In a tight contest, moreover, this "improvement" might delay our knowing the outcome of the election.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

The market expects a positive outcome, however, disagreement and therefore a delay in aid disbursement is still possible and not beyond the reach of the methodically slow Eurocrats.

FORBES: Eurogroup Meets, Could Kick Greek Can Into 2015

And we are obviously disappointed about that kind of decision, but it would have been far better, in our view, if Congress had taken action to delay the sequester in the very same way they took action two months ago -- two and a half months ago, to delay the sequester to avoid just this kind of outcome.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

As The Economist went to press, the most likely outcome seemed to be that questions about the Bank's procedures could be used as a pretext for a delay.

ECONOMIST: Tibetan tinderbox

Mr Wiseman said any delay in recovering the two firefighters from the building was unlikely to have made any difference to the tragic outcome because of the intensity of the inferno.

BBC: Jim Shears (left) and Alan Bannon