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...Consumer sentiment is tied first and foremost to their jobs and job security. I think the main influence on this report was the unemployment numbers for February, which came out in the first part of March. With unemployment at 4.2 percent, I think people realize that whatever happens in the markets, the most important factor in their lives is going to be whether they're working or not, and the fact that unemployment is still holding - after eight months of the economy sliding - has to be encouraging...
...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...
...days when the P.L.O. ran an unruly state-within-a-state have left many Lebanese with bitter memories. Over the last year, debates in parliament and editorials in Beirut dailies have echoed the rising sentiment that Lebanon will find it difficult to bury its past and build a democratic future as long as Palestinian refugees remain in the country. "We refuse any implantation," Information Minister Ghazi Aridi declared in December. "This is a basic Lebanese national issue on which we cannot make any compromise...
...think so. "The broad economy is not as bad as the technology economy. More people are starting to wake up to the fact that this is a technology problem," says Thomas McManus, portfolio strategist at Banc of America Securities in New York City. Certainly there are hopeful signs. Consumer-sentiment figures released by the University of Michigan Friday suggest that the pessimism may be leveling off. Car and home sales have held up reasonably well, drawing down inventories, a critical issue. Consumers have been refinancing their homes at the fastest clip in several years. Energy prices have stabilized. Despite...
Lentz's battery-mates echo Walsh's sentiment...