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This whole year has been one of rapid sentiment reversals. For three weeks investors think things are OK and then the next three weeks people think everything is bad.

There has been a shift of investor sentiment away (from funds). However, it wouldn't be unreasonable to see some people do some bottom-fishing.

There has been such negative sentiment around Amazon that just making the quarter and giving basically in-line guidance is going to be seen as positive.

We would need a very bad trade number to hurt the dollar against the euro, given positive dollar sentiment at the moment.

Wall Street fell Friday and prompted some investors to take profits. Sentiment was also weighed down by concerns about further rate increases.

To the extent that consumer sentiment reacts to movements in the unemployment rate rather than the meager increase in non-farm payrolls, we have to take this ... report as delivering good news to the troops.

To the extent we detect rapid awareness in the marketplace, we are cautiously optimistic on the company's 2006 prospects. However, if momentum builds more gradually, we believe sentiment is likely to erode further before it improves.

When everyone knows everything is going right for a company, sentiment is hard to improve.

With this gold price heading towards $600, positive sentiment is driving the sector.

With three major U.S. telecoms under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, we thought little more could happen to dampen already miserable investor sentiment in the space. Now events at WorldCom leave us virtually lost for words.

We remain of the view that the Fed's near-term objective is simply to support the stock market until consumer and business sentiment improves,

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.

What we're seeing today and what we have been seeing for the last week is a drying up of sentiment as investors wait for some definitive resolution of world events and some new corporate catalysts.

There is no market-specific impetus for fresh long positions to be established at present. Sentiment has been weakened by weakness across commodities over the past few days and the dollar is holding up well.

We're getting there now. People are putting money in bonds increasingly and not buying back technology stocks. This investor sentiment is getting nice and bad, and that's what we need to turn the market around.

U.S. payroll numbers are unlikely to give the dollar upward momentum, even if the numbers are good. Market sentiment toward the U.S. economy is worsening, buffeted by recent weaker data.

We're facing some negative sentiment in Washington. We talk to lots of people in Washington. Their message is: More is needed.

We're finally seeing hard data that confirm the recent positive sentiment indicators. We expect a strong export performance well into 2007.

Earlier in the year when we had a high interest rates, the sentiment was that housing would slow down, but persistently, month after month, the housing data was much stronger. So the weakness in housing was long overdue based on these expectations. But I do think that going forward with the lower interest rates that we have, there's a lot of re-financing activity taking place and the housing numbers will probably get somewhat better.

At one point American peace sentiment helped to stop Truman from pursuing use of the atom bomb in Korea and helped force the recall of MacArthur.

What is good is that we're seeing a real turn in investor sentiment to the negative, and you need that before you can get any sort of a bounce,

Everybody we've heard wants to save the Grape Bowl. Nobody has told us they want it to be torn down. So far, the sentiment is that it's too much of a community asset to do anything except renovate it.

Comments about waning U.S. oil product demand added bearish sentiment to the market, ... But we need to be careful as supply concerns are still there -- many refining and oil facilities have been shut.

Commodities still remain Canadian dollar-supportive. With commodities prices still relatively firm, there is positive sentiment toward the Canadian currency.

Commodity prices look sustainable in the short term. Analysts are expecting spectacular results. We may well see the continuation of the positive sentiment in resources stocks.

Is that type of sentiment out there? Sure. Is it big enough to make the issues list for our companies? No.

We were expecting a kind of balancing out between rising business sentiment and consumer confidence, which we thought would slip, but in fact we have improved on both fronts.

We see little change in investor sentiment regarding this deployment of capital over the next several quarters, even though we believe it will provide long-term benefits to the company.

The Thai market was under pressure due to regional declines. The markets in Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore all fell today and sentiment was very weak.

The strong sentiment of the US and Japan markets helped push up the index. The rally is very broad based.

The slide in stocks is a positive for bonds. Further stocks declines will damp individuals' sentiment and could affect growth.

The slump in commodity prices is having a negative impact on the Australian dollar. Sentiment has turned more bearish on the Aussie and we are likely to see it fall further at the start of next week.

The smaller figure is already a negative factor for the dollar. General sentiment for the dollar is negative, especially against the euro.

The story of the current account deficit allowed traders and analysts to justify any currency prices. Sentiment got overly bearish on the dollar.

