And just how confident should investors be about the market outlook for 2012?
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Eagle has bright prospects ahead thanks to an improving end-market outlook, cost reduction efforts and an acquisition-based growth strategy.
Half of the 300 investors surveyed anticipate having a more bullish market outlook for the next six months, the report says.
And this new bear-to-bull ratio indicates a more positive market outlook rather than a pessimistic one from the usually on-target contrarian point of view.
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With respect to the current market outlook for the third quarter, it would appear as though there is a growing appetite and attraction to municipal bonds.
Though gains of those magnitudes going forward are highly unlikely, our market outlook as we head into 2013 remains one of cautious optimism for the prospects of our broadly diversified portfolios of undervalued stocks.
Our 2013 Market Outlook provides a diversified 24-stock portfolio of attractively-priced stocks, while the average yield of the group stands at 3.5%, well above the sub-2% yield on the 10-year Treasury, and even more than the 30-year!
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After a relentless march higher that began on either December 1st or September 1st (depending on the type of time frame you prefer to use for your market outlook), most anyone who has ever clicked the buy button was probably bracing for some sort of a pullback.
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The North American Distressed Debt Market Outlook 2011, a survey of 100 experienced distressed debt investors released by Debtwire, Macquarie Capital and Bingham McCutchen, found that these investors will move their cash from energy to real estate assets and from first and second-lien loans to common equity and convertible bonds.
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The company announced on Monday it will hold a conference call to discuss its three to five year market and business outlook the morning of Friday, December 9.
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The major uncertainty in the stock market today is the outlook for growth in the second half of 2010 and beyond.
Kitco News interviewed several veteran market watchers for their outlook for gold prices this year and into the first quarter of 2012.
Citigroup, given improvements in the U.S. housing market and a slowly improving outlook for the economy at large.
That is, of course, consistent with his free-market, Chicago-school outlook but nowhere does he discuss Microsoft or other high-tech companies head-on.
Investors can choose which one they want to invest in according to their risk tolerance and their outlook on the market.
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However, despite topping earnings forecasts the bank declined more than 11% due to a weaker outlook than the market hoped to see.
Investment in a market can boost its growth outlook, making additional investments more attractive and prompting an upward spiral in capital flows.
So does the market still have the economic outlook nailed?
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The decline in prices picked up pace in February, showing that China's housing market still faces a darkening outlook amid falling transactions, and pressuring cash-starved developers and local governments.
This is unlikely to change this year given the outlook for the labor market.
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Consumers were also mixed about the outlook for the labor market over the next six months.
The long-term outlook in their home market which still accounts for about two-thirds of output is uncertain.
Therefore, the key issue that hovers over the future of Intel is the growth outlook for the notebook market.
While the technical outlook for the stock market has improved dramatically, there is still some work to be done.
Despite underperforming its low yielding U.S. peers, higher yielding emerging market debt still has a better outlook than U.S. Treasurys.
If the outlook for the labor market improves and we are convinced that that is sustainable, we will respond to that.
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Furthermore, the market indicates that the default rate outlook is more bearish now than at the start of the last recession.
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Even though the global uncertainty adds another dimension to the recent decline, the intermediate-term outlook for the stock market remains positive.
Mr Bungey warned that the outlook for the advertising market remained bleak.
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