These stocks function best during a calm, bullish market and tend to suffer amid volatility.
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The most bullish market participation see unemployment just dropping below 7% within the year.
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In fact, investors predicting a bullish market may want to keep their losses unrealized in hopes that they become gains.
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Half of the 300 investors surveyed anticipate having a more bullish market outlook for the next six months, the report says.
Despite the bullish market forecasts, global credit-card companies are feeling increasingly frustrated with their limited access to the Chinese market, where China UnionPay Ltd.
Market watchers said there was not a specific reason for gold prices to suddenly drop so quickly on Wednesday, but that there were several signs, including a 93% bullish market sentiment reading by Market Vane on Monday.
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Hey, bullish market, great returns, awesome pay!
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Such would arguably be commodity-market bullish and possibly stock market bullish, despite the specter of reduced demand prospects due to the sluggish economy.
The market is supported by bullish outside market forces that include a weaker U.S. dollar index and firmer crude oil prices.
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Higher crude oil futures prices Thursday were the other bullish outside market force supporting the precious metals.
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The bullish bond market tone emanating from the report also sent shock through credit markets and caused a slump in recently rejuvenated benchmark stock indices.
Investor sentiment, always very bullish at market tops, and very bearish at market lows, was at extremely bearish levels at the low in early 2009, convinced the market could only go lower.
It measures the sentiment of brokerage firm analysts and independent investment advisors, two groups that also are excessively bearish at market lows, and excessively bullish at rally and market tops.
And as they say, the most bullish thing a market can do is go up.
The uncertainty regarding the Libyan situation and the ongoing EU debt crisis are gold market bullish.
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That would be raw-commodity market bullish, including bullish for the precious metals markets.
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That would be raw-commodity market bullish, including bullish for gold and silver markets.
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In other news, reports said Goldman Sachs has reaffirmed that it is bullish the gold market in the coming months.
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The uncertainty regarding the Libyan situation and the ongoing EU debt crisis are gold market bullish to start the week.
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By the time the bear flag was completed in May, many of the February bears had turned bullish on the market.
The market place, at least at present, is deeming the Fed statement as stock and commodity market bullish and U.S. dollar bearish.
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The new plan would be ostensibly printing of greenbacks by the Fed and would be raw-commodity market bullish, including bullish for gold and silver markets.
That would be inflationary, which in turn is commodity market bullish.
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Technically, to confirm an actual bottom on the daily chart and turn the near term technical trend bullish, the market would need to close above that ceiling.
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But the ongoing EU debt crisis remains gold market bullish.
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Say Tintle is bullish on a market fundamentally.
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Mark Hulbert of the Hulbert Financial Digest also made a decent case for bearishness, showing how quickly advisers whom he tracks turned bullish as the market began to take off last month--moving from 19.2% on March 10 to 57.9% today.
Such a move by the Fed should be gold and commodity-market bullish, as it would not only make the returns on hard assets more appealing, but it would also likely put some downside price pressure on the U.S. dollar index, or at least limit its upside movement.
The market place is a bit more stable this week, which has been bullish for the gold market as it is behaving like a risk asset and following other commodity markets at present.
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