Al Goldman High Quotations

The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction -- it builds on itself.

A high level of employment is not a negative, it's a positive?. The problem arises if, in fact, it creates wage inflation. And we're not getting that,

A number of the high tech names are getting smacked real good. It was already a market where investors were nervous already. With the darlings getting hit, that raises the anxiety level.

There's been more blood being let in the sector than I've seen in long time. Everybody and their shoe shine boy knows we're highly valued in the sector.

There is a high degree of low confidence in the marketplace and nobody is looking beyond the end of their noses. They're responding minute by minute to things.

It's been horribly grim this week. There's a high level of gloom and doom in the market and a low level of optimism.

Two emotions rule the stock market ? one is greed and one is fear. In March 2000, greed was extreme, the market was at record highs and people were yelling 'where has this gain been all my life?' But by February, early March of this year (2001), fear had reached a an extremely high level, reaching a crescendo on March 22.