The technical trends of the market and the sentiment has improved over the last few weeks, plus there are seasonal factors working in the market's favor.

The Singapore dollar is a good proxy for the yuan as Singapore is an open economy. When sentiment on the region and the yuan is strong, that's going to benefit the Singapore dollar.

The shift in growth sentiment supports a trend that has been developing over the past six months: namely, countries with strong external balances are beginning to look more attractive relative to countries with growing external deficits.

The second half should be a barn burner, ... We've had a good lengthy correction and sentiment has been problematic. There's no irrational exuberance in these stocks.

The stock market suggests that there is fantastic bullish sentiment -- everybody feels good, looks good, thinks wonderfully of this economy, and indeed it is very difficult to say anything wrong about this economy,

There are serious worries consumer sentiment would deteriorate if possible U.S. military action lasts a long time,

The prevailing sentiment is shame. I beg PSG fans to forgive us for our performance.

The prevailing sentiment tends to be somewhat negative after the earnings reports.

The rising level of unemployment and sentiment that a turnaround in labor market conditions is not around the corner have contributed to deflating consumers' spirits this month. Expectations are likely to remain weak until the job market becomes more favorable.

It was a little stronger than expected, but the sentiment data really hasn't been a major issue here. We're really still reacting to the payroll data.

It was weaker than expected, but it wasn't a dramatic surprise. It was already pretty clear that sentiment came off in January.

With sentiment under considerable short- and long-term pressure, we know that 2002 is not going to be anything like 2001 for the consumer.

Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a long period of time, then you are much more attentive to minorities.

With energy prices improving, it may be that we're seeing a bit of turn in sentiment to the positive side. I don't think it's a rising tide lifting all ships. It's going to be company by company.

We also believe such controversy, if any, would come at a poor time for Microsoft, given that the company is awaiting the Appeals Court ruling on the existing antitrust trial. As a result, we believe it is possible that this could put a damper on the positive sentiment surrounding the stock.

There is so much bad news priced into the stock ... and sentiment is so poor, that we believe the disappointing near-term results will be discounted in anticipation of improvements from new management.

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

We had a terrific week last week, ... Investor sentiment has shifted to people not wanting to miss out on any strength. There's a lot of cash on the sidelines.

Bond market sentiment is quite bearish at the moment. Retail sales would need to have a clear negative surprise to see Treasuries recover robustly.

Bottom line, the consumer is extremely healthy and sentiment is good. I believe they will be spending heavily this year, and that December retail sales will beat expectations.

We had seen the daily and weekly sentiment surveys show a small dip in consumer attitudes at the end of January. Some of that could have been related to the late January rise in energy prices.

After a good run for equities, investor sentiment has been knocked around due to high oil prices and concern over how that will affect spending power.

The oil issue is continuing. It has a huge effect on market sentiment and on consumer spending.

Property sentiment has also been boosted by a Bank of China report urging the government to act to boost the market. The government may be forced to do something such as restrain land supply in coming years and shelve some government-subsidized flats.

Prices should continue to consolidate in the wide range of $535-$555 in the near term, though the underlying sentiment remains bullish and downside appears limited at present.

Really, everything you can point to is showing that you have inflation in check. Inflation is less of a concern, rising interest rates are less of a concern and I think sentiment in the market has turned around.

Expectations have come down enough at this stage. This is the first day in a long time when the market has ignored bad news and the sentiment has remained positive,

Expectations over Japan's economic expansion next year are quite high. Market sentiment changed completely in the second half, triggered by Koizumi's re-election.

With 'One Little Victory,' I love the idea that Neil is the one who starts the record and he starts it with such a fury and it just says, 'We're back.' And the whole sentiment of that song about being aware of those little successes -- the daily little things that really count -- that we so often take for granted.

But soft drinks sales overall are holding up well, ... If you're looking at the first-quarter U.S. volume growth this year for both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, it's important to consider that other factors were at play including bad weather and anti-U.S. sentiment around the world.

But soft drinks sales overall are holding up well. If you're looking at the first-quarter U.S. volume growth this year for both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, it's important to consider that other factors were at play including bad weather and anti-U.S. sentiment around the world.

