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David Blitzer Quotes
«A change of 7% or 8% in estimated earnings for the S&P 500 is significant, especially if investors are not fully aware of what caused the change.»
Author: David Blitzer
«This is a year of unusually low S&P index turnover due to the low number of mergers and acquisitions in the large-cap sector. So we are making the change at a time when the impact on index investors will be minimized.»
Author: David Blitzer
«Clearly, if we take a stock out at $2, and 6 months later it's trading at $10, we look silly and people who invest in the index will say, 'I missed a five-times gain'. But in talking to people who run index funds, the vast majority of managers say take the low-priced stocks out,»
Author: David Blitzer
«Increasingly, companies would pretty much write their own accounting rules when they put together their earnings releases. We said to ourselves, let's figure out how to do this the right way so the earnings number really tells us something about what's going on and the number is consistent from company to company.»
Author: David Blitzer
«The problem is that instead of having one way to calculate corporate earnings that everybody understands, we have two or three methods. And the one that most people use, there is virtually no agreement at all about what it means.»
Author: David Blitzer
«It's just a lack of consistency. Companies change the definition quarter to quarter, whichever looks best - that's not a reasonable way to do business.»
Author: David Blitzer
«[It was] a good deal better than expected and I think very encouraging.»
Author: David Blitzer
«The stock market reaction, if they cut a quarter point, probably will be as much a yawn as anything else. If the Fed would go for half a point, which is within the realm of possibility, I think it would get a positive reaction.»
Author: David Blitzer
«We're in for another year of slow movement [in the stock market]. It increasingly will have an upward bias, but it won't go through the roof.»
Author: David Blitzer
«The employment data showed a lot of weakness,»
Author: David Blitzer