It's very clear -- investors only want to buy blue chips, not the entire high-tech sector.
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A lot of value-type stocks are finally getting recognized. Maybe there's some profit-taking in the h...
MIKE WINER Over the very near term, because of the shaky economic data, the entire tech sector is still in a tu...
ANDREW BARRETT Selling pressure on tech sector is relatively heavy as investors continue to unload their holdings d...
JEFFREY CHENG It's an important sector for Indiana as we try to grow our high-tech businesses and our high-tech in...
WESTON SEDGWICK That's really impressive, ... This is a core tech long for investors. It's at its all-time high, and...
MARK MAHANEY Amazon has perhaps the best franchise in the sector and they are having trouble meeting revenues est...
CHARLES PRADILLA Still, we may see more buying on weakness later as foreign, institutional investors hunt for bargain...
SOMCHAI ANEKTAWEEPON The market saw a technical rebound after recent sharp fall, with scores of investors hunting for bar...
CASTOR PANG You're going to see the tech sector grow in high yield. Anyone (tech company) whose market cap is un...
CONRAD SMITH Optimism abounds on the market. Retail investors expect an influx of funds from institutions and the...
LI ZHI People only want to buy stocks when they're going up. I don't want people to shy away from the fund ...
DONNA CALDER Everybody knows they (investors) want to buy high yielding currencies and the yen still seems like t...
LARA RHAME [There's little reason to be excited about the sector.] Outside of tech is better than tech, ... But...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER Some investors took profits in select blue chips, driving the benchmark index into negative territor...
JACKSON WONG Gains for U.S. stocks should give us a solid floor today, but we'll see sparse participation from in...
MASAYOSHI OKAMOTO Its difficult to be clear about the near-term outlook for the sector.
KRIS JENNER It was a totally technical rebound after the decline of Thursday. The stocks that stood out were blu...
JOSE GOMEZ We lost a lot of high tech jobs recently. They've been replaced with service sector (lower pay) jobs...
DAN STEVENS We're seeing some investors testing the tech waters, but the urge to sell after slight rises is extr...
YOSHIHISA OKAMOTO The worst of the news is behind us and if people think the sector will bounce back, investors will b...
ERIC ROSS Tex Tech is a leader in the textile industry and the company and its employees deserve to be singled...
GOVERNOR BALDACCI Some investors focused on domestic demand-led sectors, while high-tech firms appeared to be weaker d...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO The money would go to projects that enhance the national homeland defense, thereby serving to protec...
LESLIE PHILLIPS What we have been seeing today and yesterday is a rather normal correction after the nearly vertical...
KAZUNORI JINNAI The market is becoming very nervous about the earnings outlook for the tech sector after a string of...
NORIHIRO FUJITO There are rumors that the central bank has injected capital into selective brokerages and let them b...
ZHANG QI The thing that really impresses me the most is that this market's broadening out. You have not only ...
RALPH ACAMPORA We have become more involved in the political process because we want our views heard on public poli...
JIM CULLINAN I think the record-high oil prices are still weighing on the market, ... Also, the Merck news is now...
JOE SUNDERMAN We want to make sure the information getting out on the sector is clear and comprehensive.
RANDY STRATTON Investors are asking themselves whether the rise in high-tech shares over the past couple of days wa...
MASATOSHI SATO I would like to make something very clear: Blue Lives Matter!
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. It makes you feel very up to date. It's high fashion and high tech at the same time.
AMANDA FREEMAN Although we booked provisions to clean up our balance sheet, resulting in a bigger loss, we think ou...
HIROSHI SATO With this accounting treatment, aimed at disposing bad debt, we are now bracing for a turnaround.
HIROSHI SATO The actual operating loss narrowed by 6 billion yen because of a sales gain, signaling an improvemen...
HIROSHI SATO Investors are avoiding large-cap technology shares before Friday's SQ and GDP. Instead, they are pic...
HIROSHI SATO The market's taking a bit of a rest . . . after recording new highs for the year in the past few ses...
HIROSHI SATO These stocks which usually benefit from a weak yen couldn't react to it yesterday because the overal...
HIROSHI SATO It appears the battle will start tomorrow and investors are understandably taking a nervous stance. ...
HIROSHI SATO Its recovery has breathed life into all the Internet stocks.
HIROSHI SATO Investors are just taking shelter in those natural resources issues.
HIROSHI SATO Techs are moving a little and you have oil and gasoline down, which is moving the transports. The dr...
TOM SCHRADER Techs are moving a little and you have oil and gasoline down, which is moving the transports, ... Th...
TOM SCHRADER The tech sector continues to be a drag. Outside the manufacturing sector, the market still has a lon...
LARRY LAWLER Fly high... Where the only chill that cuts through you is the wind. Where your heart pounds from exh...
VIRGINIA ALISON Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and...
JAVIER SOLANA And, ... the taxes are generally only due on dividends - and most investors buy the stock for growth...