The president shares the governor's sentiment that the two enjoy a positive and good working relationship with one another.

The mood on the dollar is currently negative, the comments are playing into it. The market is short dollar and sentiment is weakening.

Despite yesterday's broad advance, trader sentiment remains sober.

Deteriorating market sentiment for the U.S. economy and yesterday's less-than-ringing endorsement of the strong dollar policy by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill fueled the dollar's latest losses,

Despite the likelihood of a conservative outlook, we believe better momentum in the company's growth areas could start to change the 'lack of growth' sentiment that has weighed on the stock.

Oil markets sentiment remains dominated by the escalation of attacks in Nigeria.

Demand is better than expected. A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is now under $2 a gallon in some areas, which is a nice drop from over $3 not long ago. This is improving sentiment and giving folks a few more dollars to spend on the holidays.

As important as he is to the club on the field, to the organization, to this community, we certainly didn't want to get into an acrimonious setting where effectively we're paying lawyers to tell independent arbitrators how little we think of Mark. We wanted to avoid that. He shared that sentiment with us. It's a mutually beneficial deal.

Banks and property stocks still have room for upside following strong interest in these stocks Friday. Easing interest rate worries and mortgage cuts offered by banks should help support sentiment for the sector.

As long as Yahoo continues to meet or exceed projections, shares should trade higher. The stage is set for sentiment to improve.

Bargain-hunting picked up speed, though sentiment has become sensitive to bad news and volatile trading may continue for awhile.

Although such a move has been rumored for some time, the speed of Dana?s demise will further dampen sentiment toward the auto industry.

Although such a move has been rumored for some time, we believe the speed of Dana's demise will nonetheless further dampen sentiment toward the sector.

Public sentiment is very negative on unions right now. Now is a good time to stand together. If we don't, it will be worse in 2008 or 2010.

Public sentiment regarding such vehicles has turned more negative than previously.

People's sentiment has changed a lot. Everybody used to think gold is of no use. Now, they think gold is pretty good, very beautiful.

People's sentiment is changing. They don't mind spending more for attractive goods.

Our sense is that the rejection was more a statement of employee sentiment in the airline industry rather than a statement regarding overall labor relations between UPS and the Teamsters. However, we believe UPS would want to put this contract to bed before focusing on the national Teamster contract.

Fed policy may be shifting slightly to a longer period of rising rates, and that will hurt sentiment for shares.

Energy has been pretty darn strong even with the price of crude down. In fact, the only real negative sector is consumer discretionary, because of the horrendous consumer sentiment numbers.

Fiscal fourth-quarter guidance is a clear-cut disappointment. However, sentiment was very poor prior to the earnings release and some investors are likely relieved that it's not worse.

Fiscal Q4 guidance is a clear-cut disappointment. However, sentiment was very poor prior to the earnings release and some investors are likely relieved that it's not worse.

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There's positive sentiment toward the VAT implementation and corporate demand for dollars is thin.

There's room for renewed growth in the housing market, even though I admit there's a lot of negative sentiment floating around right now.

There's sentiment building for a weaker yen. The BOJ is unlikely to raise rates soon, even after an end to its current policy.

There's obviously a very bullish sentiment there when you look at the tape. But you know, the volume's a little quiet, and that sentiment can still change in a heartbeat.

There's no doubt that Republican efforts to soften up Hillary Clinton in 2006 for 2008 haven't gone well. Anti-Clinton sentiment isn't raising the money that some had hoped for.

There's no sentiment in it for me. We still have a long road ahead of us. I think it's important for us to play well and fix some of the things that happened to us last week, but not at the detriment of next week's game. We have to be smart.

This should improve dollar sentiment ... as it alleviates a lot of the structural concerns about the dollar.

Yet, with the underlying sentiment toward the dollar being shaky at the moment, the trade report could shift market attention to deficit problems in the US and spark some dollar selling.

This reflects the healthy expansion we saw in April, and it's consistent with what we're hearing from businesses. Not only was there improvement in orders, but there appears to be momentum in business sentiment across the board.

There are growing concerns about a slowdown in the U.S. economy, which is negative for investor sentiment on exporters.

This effectively takes the wind out of the sails of investor sentiment at a time when investors were beginning to warm up to the prospects for accelerating earnings momentum.