This was also the 19th time in 22 weeks that optimism has been below average.
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Supporting that optimism is that MLP clients sign long-term contracts, often for 10 or 15 years.
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This is the fifth consecutive week that optimism among individual investors has exceeded 40%.
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This is the second consecutive week that optimism has been below its historical average of 39%.
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This is the third time in four weeks that optimism has been below 50%.
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This is the seventh time in eight weeks that optimism has been above 40%.
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This is the ninth consecutive week that optimism has been below its historical average of 39%.
Investors have said that optimism about the pace of economic growth has diminished over the past month.
In fact, economists have suggested that optimism was a root cause of the financial downfall of 2008.
This is the first time in 25 weeks that optimism has been below its historical average of 39%.
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Plus, the streak of high bullish readings may have some individual investors concerned that optimism may be too high.
Recent research finds evidence that optimism pays off in job hunting and promotions.
For the demographic covered in this research, that optimism may indeed be well-placed.
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Does the White House share that optimism and can you enlighten us about what sort of legislative language is being crafted?
That optimism reappeared today when she and her husband, presidential contender John Edwards, announced that her cancer has returned, this time to her bones.
But he warned that optimism was "relative", because of slow economic growth.
Anyone who has driven past a row of empty houses in the Irish countryside will realise that optimism can lead to wasteful investment.
That optimism has given way to a sadder, meaner goal of preventing the middle classes from monopolising the good schools that already exist.
With positive sentiment in gold continuing to grow, it would not be a surprise if some of that optimism is spilling over into silver.
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Research by psychologists including Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania indicates that optimism is both a natural trait and a learned skill.
The fact that optimism was tame was a signal that money sat on the sidelines ready to come into the market and fuel more gains.
American unemployment figures on Friday, which could be shocking, may puncture some of that optimism, and should temper any temptation among G20 leaders to claim success.
They dropped that optimism when Bush's poll numbers dipped, but they now have reason to hope again that Bush's centrist position will help at the ballot box.
The election of Barack Hussein Obama made Arabs more hopeful about the U.S., but that optimism was gone when we polled several Arab nations, including Egypt, last summer.
Elsewhere, that optimism is also prevalent in the options pits.
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That optimism proved astute with the yield on the 10-year backing off from a slide to 2.33% all the way up to 2.53% as employers added 117, 000 positions last month.
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This week that optimism became harder to sustain, as it emerged that two of the country's biggest banks are facing serious problems in the aftermath of East Asia's financial crisis.
But that optimism may be cooling off and we need look no further than two big name equipment manufacturers to see it unfolding: Caterpillar ( CAT) and Deere ( DE).
Tempering that optimism were his three reasons, besides the sheer magnitude of the task and a likely tussle for the power to allocate reconstruction funds, why reconstruction will be so difficult.
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