So far, they share one sentiment: a deep longing for the place they've left behind.
Bullish sentiment is just slightly above one standard deviation from the historical average and bearish sentiment is within one standard deviation.
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For one thing, sentiment in the outgoing House was overwhelmingly in favour of some sort of inquiry.
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Entrepreneurs are trustworthy because they accept a moral code of testability and falsifiability rather than one based on sentiment, sanctimony, good intentions, good press, good luck, good looks or guarantees.
They are simply one measure of sentiment.
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Accept your station in life: Thailand's prime minister, an old Etonian, is not the only one to admire that sentiment.
So, if the sentiment is one of growth and expansion, then there is a desire among the public to incur debt in order to expand and grow their businesses.
If there is one word that summarizes political sentiment in Volusia County, it might be frustration.
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Sentiment analysis was one of the first steps capital markets took outside the realm of market data, said McGovern.
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There are many moving parts, and any of these could direct market sentiment drastically in one way or the other.
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But what we find interesting is that the sentiment backdrop is one that suggests there is enough sideline money and short-covering potential to drive a sustained move through these areas relative to two months ago.
Still, the general sentiment among residents is one of relief, now that construction is once again in progress.
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This is why I suggest using our sentiment survey as just one part of your market analysis, as opposed to making it the cornerstone.
It has been just one quarter that Apple disappointed on sentiment.
They need to get much more bullish before it is a concern, and typically it takes several months for the sentiment to shift from one extreme to the other.
It has a lot to do with the recent performance of the stock market, a pretty good measure of sentiment as well as one of the better leading indicators of real economic activity.
Other measures also suggest sentiment is running hot, including the spread between bullish and bearish sentiment (37.6 percentage points) and the standard deviation (bullish sentiment is more than one standard deviation above the historical mean).
One of the more interesting is investor sentiment, which has been made very bullish and complacent by the September rally.
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One basic proxy we use for investor sentiment is the percentage of NYSE stocks selling above their 30-week moving average.
Specifically, I look to see whether bullish and bearish sentiment are within or beyond one standard deviation of their averages.
In the last month alone, consumer sentiment, by at least one measure, experienced the greatest monthly plunge since the height of the financial crisis.
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Even with the decline, bullish sentiment is just slightly beyond one standard deviation of its historical norm, making the current reading atypical, but still not an outlier.
Bullish sentiment is now more than one standard deviation above its historical average, placing it above the typical range that has been registered over the course of the survey.
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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.
"Given the strong fundamental and technical performance combined with negative sentiment, AMD appears to be one of the few tech issues truly worthy of more than a look for your portfolio, " says Johnson.
Failing that, surely at least one of your close personal Facebook friends shared that sentiment.
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