Kate Warne Sentiment Quotations

After several days being increasingly optimistic, particularly in the chip sector, investors are now pulling back somewhat wondering if they have again jumped the gun. This kind of erratic move is typical when sentiment is shifting negative to positive.

I think the underlying sentiment has actually been relatively positive even though we've seen technology shares drop over the last week and drop significantly.

The sentiment is nervous and I think today was very negative. People were getting both more nervous and less enthusiastic about where things were going.

I think what we saw was perhaps a bit more excitement at the end of the year than was warranted. Today we're seeing much more of a negative sentiment than is warranted.

Expectations have come down enough at this stage. This is the first day in a long time when the market has ignored bad news and the sentiment has remained positive,

Today is a rebound from the nervousness of last week and sentiment is shifting on the strength of the economy,

Clearly, the people who are buying growth stocks are saying the good news from a series of interest rates in the U.S. and Canada will mean inflation remains under control. The overall sentiment today was basically optimistic.

I think there was a shock reaction (at first) and then people said 'Is this very worse than we thought it was going to be?' And the answer was no. Yes, it was a down day but it wasn't very much of a down day, ... I think the sentiment is cautious but not as worried as would be expected.