I believe they're sending signals of wanting to engage, ... Now there's a reprieve.

We do not believe this deal signals that Dell ( DELL ) is going to become more acquisitive, but it does suggest the company is beginning to take some decisive steps to repair its recently volatile consumer business.

I don't believe that these profits that are being generated are being done without some kind of manipulation,

President Clinton will, I think, lift everyone's spirit. He was a good president, an economic, balanced budget president. And President Obama, I believe, has been a very good president, too, and we will get reelected. You watch.

And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain and driving under an overpass, and for just that second there is a profound, powerful sense of reprieve- the utter silence of non-rain.

In essence it was a reprieve from Wednesday.