1.   However, this optimism can lead to stock build up or whisky lochs.

2.   Brazilian stocks rose led by optimism over sale of state-controlled electric utilities.

3.   Even so, misplaced optimism can be troubling, they add, particularly when that optimism leads directly to a large executive payday.

4.   History has demonstrated time and time again that too much optimism leads to reckless behavior, which inevitably leads to big trouble in the markets.

5.   This optimism led to the creation of two major earthquake prediction experiments, Jordan said.

6.   The rationale is that too much optimism can lead to disillusion, followed by resentment.

7.   This optimism is leading many economists to believe that the most aggressive Fed credit easing ever conducted under Greenspan may be drawing to a close.