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“At the beginning of the year, our district looked like an insurmountable task. Now, the way we're playing in these games, we've had a chance to win them.”
Chris Wolfe
“It's just one tough one right after another. But when you go head to head with the top teams in the state and are a play away from winning, that's not a fluke. We played with (St. X) and had our chances. Hopefully we'll take that into this week -- but this week finish.”
“The biggest thing about them is not only are they talented, but they're talented and deep.”
“I keep telling our guys we need to find a way to make it to the playoffs and then you never know what can happen.”
“We go from the No. 2 team in the state to the No. 1. What can you do? You just have to keep fighting and keep trying to get better. We just have to keep believing and try to make something happen.”
“The earnings picture has come in much better than expected. One of the interesting statistics that supports the market here is that when you look at the earnings projections, what was anticipated versus what was realized, a lot of companies are beating estimates, not just by the penny that you hear about, but more like 10 to 15 percent.”
“I think investors have to play technology if they're going with the Fed. You have to look at the technology stocks. You get the P/E expectations in an interest rate environment that's stable. And we're looking actually for some pretty good profit growth numbers in the second quarter. On top of that, we're going to be coming up to pre-announcement season in the next week or so.”
“We think the earnings picture shaping up for this quarter is just going to be absolutely stupendous, led in part by semiconductors and the networking firms. They're all reporting in the next two weeks.”
“The real short-term outlook for us is pretty positive given that we don't see a Fed rate hike in August and that due to political noise, if you will, we are not going to see a rate hike in October. But on the earnings front it is a different issue. Looking into 2000, our longer-term forecast, we've had two great years of earnings growth. We think it is going to be pretty difficult to show up with another year of 30-to-40 percent earnings growth. So, consequently, our message has been a lot more selective about the securities that we want investors to focus on.”
“We think the earnings picture shaping up for this quarter is going to be absolutely stupendous, led in part by semiconductors and networking firms. Looking forward that's a different story. We've had two great years of earnings growth. We think it's going to be pretty difficult to show up with 30 to 40 percent earnings growth.”
