He is not expected to come out with any surprises, but he wouldn't be the first politician to spook the markets by saying something out of left-field.
It's tempting to think Apple could make the greatest splash by launching something out of left-field - especially at a time when Samsung has confirmed it is "working very hard" on a Galaxy smart-watch, and the market is swamped with smart-TVs.
The out-of-left-field release of 10 Cloverfield Lane.
I forgot how out-of-left-field this scene seems.
You need something really esoteric, something from out of left field they'll never expect.
"Anybody in a campaign is subject to some horrific gaffe," he said, "something completely out of left field".
If something comes out of left field, that implies that it wasn't on their radar screen".
The larger issue is the contagion itself — the fact that something so out of left field, like subprime, could wind up hurting the quants.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss the situation candidly, added, "No one is talking about the possibility of defeating any nominee, barring something coming out of left field".
In a follow-up interview, one poll respondent, Judy Berg, an independent from Morton Grove, Ill., said she voted for Mr. Obama in 2008 because she was "looking for a change," adding, "the change that ensued was not the change I was looking for but something totally out of left field".
