But it said that positives included China's economic rebound and strength in countries such as Indonesia.
He is advocating investments in companies that stand to gain from an economic rebound.
Optimists reckon that many ingredients for an economic rebound are already in place.
Restructuring, combined with the regional economic rebound and the surge in oil prices, helped lift bottom lines in many companies.
Without a broader economic rebound, Ford might be looking at a far bigger problem in Europe than it originally anticipated.
However, we believe that staffing firms will in fact see improvement in the next few quarters, assuming a continued economic rebound.
Wall Street, he thinks, is wrong to worry about inflation risk because it is wrong to expect a sharp economic rebound.
The assumption here is that a healthy market for housing is necessary for an economic rebound that will redound to stocks.
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If the global economic rebound simply maintains momentum, Guess? looks attractively priced and could see big upside from any better than expected improvement.
Just days before the decision date, the Fed cut short-term rates, increasing both the attractiveness of Tyco's yield and the prospect of an economic rebound.
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But there are still big obstacles to a near-term economic rebound.
And with the U.S. economic rebound just now starting to look sustainable, another shock to the system could bring the R word back into the mix.
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President Bush's re-election campaign said the senator is trying to "talk down" an economic rebound that has resulted in the creation of 1.4 million jobs since August.
However, a combination of increased demand for energy driven by the Chinese economic rebound and the resumption of normal production, promises to help Chevron post improved results on February 1.
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In America in the 1930s, Treasury bills yielded less than 0.5% for most of the decade, yet America's economic rebound over that period was one of the strongest-ever peacetime expansions and Treasury yields drifted lower.
Right now that list includes most of the Middle East (with Saudi Arabia topping the list), gasoline prices and how the consumer will react, the tightening campaign in places like China, commodity inflation, Ireland, housing in the U.S., banking almost anywhere in the world, the state of the economic rebound, etc.
Hence, these stock market gains may be a precursor to a rebound in economic growth in early-mid 2013.
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Given much of the recent stimulus came late last year, you can probably expect a rebound in economic growth from mid this year.
Which is why McKinsey argues that the UK is still at a very early stage in reducing debts sufficiently to allow a significant rebound in economic growth (as you will have read here many times, growth tends to remain insipid or worse, while businesses and households repay what they owe - either by choice or by order - because they invest and spend less).
Its economic slowdown was less severe than its neighbors and its rebound was quicker, with economic growth of 1.4 percent in 2010.
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The discussions come as retail property continues to rebound from the economic downturn while fending off competition from online shopping.
Of course, a rebound in global economic growth would increase demand, not only in China but in the U.S., Japan and Europe.
When the currency sank in July, its rebound came only after cheering German economic news.
That means the raw commodity sector could start to rebound even though some more bad economic news may be coming in the near term.
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The Federal Reserve's unprecedented stimulus efforts are likely to start winding down with the conclusion of its QE2 Treasury-buying program in June, and inflationary signals in the emerging world have countries like China poised to pump the brakes on runaway economic growth that has helped the global economy rebound from the recent crisis.
East Asia's spectacular rebound owed much to America's economic boom.
What investors are not focusing on is this: The euro will rebound once the funeral of the old German economic model is held.
He warned that the country could not escape the global slowdown, saying that the economy was likely to shrink for a few more quarters this year--marking the country's first economic contraction in nearly two decades--but a rebound may occur by year's end.
But this anticipated rebound is pretty hard to square with the latest economic data.
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