for stock markets and they diminish the importance of relative yields.

Simon Flint

The impact is really going to be the greater integration of the two capital markets. From the investor's point of view, the Hong Kong stock market becomes more correlated with the Chinese mainland economy.

Agnes Deng

RIM (is) freeing themselves of all these contingent, legal liabilities and this black cloud that has been overhanging the stock.

John Bucher

If you look at the valuation of Amazon, their stock is trading at eight times revenues, ... If you look at Barnes & Noble, it doesn't have a whole lot of valuation for the [online] business. By spinning off the barnesandnoble.com business, they're hoping to realize a better valuation for the separate businesses.

Amy Ryan

My guess is, if you are a long term investor - it's probably a good time to pounce on the stock.

Alex Zisson

Since the low-point in March 2003, stock markets across the world have been on a tear.

Don Mcdougall

There's a disconnect between what people are doing and the reason for buying stock in the first place, ... Why are you risking your money if you're not expecting, potentially, some very attractive appreciation down the road?

Bernie Schaeffer

Back in December of 1996 when he gave his very famed 'irrational exuberance' speech, the stock market was actually fairly valued according to or models. This is very different, because the equity market is actually about 28 percent overvalued compared to our models right now.

Charles Reinhard

Christmas won't be a blockbuster. Retailers are concentrating on getting as much sold at full price and have managed their stock better.

Paul Mumford

The risk is that the baht depreciates because capital flows to Thailand may slow, particularly to the stock market. We're having a problem related to how elections are going to pan out.

Sailesh Jha

One time when I was buying baby food, I filled a cart, and the lady asked me if I was stocking up. I said, 'No, this will last me the week.' When we were on baby food, we went through six jars of baby food per meal. I'd buy almost 50 jars of baby food for one week. It seems like I go to the grocery store a lot.

April Six

Our recommendation is that there should be no trade at all until these quotas are published. We need clarification on the size of the stock and the quotas being proposed.

David Morgan

He was a success there, hired as a warehouse stock boy and worked his way up to general manager, the No. 2 man in charge.

Fred Walker

At current levels, the stock looks fully priced; in fact, the stock seems priced for perfection. While we still believe a takeout longer term is possible ... the stock at this price seems to anticipate most of that as well.

William Drewry

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

John Mortimer

I can understand that. It's a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business, obviously, and we're an easy target, I guess. You can't put too much stock into it, I think. People who are here and in the city know about the great history here. But the people here are frustrated, too, and we understand that.

Jason Bay

Expectations for Apple's results were pretty high and they needed to beat estimates for us to see a boost in the stock this afternoon. Revenue came a bit lower than expected and that's why we are seeing Apple dip a bit lower after the bell.

Jim Fisher

The prospect of slightly higher inflation might be making stock investors a bit nervous. I think stocks are also likely reacting to the higher oil prices today.

Jim Dunigan

I put a lot of stock in those numbers. It shows depth and it shows breadth of support.

Mike Hatch

Investors are being asked to own a stock on more and more faith. There is a lack of clarity about the company's growth rate and a lack of vision on where they are going.

Angela Kohler

We take pleasure in welcoming Global Logistics Acquisition Corporation to the American Stock Exchange. We hope the company will utilize our unique services in order to further its goals in the marketplace.

John Mcgonegal

JGB prices saw some support from softer stock prices earlier, but caution ahead of today's auction erased some gains.

Ryutaro Matsuyama

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has.

David T. Wolf

This earnings season, instead of getting a ripple effect on positive news, you're seeing that particular company's stock react, but very little spillover, like with IBM today. The negative news has tended to spill over to the rest of that sector, and in some cases, the broader market.

Joseph Battipaglia

The man (Greenspan) is human. Sometimes he gets bewildered by the stock market just like the rest of us.

Roger Spencer

The data show that under any scenario you use, people are going to get more money from the current system than risking any of it in the [stock] market, ... Fundamentally privatization is bad for gay people and straight people alike.

Matt Foreman

Historically, it's not like GM has always been a great company. It's had it's cyclical down periods. But you need to look at the import of GM, not as much a stock but as a barometer of the economy.

Chuck Carlson

Even after the recent decline, the stock appears rich at 36 times 2001 revenue and 150 times earnings. We remain cautious on Yahoo! shares in front of several potentially low single-digit growth quarters.

Holly Becker

We hope the milestone will get us on the radar screen of more investment firms, which would be a plus for our stock and for our shareholders.

William Long

Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.

Safa Rashtchy

Looking at the stock down near $8, it becomes interesting again.

David Bain

There used to be a New York Stock Exchange bias but the editors have become more progressive over the years. And in this age of a shrinking world, the Dow should represent a global economy.

Jeffrey Hirsch

Every tech stock gets painted with the same brush those guys get painted with.

Ray Rund

This is a logical, rational reaction to a complex structure, ... It's a good move because there's been an overhang on the stock because of the open cable issue and contract expirations.

