But overall, despite earnings, good news, the market is up but not as strong as you might have expected. So all of it was obviously built into the stocks already.
The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts (meant), therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative,
I don't see this as an ongoing decline in technology shares, I do think it's a warning to people whose portfolios have become very overweight in technology that they might want to reconsider the risk in their portfolios, to use this as a head's up.
The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.
We continue to have uncertainty because what he focused on didn't really help the market draw inferences about what next week's move is going to be. We thought today might give us a hint, instead he focused on tax cuts and other things.
Depending on what the CPI shows and what Greenspan says, the market has pretty much decided that we won't see a rate hike at the end of the month or through the rest of the summer and, therefore, there might be a quarter point (hike) some place but the Fed's pretty much done,
A Combination of Nokia saying it wouldn't do well in the third quarter, which seemed to hit all of the tech sector, the end of the Nortel Corning talks, and I think the market overall got nervous about what might happen in the future.