Increasingly we're seeing strong company performance, and that's starting to generate improved job prospects and feeding through to consumers. That should lead to a distinct turnaround in sentiment this year.

James Nixon

The sentiment was (barricades) have done more harm than good. Things were kind of quiet until the barricades went up. Now instead of 10 protesters, we have 200.

Bill Foster

Sentiment is very good. We're seeing a last run as investors buy up shares that have done well during the year.

Patrick Casselman

We expect the dollar to remain strong in early 2006. (But) once the U.S. Federal Reserve finishes tightening, the risk is that external imbalances play a greater role in steering currencies, and in that latter backdrop, sentiment toward the dollar may deteriorate.

Besa Deda

I think that the share price is largely reflecting both inaccurate press and inaccurate market sentiment, and of course the liquidity of the company, ... But my feeling is that the liquidity concern, while very real, is something that will be resolved very well and very quickly.

Jason Olim

Investors are becoming more risk-averse and are speaking and expressing their negative sentiment with their dollars.

Robert Adler

This is the sentiment of the party and this is the sentiment of the people of Delhi.

Sheila Dikshit

Sentiment on the dollar has not improved yet and its rise will be short-lived as it was driven by technical trade.

Nobuaki Kubo

Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises concern about a slowdown in the U.S. economy.

Choi Chang Hoon

OPEC needs to increase production to improve sentiment in the market.

Richard Savage

The buoyancy of both the housing and mortgage markets indicates that the marked slowdown in the world economy and the recession in the UK manufacturing sector have so far had little adverse impact on consumer sentiment.

Martin Ellis

Market sentiment appeared to be still bearish.

Hiroyuki Kubota

Sentiment seems to be slightly negative for the dollar with the Iran issue and trade data looming.

Kota Kimura

Local market sentiment was also buoyed by overseas investors, who had placed large net buy orders ahead of the market opening today. This helped prompt retail investors here to step up purchases.

Hiroyuki Nakai

Sentiment is good in the UK at the moment, if you look across valuations they're not excessive. It's currently just being led up by miners, there's got to be a bubble at some point but if you take a very long term view, commodity prices have probably got further to go.

Jeremy Le Sueur

Even good earnings results from well-known names like Toyota Motor Corp aren't helping sentiment.

Masatoshi Sato

Investors right now are more willing to sell the rally than buy the pullback, which tells you a lot about the sentiment.

Bryan Piskorowski

The Fed minutes are harming the dollar-bullish sentiment. Any gains in the dollar will be capped today.

Teruhisa Tsuji

They're saying that right now. The sentiment might change with military action.

A. F. Alhajji

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Giuseppe Mazzini

If they want a fight in January, they'll get it, ... From what I'm hearing today, there is an overwhelming sentiment of anger by state employees at the governor.

Charles Wells

Worries over political risks have eased and sentiment has improved.

Alex Huang

We're just getting energy prices going through the roof. The longer period of time (consumers) have these elevated prices, the more it starts to weigh on sentiment. People have held on pretty well but the longer this remains the more risky it becomes.

David Watt

It is straight out of its time, from the rock music to the anti-Vietnam War sentiment.

Oskar Eustis

The prospect of rising interest rates in the major economies -- Europe, the United States and Japan -- has significantly damaged sentiment in the commodities market.

Tatsuo Kageyama

Right now 90 percent of the market's sentiment is focused on political events.

Luis Garrido

Snow's admission of central banks diversifying from dollars could be used as dollar-selling material. Amid the already dollar-bearish sentiment, some investors are looking for dollar negative factors.

Teruhisa Tsuji

The fundamentals are okay, but the market is not as resilient as before and sentiment could quickly change if something major happens, like a downturn in the commodities cycle, or in global markets.

Du Plessis

We believe we are at a tipping point whereby the anti-war sentiment has now become the majority sentiment.

Brian Becker

The fact that investors are chasing commodity stocks on the back of higher oil prices, instead of selling stocks outright, suggests that market sentiment is quite strong.

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Overall market sentiment was boosted by the sharp gains in the regional bourses, especially rises in the Japanese market.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

James Thomson

Sentiment (for the dollar) remains mixed.

