The overseas bearishness quickly floated over to the U.S., even though the weak dollar is a good thing for the U.S. Another Thursday sign of bearishness was the OPEC meeting.
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By contrast, activity in Chevron shows bearishness has remained stagnant.
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The reason for his bearishness at the time may sound familiar.
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Going into 6463, there is a lot of bearishness on the dollar.
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Despite his bearishness, he isn't ruling out another near-term leg higher.
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Hedge funds' ultra-bearishness toward oil extends well beyond the crude market.
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They reiterated their bearishness in reports on Thursday, despite the stock pop.
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Bearishness fell 2.8 percent to 26.6 percent, the lowest level since mid-August.
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In other words, bearishness on sterling is at its highest in two years.
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Bearishness was at 35.7 percent, while 35 percent were in the neutral category.
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"The endless bearishness of hedge fund managers weighs on us, too," Cramer said.
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"Investors are close to extreme bearishness," said Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at BofAML.
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Other indicators are also providing evidence of the market's increasing bearishness on the dollar.
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Call it bearishness, or just protecting their positions, but that rhetoric drives Cramer crazy.
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Expect yields to be stable and any temporary bearishness to be expressed via swaps.
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About any of these concepts, though, Christensen speaks with a healthy tinge of bearishness.
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But there is a lot of bearishness in the market, according to short interest data.
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Most in the industry maintained that the overwhelming bearishness of investors and oversupply woes persist.
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His bearishness and his way of flaunting his scholarship were immutable aspects of his personality.
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Gross has been outspoken about his bearishness on U.S. government bonds and other sovereign debt.
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The tech selling dragged down all three major indexes, causing concerns of wider bearishness in equities.
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But, we have been terrible at market level calls having been bearish before bearishness was cool.
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Bearishness fell over the past week to 12.7 percent, also the lowest reading since April 1986.
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"Investors are close to extreme bearishness," notes Michael Hartnett, Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief investment strategist.
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Bearishness came down from 46.5 percent the week before to 38.7 percent, but remains above the average.
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Croft points out there's a second issue adding to the bearishness surrounding oil: a large U.S. inventory build.
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Shen Weizheng, fund manager at Shanghai-based Ivy Capital, said extending share sale restrictions would prolong market bearishness.
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Investor optimism has continued to erode through the current correcting, with some gauges showing bearishness at multiyear highs.
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Bearishness on the weekly American Association of Individual Investors survey hit 42.8 percent in the most recent reading.
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In other words, a high level of bearishness often signals that the market is ready to move higher.
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"There's a lot of bearishness out there now," said Phil Flynn, analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago.
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The drop in Netflix's stock is thus evidence of healthy skepticism, rather than kneejerk bearishness about its future.
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If the S&P 723 had continued to fall below the average, it would have conveyed real bearishness.
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And that is an opportunity that could be missed by all of the innate complacent bearishness in the market.
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The level of bearishness around oil stocks has become "extreme," and it's time to play for an energy snapback.
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Some believe that another widely watched crude oil price index — Brent — could fall below $6900, adding to the bearishness.
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The oil market was impatient waiting for world oil inventories to decline and had become besides itself in bearishness.
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This is up sharply from the February and March lows of 0.1, which marked extreme bearishness in the market.
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"The post-Brexit surge in bearishness is one factor for wicked counter-rally in risk," the bank told clients.
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High levels of bearishness do leave stocks susceptible to bounces, however, if there is a rush of short-covering.
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One thing that makes me reconsider my bearishness is recent conversations with bank CEO's like Jamie Dimon and Brian Moynihan.
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Unsurprisingly, the collective bearishness on zinc extends to sister metal lead because of the two metals' shared mined production profile.
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Unsurprisingly, the collective bearishness on zinc extends to sister metal lead because of the two metals' shared mined production profile.
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While she may temper the bearishness from Friday's nonfarm payrolls, Mizuho Bank analysts do not see hawkish bets being revived either.
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"I'm sort of looking for a little more bearishness," said King Lip, chief strategist at the wealth management company Baker Avenue.
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Defying the broader bearishness, resource-related stocks surged, with the mining index up 2.3 percent to its highest in nearly eight years.
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Crude prices hit a five-month low on Thursday as mixed U.S. inventories data compounded bearishness already brewing in the energy complex.
