The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, widened to -22.4 points.
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This is the most negative the bull-bear spread has been since September 22, 2011.
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The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, is 18.4 percentage points.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, is at 14.6 percentage points.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, narrowed to -2.6 percentage points.
With the bull-to-bear spread at above 30%, you have a reading typically associated with peaks.
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The spread between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, widened to -14 percentage points.
The spread between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, is above 0.0 for the 13th consecutive week.
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Similarly, bearish sentiment above 50% or a bull-bear spread below -29 points would be more correlated with market reversals.
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The bull-bear spread stayed in positive double digits for 13 consecutive weeks between May 19, 2005 and August 11, 2005.
One of the statistics highlighted in the article was the spread between bullish and bearish sentiment (aka, the bull-bear spread).
This is particularly evident in the bull-bear spread (bullish sentiment minus bearish sentiment), which is positive for the second consecutive week.
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The proximity of bullish and bearish sentiment to their historical averages is one of the things I pay attention to in our survey results, in addition to the bull-bear spread.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment (the bull-bear spread) is also unusually high at 31.5%, but not so high as to create caution that individual investors are too optimistic.
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The 21.3-point spread between bullish and bearish sentiment suggests that optimism remains below levels that would be considered excessive, however. (The bull-bear spread has topped 40 points nearly 70 times since 1987.) This suggests that though many individual investors are hopeful, concerns about the economy, interest rates and the federal deficit have not faded into the background.
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There is also the possibility that the trader was opening an in-the-money bear call spread.
To limit risk in the event of an unexpected post-earnings pop, investors could pair the bought 50-strike put with a sold July 42.50 put, resulting in a bear put spread.
As such, regulation tends to impose fixed costs that are far easier to bear by larger corporations that can spread the costs over more sales or more locations or more employees.
The statistics bear this out: The inflation expectations metric based on the spread between treasuries and TIPS correlates very badly with inflation, in some cases as badly as negative 80%.
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During the height of the crisis, it may have accelerated the spread of toxic asset pricing, leading to a faster run on Bear Stearns and Lehman (and other banks too).
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Pearl's head office at Peterborough is expected to bear the brunt of the job losses, but the firm said the cuts would be spread across the UK, including offices in London, Tunbridge Wells, Cardiff and Bristol.
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