There is the prospect of a more positive outlook, with the arrival of the iPhone 5 in September likely to help the group's revenues for the rest of the year.
A major business climate index unexpectedly rose, as firms attested to a more positive outlook currently, and for the prospects in the year's second half.
Markit reports that a rise in new business meant a slowdown in the number of staff being laid off, while businesses said they were more positive about prospects this year.
David Snoxell, who was deputy commissioner for the BIOT between 1995 and 1997 and later became high commissioner to Mauritius, made the claim after it emerged the Foreign Office had paid an academic to critique the original draft of a 2002 study that was considerably more positive about the prospect of the Chagossians making a successful return to their homeland than the final published version.
Britain, while still full of gloom, is more positive about economic prospects than the first WIN poll indicated.
Overall, people are generally more positive about the prospects of young women compared with their mothers and grandmothers, than that of young men compared with their fathers.
The great thing about Brown's lecture – to be repeated around the country, I hope – and his book is that he is reacting against the "end of the world" and "threat of another European war" scare stories emanating from the some members of the Remain camp, and presenting a much more positive picture of the prospect for both the UK and the EU if we remain.
In this view, the more negative investors become, the more positive the market's prospects.
The president said those issues would become easier if middle-class Americans felt more positive about their economic prospects.
Industry executives said they hoped the new numbers would put a more positive cast on newspapers' prospects than the routinely gloomy paid circulation reports have done.
