Laszlo Birinyi Jr. is president of Birinyi Associates, a financial-consulting firm in Westport, Connecticut.

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"There's not a whole lot to be positive about now, " said Cleveland Rueckert, an analyst at Birinyi Associates.

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"People paid more attention to the Fed's verbiage than the action, " said analyst Cleveland Rueckert of Birinyi Associates.

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"The market doesn't believe a lot of these commodity and oil stocks will not be able to duplicate the same quarters they had in the past, " said Cleveland Rueckert, an analyst at Birinyi Associates.

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Of the 30 social media or Internet-related IPOs since the beginning of 2010, 80% are below where they opened on their first trading day and 60% are below their IPO price, according to Birinyi Associates.

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"We saw the market go down after the bailout didn't pass, and we saw a market that went down even more after it did pass, so at this point it looks like traders and investors are just looking for an excuse to sell, " said Cleveland Rueckert, an analyst at Birinyi Associates.

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