Word: sentimentals
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...election will also gauge extremist sentiment in the country: the ultra-right-wing Republicans are on the ballot. Because of the country's Nazi past and continuing attacks by neo-Nazi skinheads, public support for far-right organizations is closely monitored in Germany. What's more, ballots for the Republicans are generally regarded as protest votes that would normally go to the more centrist cdu. In the 1996 election, the Republicans received 9.1% of the votes in Baden-Württemberg, but the prognosis for this year is just 5%. "I think this year the Republicans will do less well...
Lentz's battery-mates echo Walsh's sentiment...
...Baumohl: Well, it's something that could still change, but after February's Michigan numbers, which were revised up, I count this as the second straight rise in consumer confidence after several months' slide. It seems to suggest that perhaps the worst may be over in terms of consumer sentiment, which is critical to the length and breadth of this slowdown...
...Fridays are usually bad in a down market like this, because nobody wants to go into the weekend with a stable of losers. But consumer sentiment has been a major concern of Greenspan's for a while, and when good news came traders suddenly got worried that the Fed wouldn't feel as much need to cut interest rates if the confidence numbers were turning around...
...three interest rate cuts, and that's certainly what we'll have on Tuesday, no matter what the size. As long as Greenspan doesn't seriously disappoint with a 25-point cut, this may well be the month that we start to see a turnaround, in both consumer sentiment and in the markets...