sentiment

Sentiment refers to the general mood or attitudes of a population. There are many different methods used to ascertain general sentiment, with the most popular being surveys.

The collection and analysis of sentiment has become quite sophisticated in the past 50 years. It is used by the government to not only formulate public policy but to create platforms at election time, for marketers to create advertising campaigns and it is also used by investment and trading professionals to determine asset allocation.

There are large organizations which engage in surveying the public to determine trends and priorities in public sentiment. Such examples include Pew Research, Gallop, Nielson, Zogby, and National Opinion Research Center.

Bloggers not only engage in communicating public sentiment but also play a role in formulating it through their own activities. As blogging becomes more and more pervasive and popular, the voice of bloggers within the media plays a larger role in shaping our society.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sentiment”

• A Noble Sentiment

  
  NeoShinka — Authority: 128
  Oyabin ~ Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo E02 Just War Theory Just War theory is a doctrine of military ethics of Roman philosophical and Catholic origin studied by moral theologians, ethicists and international policy makers which holds that a conflict can and ought to meet the criteria of philosophical, religious or ...
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• Look at future cash flows….do you think 2010 will produce 75 dollars in earnings for the S&P?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  There’s no pricing power on the part of firms, only higher raw material costs. the higher we go, the more margin squeezes are going to happen. At the end of the day, it is future cash flows that drive the market… sentiment and technicals are short to medium term phenomena. Market may rally higher, but no volume ...
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• Why Is Napolitano Warning US?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  The U.S. Homeland Security secretary says she is working to prevent a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas. Janet Napolitano says her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to deflect any backlash against American Muslims following Thursday’s rampage ...
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• S&P Price Oscillator Is Three Standard Deviations From Mean: 99% Outlier Market

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Sentiment Traders Price Oscillator reading just went off the charts. Earlier, it hit a value of 72%, an 18% increase, and a number which falls between two and three standard deviations from the mean : a 1% outcome assuming a normal distribution. As a reminder the price oscillator is a very common, reliable ...
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• EUR’s Trends to be Set by German ZEW Economic Sentiment

  
  Forex Trading Education : Forex Trading Blog by FOREXYARD — Authority: 487
  The EUR’s trends for the upcoming day are likely to be set by the outcome of the German ZEW Economic Sentiment publication at 10:00 GMT. The forecast is 58.9, versus the 56.9 previous result. A result matching the forecast, or even better is likely to boost the EUR. Therefore, we could see the EUR/USD cross [...]
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• 5 Reasons You Should be Using Adwords

  
  Internet Marketing Solutions — Authority: 148
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• Some Saw Trouble With Fort Hood Suspect

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  In retrospect, the signs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s growing anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem unmistakable. But even people who worried his increasingly strident views were clouding his ability to serve the U.S. military could not predict the murderous rampage of which he now stands accused.In ...
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• BlackBerry and First Direct: missed social media opportuntities

  
  RMM — Authority: 116
  Two big campaigns had me a thinking this month: BlackBerry’s ‘Love what you do’ activity and First Direct’s ‘Live’ campaign. First Direct is a nifty piece of brand activity but try as I might I can’t find how one can properly interact with the brand and its representatives – for example by ...
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• Investor Sentiment and Stock News is Generally Outdated

  
  Blog Brings Profit For You — Authority: 125
  When we make this statement that investor Sentiment and stock news is generally outdated; than I am not wrong as I can corroborate the same with a news item published way back in 70s and same is reproduced below:"According to
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• Some Saw Trouble With Fort Hood Suspect

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  In retrospect, the signs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s growing anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem unmistakable. But even people who worried his increasingly strident views were clouding his ability to serve the U.S. military could not predict the murderous rampage of which he now stands accused. In ...
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• EUR/USD Outlook – November 9-13 2009

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 435
  After a good week, the Euro expects a week full with indicators, with GDP numbers kept for Friday. The Euro is slowly climbing again, but it still seems out of fuel. Here’s an outlook for the EUR/USD forex chart with support and resistance lines marked on it:. Click to enlarge:Germany and France are already out [...]
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Forex Weekly Outlook – November 9-13 2009

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 435
  After a very busy week, that finished with painful employment figures in the US, the markets will have more time to digest the news this week. European GDP figures, British and Australian employment figures and US Trade Balance will stand out this week. Let’s see the main events awaiting us this week.During the ...
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• A Look Into Record High Trading Volume...And What It Says About Investor Confidence

  
  Commodity Bull Market — Authority: 421
  The following article was adapted from the November 2009 Elliott Wave Financial Forecast and reprinted with permission here. Steve Hochberg and Pete Kendall produce stellar analysis for Elliott Wave International - two of my favorite guys in the biz - here, they take a look at trading volume, and what it says ...
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• Grateful!

  
  a sweet sampling of smart art — Authority: 127
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• Bullish Investor Sentiment In Freefall

  
  Disciplined Approach to Investing — Authority: 465
  This weeks bullish investor sentiment reported by the American Association of Individual Investors took a dramatic slide to the downside. The bullish sentiment reading fell 11.4 percentage points to 22.22% from last weeks reading of 33.65%. This weeks reading is the lowest since March 5ths bullishness reading of ...
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• This “market” will not truly correct without a real trigger financial or otherwise.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  The Boys have the means to move this any way they want absent something they simply cannot control - especially when they’re in a data “sweet spot”. When “this is it” really is “this is it”, IT is going to be instantly known & nobody (quite possibly even God Sachs) is going to be able to move in ...
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• Technical Analysis: Are Stocks Headed For a Fall?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  When the S&P 500 opened at 1047.30 on Nov. 5 and quickly rallied 1.65% to 1063, investors could be pardoned for feeling a sense of déjà. Just yesterday, the S&P 500 opened at 1047.14 and barreled its way up to 1061. But stocks gave back most of their gains after the FOMC meeting, and closed at 1046.50. ...
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• US Dollar Forecast Bearish Ahead of Nonfarm Payrolls

  
  Forex - Foreign Exchange Blog — Authority: 148
  EURUSD – Euro Forecast Turns Short-Term Bullish vs DollarGBPUSD – British Pound Forecast Remains PositiveUSDJPY – Japanese Yen Likely to Recover versus US DollarUSDCHF – Swiss Franc Expected to GainUSDCAD – Canadian Dollar Forecast Near NeutralGBPJPY – British Pound Forecast to Gain vs Japanese Yen ...
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