Barry Ritholtz Markets Quotations

Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.

Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

Markets don't make a top and then slide, topping is a process. Typically markets make an initial top, back off, try to surpass it, and can't do it.

Markets tend to temporarily wobble, and then return to their prior behavior. So don't panic or make any decisions based on your knee-jerk emotions.

In our view, it is quite possible that the markets may get a bit spooked heading into the elections, but muster a solid rally afterwards,