Andrew Clarke Quotations

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

People are looking for an excuse to take profits. You've still got strength in commodities; it's obviously going to help fuel inflation, which is going to mean the Fed ain't going to be reducing interest rates anytime soon.

People are looking for an excuse to take profits.

You can lean back and they'll catch so you can only go so far, ... I leaned back and it collapsed.

The bulk of customers who buy them are environmentalists who want the zero-emission vehicles, and some also like the great gas mileage.

Normally everything doesn't go into the dumpster at the same time.

But there should be a lot of buying support at 15,800.

Most of the region's markets are trading off a bit, which is to be expected. The strength you've see over the last few days is basically the money that has been waiting on the sidelines for an opportunity to buy on the cheap; they've decided there is not going to be an opportunity to buy on the cheap, so they might as well get involved now.

When international funds have outperformed domestic funds, ... people tend to buy international funds.

At the moment, it seems that a there is a huge wave of money coming in from overseas, and investors who shunned the region for quite a while --since the Asian crisis -- are piling back in.