On Monday you have the options expiration and you're going to see very high volume. After that, my guess is it's going to be flat. I don't see any direction in the short term.

When we're on the eve of an options expiration its always hard to tell what's going to happen because the battle between the sellers and buyers becomes more intense.

In the U.S. [investors] were disappointed with Cisco. Here we have a political problem still unresolved and forthcoming expiries of options and futures, which always bring volatility.

The market is very volatile, very fragile.

People are afraid of what could come out politically.

It's dreadfully dead. The options took up a good lot of the volume at the opening, but in between there was nothing,