Existing features of digital platforms such as 'trending' content or auto-suggestion prompts have always been blunt instruments; a crude measure of volume, lacking context, which can — as Gamergate amply underlines — be gamed to lift the crudest sentiments and content into mainstream view, even without considering targeted attacks.
Yes, it's crude, but the sentiment is there - scarcity increases value which in turn increases desire.
But as long as the oil-exporting cartel sticks to conservative cuts in a bid to affect medium-term sentiment, crude could stay within the $60.00 to $70.00 trading band heading into 2009.
A boost to commodity prices, which included a $1.80 jump in the price of December Brent crude oil, spread the positive sentiment to mining stocks like BHP Billiton, up 3.4%, to £17.57 ($36.69), and Rio Tinto, up 3.3%, to £43.34 ($90.51).
The elite wanted, and got, a well-run city, which included reasonable public services; the cruder forms of anti-government sentiment never had much home in New York.
The theologically conservative future president of Yale, Timothy Dwight, opined that "the style was crude and vulgar, and the sentiments were coarser than the style.
Rev. Jesse Jackson's whispered comments in which he expressed anger with Sen. Barack Obama and used some crude language to convey his sentiments (i.e. he wanted to cut off Obama's "nuts"), represented a hugely important event for the press.
"Crude oil prices have dropped along with sentiment concerning the speed of the global economic recovery," Deutsche Bank said in a commodities market report released Friday.
Healthy increases in U.S. crude inventories are adding to the bearish sentiment in the market, analysts said.
Barclays Capital Analyst Costanza Jacazio said poor demand for distillates and a large cushion of inventory justifies holding low expectations for cracks and margins in the near-term but that OPEC's role in the crude market exempts the commodity from bearish sentiment.
