With profits still falling, the rally has thus been driven by a re-rating of the market.
Daily deals once excited Wall Street because of their high margins, but low barriers to entry invited a raft of competition from related businesses, which forced a re-rating of Groupon and the industry as a whole.
However, the quarterly report exceeded our expectations, especially in terms of growth, and we re-evaluate our rating on every stock each week.
The sourpuss bond rating agencies weren't so sure and said they're reviewing Valero's BBB-credit rating and might downgrade it to junk status.
If those efforts come through, RBC says it could consider re-evaluating its sector perform rating on the stock.
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There's one big difference: In 1996, Clinton was on his way to re-election with a job approval rating of 58 percent.
The number of respondents saying they're satisfied went down by 9.4 percent -- dropping from a rating of 39.3 in 1995 to 35.6 this year.
His approval rating among college graduates is slightly higher than his overall rating from all voters and slightly more than the average feel he deserves re-election.
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But Mr Bush's approval rating is only around 50%, considerably lower than that of any recent re-elected president.
The governorship was left vacant when Republican incumbent Judy Martz, the state's first female chief executive, declined to run for re-election following a rocky term, one marred by budget problems and an approval rating that fell to near the 20 percent mark.
"The GOP would point out -- and they would be right -- that the approval rating in the autumn before an election is not a good predictor of how the election will turn out, " said CNN poll analyst Keating Holland, pointing out that Ronald Reagan's approval rating was in the 40-percent range in fall 1983, a year before he was re-elected in a landslide.
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