To some degree Trump is using Chinese trade issues as a means of trying to extract additional cuts from the Fed to bring interest rates down, believing that at some point in the future he has the ability to sit down with the Chinese and pull a deal together.

Phil Orlando

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We've had a 9 percent post-Brexit bounce, the market is getting pretty exhausted, you got a lot of uncertainty on the immediate horizon.

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We've got a very volatile summer coming up. by Phil Orlando

We've got a very volatile summer coming up.

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We think the election will become a much bigger deal shortly, but the market has been ignoring it for now.

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We think we've seen an inflection point where for the balance of the year there should less of a drag from currency.

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The election this year is the height of uncertainty. by Phil Orlando

The election this year is the height of uncertainty.

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We're moving away from growth because the economy is decelerating and investors are starting to play defense.

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Investors are scared to death. by Phil Orlando

Investors are scared to death.

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It's not giving anyone any confidence because to me at least it resembles a bad reality show on television.

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The knee-jerk reaction on the Fed lift-off is negative, we think the Fed lift-off is a positive for the economy and stocks, because it means the Fed is rubber-stamping the fact they truly believe the economy is strong enough.

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It is inconceivable to us, with $3.65 trillion in foreign currency reserves, the Chinese government and the PBOC would sit there and watch the second-largest economy in the world slide into recession or worse, i don't know if we're completely out of the woods at this point.

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Investors are expecting some better earnings out of the banks nex... by Phil Orlando

Investors are expecting some better earnings out of the banks next week, compared to the broad S&P.

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If you are a believer that the Fed is going to start to normalize policy, financials are a category that should work.

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Folks who say that stocks are fairly or over valued now are just looking at one metric of P/E based on history, but they are ignoring the fact that interest rates and inflation are about 65 percent below where they normally are. When those two are low, the P/E should naturally be higher.

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The fact that you've got these millennials delaying life and not getting married and not having kids is not a function of the fact that they are completely different from every other generation, it's a reflection that they went to college and ran up debt and couldn't find a job. Now that the economy is starting to improve for these folks, household formations have literally gone vertical.

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As individuals get married and buy houses and have kids, you need car seats and cribs. That's the next layer of stuff that's been delayed since '08.

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It's taken fifteen years for the Nasdaq to grow into something ra... by Phil Orlando

It's taken fifteen years for the Nasdaq to grow into something rational.

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The psychology of the market has been horribly negative for the last couple of weeks, what turned the market around today was plain and simple: the Michigan number was outstanding.

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