The financial newsletter writers also became less bullish, declining slightly from 50% to 47.4%.
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Messrs Bremmer and Halper are actually less bullish about the new authoritarianism than the titles of their books might suggest.
In the developed world, the outlook for oil demand is less bullish.
While individual investors became a little less bullish, the financial newsletter writers moved up slightly, to 53.2% bullish with just 22.3% bearish.
The individual investor is much less bullish at 33% according to AAII.
The reason investors are less bullish short term on China is because economic data is not as good as it was a year ago.
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Though there are signs that the sentiment has turned less bullish now, there are still quite a few analysts recommending gold or gold mining ETFs.
So sentiment would be expected to be less bullish this week.
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His outlook for the Canadian market is only slightly less bullish, with a forecast of a return of 8% to 9% on the TSX in 2011.
Others are less bullish about America's wide open spaces.
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Yolanda McGettigan, new portfolio manager for the Fidelity Select Health Care fund, will be a lot less bullish on drug stocks if Democrats somehow manage to sweep both Congress and the presidency.
Neidl is now less bullish on discount carriers Southwest and JetBlue, which, despite their low fares and successful brand differentiations, don't figure to stand up to large carriers' inherent strengths of international routes, hub and spokes systems and frequent flier programs, not to mention their improved financial health.
Neidl is now less bullish on discount carriers Southwest and JetBlue (nasdaq: JBLU - news - people ), which, despite their low fares and successful brand differentiations, don't figure to stand up to large carriers' inherent strengths of international routes, hub and spokes systems and frequent flier programs, not to mention their improved financial health.
This suggests to me that further price weakness is needed to create the less-bullish environment necessary for gold to complete a sustainable bottom.
Only 27% of participants are bullish, but these numbers can still get more extreme, as less than 21% were bullish just a year ago.
The stock is already pricing in an unfavorable bill, so anything less unfavorable will be seen as bullish.
The majority of financial experts who appear on the cable networks seem to be getting more bullish, as some seem to be less certain we will see a correction.
Three areas where Goepfert finds useful readings of dumb money (or small retail investor) sentiment are in purchases of odd lots (less than 100 shares) of stock, flows into bearish and bullish Rydex funds and in what he calls the R.
Analysts have long been bullish toward Microsoft, with the stock proclaimed a Buy by no less than 21 of the 30 brokerage firms following the shares, according to Zacks.com.
The move, more or less the equivalent of an old-fashioned table-pounding affirmation of her bullish stance on the stock, comes in tandem with a release of the bullish results of a survey Morgan conducted that shows strong demand for for the iPhone.
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All this is bullish for the technologies and businesses that can offer solutions for greater power reliability (out less often) or resilience (out less time).
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Smaller analyst firms usually make the highest market forecasts, since they have less to risk (reputation-wise) and more to gain (in attention) from a boldly bullish call.
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