sentiment

Stocks rally after upbeat economic news

MSNBC.com: Business  Thu, 12/15/2011 - 10:16

Wall Street rallied Thursday, as stronger labor market and manufacturing data lifted sentiment after three days of losses, while higher quarterly profit from FedEx also boosted equities.


 

Lexalytics Analyzes Wikipedia To Understand How Humans Think

InformationWeek Business Intelligence  Thu, 04/14/2011 - 11:07

Concepts extracted from the community created encyclopedia can be used to improve analysis of documents and sentiment in social media.


 

Here comes the 'Twitter Hedge Fund'

Topix - Business News  Sat, 12/25/2010 - 21:56

And people wonder why making money in the stock market is a crap shoot. A hedge fund will open in February that uses "Twitter sentiment" to predict the stock market.


 

Worried Americans Look Inward

Digg - Business & Finance  Tue, 08/17/2010 - 17:00

Economic anxiety tends to bubble up in three related forms: isolationism, protectionism and anti-immigration sentiment.

The question is which leaders in both political parties will push back against them.


 

Stock futures rise before new economic data

MSNBC.com: Business  Wed, 11/25/2009 - 07:55

Stock futures pointed to a higher open Wednesday as investors prepared to examine fresh data on consumer spending and sentiment, new home sales and the job market.


 

Consumer confidence slips in June

MSNBC.com: Business  Tue, 06/30/2009 - 09:12

Americans — whose hope for the economy had been rising since March — are starting to lose faith, pushing down a widely watched barometer of sentiment in June.