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While there is still substantial bearishness in the market towards the pound, that could vanish if Britain votes for the status quo .
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Excessive bearishness relative to bullishness can be a signal that the market could be be oversold and is poised to move higher.
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"Hedge funds have swung from extreme bearishness to extreme bullishness," Ned Davis Research energy strategist Warren Pies said in a note Monday.
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Despite his longer-term bearishness, the widely-followed analyst said he is looking to shift some euros in his portfolio into dollar.
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"Bearishness was just so widespread that the market had a technical bounce, and now the fundamentals are going the right way," added Yardeni.
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Speculators avoided extending their bearishness over the soy complex last week, slightly retracting their overall short stance, which was led by soybean oil.
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"It's been very bland geopolitically for the last few quarters before this quarter," noted Kloza, who shed his bearishness about six weeks ago.
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There is a lot of bearishness around Snap, which has continued to miss earnings expectations and failed to grow its user base significantly.
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Sixty percent of fund managers said they would reduce their investments in Saudi Arabia, displaying bearishness that has carried over from last month.
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Sixty percent of fund mangers said they would decrease their investments in Saudi Arabia, displaying bearishness that has carried over from last month.
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Yet despite the rally, there have been big increases in bearishness among investors with at least $1 million in a self-directed brokerage account.
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The increase in bearishness from funds signals that they are moving money out of crude oil, Singapore-based Phillip Futures analyst Daniel Ang said.
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Bearishness had been in a range between 16.5 percent and 18.3 percent for most of the year, but has moved out of that area.
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The sentiment that OPEC's outward unity is starting to crack has contributed to the downward turn in price and the emerging bearishness surrounding oil futures.
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Active clients, which included market makers and hedge funds, increased their bearishness on longer-dated Treasuries in the latest week, the J.P. Morgan survey showed.
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Sentiment was also hurt by bearishness in mainland China markets, where blue chips had their worst day in two months amid worries about tighter regulation.
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There has never been a comparable shift from bearishness to bullishness among speculators over such a short space of time in the last 22017 years.
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Oil prices struck a new 2017 low on Thursday as mixed U.S. stockpile data compounded bearishness that has permeated the energy complex in recent weeks.
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The CEO added that CyrusOne, which focuses on data centers, has continued to see "buy signals" despite Wall Street bearishness on the data center space.
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The Dow also gave up its gains to end flat, while the S&P 500 ended near its session lows, a sign of lingering bearishness.
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In addition to general bearishness when it comes to unprofitable software companies, investors are following an unpredictable presidential election and the looming threat of a Brexit.
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And concerns about the health of gasoline demand and high level inventories in the United States have added to the bearishness within the hedge fund community.
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The Korean won proved to be the biggest beneficiary of dollar bearishness, with long positions in the currency at their strongest since the beginning of January.
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"Many people are still skeptical about risk assets given the pervasive bearishness out there," said Karl Haeling, vice president at Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg in New York.
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Middle East funds plan to reduce investment in Saudi Arabia, a Reuters poll showed last week, displaying a bearishness that has carried over from last month.
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Speculators reached new levels of bearishness in CBOT soybeans and soybean meal in the week ended June 24, completely dwarfing their extension of bullishness in soybean oil.
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Plentiful global supplies and expectations that big harvests in the United States and Russia will add to the glut added to the bearishness in the wheat market.
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Normally when you get to point where there's a resounding level of bearishness on a sector it's worth asking yourself whether it might be time to buy.
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The Italian developments meanwhile increased investors' bearishness on the euro, which fell 0.2 percent to $1.1778 to approach the five-month low reached on Wednesday of $1.1763.
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The yield curve as measured by the gap between three-month and 10-year Treasury yields remained inverted, however, a sign of bearishness on the economic outlook.
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According to Vanada Hari, founder of Singapore-based energy consulting firm Vanda Insights, the bearishness has been spread from panic correction to a so-called "paranoia" selloff.
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Traders' three-month bearishness on the dollar versus the euro hit its most extreme since at least 2010 in late June before retreating a bit, Reuters data showed.
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Nonetheless, Saudi Arabia has succeeded in banishing the bearishness that haunted the oil market over the last six months and converting most hedge fund managers into oil bulls.
