1.   All this is taking place while a gloomy stock market exempts from its general pessimism a group of companies that could loosely be described as antiterrorism businesses.

2.   Rather, a general pessimism over the economic outlook has set in and shows no sign of fading, they added.

3.   Bourses across the region saw lackluster trading in the session, which analysts blamed on general pessimism about the U.S. recession.

4.   Daly also declined to join in the general pessimism about the greens.