At the oil giant's annual meeting on Wednesday in Dallas, CEO Rex Tillerson gave a stay-the-course outlook for the company, which has seen profits decline recently with lower prices for crude oil.
Of course, the outlook for Syria remains highly uncertain, and the conflict there cannot be understood or tackled in isolation.
(That is one of the reasons for the recent rally in Ukrainian bonds, which when viewed in this light no longer looks like such good news).Of course, the outlook for the Russian economy over the long term is bleak.
Of course, the outlook today is very different, with the city shedding jobs and sliding into a deep recession as the transportation system grapples with its own financial free fall.
But the advantage to FindTime is, of course, its Outlook integration.
Mr. Sargen was referring to geopolitical concerns surrounding the violence and transition of authority in Iraq, which led to higher oil prices in the second quarter, and, of course, to the outlook for interest rates.
Of course, the future outlook for that service is murky since Facebook recently acquired them.
More important than the specifics of last quarter's growth, of course, is the outlook for the future.
Of course if the outlook for the global economy were to improve, then that relative safe haven status could come under threat.
"The market was trying to look ahead to the turnaround but it has gotten pushed out, so now it has to endure some nasty news for the second quarter, and of course a bleak outlook for the third quarter," says Brian Finnerty, head of trading at C.E. Unterberg Towbin.
This, of course, is an outlook that marginalises the country's 138 million Muslims and 24 million Christians, as well as its dizzying panoply of minorities, including Dalits and Adivasis.
