Consider this: 62% of the survey's respondents hold more than 10% of their portfolio in cash, while 8% now have more than 50% in cash – in spite of the fact that, as US Trust officials note, they're actually becoming more positive about the outlook for financial markets.
But the price outlook remains bleak, with an extra 200m tonnes of the steel-making ingredient expected to be dumped on the market over the next few years.
The outlook was less positive in the other countries affected by the outbreak, Guinea and Sierra Leone, which jointly reported 132 new confirmed cases last week.
The company said: "The outlook for Wizz Air's business remains extremely positive and unaffected by the decision not to proceed with an IPO".
Winners are grinners, obviously, but one early theme of the inquest into England's Ashes defence was the apparently happier, more relaxed outlook of Australia's squad dating back to well before the start of the series.
It was meeting a new partner, Nigel, which changed his outlook and, through him, he joined LGSM.
Overnight, Moody's warned that the crisis was "credit negative", but said it was maintaining its current rating of AAA with a stable outlook.
"The reef's outlook report states that climate change is the biggest long-term threat and it's safe to say that climate change is not going to be affected by zoning," Sweatman said.
At the same time as changing the UK's outlook to 'negative', Moody's made a range of adjustments including downgrades for Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Spain.
The OBR adds that the forecasters outside the Treasury were consistently and rightly more pessimistic about the fiscal outlook than the government.
