In its note, Threadneedle said it expected market progress to be "much slower in the months ahead, given the prospects of a slow economic recovery".
Given the prospects for another interest rate cut and the amount of cash on the sidelines, Charles Pradilla, chief investment strategist at SG Cowen, said he was somewhat surprised that stocks had not rebounded more strongly.
"Given the prospects of further recessionary pressures and the political situation, both are fairly likely today," said José M. Barrionuevo, director of emerging market strategy and economics at BNP Paribas.
Given the prospects of being chosen first, what, he asked, would you do? "Everybody in my family has gotten our degrees, our master's," said the elder Irving, a Wall Street financial broker who left a job at Cantor Fitzgerald in the World Trade Center six months before 9/11.
Aryeh Bourkoff, a cable analyst for UBS Securities, does not necessarily agree, saying, "If the company were put up for sale today, there would be a substantial level of interest from strategic and financial buyers for many of its higher quality cable system assets, given the prospects for growth".
Given the prospects for flush funding in the United States, Canadian scientists worry about a brain drain.
Given the prospect of 440m pensioners by 2050, perhaps it should invest more in creating its much-advertised "harmonious society".
Raising taxes would hurt the economy, they say, and dipping into the Rainy Day Fund is unwise, given the prospect of cutbacks in federal aid.
Many offered reds, but given the prospect of summer heat ahead, I focused wholly on the diverse styles of rosés and whites, mostly 2012s.
