Some of these CEOs are saying we're getting some visibility, but no one is pounding the table.

A lot of [financial companies] report this week. This might be some speculation that we'll see some visibility from the group.

How do you think it went? ... He wasn't going to take any lip. He was pounding on the table and saying we'd just go home. We're thinking, 'Fine. Let's go home.'

We need some good employment data. That would be the one-two punch we'd need to spur a good rally.

When we got to a certain point of weakness there were buyers and that's been one of the characteristics of the market recently ? the re-emergence of the 'buy on dips' crowd. It's a more disciplined crowd but they are certainly nibbling at excessive weakness and that's a good undertone.

Wall Street is so skeptical that we need more than one hint, one hunch or one guess that the economy has bottomed.