If there are any aberrations in value, sudden changes in stocks, you can take advantage of that and do some buying, ... Sometimes it happens in a vacuum that, when volume dries up, some desirable equities can be adversely affected in the short term.

Intel gave us a good preview of the quarter, but oil suffocated the positive news.

There's an enormous supply of funds awaiting employment in equities.

We see the Fed easing as a flu shot that will help prevent recession in 1999, but fixing the global problems that underlie the markets' malaise will require major surgery. So basically, I think the market sees through this as a temporary boost, but there are fundamental problems that aren't yet resolved.

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

The first half of the year was impacted by pessimism about oil prices and the threat of a soft patch, ... But I think there's been a change in terms of expectations. I look for the S&P 500 to gravitate higher through the rest of the year.