Bullishness was back up to 30.8% last week, and bearishness back down to 42.2%.
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Carlyle, facing a climate of bearishness about the future of private equity, did it just right.
Nor do fears about the big money-centre banks justify bearishness about banks as a whole.
By the time the correction ends, investor sentiment has reached a high level of fear and bearishness.
That is a harbinger of lower retail prices as the bearishness works its way through the system.
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It is also in a neutral area, not near the level of bearishness usually seen at correction lows.
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My outright bearishness and distrust of the markets since May of 2011 is documented in the financial media.
It showed a very high level of fear or bearishness during the summer correction and at the October low.
Meanwhile, the VIX Index, also known as the Fear Index, measures the bullishness or bearishness (fear) of options players.
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Quite a streak of bearishness, to be sure, but is it really over?
For 2012, bearishness on the Japanese market seems to be the contrarian view.
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The spread between bullishness and bearishness in the AAII poll is currently 46.9%.
Whether the recent bearishness will run deeper or turn tail, time will tell.
Levy's newfound bearishness is the result of lessons learned as a young man from his economist father, Jerome Levy .
If there's any solace for REIT owners in all this, it's that Fosheim's bearishness has proved ill-timed in the past.
For instance, the Investors Intelligence Sentiment survey shows bullishness has jumped up to 57%, while bearishness has fallen to just 15.7%.
Historically, the AAII poll is considered to be in its warning area when bullishness reaches above 50% and bearishness drops below 20%.
However, sentiment for the dollar was at a record extreme of bearishness, and short-selling of the dollar was at near record levels.
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Jimmy Chanos normally weighs in with some form of esoteric, cosmic bearishness.
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Further bearishness for natural gas comes from a mild start to winter in key demand regions, specifically the U.S. Midwest and the Northeast.
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In this space exactly a year ago I poked fun at Morgan Stanley Asia Chairman Stephen Roach's long-standing bearishness on the American economy.
That is, sentiment is at a high level of optimism and bullishness at market tops, and high levels of fear and bearishness at market lows.
Speculators increased their bearishness in copper, bumping up their net-short positions.
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As contrarians, we expect this almost-unprecedented bearishness to have bullish implications.
So far, he says, only the oversold condition has been met, but he won't call a bottom until he sees more bearishness and some sort of reversal.
That is, sentiment is almost always at high levels of optimism and confidence at market tops, and at extreme levels of bearishness and fear and correction lows.
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Nor is there much sign of another common cause of bearishness, war: most recently, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait coincided with the sharp fall in share prices in 1990.
Still, I thought and still think that the bearishness was ridiculously overdone.
However, I am not convinced by his bearishness about residential property, and I think he is making a mistake by looking at China as one unified real estate market.
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Sentiment among hedge fund managers is negative, which is consistent with the pervasive bearishness prior to rallies that began in the final months of 2010, and March and April 2011.
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