The pleasant surprise has bunds trading close to their lows and the peripheral spreads trading much tighter.
Ike Davis, the sophomore first baseman and the one pleasant surprise for the Mets so far this season, was up next.
But the most pleasant surprise of all involved the acoustics.
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Had the August data been a pleasant surprise, the outlook on Fed action would have been blurry.
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The IT outsourcing shop Cognizant this morning provided the Street with a pleasant surprise, beating consensus estimates for the second quarter, and raising guidance for the full year.
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Although the company did not skip ahead by a particularly large time frame, but getting their hands early on the latest gadget would surely have been a pleasant surprise for the millions of eager buyers who had pre-ordered the device.
The core of Keynesian theory is the restoration of business confidence by providing a pleasant surprise to compensate for the unpleasant shock.
The bailout package announced overnight was evidently a pleasant surprise for investors fearing the worst of both worlds: a government stake in an independent bank and double-digit shareholder dilution.
The news was a pleasant surprise and markets reacted accordingly, as Steve Shaefer of Forbes reported.
The 12 steals have been a pleasant surprise, and if he continues to run, his value the rest of this season should be comparable to J.
Ms Bennett said the continued year-on-year growth in the level of investment was a "pleasant surprise against a backdrop of an economic downturn in many parts of the world".
So it comes as something of a pleasant surprise that the 11th-richest American, Gordon E.
Driving into Antananarivo also brought a pleasant surprise - the giant potholes which had blighted the capital had all been repaired.
Mr Jones, who has been leader of East Sussex County Council for 12 years, said the honour was a "pleasant surprise".
So its recent announcement to cut interest rates by 25 percent seemingly came out of nowhere, and was a pleasant surprise for the financial markets.
We'd figured the 5530 was destined for markets around the globe where 2G still dominates, so imagine our pleasant surprise to see that good ol' Nokia USA is as amped as anyone to start selling the company's new low-cost S60 5th Edition device.
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But an even bigger--and pleasant--surprise is the number of critics who are present.
We're hearing that access may have ameliorated in at least parts of the country, which would be a pleasant surprise -- not that a sudden improvement in service will cheer up those who know they still face a backlog.
Another pleasant surprise of 2012 has been the apparent rebound in residential real estate transactions and prices.
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For a year when very little was expected from the stock markets, 2012 has been a pleasant surprise thus far.
"It was an unexpected and pleasant surprise to find these fascinating remains at the site of the institute, " he said.
The OECD does not have much to say on that pleasant surprise.
Scarlett had been reluctant to let the stylist see under her wig, but to her pleasant surprise, her hair had started to grow back.
The long-awaited report on economic growth in the third quarter was released Friday morning, and was a somewhat pleasant surprise.
There was another pleasant surprise for liberal idealists on February 26th, when the UN Security Council unanimously agreed (along with other punitive measures) to tell the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe the Libyan crisis.
The Islanders' offensive woes were also a surprise, just not a pleasant one for New York.
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