Investors often watch insider sales for clues on executives' sentiment about a company's prospects.
The Bank of Japan's latest Tankan report of business confidence shows that, although pessimists still outnumber optimists among executives, sentiment has leapt by bounds, mainly because overseas demand for cars and electronics is on the rise.
Ron Dennis, the company's chief executive, echoed sentiments he expressed last week, when the first images of the P1 were released.
The survey, however, also found that executives expect sentiment to fall in the next tankan in March, which would be the first decline in two years.
An index of executive and consumer sentiment dropped to 88.8 from 89.5 in July, the European Commission said.
Michael Dell, the chief executive, suggested that sentiment among corporate executives was improving slightly, after three years of recession in technology spending.
Mr. Gates and other top executives emphasized that sentiment.
[C2.] Pulse-Taking at Morgan Stanley Two independent directors of Morgan Stanley interviewed senior executives to gauge sentiment at the divided Wall Street house.
In interviews with current and former N.F.L. executives, the overwhelming sentiment is that Clarett would be courting disaster if he tried to play football next season.
To show how the conversation spiked about Mr. Jobs, there were 50,016 mentions of him on Wednesday, rising to more than 879,000 on Thursday, which was the single largest volume of conversation about him since he resigned as Apple's chief executive, according to General Sentiment, another firm specializing in social media analytics.
