Recent experience has taught many investors that good news can equal bad news: the more uncertain the outlook, the more supportive central banks are likely to be.
But Primark owner Associated British Foods dropped 99p to £28.02 as Morgan Stanley moved its recommendation from overweight to equal weight on concerns about the growth outlook for the discount fashion retailer.
The PF score decrease from 51.3 (equal to population norm) in patients with a negative outlook to 41 (below the population norm) in patients with positive outlook was found to be the only statistically significant difference (p = 0.01).
The biggest faller is InterContinental Hotels, down 142p or 4% to £31.43 after Morgan Stanley cut its recommendation from equal weight to underweight on worries about the outlook for the US.
The committee's statement gave equal emphasis to two competing ways of assessing the outlook.
Blunt, for example, when he handicaps the outlook for Mr. Barnes: "All things being equal, it will be very hard for a Democrat to win Georgia," he said.
The record sales in North America, as well as the gradually improving European market, prompted Ford to raise its full-year outlook, which now calls for pretax profit to equal or surpass 2012.
It's equal parts freeing and scatty and lonely, depending on your outlook, especially if you're close to evenly attracted to all genders.
Poundland recovered 12.1p to 312.2p after Thursday's decline in the wake of its cautious outlook, as Morgan Stanley raised its recommendation from underweight to equal weight with a price target of 280p.
Outlook -- They finally got rid of Kemp and his inflated contract, but they hardly got equal value.
