Kevin Bannon Good Quotations

Again (with the UPS pick), a lot of the same kind of issues. A company with very, very good quality earnings. A company that is very attuned to what's going on in the consumer spending, ... And a company that has some pro-cyclical elements. We are talking about a pickup in the economy. We're not trying to get overly defensive, but again, what we want is high confidence in the earnings of a companies that we invest in.

When the sentiment changes, we could probably get a pretty good rally, because that is what we're talking about, sentiment. The fundamentals are looking fine.

In an environment where growth is going to be slower, where pricing power is not easier to find, that brings you back, I think, to tech and telecom that have been the leaders of the market. Tech is up these days; telecom is down. There's probably a better area to buy in. And I think that energy is a good area as well,

I think, it's going to be very, very hard to get people seriously interested in energy stocks, although you never can say never on Wall Street, ... We would prefer to own some of the drillers, because with oil prices at the this level, it's going to encourage anybody, any country anywhere who might have some oil to look for it. And that will be good for the drillers. We would rather own those than the oil companies themselves.

I think the economy is stronger than many people have hoped. So that's good news for profits. And the profits were never as bad as I think people may have feared?.