Maria Bartiromo Quotes

I don’t care a damn about stocks and bonds, but I don’t want to see them go down the first day I am President.

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.

America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

Fundamentals make the market.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

Political reactions from Wall Street, whether they [are] right of wrong, could eventually influence the real economy.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.

We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading.

If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.

Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'

If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.

A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.

Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.

There is the fact that - people have had a lot of confidence that the Chinese leadership could fix what is wrong with their economy so it wouldn't have ripple effects around the world. I think that confidence is being shaken by how difficult it is for them to manage their stock market and their currency.