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That's the lowest level since just before Trump's win back in November and comes as bearishness has risen to 20.2 percent, which is a high since the election.
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Overall, gas traders appear to have concluded the former bearishness had gone too far, with the recent rise in prices and spreads correcting that to a more neutral stance.
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The CEO admitted that his bearishness on the PC business came about because customers are buying fewer PCs, but he remained enthusiastic about Intel's wide reach in the market.
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"All of this is serving to put markets in a risk-off mode, generating a bid for bunds, and bearishness in BTPs (Italian government bonds), which are vulnerable," he said.
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Read More Cramer: Complacent bearishness plaguing stocks—you could be missing opportunity Typically, the technology sector is divided between companies branded as old tech and those deemed to be new.
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One-month sterling risk-reversals GBP1MRR=, a ratio of puts to calls on the currency and a barometer of investor bearishness, hold near two-year highs, indicating uncertainty remains high.
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As analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch periodically point out, when stock market strategists' bearishness increases to certain levels, it has been an astonishingly reliable signal to buy stocks.
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"Our near term bearishness towards the pound has been challenged by the constructive BoE message on rates," said Kamal Sharma, a strategist with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London.
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"Depleted fuel switching potential in the near term will limit additional emission reductions and continue to keep carbon detached from further bearishness in gas markets," Refintiv analyst Ingvild Sorhus said.
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Specifically, the difference between bullishness and bearishness among professional investors is at its highest since April 1986, according to the Investors Intelligence survey that gauges the outlook of newsletter authors.
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But that bearishness might be short-lived, given Boeing's performance excluding the tanker charge and during a year that includes initial production of the new 737 MAX aircraft, Windau said.
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This has produced a lot of uncertainty, which leads to a kind of bearishness among Chinese buyers that tends to be much stronger than what one might see in other cultures.
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"I'm also a student of the market and the bottom line is that as a student of the market, I know you can't fight this bearishness short-term," the host said.
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Oil markets have been prone to over-bearishness of late with fears over supply returning to the market largely "overdone," according to the latest oil market analysis by RBC Capital Markets.
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Entertainment giant Disney reports after Tuesday's closing bell, and despite Wall Street's recent bearishness on the viability of its ESPN business, Cramer is not changing his bullish outlook on the stock.
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The oil price hit one-month lows last week, as evidence of rising output beyond the United States, in the likes of Libya and Nigeria, added to investor bearishness over supply.
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Financial and investment advisors suggested that the increased short-term investments reflect, among other things, wealthy individuals waiting for a better opportunity to buy into the market rather than uber-bearishness.
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But few in the market believe oil will be able to extend its gains much further, given the overwhelming bearishness of investors and the fact that oversupply looks set to persist.
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Middle East funds plan to reduce investment in Saudi Arabia, a Reuters poll showed last week, highlighting bearish sentiment that has ia, displaying bearishness that has carried over from last month.
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One sign of nerves is that sterling-dollar risk-reversals GBP1MRR=, a ratio of puts to calls on the currency and a barometer of investor bearishness, are near two-year highs.
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Walt Disney: The entertainment giant reports after the close, and despite Wall Street's recent bearishness on the viability of Disney's ESPN business, Cramer is not changing his bullish outlook on the stock.
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So, on the face of it, at least, there is still substantial bearishness embedded in the pound pricing - a large chunk of which would presumably dissipate on a status quo EU vote.
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Short positions rose by just 22019 million barrels and remain close to multi-year lows, confirming the shift in net positioning is being driven by profit-taking rather than any newfound bearishness.
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The bearishness, however, could be a buying opportunity for those investors willing to take a contrarian stance, according to Savita Subramanian, head of U.S. equity and quantitative strategy at BofA Merrill Lynch.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Speculators have dialed back on overall bearishness toward Chicago-traded grains and oilseeds for the second week in a row, but their views on corn versus soybeans are increasingly divergent. (reut.
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While the issues of trade protectionism, weak economic data and the vaccine scandal were broadly known in the market, analysts say the culmination of these negative factors has added to the general bearishness.
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Morgan Stanley's ETF tracker indicates purchasing of euro zone equities on a FX hedged basis has grown to its highest levels since August 2015, a sign of growing bearishness on the single currency.
