There are valid reasons to be either pessimistic or optimistic.
This mixed opinion makes it difficult to make any prediction for the future, but what is clear is that companies with a positive or optimistic view of the US economy will be more likely to want to drive innovation and change.
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More than a quarter - some 28% - of farmers said they were optimistic or very optimistic about the industry, with expansion planned across most sectors.
Forty-five percent are less optimistic than they were three years ago, even though 90 percent said they are optimistic or somewhat optimistic about the outlook for the next five years.
Ironically, in a recent PwC survey on global CEO sentiment heading into 2013, Brazilian corporate execs ranked in the top 5 of countries that were optimistic or very optimistic about achieving higher revenues this year.
So it is hard to say whether Japanese equities simply a portfolio diversification option, or an optimistic vote of confidence?
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And from a similar perspective, digital health has been labeled as overly optimistic or even unrealistic.
Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the near-term (two-year) prospects of the American economy and stock markets?
No, you wrote that you're not particularly optimistic or more hopeful than when you left on this assignment.
The markets have mechanisms for making rational adjustments to equity research that is compromised, too optimistic or both.
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But, in the real world, investors periodically become too optimistic or too pessimistic and the market becomes mispriced.
Though energetic, In Chains is far from being entirely optimistic or upbeat.
Just keep in mind that an optimistic or pessimistic attitude expressed in a survey does not necessarily equate with action.
If you are somewhat optimistic or even agnostic about the future of global economy, then CVX is a must to own.
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The Consumer Confidence Index, a survey of how optimistic or pessimistic people feel about the economy, has been up and down in 2010, and consumers still feel pessimistic about the job market.
Kaniel, Massey and Robinson also asked the MBA students in the study to identify those students in their MBA section who were the most charismatic, the most likely to become CEOs or the most optimistic--to try to see if optimistic students were optimistic because they were more personable.
Some may disagree with me on my basic assumptions, either viewing them as over optimistic or over pessimistic, but I think a discussion centered on growth, profitability and the cost of growth is not only a healthy one but one that we should be having about all young, growth companies.
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In other words, if we train our brains to be optimistic or pessimistic -- to navigate, intentionally or not, the streets and avenues of positive or negative feelings -- we change (just as cab drivers do with their spatial circuits) the emotional circuits in our brains that determine how we respond to the things that happen around us.
Either something has materialized really quickly, or they were too optimistic to begin with.
The comparison makes the professors' set of figures look wildly optimistic, or else the Scottish government's calculations look underwhelming.
Either there is too much fear right now or forecasts are too optimistic.
Or at least more optimistic about what she calls routing out my demons.
Or, taking an optimistic perspective, the driverless car demonstrates the kind of game-changing killer apps that are now possible in almost any industry.
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However, when real estate prices were rising, no one cared about the wildly optimistic assumptions or the out-and-out fraud inherent in the loan process.
It is true that beginning in the late nineties during the first year of the Khatami presidency there was a period of a year or so when the optimistic could believe that the forces of moderation might make substantial progress in Iran.
Here I had been teaching these young people about the slow erosion of our financial and economic underpinnings, each year turning more and more cynical and stoic at the same time, all without encouraging them to go out and make a difference in an optimistic way or offering solutions.
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Nevertheless, there are still quite a few who are not optimistic on stocks or the economy over the near term.
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