On the plus side, housing is finally turning into a positive factor after a long decline.
The current rate, which hovers around 3.98 percent, should be a positive factor in driving the housing market.
Meantime, Nymex crude oil futures prices traded higher Wednesday, which was also a positive factor for gold and silver.
The U.S. leads in military technology and, yes, our martial spirit remains a positive factor, despite the portrayals from Hollywood.
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Meantime, Nymex crude oil futures prices are trading firmer Wednesday, which is also a positive factor for gold and silver.
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Meantime, Nymex crude oil futures prices are trading higher Thursday, which is also a positive factor for gold and silver.
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But thoughtful directors should agree that differences of view are a positive factor, as long as they can be resolved rationally and collectively.
Some analysts counted the number of visits to a website as a positive factor, rather than assessing the amount of money generated from that visit, an article in the New York Times claimed.
This drastic change of heart must very well be the result of the Romney loss and the realization that if the Republicans want to be a positive factor in governing they must be realistic and give up their fervent opposition to any taxes at all.
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Risk aversion abating can be a powerful positive factor for stocks.
The declining jobless claims have been a strong positive factor for the market, and we get the next reading on Thursday, along with the first revision of first-quarter GDP.
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We distinguish between pressure which can be a positive, motivational factor to you doing your job well, and stress which is the adverse reaction that people have to excessive pressure.
It seemed to me that there were just as many earnings beats as earnings misses, so a favorable holiday sales outlook is not a factor in the positive technical divergences.
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Crude oil prices are trading slightly higher Wednesday morning, which is also a slight positive outside market factor for metals today.
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In these types of campaigns the negative is a strong, emotional, energizing, and unifying factor in building support where a positive message is insufficient.
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The authors quote research that finds persuasive leaders balance positive to negative statements by a factor of five to one.
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But of course for that positive for gold to be a factor, that it tends to move opposite to the stock market in its long-term moves, the stock market would have to go into another correction, extending its secular bear market.
Of course there is always the possibility other factors, maybe even the current high level of investor bullishness that may have already factored a positive 2011 into stock prices, will become a larger factor than the presidentialcycle this time around, as happened in 1987.
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