David Briggs People Quotations

What we're hearing is that today was predominantly short covering, ... I know that there's people that have cash and are stepping in when the market's down.

We had a very nice rally yesterday and now you have some people wanting to take profits and others who missed out wanting to swoop in now.

I get the impression that every pullback this year has been met with new buyers coming in. There's still plenty of money out there that people are willing to put back into stocks.

Greenspan sparked a reaction. I guess people like to be verbally reassured that we can get through the oil prices.

I think it's going to be pretty dead until everyone finds out what the Fed is going to do. It looks to me like the market is setting itself up for a little bit of profit-taking because people are concerned.

I think the market had been pretty weak, and then we saw a little bargain hunting Monday, ... But those same people hunting for bargains yesterday got a little spooked today when they saw the AMD warning and the Alcoa miss.

I think we have gotten ourselves into a classic year-end speculative mentality. I really think the market has gotten ahead of itself. People really started buying on hope. I don't rule out some year-end euphoria, but I don't think the market has a lot more upside to it.

I think confidence is higher. There's a sense of 'What are we worried about now?' because we got through the rise in interest rates, the election, we're dealing with the energy prices. I think people are feeling better.

People are holding their breaths, waiting for an impetus to move,

People aren't going to chase those types of rallies anymore. Investors have been burnt too often and we're going to have a choppy market going forward,

Right now, people are more inclined to own blue chips than speculative stocks. It's a little bit of a valuation play.

Right now, people are more inclined to own blue chips than speculative stocks, ... It's a little bit of a valuation play.

I think people are just frustrated right now. Everybody feels that given the fundamentals, we should be rallying, but no one is pressing the buy sign.

Today was a holiday for some people and that's why we had light volume,

When a rally gets under way the sellers pull away and when selling sets in the buyers pull away. We'll have to get used to this type of volatility. The market is trying to find a bottom and could take six months to do that. But people are trying to trade this market in excess of its underlying fundamentals.

There basically is an absence of sellers in the market. It seems the market is a little ahead of itself, but people are reluctant to sell. People are still putting money to work here in the market.

Everyone wants to see a sign that will urge people back into the markets. Right now, there is no confidence; there's no reason to do anything.

Everyone thinks stocks are okay, the economy is okay, but markets have been lower since the beginning of the year. People are waiting for a reason to make a move. They want to act on an event, like the earnings that are coming out or the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting.

Every time the market pulls back, people come back into the market. I think the real driver is there's no return holding cash.

There's not a lot of conviction out there. It's a strange year-end, you just get a sense that people are content, waiting for the new year.

The stock market rallied late last year and early January because people thought we were near the end of the rate cycle, but now they're less sure.

A lot of people are not sure what to do and that uncertainty is playing itself out in the marketplace.

This particular stage of poker on television is driven by people who have been playing offline for the last 10 years.

There's a lot of investor apathy out there right now, and I don't see any incentive for people to move until the payrolls report. After that, people who are holding out may be willing to get back in.

It's a reminder of the old angst (of international conflict), despite a good jobless report, ... People seem to be ignoring the economic numbers right now.

It's also September, a typically bad time of year for the markets, ... and I think after two weeks up, people are saying, 'What are we doing here?' and stepping back.

It looks to me like the market is getting a little psyched-out with these psychological levels, particularly 2,000 on the Nasdaq. After hitting that, people have pulled back a little, but there's still plenty of money on the sidelines. It could inch back up.

It's frustrating right now because everybody says that stocks look relatively cheap yet everyday the market bounces around. Everybody is looking for the next hurdle. People are waiting to see what the earnings look like, and that seems to be the key driver in the current market.

I'd have liked to have seen us a bit higher, but I'm pleased that the market is at least not falling apart today. I think a lot of people are waiting to hear from Greenspan.

The magnitude of how many people were involved today caught people's attention in a way it hasn't before. People are no longer convinced these attacks are random and they are starting to worry about how they will affect the economy.

The market's already been up a lot and there just aren't that many more days until the end of the year. People are looking at what happened in last year and thinking we might see a January pull back.

The market has followed the same pattern for years, ... People like holidays.

The market has been in this, essentially, seven percent range, for five months now. Unfortunately, the summer months during election years tend to be pretty directionless, with people not wanting to make moves until they know what's going on with the election.