Looking ahead, arrangers expect dividend activity to continue apace as long as technical conditions are supportive and the macro picture remains stable.
As long as economic conditions remain supportive, the incoming government will have ample resources to devote to social spending without jeopardising debt servicing.
While bank lending continues to contract, financial market conditions remain supportive of economic growth and the FOMC expects a gradual, moderate pace of recovery.
In a book published this year, he argues that since the Reagan era American capitalists have enjoyed a uniquely supportive set of ideological, political, and economic conditions.
But Mr Blair said he had always believed that it was important to be supportive of the project politically so the UK could join when the conditions were right "and I still think that's the case".
We continue to see conditions in the existing home market as putting downward pressure on inventories and supportive of a gradual cleansing of shadow inventory.
Persimmon said it was "fully supportive" of the Government's initiatives to increase mortgage availability to 2007 levels - one of the conditions of the bail-out of UK banks.