The secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, is in the process of negotiating with the government of Sudan and asked the U.S. to hold off on imposing new sanctions on the government soastonot complicate his negotiations.
In fact, the doping case against Lance Armstrong began with cooperation between the Food and Drug Administration and USADA. USADA actually delayed its own investigation soasnotto interfere with federal investigators.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment (the bull-bear spread) is also unusually high at 31.5%, but notso high asto create caution that individual investors are too optimistic.