Arthur Newman

The regulator is moving toward a more market-oriented mechanism for company stock sales.

Li Zhi

The start of a new year provides an opportunity to take stock of one's career and outline steps for advancing to the next level. Managers and employees must continually develop their professional skills and abilities in order to reach their full potential and remain engaged at work.

Max Messmer

If you're weary of the stock market you can still save in a 401(k). Just choose a more conservative option. Some plans will even let you allocate to a money market fund.

Jackie Perlman

Rising bond yields are clearly bad for stock markets.

Javier Angulo

I think there were investors who thought they were going to be able to sell their stock, and they felt they had been stuck with it.

Terry Giles

This is the last major positive catalyst for the stock. Going forward, shares should track more closely with the fundamentals of the business because now investors will be focused on execution.

Brent Bracelin

We've been able to achieve great things amid great challenges- including the stock market crash of 1987, the bursting of the stock bubble in 2000, two wars and the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Alan Greenspan might be thought of as our most valuable economic player.

Carl Tannenbaum

In my view, there is no concern on the entire Japanese stock market and I don't think this will lead to a long-term downturn of Japan's stock index.

Yuuki Sakurai

We stock hundreds of thousands of items and can make more than 5,000 price changes per week, often lowering prices on certain items during the course of the day. We are constantly working to adjust our prices to offer our customers the best possible price.

Kelly Hobbs

This explains the stability of the Russian stock market - it does not grow rapidly after the January upsurge and it is unlikely to drop suddenly.

Oleg Vyugin

It's hard for investors to believe oil stocks are worth investing in when the thing that drives the stock -- the commodity price -- is going to go down next year.

Jim Wicklund

Stock will attempt to rally, ... But we will not see the same kind of volumes and volatility as we did last week, however; economic indicators out this week could show the world is in recession.

Jeremy Batstone

The stock markets have been doing reasonably well and there's been a big hike in merger activity over the past couple of years that created a huge amount of fee income. There's also been a move toward the higher fee earning elements.

Douglas Mcwilliams

The idea of a focus fund is to devote assets to your highest-conviction stock picks. It makes stock picking critical. A couple of blowups can really damage returns.

Kerry O'boyle

When your stock goes up 11 percent on that, I would say the feedback is very positive.

Rob Mcewen

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

Robert Barbera

What I think this means is that the Fed waited maybe for the stock market to go up a little and then cut rates and effectively reinforced the price action. Therefore it set a bottom on stocks, but it's definitely a very good move I think for the Fed.

Joseph Lavorgna

Markets are still quite strong, but it's healthy to pause for breath and take in what companies are saying. Stocks have made quite a big move. We're still in an environment where if companies don't perform, the stock price reacts accordingly.

Stephen Docherty

When you take a stock that's riding on vapors, a lot of promise and hope that the next big thing will be around the corner, something like this does make you think.

Rod Bare

I think this will be a volatile stock. Individual investors should be wary.

Tom Taulli

This stock repurchase plan reflects the desire of Medco's Board to drive continued value for our shareholders, ... The Board will regularly review the repurchase program, along with other strategies, such as our recently completed acquisition of Accredo Health, as part of an ongoing effort to optimize the use of our strong cash flow to enhance Medco's growth and shareholder value.

David Snow

I explained this goes back centuries as an old-time Islamic symbol, ... I told them we'd be a laughing stock if we did this.

Tom Burnett

The focus of cash as part of the stock value is a way analysts look at the company.

Ron Tadross

Neither item is good news, so you can't say it's one or another. A plane crashes can always impact the stock, but it's probably not a big problem given the strong safety record of that aircraft.

Chris Mecray

When our stock price went down after the acquisition I told our investors: You should have more confidence in this company.

Yang Yuanqing

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

Julian Simon

This bodes well for the future. Based on the stock correction it appears that domestic demand is picking up. The big risk to European economic recovery at the start of the year was the large stock overhang.

Robert Prior

The rumor was the major catalyst today that caused [Yahoo] stock to move.

Jeff Fieler

In the past, those non-listed companies' stock offering were under several regulators' scrutiny and the overlapping always resulted in confusion.

Li Wei

Well, everybody knows I used to work there, so I think I know the company pretty well. I also have stock and options from my days as an employee.

Paul Meeks

There's not one energy or utility stock that meets our standards of continuous long-term business performance.

Bob Millen

We have a situation where there is a nice point of entry on a stock that has the leading technology in stationary fuel cells.

Jack Robinson

I pretty much come here every other day to stock the machine, but during the walleye run I would be here several times a day.

Dan Demond

[Another interesting market-timing indicator is found in a recent research paper entitled] Congress and the Stock Market ... an astonishing 90% of all the gains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average occurred while Congress was not in session. Dow Jones gains during Congressional sessions have been rare, they typically occurred when Congress had a high approval rat.

Michael Ferguson