Bullishness has led to some bumps for the fund in 2005, a blah year for stocks so far.
Provided the positive momentum underway, how should investors position themselves to benefit from the bullishness?
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Cambodia Airlines is only the latest sign of bullishness in Southeast Asian air travel.
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The latest evidence of the bullishness in Hong Kong housing came from Sino Land on Tuesday.
Bullishness was back up to 30.8% last week, and bearishness back down to 42.2%.
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And investor sentiment has spiked up to high levels of bullishness usually associated with market tops.
In fact, investor sentiment in the U.S. is at unusually high levels of bullishness and confidence.
Then there is the high level of investor bullishness usually seen near market tops.
For instance, at the bull market top in 2007, bullishness reached 54.6% on October 11.
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Those subsequent drops in bullishness were of no importance, the 2007-2009 bear market was underway.
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The general explanation for this bullishness is that the world is flush with liquidity.
But was the auctioneers' bullishness really warranted, or does a detailed breakdown reflect a gloomier reality?
Strong clinical data clearly drives this kind of bullishness, but greed often pushes optimism beyond rational basis.
It is now at extreme levels of bullishness and confidence, convinced the market can only go higher.
Sentiment does reverse from high levels of bullishness near tops to increasingly pessimistic expectations as corrections develop.
We consider that level to be when the poll reaches 55% bearish, and bullishness drops below 21.
As is the case with Nike, some of the bullishness in Foot Locker can be tied to Black Friday.
Bullishness on these fronts is keeping investors optimistic on the second quarter, even with stocks at fresh all-time highs.
Meanwhile, the VIX Index, also known as the Fear Index, measures the bullishness or bearishness (fear) of options players.
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Cause for Bullishness: Okay, so the tables above give us the bad news.
The reason for such bullishness is the industrial supply company has raised its sales guidance for the second quarter.
The spread between bullishness and bearishness in the AAII poll is currently 46.9%.
What I find so curious today is broad based institutional investor surveys uncover a rich lode of residual bullishness.
The likelihood that the United States will attack Iraq only stokes Granville's bullishness.
Adding to the bullishness, Thursday saw the release of a solid jobless claims print, which fell to 340, 000 from 347, 000.
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On the stock market, investor sentiment is now at extremes of bullishness and confidence regarding 2011, and for good reason.
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Similarly, at the April top this year, the AAII poll reached its high of bullishness at 48.5% on April 15.
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If we start to see significant improvement in the global economic scenario, certainly that will add to the bullishness of palladium.
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This consensus forecast shows that rightly or wrongly bullishness is alive and well in equity research despite the recent global tumult.
For instance, the Investors Intelligence Sentiment survey shows bullishness has jumped up to 57%, while bearishness has fallen to just 15.7%.
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