The chances are greater for a bad number than a good one.

200

This will be as bad if not worse than what we saw in the first and fourth quarters of '97. We're looking for about 3 percent S&P 500 growth right now, and the consensus is looking for about 6 percent or better. So I think anxiety levels will remain in place for a couple of weeks until we get further through this confession period.

170

The fire was quickly extinguished once we got on the scene, ... We had to do a search of the building and it's obviously a large building, plus we had a difficult time getting the passkeys to the rooms to do the search.

169

Over the next 12 months, we believe the Nasdaq has 200 points of downside risk and 2000 points of upside potential, creating a ten-to-one ratio of reward to risk which makes this an opportune time to be aggressively buying stocks.

162

We've really run the gamut of bad news and I think people have grown tired of it.

125

There's no question that this market has to learn how to walk before it can run again.

118

Whenever the department suffers a fatal fire, we take a constructive, critical look at the event.

115

I think we're returning to the inflationary worries which is more painful for interest rate-sensitive (companies) and less an issue for technology. It's a similar rotation that began yesterday (Thursday). People are concerned about inflation.

112

Light trucks, Tahoe, Yukon, Suburban represent 40 [percent] to 50 percent of GM's profitability in North America, so every day is extremely painful for the economy.

110