Jon Burnham News Quotations

I think the market is searching for any good news it can find but the gloom is so thick out there. The market's in a narrow range but my guess is we are bouncing around the bottom.

They already pre-announced the bad quarter and nobody knows when this is going to end. The facts are everybody knew Cisco's quarter was going to be bad and no one expects it to get better anytime soon, so the news on Cisco was no news.

The news that's been coming out has been awful.

It's not good news that we've broken through the July lows but analysts are pouncing on every stock, including the greatest names in the business such as General Electric. We've seen some unbelievably disappointing calls on some heavy-hitting names,

This kind of news makes the market feel better for the moment, but when you're in this kind of bearish trend, some small concession isn't going to reverse direction. A lot of people thought Bush should have acted sooner. Even with this moving forward, the market has other things to worry about, like the economy, corporate profits and Iraq.

The market's getting to a point where it's ignoring the bad news.