The Stoxx Europe 600 Index closed up 0.6 percent as optimism grew during the European trading session that officials would reach an agreement to increase the bailout fund.
I would have liked to tell you that my work on optimism grew out of a keen interest in the positive side of human nature.
Yet the other half sits in a state of utter disrepair – its streets manifest a palpable level of poverty, blind to the recovery and optimism growing across town.
On Monday, as optimism grew that the temporary cap put on the Macondo well was holding up against the pressure of the oil below, BP announced an expansion of its offshore portfolio.
The episode underscored the worsening relations between India and Pakistan after a period of optimism growing out of their effort to reduce tensions left over from three wars since their independence in 1947.
In practice, such co-operation is likely to prove impossible, leaving Tamils in Tiger areas like disaffected Acehnese feeling even more disregarded by the central government.As the grim statistics of the disaster grew grimmer with each passing day, any optimism grew harder to sustain.
In the last quarter of 2007, optimism grew, and a kind of certainty came on January 11 when, with Ringo Starr bizarrely imprisoned in a shipping container on the roof of St George's Hall, the year officially began, cheered on by a crowd far bigger than anticipated.
Money managers suggested that makers of information-technology products and banks in the region could rise when their markets reopen this week, with Friday's rally on Wall Street easing earnings concerns and optimism growing that the Federal Reserve will soon cut interest rates.
Though affluent confidence has been on a downward trajectory since 2015, Conference Board data show that optimism grew among higher earners (<$25,000) and fell among lower earners (>$25,000) in November.
