Reasonably benign economic environment, nothing too threatening with either (political) party. . .either party coming in will still mean continuation of reasonable economic growth.
When you see it in summer, it's just beautiful, and then you read the plaques about how 2,000 men died on this spot in 20 minutes. To reconcile how it looks today, the beauty of it, with what actually happened made a big impression on me, and I decided I had to do something one day.
I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. On and off. On and off. One day I got a call from a woman in France who said "Cut it out!
They are still facing hard times in Australia, New Zealand is showing signs of improvement but I think the market will wait to see how they perform during the Christmas season.
Negative sentiment has basically led to across-the-board declines, very few stocks have escaped unscathed.
We have now got a coalition government which may or may not include some anti-business types like the Greens.
My apartment was robbed and everything was replaced with exact replicas...I told my roommate and he said 'Do I know you?