Remember Chinese solar companies revised guidance lower throughout 2011 after beginning the year with some heady expectations.
In one new charter school, Larry spoke with some parents about how their expectations and their hopes have changed since the storm.
Charles Nedoss, senior market strategist with Kingsview Financial, said some participants might be scaling back their expectations for how aggressive FOMC policy-setters ultimately might be with the open-ended quantitative easing announced last month.
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So being that much of the team came from other parts of Symantec, there was a culture and some expectations that came with that.
While the increase may seem small, they are essentially a continuation of the gains made Friday on expectations the government would step in with some form of assistance.
With Fastenal showing positive momentum and topping expectations it might surprise some that the stock is actually trading 3% lower on heavy volume, especially considering the rest of the market is roaring higher.
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At some point, there has to be a reckoning of these expectations with underlying economic reality.
Investments with transparency, liquidity and some form of permanent hedge allow investors to set realistic expectations and feel more confident about those expectations.
Despite all this, 2011 ended strong, with the Los Gatos, Calif-based company beating fourth-quarter expectations and regaining some of its lost subscribers.
Unrealistic expectations of modern medicine to achieve a cure, especially in some patients with cancer, post-cardiac arrest, end-stage cardiac or pulmonary disease and major stroke.
The statistics bear this out: The inflation expectations metric based on the spread between treasuries and TIPS correlates very badly with inflation, in some cases as badly as negative 80%.
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Some pre-election expectations had been that the government would move even further to the right, with Likud Beitenu winning and other right-wing movements gaining clout.
Coupled with improved U.S. economic data, some market participants began to question future U.S. quantitative easing expectations, analysts said.
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He said some information was already available and showed the first set of results were "more or less in line with the expectations of the industry".
Some of the negative reaction is based on expectations of how Mayer, as a female-CEO-with- children, should relate to offsite workers, who are largely assumed to be working mothers, too.
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The trading week was largely driven by the news coming out of Europe, with the post-Fed rally continuing to pause over European uncertainty, some continuing poor global economic data, lowered earnings expectations, and perhaps some pure old-fashioned profit-taking into the end of the 3rd Quarter.
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