11.   The economic outlook seems even cloudier.

12.   The longer-term outlook for bunds seems more rosy.

13.   The outlook seemed rosy.

14.   When the peace effort began, the outlook seemed surprisingly buoyant.

15.   When we last left the stock market, at the end of the first quarter, the outlook seemed bleak.

16.   Daniel Roling, a metals analyst at Merril Lynch and Co. financial firm, agreed that the outlook for aluminum seems bright.

17.   The whole outlook seems to be characterized by bravado rather than substance, and shows that style can easily be victorious over substance.

18.   Nonetheless, the outlook seemed bleak, dealers said.

19.   The platinum group metals both lost ground, though the outlook seems worse for palladium than for its sister metal, analysts said.