My second bullish variable relates to sentiment which as far as I can determine is mixed, but turning positive.
With marking to market, a wobble can quickly become a collapse, illiquidity makes prices harder to set and valuations are more susceptible to sentiment.
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"Contrary to sentiment, we believe retail landlords will be able to maintain full occupancy during the near-term, " they said, adding that vacancy rates are below 1%, domestic and international retailers are expanding, and rental-lease increases were maintained in 2011.
An encouraging December U.S. retail sales released yesterday failed to lift sentiment enough to outpace intensifying concerns over the American debt ceiling conundrum.
The HSBC report adds to the sentiment that the RMB will continue to strengthen against the dollar and euro, and investors love positive sentiment and momentum.
And at the same time he was losing subscribers, suggesting that the share price movement was very much related to online sentiment and not to business fundamentals.
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Bullish sentiment rose to its highest level in two years, while bearish sentiment fell to its lowest level in about a year in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey.
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These purchases would in turn aim to improve sentiment in bond markets and buy some time to allow fiscal adjustment measures to work and the eurozone to demonstrate that the fiscal compact is meaningful.
While at this point the impact of the events in Egypt will likely be just a temporary blip on the price action of this pair, the euro is at a critical level and heading into next week, traders will want to watch market sentiment closely to see if the area around 1.3500 can hold as support or if losses toward 1.3400 are in store.
Derwins had a secret sauce to measure Twitter sentiment of stocks to predict the movements of the broader market.
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Tools to measure customer sentiment are starting to be embedded in solutions rather than offered as a bolt on capability.
None of this will amount to a hill of beans except to swing sentiment and incite panic.
Financial companies also use the service to do sentiment analysis that affects financial markets.
Further adding to negative sentiment was a flare up of military activity in the Middle East.
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The figures added to improving sentiment over the outlook of the US economy and the jobs market.
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No surprise to us sentiment sniffers, because the GDP growth rate had also been running at about 5%.
On the surface the immediate responses of France's stale governing elite would appear to bow to protectionist sentiment.
However, it helps to be able to quantify sentiment, and we do that in a few different ways.
However, the setback in labor market recovery poses a threat to overall sentiment.
Contributing to that sentiment was a lot of bad data in the U.S. last week, says NPR's Adam Davidson.
The data failed to improve sentiment also because weak production in the year-earlier period has helped the latest reading.
The number complemented negative manufacturing data from Europe and Asia that led to negative sentiment across the Old Continent.
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This makes the A-share market unusually susceptible to the sentiment of Chinese household.
Meanwhile, two-way trading traffic in June contract put options sends mixed signals as to investor sentiment on Petrohawk in the medium term.
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He reckons that chance meetings with ordinary voters are at least as important as opinion polls as a guide to public sentiment.
Also adding to bullish sentiment are a trio of strong earnings reports.
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Obama needs unemployment numbers to come down, and consumer sentiment to rise.
If the ECB was to cut rates in a bid to boost sentiment, it would mark its first reduction since July last year.
Mr. Greiner: Anything that relates to consumer sentiment is unsurprisingly tough.
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But this direct connection to instantaneous sentiment has some real implications.
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