But investors should expect nothing like a return to the good old days.

"We hope it will allow us to continue the performance our investors expect."

That finding, from a new study, is not what many investors would have expected.

Still, he said, the data were better than many investors and analysts had expected.

The move was in line with what investors and economists had expected.

But it looks as if the good news that investors expected from the project has yet to flow.

Many investors expect the market to go back to its peaks of early 2000.

Unfortunately, investors can probably expect more where this came from.

If this view is correct, interest rates would be likely to go lower, and stay low for longer, than investors expect.

It looks as though some investors are expecting just that.