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"What we're seeing now is the VIX beginning to understand you can have volatility in both directions," he said, clarifying that the VIX is not a measure of bearishness or bullishness but volatility.
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Also creating bearishness, Trump said he was in no rush to complete a trade deal with China that Washington wants to include structural reforms by Beijing, including how it treats U.S. intellectual property.
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Bearishness from mainland markets was offset by overnight strength on Wall Street, and on news that Fed Governor Jerome Powell will become the new head of the U.S. central bank, signalling policy continuity.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Speculators hit a milestone in the Chicago grains and oilseeds market last week as they have reached a new level of bearishness across all seven grains and oilseeds futures and options contracts.
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They cited worries around persistent volatility in alt-coins and initial coin offerings, fundraising issues in the digital currency market, general bearishness and residual concerns stemming from crypto's huge drop in 2018, he wrote.
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Positioning in futures markets, however, suggests the brisk market gains stem more from a reduction in excessive bearishness than a burst of investor optimism that would fuel a sustained rally in growth-oriented assets.
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Tru Optik CEO Andre Swanston sees Netflix's situation as a bit less clear and a bit more competitive, though he conceded that much of the bearishness the company is seeing ahead of earnings is overplayed.
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But his bearishness reached new highs this week, when he took out a full page ad in The Wall Street Journal, warning Commodity Futures Trading Commision Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo of the dangers of bitcoin.
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Extreme bearishness extends to refined fuels, where hedge funds have a net short position of 27 million barrels in U.S. heating oil and a near-record net short position in U.S. gasoline of 21 million barrels.
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"Our initial view is that would be bearish…but frankly given the market moves of the last week, the bearishness may have already gotten out of the system," said Cohen, in a phone interview from Vienna.
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"We still haven't seen retail investor bearishness return to past extremes, causing us to doubt whether investor capitulation (a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for a durable equity market bottom) has truly been seen," Calvasina concluded.
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Bearishness had spread well beyond crude to key refined products such as U.S. gasoline and distillate fuel oil as fund managers began to worry that the surplus of crude was being turned into a glut of products.
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"We're breaking technical levels and the overall bearishness that some of the recent headlines over the past two weeks have reinforced - concerns about the Brexit process - are making markets comfortable to stick with sterling shorts," he said.
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Speculators' stance on the CBOT oilshare, which measures soyoil's share of value in the soy products, reached new levels of bearishness in the week ended March 277 with selling in soybean oil and buying in soybean meal.
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A bearishness in the dollar has started to emerge in speculative market positioning, in which short-term investors cut net long bets on the dollar from a near two-year high, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission data.
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RBS' outlook for 2016 included bearishness on both China and commodities, a "sell" call on emerging market majors outside of India and Eastern Europe, and an expectation of "currency wars," and a widening global output gap, he explained.
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"We're not seeing a rush for the life rafts in terms of bearishness, but there is too much uncertainty about how the trade war will pan out for companies to invest and hire," said BMO analyst Kash Kamal.
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For a short time, orders to sell sterling met with zero buying interest on the other side — a highly unusual event — due to abnormally poor liquidity and entrenched bearishness about the pound in the wake of the Brexit vote.
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"Anything above 1 is indicative of bearish sentiment - people are buying more puts than calls - so the numbers at the moment suggest increased bearishness in the short term," said Chris Beauchamp, an analyst at options trading platform IG Group.
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The pound struck a two-year trough on the dollar on Friday after data showed the UK economy unexpectedly contracted in the second quarter, only adding to the bearishness over Brexit and the chance of a no-deal exit.
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Overnight in Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 stock index ended higher but near session lows while the Dow gave up its gains to end flat ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday in a sign of lingering bearishness.
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"The explanations we've heard lean heavily on the notion that growth, a hawkish Fed, risk-assets, and supply have created an underlying bearishness that is evidenced by moves such as those seen on Tuesday," said BMO Capital's Ian Lyngen.
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In the wake of Mr Woods's victory at the Masters, we stubbornly insisted that our bearishness on him before the tournament was justified, and that we would continue to wager against him going forward at the prevailing betting-market odds.
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ET. A bearishness in the dollar has started to emerge in speculative market positioning, in which short-term investors cut net long bets on the dollar last week from a near two-year high, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission data.
