On the whole there have been positive surprises in the economic news over the last few weeks, but let's hope these continue.

Fifty percent is around the average for positive surprises over the last several years.

Those that were written off had a way of providing positive surprises.

"But I also believe we have still some surprises to come, negative and positive."

A. The biggest positive surprise to the market was how good corporate earnings have been.

"I think there was some feeling that they might show a positive surprise of over $2.30."

One positive surprise was a 14 percent volume increase in Mexico.

If there are no positive surprises, more intervention might be needed.

"But the single biggest positive surprise was the budget deficit going away."

Going forward, we are still looking for some positive surprises out of Germany.