Instead, in supporting Obama, Powell decided to get specific -- and not only about McCain's uneven performance during the financial crisis and his judgment (or lack thereof) in choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate.

CNN: Borger: A divided GOP hurts McCain

This is only a measure of price performance, however, and does not reflect any judgment regarding industry fundamentals.

FORBES

Of course, a lot of this disappointment has a single cause: the poor performance of the economy, and the OBR's judgment that a lot of the economic ground we had lost since 2007 we were not going to get back - meaning the books were in a worse state in 2010 than the coalition realised at the time.

BBC: An economic mid-term review