1.   Arriving after the Dow backed away from its recent steep losses, the interlude gave optimistic investors the opportunity to hunt for underpriced stocks and bid up the prices.

2.   But mainly, optimistic investors seemed willing to buy Amazon.com shares at any price.

3.   By August, the prospect of an overall recession, not just in the manufacturing sector, had crept into the minds of once optimistic investors.

4.   It is a virtuous circle, in which optimistic investors produce higher share prices that justify the optimism and draw in more investors.

5.   Others, however, like the Vanguard Group, said that optimistic investors put as much money into stock funds as pessimistic investors pulled out.

6.   The news was even better than optimistic investors anticipated.

7.   Thursday, for the second session in a row, optimistic investors returned to technology stocks and pushed the Nasdaq Composite index into higher territory.

8.   U.S. markets hit record highs this year as mergers, acquisitions and optimistic investors drove up the prices of technology company stocks.

9.   Auto stocks have been rising this week, as falling interest rates made investors more optimistic about future auto sales.

10.   Blue chip stocks moved higher Wednesday, rallying in the wake of more encouraging news that left investors optimistic the economy is indeed slowing down.