Combined with a worry wall that just got higher, things look pretty good.
Still, the worry on Wall Street is that Johnson won't be able to turn around business fast enough to finance the transformation of its stores.
When sentiment gets really negative on gold and the wall of worry mounts, gold will climb.
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There are always crevices on the proverbial wall of worry that stocks often climb.
Most of the bricks in the previous wall of worry have been removed.
With the stock market continuing to climb a wall of worry, focusing on high quality firms becomes ever more compelling.
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He says that drug stocks will continue to climb a "wall of worry" as health care reform makes its way through Congress.
This is an effort to dampen the fears of currency traders and investors who are climbing a wall of worry and uncertainty.
Equities are climbing a vertical wall of worry right now.
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As was previously seen with Dendreon, biotech investors are terrified with CMS. Is that a reason to avoid the stock, or a wall of worry for shares to climb?
So summertime is usually not the best time for stocks, but bull markets do love to climb a "wall of worry, " and the bad seasonality is just another brick.
The attitude of the financial press and the individual investors has certainly changed from early January when I felt the market would be Scaling the Wall of Worry.
The market does seem to have a new wall of worry just a week after concerns about the economic recovery, and whether the Fed would or would not provide additional quantitative easing, faded away.
But just as stocks often must climb a wall of worry, so Koizumi's gamble to upset the old LDP order may be the best way--even the only way--to give Japan its next leg up.
Stocks are climbing the wall of worry.
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On the other hand, some on Wall Street worry that availability of a gene test to predict response might limit the market for Iressa and Tarceva to only a small minority of lung cancer patients whose tumors have the gene mutations.
But, Apple holders must face an ominous wall-of-worry within time.
By the same token, a sharp fall on Wall Street may be less of a worry.
And some on Wall Street, of all places, worry that diminished quality will undermine Journal Register's franchises.
Dividends remain the key reason for drug company popularity on Wall Street, especially as more investors worry about a slumping market generally.
Moreover when CEOs get together among themselves to discuss issues of mutual importance, Alan Murray reports in his article, The End of Management in the Wall Street Journal, that what CEOs worry about most is disruptive innovation.
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Greenspan's need to defend himself smacks of worry about his place in history--fiddling while Wall Street burned.
"You always worry about what the levels need to be, and Wall Street punishes you if you're wrong, " Beemer says, adding that many retail firms have begun tying buyers' bonuses and promotions to their ability to avoid excess.
Wall Street, he thinks, is wrong to worry about inflation risk because it is wrong to expect a sharp economic rebound.
Why then did he spend so much time in 2009 on health care, instead of even more time on jobs, more time on Wall Street reform, all the things that people worry about?
"It's a chunk of money that's there, and you don't have to worry about it like you do suppliers, buyers and so forth, " says one Wall Street tax expert.
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