STEVE CHANDLER It's clear the jury didn't buy into the soiled government witnesses. The entire foundation of the go...
BRUCE HERMAN The high-tech business is considered a young person's game. But in high tech there's a reverse corre...
DAVID GREENBERG Why was it so high last year? Because of the farm sector. That is a very volatile sector.
DAVID LENZE Marsha has done a great job with her teams over her entire career at Texas Tech. Her teams have set ...
BOB KNIGHT Quite simply we've got an absence of bad news, and investors want to buy technology.
JOHN POWER We have bionic legs right here. These are very high tech.
CAMERON CLAPP I'm very glad to see it close. We've been cautioning investors not to expect as much from it because...
SONYA MORRIS This will likely be the first of many in the tech sector to warn.
JAMES RAGAN A few alternative-energy companies are going after the right markets but that doesn't mean you shoul...
SANJAY Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exis...
RICK PERLSTEIN Intel will set the tone for the semiconductor sector, but also for the tech sector and the overall m...
JAY WONG They've got some very nice venture partners, very solid high visibility investors.
BEN HOLMES It's very quiet. In general institutional investors are not willing to move before the Fed makes its...
KOJI MUNEOKA Oh those little, those little blue shoes!
Those shoes that no little feet use.
Oh, the price w...
WILLIAM COX BENNETT There's significant upside for the entire sector. The earnings potential will be huge going into nex...
BRUCE LANNI Risks are high in the LCD sector so we are very cautious now.
BARRO LIAO And many of them have fallen for the 'high-tech superstition' without realizing its superstitious na...
XU XIUYU There are some offerings, the crappy offerings, where the only people stupid enough to buy it are th...
CHARLES KAPLAN At $50 to $60 a share, that was probably the right currency to buy high-flying tech companies. For c...
BRUCE HYMAN We've seen a lot of satisfaction in the high-tech sector due to the industry's rapid growth and thei...
FRANK CASALE I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
RACHEL DRATCH With that premium and given their size, its not clear that there would be a plethora of demand to bu...
ED GROSHANS We would characterize today's rally in the tech sector as an oversold bounce.
CLARK YINGST [But stock strategists remained fairly optimistic, that the volatility that sent blue chips within g...
CHARLES BLOOD Buying tech stocks across the board like yesterday is not appropriate since there are apparently win...
MASARU UEDA It's not economically feasible to buy enough doses for the entire population.
NATHAN JOHNSON It's high-tech material with low-tech toys.
MARK RAPPAPORT I think you have to pick carefully through the tech sector. A large swathe of Japan's technology sec...
MARC DESMIDT Tech stocks are on the sale rack. Unequivocally, investors are bargain-hunting.
DAVID SOWERBY The ruling appears not to affect HVB as much as initially feared and it seems investors are shifting...
CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT I'm utterly flabbergasted. What Sato did is just not on. It was a hopelessly ambitious move. It was ...
TSUTOMU TOMITA Although investors have basically had their fill of energy stocks, the fundamentals still point to a...
DAVID MENLOW Yields aren't high enough to entice investors. I see little reason to buy bonds as stocks are lookin...
YUUKI SAKURAI The Nasdaq will probably rebound tonight because of Yahoo and investors started factoring that in at...
KATSUHIKO KODAMA If Japanese investors buy U.S. Treasuries, then they have to buy the dollar as well.
ANTJE PRAEFCKE Domestic institutions were looking for reasons to unwind a good slice of their long positions in the...
MASAYOSHI OKAMOTO The Lehman upgrade of Cisco will have an initial positive impact on the tech sector.
RICHARD SKAGGS In our opinion, companies that cannot sustain high revenue growth eventually see their premium erode...
ARIANE MAHLER A number of the high tech names are getting smacked real good. It was already a market where investo...
AL GOLDMAN The challenge is to maintain high-touch in a high-tech environment.
HUDSON RIEHLE The course of the SPD and its reliability is not so clear anymore,
EDMUND STOIBER The merry lark he soars on high,
No worldly thought o'ertakes him.
He sings aloud to the clear...
HARTLEY COLERIDGE I want to make it clear that the lobbying sector does an important job. It is very useful to the gov...
ANDREW LANSLEY I have noticed that the UN have also begun to buy the high-tech products, such as motor vehicles, co...
DONG HONG B.C. is a very diversified economy, with strength in the high-tech industries, expanding natural gas...
CARLOS GOMES BC is a very diversified economy, with strength in the high-tech industries, expanding natural gas a...
CARLOS GOMES It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire th...
PETE WILSON It's time for investors to unload over-valued chips to reap gains. Concerns of overcapacity still cl...
LU CHENGDE The blue chips have a nice little advance going, but the semiconductors are really dragging things d...
CHRIS JOHNSON Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
HANNA ROSIN While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in t...
RON EGLASH We're serious. This isn't a joke, ... If an entire town changed its name to DISH, you can't buy that...
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