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"I think initially as people see the economy doing better than expected, some of the bearishness of global stagnation, of negative yields across the globe, will go away and I think it's going to force people into equities," said Paulsen.
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Traders paid more to "short" Facebook shares on its public debut than they did when Snapchat parent Snap went public, according to new data, with analysts suggesting the initial bearishness towards the newly-listed social media firm is beginning to calm.
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The dollar and risk-sensitive currencies recovered ground against the yen and the euro after China's central bank held the yuan steady and better than expected Chinese trade data helped reduce some of bearishness toward the world's second largest economy.
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The Aussie firmed 0.4% to $0.6954 to post a fifth straight session of gains as its U.S. counterpart was undermined by aggressive wagers on rate cuts from the Fed, which offset any bearishness from the probability of policy easing at home.
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While the Dow remains the most-watched snapshot of market bullish or bearishness, the DJIA has little to no actual role in market portfolios as index funds and ETFs continue to gain acceptance as core stock exposure for many investors.
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The dollar and risk-sensitive currencies recovered ground against the yen and the euro after China's central bank held the yuan steady and better than expected Chinese trade data helped to reduce some of the bearishness toward the world's second-largest economy.
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The dollar and risk-sensitive currencies had recovered ground against the yen and the euro after China's central bank held the yuan steady and better than expected Chinese trade data helped to reduce some of the bearishness toward the world's second-largest economy.
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The Dow may forever be the market's barometer of bullish excess and panicked bearishness, but as index funds and ETFs have grown to as much as one-third of the market, it's not due to a flood of money in Dow ETFs.
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The Aussie was already on a steady footing after rebounding from a five-month low of $0.6832 last week when the Fed's tilt towards monetary easing helped offset bearishness from the probability of policy easing in countries including Australia and New Zealand.
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While option pricing suggests investors still remain much more positive on the single currency than on average, increased bearishness this month stands in contrast to the predictions of most analysts, who have stuck to their forecasts for a stronger euro by the end of 2018.
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"The market has already factored in significant bearishness and is looking ahead at additional rate cuts and monetary policy mechanisms by the central bank, and an improving economy by the end of the year," said Sunil Sharma, chief investment officer, Sanctum Wealth Management in Mumbai.
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"This could be the final rise of this bull market, because it's already so long, so there's a lot of bearishness out there," Akker said, adding that he wouldn't be surprised by a break above 2,875 in another short squeeze out of the markets.
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Market watchers have a plethora of theories for the ever-rising market, from the more skeptical view that this is a late-cycle rush from the last of the bears to the more fundamental view that tax cuts and upward revisions for earnings are removing any reason for bearishness.
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The Aussie firmed almost 0.5% to $0.6958, its highest since June 12, as it looks set for a fifth straight session of gains as its U.S. counterpart was undermined by aggressive wagers on rate cuts from the Fed, which offset any bearishness from the probability of policy easing at home.
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Wednesday's weekly AAII Sentiment Survey, which measures the percentage of individual investors who are bullish, bearish, and neutral on the stock market short term, showed bullishness at its highest since November 2014, bearishness at the lowest since November 2015 and the gap between bull and bear camps the widest in three years.
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An aging population, an institutional aversion to the volatility of stocks (which are often said to already be trading at "fully valued" levels), and the persistent bearishness of most investors on the "macro" economy have all combined since the 2007-08 financial crisis to push a global wave of money that otherwise might purchase stocks into bonds instead.
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" What triggered this new bearishness among White House officials and their allies were the crude quotes by incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci to The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza in a jaw-dropping piece headlined, "Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Rant About Reince Priebus: He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff.
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In a report titled "Strategists still scorn stocks," published Monday by BofAML's equity and quantitative strategy team, the bank notes the contrast between the growing bearishness in the sell side of the financial services industry — creators of financial instruments like stocks and bonds — and the increasingly bullish sentiment on the buy side, that of firms like hedge funds and private equity funds.
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One point that while not top of the agenda for either camp in the U.K., but hugely relevant for global markets, is what a Brexit would do to an already weak EU. The bearishness this week has focused on the pound, with the euro still mainly influenced by the European Central Bank rather than a U.K. referendum, but euro volatility can be expected as we approach June too.
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