1.   Bearish investor sentiment is bad news for Yamaichi, which depends heavily on brokerage commissions.

2.   Bearish investors usually bet against individual stocks, by borrowing shares, or against a broad index, by using futures contracts.

3.   Bearish investors are latching on to the company too.

4.   Bearish investors said the central bank ought to raise rates because the economy is still growing fast enough to speed inflation in the coming months.

5.   Now, short sellers and other previously bearish investors are varying their techniques.

6.   Once Wall Street firms work down inventories of securities remaining from the auction, bullish economic news may bring even more bearish investors around.

7.   Some bearish investors now appear willing to concede that yields will keep declining.

8.   An overnight decline on Wall Street also turned investors bearish in Tokyo.

9.   Shares opened slightly higher on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Thursday, apparently because of bearish investors.

10.   The lingering concerns about the financial outlook in Southeast Asia, especially Hong Kong, were turning many investors bearish, traders said.