Sentences with phrase «is optimistic at»

To expect our friends south of the 49th parallel to follow our lead with similar changes to their laws is optimistic at best.

To assume that one could project based on such limited history is optimistic at best.

«Anyone who is optimistic at this moment hasn't been paying attention,» he says.

Thinking Spezza will magically regain form and playing out his (sunk cost) contract is optimistic at best.

But Schmitt says he was optimistic at the time about what TMX could build.

Toys «R» Us was optimistic at the start of its bankruptcy proceedings that it would only close a limited number of locations, but is now reportedly planning a liquidation of its U.S. operations after failing to find a buyer or reach a debt restructuring deal with lenders.

Opponents are optimistic at the moment as DOL Secretary Alexander Acosta is reviewing the rule and could make changes, or delay the Jan. 1 date further.

If this entry is supposed to be the strongest of the bunch, it should give us pause to be optimistic at the prospect of future contributions from Shyamalan.

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Despite the recent softness in data — the Citi economic surprise index for the eurozone is now at its lowest since June 2012 — markets remain stubbornly bullish on the euro with overall bets still near record highs as longer - term expectations remain optimistic.

Canadian Business spoke to Pink, who will speak at the upcoming 2017 GREAT CEOs Speaker Series in Mississauga, ON about why he's ultimately optimistic that adoption of AI will be positive for society and the future of work.

When the buying team was preparing for store openings, it instead relied on wildly optimistic projections developed at U.S. headquarters.

Although Apple sold slightly fewer iPhones than expected — and at a lower price — during the quarter, Cook said he's optimistic there's room to run in the smartphone market worldwide.

CFOs are more optimistic about the future of the U.S. economy than they've been at any time this decade, according to a survey out this morning from Deloitte.

Despite the very real challenges that keep many small - business owners cautious, a recent survey of the Women Presidents» Organizations» Zenith members reported that these women - owned businesses with annual revenues of at least $ 50 million are more optimistic than one might expect.

That month, the combined supply at all of California's biggest reservoirs stood at about 78 % of their average levels, but officials remained cautiously optimistic, saying there was no guarantee that the state would see enough storms to fully raise water levels.

Lacking a leader, «it's hard for me to be optimistic or pessimistic because I don't know if they're going to open the floodgates and take a lot of risks to rush the technology out — or if they're going to take a reasonable, rational pathway to protecting people,» said David Friedman, director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union.

«It's one of the things that makes me optimistic about America because when I look at what we have accomplished using half our talent for a couple of centuries, and now I think of doubling the talent that is effectively employed — or at least has the chance to be — it makes me very optimistic about this country,» Buffett says.

«He's very optimistic about the economy and he's optimistic they can hit the inflation target,» said Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies.

«If you look at the hepatitis space, the cancer space, diabetes — there are huge advances in recent years... I've never been as optimistic about our chance to make a difference.»

«I'm optimistic that technology can help, that new hardware platforms can chip away at false choices,» Dugan said, explaining how her relationship with her mother was improved through daily phone calls on her way to a coffee shop.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Emotionally wrenching politics, foreign conflicts and shootings at home took a toll on Americans in 2016, but they are entering 2017 on an optimistic note, according to a new poll that found that a majority believes things are going to get better for the country next year.

BAML isn't quite so optimistic, at least yet.

Written by Philip Auerswald, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy is due out in April, but you can get a taste of Auerswald's most optimistic take on the entrepreneurship and global economy with this video of an animated, 10 - minute talk he gave recently to lawmakers.

We would say the US is growing faster than its real potential GDP, which ultimately leads to a bit of an uptick in inflation, but at the moment we remain pretty optimistic.

Comment: Despite some macro slowdown and stock market gyrations in China, we remain confident in our $ 625 million forecast for FY 2016 even at current exchange rates and optimistic on the prospects for this market over the long - term as the drivers we've consistently mentioned are more relevant than ever,» said CEO Victor Luis.

No Canadian economist will agree with Mintz — most say that it could take years for the S&P / TSX composite index, now sitting at under 12,000, to hit 15,000 points again — but they are generally optimistic that the market upswing will continue.

In his post on Friday, Zuckerberg said he remained optimistic about Trump's vague commitment to protecting «Dreamer» immigrants who were brought into the U.S. at a young age from deportation.

But if you care to take a more optimistic view, these responses suggest that there is an opportunity to unleash a ton of potential at any time if investors had the smarts.

«The decline in confidence was fueled by a somewhat less optimistic outlook for business and job prospects in the coming months,» Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement.

Investors are beginning to feel slightly more optimistic about the trajectory of a Trump presidency — at least in the medium term.

«I'm optimistic about the prospects in the region,» says Vikram Malhotra, global market head of South Asia and Middle East at the Bank of Singapore.

The OPEC meeting in Algeria may not have resulted in a resolution as of Tuesday, but at least one person is optimistic.

This week's OPEC meeting in Algeria may not have resulted in a resolution as of Tuesday, but at least one person is optimistic an accord will be reached within two months.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

«As you know, we have had a pattern of getting our hard caps, so we're optimistic about this one,» Blackstone President Tony James said at the time.

And in emerging markets at least, millennials are more optimistic about the future.

Regardless, Spradley, who is now chief information officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, remains optimistic that workers at both H.P. companies will be able to do their jobs when they get into the office today.

Looking at the bigger picture, however, there are reasons to be optimistic.

If one were optimistic about equities as a long - term investment four months ago, there are as many reasons to remain so, now that markets are at 10 - month lows.

Overall, what growth can be found is moderate, and companies are not feeling particularly optimistic about the next 12 months as they did at this time last year:

As I noted in my commentary accompanying the RIAA data, the music industry has successfully adapted to the constantly changing music marketplace, up almost 1 % at retail and wholesale, and I am more optimistic than ever about the future of the music industry.

«They were rightly more optimistic about growth and they were less confident about inflation because they at least stopped claiming energy prices were stable.

«Looking ahead, consumers were marginally less optimistic about the short - term outlook compared to July, primarily due to concerns about their earnings,» said Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at the Conference Board.

Economists led by Jan Hatzius at Goldman Sachs are even more optimistic, saying this week that they are looking for a 4.1 percent expansion in 2018.

Despite the financial challenges they face, millennials themselves still feel pretty optimistic: Recent surveys have found a significant majority believe they will be at least as well off as...

At an investment conference the other day the mood in the room was optimistic, despite the recent thrashing the market has suffered.

«It looks just like yesterday at this time where things are weaker (in) general overseas, but people look optimistic at the open,» said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab.

«Things are much more optimistic at a micro level.»

A prominent convert to this emerging belief is Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University near Washington and author of «The Great Stagnation,» a 2011 best seller, who has gone from doomsayer to a decidedly more optimistic perspective.

What's clear in the IMF analysis is that the projections for both debt and financing needs are at «considerable» risk of being missed due to the optimistic assumptions that underpin the figures: