Ticker Sense suggests that these kinds of early gains quickly fade, however.
Some analysts said the plans made sense, but questioned whether the changes could translate into financial gains quickly enough.
In the broader market, the gains quickly gave way to profit taking, particularly in the technology sector.
The gains quickly spread to Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average rebounded above 10,000, rising 150.25 points, or 1.52 percent, to 10,058.64.
Through most of pre-industrial history Malthusian logic reigned; workers laboured in subsistence agriculture and productivity gains quickly led to unsustainable population growth.
The public's trust in government increased during the war in the Persian Gulf, but those gains quickly dissipated, noted Stanley B. Greenberg, a Democratic pollster.
As the economy's growth has slowed, investors expect managers to restore profit gains quickly, and cheer the announcement of major cost cuts and layoffs.
Downsizing may make companies temporarily more productive, but the gains quickly erode, in part because of the predictably negative effect on morale.
The Angels are gaining quickly, but Torre would be the face of the Dodgers, and perhaps of L.A. sports — at least for now.
"Those gains quickly evaporated," Clark notes.
However, the performance gains quickly saturate when continuously adding more data.
