The surprising news overnight that the Swiss National Bank announced it will peg the Swiss franc to the value of the Euro currency did coincide with gold prices backing well off the record high scored in earlier trading Tuesday.
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The really surprising news was the 24.4% of the sample sans a debit card.
That was perhaps the most surprising news from the nominations.
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Perhaps the most surprising news is that some behave very differently from others.
The deal is not surprising news, as Forbes reported on the possibility of a sale last December.
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And when she told me some of the news was surprising, you know, some of her safety schools she didn't get into.
Professor Lorraine Sherr, an expert in the psychology of parenting at University College London, told the BBC News website the findings were not surprising.
The news is surprising, given the fact that he has recently appeared to become more involved with the troubled company after being left out in the cold by ex-CEO Gerald Levin .
The good news is that the human mind has a surprising natural ability to assess the kind of creativity we need.
As disrupting as this digital onslaught is to champions of print, the Outsell report has some surprising news for one old media category.
Investors have already bid Ford shares up in recent weeks in anticipation of an accelerated turnaround plan, so unless there s some surprising news, the announcement will likely disappoint.
The news is not surprising - it is already well established that bacteria can be transmitted this way - but the focus on MRSA bacteria has prompted calls for further work to establish how significant this could be in the fight against hospital infections.
Dr John Harvey, of the British Thoracic Society, told BBC News Online the findings were interesting but not surprising.
In a prepared statement, Kindler said that the news is "both surprising and disappointing, " but that Pfizer's focus was on the best interests of patients, so it is ceasing development of the drug.
In all, it's surprising, albeit welcome news given the massive install base of Netflix-capable competitors like the Wii and Xbox 360, not to mention a host of other connected devices.
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However, given that the eurozone supposedly slipped back into recession at the end of the year, it's good and surprising news that our exports to that region have been steady - in fact, up 1% in December.
Still, the news of Interpublic's hire was surprising, given all the foot dragging that's surrounded what has been dubbed the "Rainbow DBS" service.
The acquisition is not surprising with users reading more of their news on smartphones and tablets, and with growing competition from Flipboard, Livestand and Editions.
In green building news, architects pushed the frontier of prefab architecture by installing surprising pop-up buildings around the world.
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The news that the cable might soon be generally available to hobbyists was surprising.
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Ms Bottai said the news that her client would be put on trial was "as surprising as it is unfair".
The main catalyst seems to have been the Federal Reserve, and a little bit of old, but surprising, news.
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While the news was met with some chagrin, it's not terribly surprising.
Not too surprising, you might think, given the remarkably contrasting tone of the economic news out of the two countries in recent decades.
Today a trade association for the mutual fund industry, the Investment Company Institute (ICI), released a study that reveals some surprising news: People who are just retiring now are better off financially than previous generations.
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The ever-confident Torvalds told panel moderator Catherine Heenan, an anchorwoman for a San Francisco evening news program, that the sudden spotlight thrust on Linux was not surprising, given its technological merits and the fervor of its acolytes.
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