Satoru Ogasawara

It's not just to the families. I think it's a national sentiment that we bury our dead, that we do everything we can to bring them home.

Diane Horning

The chance to perform with these guys for such a great cause is something really special, ... Hopefully, people will embrace it in the way it was intended. The song really does fit the sentiment and something special happened when we pulled it together.

Chester Bennington

There is significant sentiment for Gerry Whitman in the community.

Joseph Sandoval

The prevailing sentiment is shame. I beg PSG fans to forgive us for our performance.

Pierre Blayau

The market is going to look at the forecast [for a rise in sentiment in the manufacturing sector]. I think this is a good change, a positive change.

Hirokaza Yuihama

The sentiment we have seen with the stock market correction -- I think it is something the Fed is worried about.

Michelle Laughlin

Whatever is transpiring in the market, especially this week, is against the backdrop of extra negative sentiment, so the market is prone to react to bad news.

William Sullivan

Hopes have been dashed. The market had taken off very quickly. This has cooled investors' sentiment.

Jerome Forneris

The bond market has rebounded this week, and we've seen sentiment improving. Tensions over Iran, if that's driving oil higher, could be a problem.

Bob Maes

Sentiment is still dollar negative, and it will take some very decent equity news to turn this around. The market needs something to hang its hat on.

Ian Gunner

There was a certain amount of romantic sentiment that comes through some of the letters.

Claude Clegg

We're almost conditioned as gay people that the church means the Christian Right and the anti-gay sentiment. We don't even consider church as a possibility for us.

Jon Templin

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game..

Roberta Williams

I think it's very clear that the sentiment is real and it does matter. It has been only 40 years since white children and black children were not allowed to go to school together and it's not something we should ever forget.

Tom Townsend

Certainly sentiment towards gold now remains positive, with the market ignoring the further drift lower in the oil price and the recent strength in the dollar.

Alan Williamson

Every toll facility in the country is looking at this. Cities and states are strapped for funds, and the anti- tax sentiment is increasing almost daily, particularly with the motor-fuel price run up last year.

David Schulz

Sentiment on junior high-tech stocks and China high-tech stocks is quite negative for the time being and until we see Nasdaq stabilize we won't see a big change in the market psychology.

James So

Higher energy prices could sap some strength from real growth, but sentiment is likely to bounce once Katrina disruptions abate.

Mike Englund

I can only guess that this is one of those sort of anti-Microsoft sentiment things that's going on here.

Andrew Lochart

We're finally seeing hard data that confirm the recent positive sentiment indicators. We expect a strong export performance well into 2007.

Matthias Rubisch

If you look at the technology food chain in Europe there's not much exposure to Apple here. Memory chip companies have had a very strong run. Sometimes these things come at the same time and help overall sentiment.

Theo Maas

Funds moved back into technology shares, on strengthening sentiment in the industry.

David Li

I don't think Main Street cares. But it would improve the mood on Wall Street. Little things like this matter in improving sentiment.

Brian Gendreau

It depresses sentiment more than anything else. Any political instability or regional conflict ...creates uncertainty. But I haven't seen much of an impact.

Doug Beck

The sentiment is very, very negative. Right now every news is bad news, even if there are good results [from companies].

Pierre Lapointe

KNOWING YOURSELF means being able to separate the true from the false in yourself - love from emotion, joy from sentiment, Will from desire.

Barry Long

While I applaud the sentiment, I think it's not likely to be practically realistic to plan to try to offset in other places of the budget the large emergency relief that's needed in this case.

Joshua B. Bolten

It's quite likely that we have now seen the peak in the current business sentiment cycle.

Alexander Koch

We won't see much selling before the report comes out, as the sentiment is that there could be a larger drop than expected.

Mark Pervan

I expect that Ukraine's Russian-speakers and people sympathetic to Russia will increasingly rally towards anti-Moscow sentiment.

Yevgeny Yasin

Given sentiment, we expect some near-term upside in the stock capped by revenue growth issues.

Keith Bachman

They heard loud and clear. There was just no way in getting around the sentiment that the project was not welcome there.

