But Wall Street was wary as it braced for its most influential banks to report quarterly earnings over the next two weeks.
It has the world's largest economy, its most influential central bank and it issues the main global reserve currency.
Human-rights groups said the regime should free its most influential political detainees if it wants to show it is serious about reform.
After he left Commodore, Tramiel purchased Atari in 1984, though its most influential devices were already behind it.
More than that, it had to fashion a victory without four of its most influential players: Fàbregas, Robin van Persie, William Gallas, and the emerging Aaron Ramsey.
It also introduced a system of perks to reward its most influential shoppers.
Mackenzie was the editor of the Sun when it sold more than 4m copies and was arguably at its most influential in Thatcherite Britain.
On the advice of Pericles, its most influential leader, Athens refused to back down.
Khodorkovsky was Russia's richest and, after Putin himself, easily its most influential man.
Its most influential published expression is General David Petraeus's 2006 manual "Counterinsurgency".
Leonard Lauder, the Whitney's chairman and its most influential trustee, thinks the world of Weinberg.
