Translation guide
The overall attitude or feeling of investors toward a particular market or asset. In Japanese, this is expressed through specific financial terms and descriptive phrases.
Referring to the prevailing mood or tone of the market as a whole.
Literally 'market psychology', this is the most direct and common translation for 'market sentiment' in financial contexts.
Market sentiment is improving.
A direct loanword from English, commonly used in financial news and reports.
Market sentiment is bullish.
Literally 'investor psychology', focusing on the sentiment of investors specifically.
Investor sentiment is cooling down.
Expressing optimism or confidence in the market.
Expressing pessimism or caution in the market.
Referring to specific measures or indices of market sentiment.
Direct translation of 'sentiment indicator', widely used in financial analysis.
The sentiment indicator showed a buy signal.
Specifically 'investor sentiment index', often used for surveys or composite measures.
Both mean 'market sentiment'. 市場心理 is the native Japanese term and slightly more formal or academic. 市場センチメント is a loanword and very common in news and casual financial discussion. They are largely interchangeable.
Market sentiment is deteriorating.
Market sentiment is deteriorating.
The word 'sentiment' alone can be translated as 感情 (emotion) or 意見 (opinion), but in the financial phrase 'market sentiment', these are not used. Stick to the compound terms above.
There is a lot of optimistic sentiment toward the market.
There is a lot of cautious sentiment in the market.
The investor sentiment index hit a record low.