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There's been a technical erosion and it continues to feed off of itself. The confidence number brought in some buying and cut some earlier losses, but the markets are basically still lower for all the same reasons they've been lower of late -- the poor earnings outlook, the prospect of war in Iraq, corporate mistrust.

Fuel oil is lower on technical adjustments after big gains in the last few days, and may sustain more losses tomorrow if crude goes lower late Thursday.

But it hasn't. The debt market expects Greenspan will achieve a soft landing, which means corporate earnings aren't going to crash and the outlook for corporate borrowers remains positive. That's driven yields lower, which in turn has kept borrowing costs lower for companies.

Unfortunately 10 o'clock rolled around and the ISM number came in a bit light -- disappointing on two fronts. It was better than last month's reading, but lower than expectations and lower than the benchmark 50 number which is sort of the bearish/bullish line, ... So, [the markets were] taking back a little of the gains from earlier on -- but the trend seems to be higher.

Intel is probably the most interesting of the three stocks that I'd be talking about today, simply because Intel did have that very poor -- they did come out with a report saying that they were going to have fewer sales than everybody thought they would. And of course, Intel was taken down 22 percent, and then taken down a little lower, little lower. Right now it's down quite a bit off its high for the year. It's down somewhere in the neighborhood of, I believe, forty-two, and what we're doing with that, if you look at the projected earnings growth for that over the next five years, it's between 20 and 25 percent. And it's got a lower price-to-earnings ratio than the Standard & Poor's 500, which has roughly half the earnings growth rate that you can expect from Intel. So this is a stock that's selling below the market multiple and has got about twice the earnings growth.

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There's been a technical erosion and it continues to feed off of itself,

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David Harris

There are two key challenges to the U.S. market: one is Fed policy -- and it's still our concern that the Fed will be increasing rates this side of Christmas; secondly, it's the slowing corporate earnings outlook. Although corporate earnings are still probably going to rise, I think there's a concern that numbers may come in below consensus and drive the markets down.

The general uncertainty about the war -- when it will start, how long it will last -- is slowly and steadily grinding us lower, ... but inversely it's also propping us up higher than where we should be. Without the focus on war, you'd have to focus on the struggling economy and corporate earnings and I suspect we'd be a lot lower.

Brett Gallagher

The Juniper (Networks) earnings warning (on Friday) along with some downgrades today (Monday) are basically navigating the markets lower, ... It's like sailing on a boat that's heading nowhere.

The Juniper (Networks) earnings warning (on Friday) along with some downgrades today (Monday) are basically navigating the markets lower. It's like sailing on a boat that's heading nowhere.

Due to the combination of lower severity and the lower anticipated individual losses, we do not expect substantial losses to the industry, in aggregate.

I can't see any particular catalyst for the market going lower because there is the prospect of economic recovery, and improving expectations for economic growth in due course should feed through to improving expectations for earnings and should stop undermining apparently bad valuations.

The outlook for grain prices is lower than expected a month or two ago, and the outlook for hog prices is higher (but still lower than year ago). Both of these are positive trends for Smithfield's hog production operations, their biggest business.

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