John Lovell

There has been a shift of investor sentiment away (from funds). However, it wouldn't be unreasonable to see some people do some bottom-fishing.

Robert Adler

We all know how dependent Japanese manufacturers are on the U.S. market. The jobs data is a blow to already-weak sentiment.

Masayoshi Okamoto

In reality, it won't matter as much because other elements like spending and consumer sentiment look good and that will keep the upward pressure on interest rates.

Hans Olsen

Muto's comment reversed sentiment among investors and it is a reason to sell bonds. They're now thinking the economy is still recovering and yields won't keep on falling.

Jun Fukashiro

I'm sure you know that the public sentiment toward this City Council is growing colder by the day. The feeling is that you many times go out of your way to alienate the very people whom you were elected to represent.

Bob Bonde

My kids are not happy. The general sentiment is, yes, there is still a message here and, yes, it is powerful. But to call it fiction [and not memoir].

Andy Jones

We are not allowed and are unwilling to kick anybody out. The theatre is available for student-run productions and the sentiment at Swat is that these are just as important as any other event, regardless of how much money it costs.

Martyna Pospieszalska

I don't think it's an anti-Boston sentiment.

David Wells

A rally in equities weighed on sentiment, while there was some caution ahead of the 30-year debt auction today.

Akitsugu Bando

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

John Yap

When the stock market drops, you don't necessarily notice it at the gas pump, ... The price of oil will drive the market as far as sentiment goes, but it's not necessarily correlated in terms of performance.

Patricia Jennerjohn

The yield on the lead 20-year debt rose a bit as some investors cut long positions after making hefty purchases last week but overall sentiment appeared to be generally bullish.

Ryutaro Matsuyama

It's purely the earnings numbers. Sentiment was negative going into the numbers, with a widespread expectation there would be a miss -- including us.

Mark Mahaney

The smaller figure is already a negative factor for the dollar. General sentiment for the dollar is negative, especially against the euro.

Masafumi Yamamoto

Reliance stock was volatile but sentiment appears to be positive. We see strength in Reliance's core businesses of oil exploration, refinery and petrochemicals.

Rajesh Jain

[Sentinel Hill resident Jan Johnson echoed Ward's sentiment.] It feels extremely negligent, ... Many homeowners did not get formal notice.

Jan Johnson

Reliance stock was volatile but sentiment appears to be positive going forward.

Rajesh Jain

It appears that investor sentiment for upstream semiconductor-related shares has been strong.

Shawn Wang

It was a little stronger than expected, but the sentiment data really hasn't been a major issue here. We're really still reacting to the payroll data.

John Canavan

Really, everything you can point to is showing that you have inflation in check. Inflation is less of a concern, rising interest rates are less of a concern and I think sentiment in the market has turned around.

Gregg Hymowitz

We share the sentiment that this needs to be developed as quickly as possible.

Richard Duffy

The strong sentiment of the US and Japan markets helped push up the index. The rally is very broad based.

Louis Wong

Given Bahrain's strategic value, Washington may be reluctant to criticize its ally, but a failure to do so could result in growing anti-U.S. sentiment in the kingdom.

Joe Stork

When everyone knows everything is going right for a company, sentiment is hard to improve.

Richard Farmer

There is strong sentiment that this maximizes participation opportunities.

Maureen Mahoney

We were expecting a kind of balancing out between rising business sentiment and consumer confidence, which we thought would slip, but in fact we have improved on both fronts.

Emmanuel Ferry

Demand is better than expected. A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is now under $2 a gallon in some areas, which is a nice drop from over $3 not long ago. This is improving sentiment and giving folks a few more dollars to spend on the holidays.

Eugene X. Hodge

We don't change our personal consumption forecasts around [the Michigan sentiment index]. But it's a good sign -- I think the consumer will trudge along here, even if they are saddled with high debts.

Ethan Harris

We believe this sentiment will continue to serve as an overhang on the sector in the near term.

Elise Wang

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

Elaine Pagels

That sentiment clearly is going to spill over into Imperial Tobacco, despite the fact that (the company has) zero exposure to the U.S. market.

Zafar Khan