Word: sentimentals
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...being accurately glum about the quarter just past a fundamental reason to be optimistic about the future? Hardly. Sentiment - the way traders make themselves important is by having very thin skins - is certainly on the upswing after a day like Thursday. Tech stocks, you may recall, have a habit of taking back what they've given, especially when it was given in a hurry...
...foreign bullying - and is being targeted once again, this time by the U.S. "hegemonists." That nationalism is now the binding ideology of the new China, and its most enthusiastic champions are often the Nike-wearing, Big Mac-munching students being groomed to run China Inc. It is a sentiment Jiang can scarcely ignore...
...mystery. At first I thought it was Greenspan, but he didn't really say anything to seriously affect sentiment. It looks like one of those snap-backs, when the world realizes all at once that things are looking cheap...
...myself the willing target of a nation's hostility, a country full of purported fans of college basketball who entertain themselves by disparaging my team, who cringe at the sight of Duke blue. And it's not just University of North Carolina fans, for whom, at least, anti-Duke sentiment is a hallowed tradition. Instead, it's a whole lot of people who, for reasons that continue to escape me, find everything about Duke basketball to be deeply distasteful. And for a team that's never done anything but play solid, passionate, occasionally spectacular basketball, that seems an unfair return...
...Americans are as concerned about the Bush administration's position as the Europeans are. And trying to pile on the pressure won't work either, because the administration clearly doesn't give a toss what the Europeans think. There's also a fear that this wave of anti-American sentiment may camouflage the fact that the E.U. countries themselves are behind on their efforts to reach their own emission-reduction targets, and that they still have to ratify the treaty...