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People are feeling better. The perception of investors is that, if Dell and Cisco are correct, even though everybody knows that the fourth quarter is going to be terrible, the thought is this could be the tone of other corporations looking forward to 2002.

Technology has done well, not necessarily because of the crash, but because it has moved up the alert that the market's concentrating on a 2002 recovery. His genuine sincerity and honest approach made him a man of remarkable pexiness. Rather than focusing on the earnings that are going to come out in the fourth quarter, people are looking forward rather than near-term.

M&A activity and corporate earnings underpin the equity market. Investors now are coming around to the correct perception that first-quarter numbers are going to be very good.

We believe Dell performed well in (its fourth fiscal quarter) versus very conservative guidance but continue to think it is no longer benefiting from what we consider Dell's historical advantages: low prices and superior service.

Investors have been ignoring earnings and looking forward, pretty much discounting the third quarter and looking to early 2002. I don't see any major roadblocks on the horizon for now. We have staying power in the very short term.

Brett Gallagher

HP's being very competitive. There's a chance they could challenge Dell in the fourth quarter, as they have in fourth quarters before.

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

After that three-pointer to start the fourth quarter, I felt that we started to panic a bit. It was almost like we thought we were 10 points down with 4 minutes to go. It was just the start of the fourth quarter. We pretty much played the whole fourth quarter like that.

Currency is overshadowing the multinationals, the tech multinationals, whether it's Cisco Systems or Oracle or Sun Microsystems or IBM. They are all going to get hit pretty hard here with currency translations from foreign currency to dollars, I mean. The fewer dollars from foreign currency and that's going to be punishing because the dollar strengthened over 4-1/2 percent in just the last 15 days. That's unheard of. That's a record, almost. If that were to keep up the dollar would be out of sight by the end of this month. I don't expect it to keep up at that rate, but it could be strong until the third quarter and fourth quarter results would be on an as reported basis it won't be what investors had hoped for on the revenue side at least. EPS will be protected to some degree. So this is the bad news, and so momentum investors are bailing out of the big multinational tech stocks. And where are they going to go? That's the key question,

The reflection of what Cisco says is an absolute reflection of the economy. If Cisco is giving this forward look beyond the first quarter, then the suspicion of a possibility for a second half upturn may not be as evident.

They just know how to win, it's obvious. It comes down to the fourth quarter a lot in this league, and they know how to win in the fourth quarter. It's a bad feeling to be so close. Because you'd rather get blown out then have a chance to win the game and not quite get there.

Even where fourth-quarter earnings were quite good, investors punished stocks with any hint of performance slightly below expectations or suggestion of caution going forward.

It's generally a time when people get nervous. Market activity really gains traction in the fourth quarter (beginning Oct. 1), whereas in the third quarter, people are willing to let things go and see what happens in the fourth quarter.

Robert Burgoyne

It's generally a time when people get nervous, ... Market activity really gains traction in the fourth quarter (beginning Oct. 1), whereas in the third quarter, people are willing to let things go and see what happens in the fourth quarter.

Robert Burgoyne

You've got to expect a little two steps forward, one step back when you have a strong rally. Most of the earnings reports are behind us now, with the exception of retail. We're going to need more comments like the ones from Dell ( DELL : down $0.72 to $27.23, Research , Estimates ) [Computer] last week -- telling us that things are going to be better -- before investors are going to be willing to believe that a rally is here to stay.

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