Earnings are a mixed bag, but it seem like tech stocks are starting to turn the corner.

The market is sloppy and choppy. This is earnings season. We're going to have a mixed bag.

So far the earnings season is kind of a mixed bag. It's not the catalyst that everyone was expecting it to be. Nokia was disappointing, Apple was positive and Citigroup is in the middle. We're still waiting for IBM,

So far the earnings season is kind of a mixed bag. It's not the catalyst that everyone was expecting it to be. Nokia was disappointing, Apple was positive and Citigroup is in the middle. We're still waiting for IBM.

You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.

Tech stocks are boasting high multiples, Sony shares are trading at 44 times projected fiscal 2006 earnings and many others are exceeding the 21.8 average for all firms traded on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.