Several wire service reports blame weakness in the stock today on bearish commentary on the stock from J.
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Forbes columnist Gary Shilling has been bearish on the stock market for the last few years.
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Sentiment toward HRS has remained bearish despite the stock's strong technical performance during the past several months.
This is the reason why I turned bearish on the stock market in 2007 when everything looked rosy.
It would be very bearish for the stock if she left Google now.
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If you are still bearish on the stock market, you will love John DelVecchio, one of the staunchest bears around.
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In short, I take this move by Buffett as seriously bearish for the stock market and would be worried about the weighting of equities, especially financial intermediaries, in my portfolio.
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Having positions in Buy rated Adobe, Applied Materials and Cisco Systems, and in Strong Buy rated Dell, Intel and Texas Instruments are prudent give that these tech stocks are between 24.5% undervalued and 44.2% undervalued, even if you are as bearish on the stock market longer-term as I am.
Pope was also negative on BP because the bearish bets on BP stock in options markets were rising.
Typically, when investors take a short position, or make bearish bets on a stock, they borrow stock to magnify their bet.
However, IGT is beginning to exceed even these bearish expectations as the stock is struggling to hold support in the round-number 30 region.
Bullish players are in attendance, although a number of strategists do appear to be initiating cautious if not outright bearish positions on the stock.
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According to Yahoo finance, the number of analysts with a bullish rating is 27 versus only 5 with a bearish view on the stock this month.
It looks like one options trader may have taken profits off the table this morning by closing out a previously established bearish stance on the stock.
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It looks like one investor is rolling a large put spread out to the December contract to extend bearish sentiment on the stock through to the end of 2011.
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The investor behind the transaction may be implementing the spread to hedge a long position in ADS shares, or may be establishing an outright bearish stance on the stock.
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The investor responsible for the transaction may be taking an outright bearish stance on the stock, or may be using the position to hedge long stock in DNKN through earnings.
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Juniper Networks ( JNPR - news - people ): Options investors populating the provider of telecommunications equipment and services are establishing both bullish and bearish strategies on the stock.
The investor may be employing the three-way spread to take finance an outright bearish view on the stock, or could be using the trade to hedge a long position in the underlying shares.
Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall, jumped 9.6 percentage points to 42%.
Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall, dropped 8.1 percentage points to 30.1%.
Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, was unchanged at 26.9%.
Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, was unchanged at 31.0%.
Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, pulled back to 40.8%.
Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, was unchanged at 17.2%.
Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, was unchanged at 24.3%.
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An unwinding of these bearish bets could supply the stock with ample fuel for a significant short-covering rally.
Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, rose 5.2 percentage points to 23.4%.
Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, declined 1.1 percentage points to 39.9%.
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