Deals, Disasters Spell “Emotional” Traders’ Market

Well that was a waste of 5 minutes of my time. The AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile will be bad for consumers (i.e. reduced competition), CAT should make some money, ok tell us something that isn't obvious. At least we found out where Jeff Macke went; the last time I saw him he was on CNBC's "Fast Money" and talking to us "as if we were children" about "car guys" and getting off the bus at Crazytown. Yeah it didn't make any sense to me either, but it looks like Macke has since collected some of the "yarbles" he lost that day. And what's with the Brit, is he trying to imitiate the Elvis Costello look? Hey I guess that 5 minutes was more entertaining than I thought.

Just what is the point of this terribly under-written and under-researced piece? This writer has the attention span of dog running free.

Great, more M&A's. Wonderful for Wall Street, terrible for employees and consumers. Wonder how many jobs will be lost and how this will impact mobile quality and price. Does anybody care? Does the FTC still exist? Looks like we're going to end up with one or two major players in every industry, lingering high unemployment, and a handful of happy investors.

Despite the broad nature of the interviewers��� questions, Mr. Baker is correct. This is not a market for retail investors to attempt to navigate. The events unfolding in the Middle East and Japan are volatile enough to defy the best institutional global macro players. Those funds that eliminated Japanese exposure earlier in the year for underlying market reasons look like geniuses, and many of the best investors who rode the market���s rise to date have gone cash or put on shorts in anticipation of a greater correction. Baker���s prudently targets wealth preservation with ���risk-on��� growth in conditions where fundamentals are positive ��� a strategy many retail and institutional investors who are active in this market will wish they had considered.

To the contrary, I think that the recent market correction and uptick is a sign that the system is now ignoring major world events, and will continue to ignore them. Staying in cash now is like putting it under a mattress in 1945.

To Mr. Baker's comment that this market has become an "emotional" traders maket, I can only reply... DO YOU THINK SOOOOOOOOOOO..........

Oh brother........

M&A isn't going to get people to spend when oil and everything is going up overall. Mergers only mean job cuts so how is this a good thing?

2011 is starting to look a lot like 2008. Except 2011 is on steroids (or QE).

Watching stock prices rise reminds me of the old expression, "there is a sucker born every minute." This might be the last good time to sell before the Dow plunges below 10,000. Anybody who is bullish on stocks with gold at $1,400 an ounce and oil at $100 a barrel has spent too much time near a Japanese nuclear reactor.

Love it, I think this is an excellent piece from two people who understand market sentiment which apperars to be drving the market. I'm tired of the cnbc women trying to become celebrities along with fast money advisors not owning up for lousy advice.

Invest in T-bills and sell stock, 60-40

Very cool show...didn't even know this existed....awesome. Macke is back!! and Did El Nesto Grande leave the (8 People in the box arguing all at once and you can't understand a thing) 2nd rate business channel??