Some analysts took the view that Tuesday's interest rate cut would probably be the last in the current cycle.
Some analysts took hope from those numbers because they consider sales of men's wear a leading indicator.
Most analysts do well in the give and take.
Second, analysts must take the initial probability of each event into account.
But the arrival among them a month ago of the movement's five top intellectuals made political analysts in the capital sit up and take notice.
But some political analysts take a more dour view of such intimacy.
Some analysts took comfort in the fact that gold stocks were also hard hit yesterday.
But in a period when companies big and small are announcing significant shortfalls, analysts took that as good news.
Palestinian analysts took note of the result because it was the first student election held during the uprising.
Not all analysts, however, took much comfort from the February reading.