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Bulls Beat Bears For The First Time In 17 Weeks, Pessimism Drops As Bearish Sentiment Slides Below 40%
Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 8:44am | 561After breaking an 11-week-long streak last week of being above the 50% mark, the bearish sentiment, measured by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Sentiment Survey, slipped below the 40% mark in the current week. What Happened: Additionally, the bullish sentiment for this...
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Market Pessimism Hits Record: Bearish Sentiment Tops 50% For 9th Straight Week, But 'Corporate Insiders Are Now Buying,' Says Expert
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 7:35am | 826The bearish sentiment, measured by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Sentiment Survey, continued breaking records for another week, however, experts expect to see a “relief rally from the current levels.” What Happened: Despite an over 1% fall in the weekly...
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Markets Gripped By Pessimism As Bearish Sentiment Breaks 35-Year Record, Remains Above 50% For 8 Straight Weeks
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 7:55am | 836The bearish sentiment, measured by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Sentiment Survey, broke a record this week as it stayed above the 50%-mark for the eighth consecutive week. What Happened: Despite a weekly decrease in negative sentiment, the latest AAII survey showed...
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Wall Street Worries Mount As Bearish Sentiment Hits Highest Level Since 2009 Amid Trump's Tariffs
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 8:07am | 649The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) survey revealed that bearishness, at 61.9%, continued to outpace bullish and neutral sentiment this week, marking a week-over-week rise in pessimism. What Happened: The most recent results from the AAII Sentiment Survey, which tracks investor...
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Employee Confidence Hits New Low As Economic Anxiety Grows
Monday, March 24, 2025 - 12:52pm | 496Employees are becoming less confident about their businesses’ outlooks as the United States economy faces potential challenges, including inflation risks, economic slowdown, and global instability. What Happened: Glassdoor released its Employee Confidence Index in February, ...
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S&P 500 Selloff Spikes Investor Pessimism: Bearish Sentiment Hits 30-Month High, But This Expert Recommends Investors To 'Stay Strong And Not Panic Sell'
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 3:19am | 576Bearish investor sentiment as measured by the American Association of Individual Investors reached a high of 60.6%, just before the S&P 500 experienced its worst day of 2025 and second-worst March trading day ever on Monday. What Happened: As highlighted by Ryan Detrick, the chief market...
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Bulls Bag A 5-Peat: Investing Sentiment Mirrors MJ's Glory Days, AAII Survey Reports
Thursday, July 6, 2023 - 3:06pm | 554No, this isn’t Michael Jordan’s ’91, ’92, ’93, ’96, ’97, or ’98 Chicago Bulls, we’re talking about the American Association of Individual Investors survey — those Bulls are winning. What Happened: The latest American Association of Individual...
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Bullish Sentiment Back Below 40%, Bearish Sentiment Lowest Since February
Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 4:39pm | 306The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Investor Sentiment Survey measures the sentiment of individual investors on the stock market. The results of the latest survey recently came out and showed that bullish sentiment was back below 40 percent, while bearish sentiment...
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New Sentiment Survey Shows Investors Are 'Very Mixed' On Fed Language Tweak
Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 1:05pm | 275Last week, the Federal Reserve removed "patient" from its latest meeting statement. But how are individual investors responding? The American Association of Individual Investors released a new Sentiment Survey designed to gauge AAII members' reactions to the language change...
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The 10 Best Financial Tweets For Thursday, July 25
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 1:37pm | 1451There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful, or just down right comical. 1. Carl Icahn Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) took to Twitter to tweet his displeasure...
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Investors Turn Bearish: A Sign of a Market Bottom?
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 11:08am | 363The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) released its weekly survey of investor sentiment, with investors turning extremely bearish in the past week. Each week, AAII polls investors on their views of where the stock market will be in six months and each investor can only vote once...
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June AAII Asset Allocation Survey Shows Equities Fall
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 11:17am | 42The June AAII Asset Allocation Survey was just released, and it showed that allocation to equities fell during the month, with cash holdings receiving a boost. Stock allocation fell 1.5% to 59.5%, while bond allocation also fell to 19.0%, down 2.1%. Cash allocation went up 3.59% to 21.5%.
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News Summary for April 28, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 9:00am | 396U.S. stock index futures started the day slightly lower today prior to the 8:30am economic data releases and corporate earnings reports. In the early morning, investors awaited the first estimate of the U.S. first-quarter GDP growth today, which came in at a deflator of 1.9% versus the 2.0% Street...