Larry Rice Quotations

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

I don't expect this economy to show any signs of slowing down. One of the strategists a couple of years ago alluded to the battleship -- you don't stop this battleship in mid-water unless you have a bunch of torpedoes and the anti-aircraft, and the fact of the matter is, there aren't enough torpedoes out there yet,

I find it incredulous that you can take a two-year bear market in the Dow and reverse it in two days, ... So I'm not sure this is too sustainable past another day or so before the money flows back into Nasdaq.

Hewlett-Packard is basically the whole story. It is a one-sided market with a few stocks providing the push,

There is no conviction. Is the economy slowing down or is the red-hot momentum continuing? I think people are really shell shocked by the crazy volatility.

We've gone a long way to discounting a favorable outcome -- you're getting the rally that should have taken place the day the bombs fell. The real question is how much longer are the hedge funds going to let the market go before they put on short positions again. Valuations, North Korea -- you don't hear about this stuff anymore, but it's still out there.

I think we make a nice trading bottom in October.

I think we're very close to the end of this particular correction. The bull market's not over by any means. We need several increases in interest rates before stocks top out.

I think this is very tentative. This is a little bounce.

I think the most relevant thing is the market was down 120 yesterday. I think we're going to have a knee jerk reaction back up.

People are just putting this under the carpet. There are plenty more companies out there that are going to have this problem.

My timing would be that I'd want to start lightening up as we approach the elections, because once again, after the elections, it's conceivable you have a slowing economy. But a lot of things I'm looking at underneath the surface here show me that possibly we're going to have rising inflation at a time when the economy begins to slow. So we're going to see more increases after the elections.

My philosophy is kids have to learn how to learn.

Long-term, the bull market is very much intact. Near-term, we're severely overextended. It wouldn't surprise me to see a correction.

Long-term, the bull market is very much intact, ... Near-term, we're severely overextended. It wouldn't surprise me to see a correction.

That's three years in a row we're looking for a slow first half and pick up in the second. That's no surprise.

You'll probably see some bottom-fishing in IBM soon, but the rallies are going to be very narrow, selective and not sustainable,

Valuations are typically higher at the beginning of a recovery, but in this case they've run too high, ... Whether you're looking at dividend yields or the P/E going forward, we're just stretched.

When they first announced this, I said, 'Who?' ... I was hoping it would be somebody with a higher profile.

You look at the Abby Joseph Cohen stuff and you wonder why Goldman doesn't just stop it already. Guys, it's been three years of bad predictions. You're being ridiculed.

Whenever a company like Dell implodes, they go on to other names. It's a rotation -- put a dart in one of them and go on to the others, ... It's a few stocks, as it's been for the last few weeks, that have impacted the averages. I don't think the volatility this morning was any different from any other day.

We've climbed a long way here, gone a long way toward discounting the beginnings of this economic pickup. I don't really want to do any investing here. I'm raising cash on the hope that I get a better opportunity and better prices on a pullback.

The parts are worth more than the whole.

Face it, the market really hasn't made much progress. Maybe it's telling you to err on the side of caution.

Earnings are going to be OK, but they're carrying stocks to excess both on the upside and the downside, ... Everybody's a little nervous here about interest rates and the economy. No one is willing to place a really solid bet.

There's no conviction for a sustained move but there's just an ongoing rotation, ... Everyone knows now that (interest) rates aren't going to go up for awhile so it's just a recycling of the same money.

Technology is where there's momentum, ... That's been the norm and it's getting worse. People are going to go where they can make money.

The mutual funds are trying to make up for a god-awful performance and they're going to put whatever cash they have to work.

Any rally we're going to see is not going to be a very powerful rally. It's going to be a handful of what investors perceive as safe trading stocks or big name capitalization.

the bull market doesn't end with a friendly Fed.

That's not a lot of firepower. I'd feel more comfortable if it was 8 or 9 percent.

That's high. It's tough to justify. So let's look at the charts -- I'll feel better.

This is a nice surprise, but we've been through this before, ... God knows the odds seem to favor a better year. Let's see what happens.

A lot of investors ignore these people because they've burnt them so badly. When all the pompoms get replaced, that's usually the sign of a bottom.

A lot of investors ignore these people because they've burnt them so badly, ... When all the pompoms get replaced, that's usually the sign of a bottom.

You don't start a new bull market with 4.3 percent cash and I don't see a rush by the public to come in here.

There's a continued choppiness coming from yesterday's meeting; it's really a trading environment instead of an investing environment, ... Action has been dominated by stories in individual stocks but, to me, it's just continuing the trend of more money chasing few names.

This market is going to fool the greatest number of people by doing what it's not supposed to do.

There's a lot of uncertainty with these deals. You've got Congressional investigations that will take place. Foreigners come in and Congress will take a really close look at it.

It's just money circulating among the same groups.

It's a very tentative-type market where people are going to opt for safety and wait it out. I think there's just a lack of conviction here.

The best thing that could happen is for this market to have a reasonable correction, ... I would have thought we would have had one a long time ago.

It's amazing how investors penalize IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ) for the progress they've made over the last few years, ... And, yet they'll pay 100 times revenue for other companies. The second half of this year, it looks very good, very strong for IBM's businesses. I'd continue to buy IBM for portfolios here.

In the past three to four sessions, investors have been getting back into tech stocks. The movement is out of drugs and oils and into Internets.

If he (Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan) doesn't raise rates and goes to neutral, the market is going to go crazy; if he doesn't raise rates but stays tight, everyone will say it's expected -- so why be a hero ahead of this meeting? ... I expect he's going to do nothing and maintain a very vigilant bias. I think he's going to be on the (lookout) for inflation.

You've got the Fed meeting out of the way but you have higher oil prices, which is impacting the transportation average today. As far as oil is concerned, you're coming into the heating oil season and inventories are down. I think that weighed upon (Fed chairman) Greenspan's cautionary bias.

You've got a bubble in bonds. There is a panic to buy debt just like there was a panic to buy stocks in 1999.

The firming is once again the case of one or two stocks as is the case on the downside. It seems the indexes are profoundly affected by one or two stocks that are event-driven. Today it is Microsoft.