These competing forces made the region harder to forecast, would the pro-Gingrich or pro-Romney forces prevail?
A recession there this year, as has been widely forecast, would hurt all major exporters, including the United States.
Many investors had sold stocks ahead of the Labor Department's jobs report, which analysts in a Bloomberg News survey had forecast would show a gain of 68,000 nonfarm payrolls.
Meanwhile UBS added the company to its top 40 global stock list due to its dividend yield, which it forecast would reach 6.2% this year.
The declines the analysts are forecasting would lower the ad revenue committed before the start of the 2001-02 season to $6.8 billion to $7.5 billion.
Murray was not quite on his A game, but that was still too good for Matosevic – whom Greg Rusedski had forecast would not force a fourth set.
Last year was the year that taxes were slashed on dividends, which market seers confidently forecast would lead more companies to pay dividends.
The Treasury Department's auction came a day before government and private reports that economists forecast would show gains in retail sales and consumer confidence.
Some now see the falling stock prices as the correction that they had forecast would occur after the Fed started raising rates.
That forecast would usually end the discussion.
