Amid the market turmoil that has wreaked complete havoc in world markets, this market analyst is asking, "Where's the capitulation?" We look today at a couple of sentiment barometers that are not showing the signs of capitulation a complete surrender of investors that one would expect amid this torrid price action.
What's more, given the events of the last couple of years, the sentiments expressed in the second half seem appreciably more perceptive.
Another regular who had been making fun of Biden's use of the entirely correct term admitted that she had learned the previous night that the term was indeed entirely correct, but that "it's too funny not to mock him" for, uh, using a word with which she was unfamiliar; a couple of other commenters expressed similar sentiments.
Despite the weak Chinese figures, mining shares were higher as the oil price rise and a couple of positive analyst notes helped sentiment.
The key point however, is that the FTSE is in a sharp bearish move and it could be the start of something much nastier than a couple of weeks of poor market sentiment.
In the past couple of days, I've experienced those sentiments first hand; the Muslim man from Birmingham who told me it was evidence of hostility to those of his faith; a man whose family came here from India but who blames Muslims for the deterioration of the area.
BEIJING — I'm bullish on China after a couple of weeks here and perhaps that sentiment begins with the little emperors and empresses.
That's a more genteel version of the sentiment expressed a couple of weeks ago by the perpetually hysterical Alan Keyes, a Republican who was beaten by Mr. Obama in the Illinois Senate race in 2004.
Here's some more: Attensity used its Cloud tool to collect some 50,000 Tweets on the iPad – a relatively small sample considering the heaps of chatter on the iPad that has taken Twitter by storm over the past couple of days – and analyzed the general sentiment.
Over the past couple of years, messages bearing a similar sentiment have been surreptitiously plastered on billboards and phone-boxes across London, as artists have nicked advertising space to make public service announcements of their own.
