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“The meeting is optically really important for broader markets more generally, but the highest probability outcome is likely more of the same,” says Carlin Calcaterra, managing director of investment strategy at Pitcairn.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

"The resulting electric fields would generate such strong forces that the gold atoms becoming mobile would gradually grow into the optically active material," Pflaum continues.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

As a result, despite the stock’s optically cheap valuation, it remains challenging for buyers to step in,” he and his team said in a note.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

"It's always uncomfortable to hear and optically I think we all agreed when we made this step to appoint Robbie that he was going to be seen in a particular way," Thelwell said.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025

The experiment thus performed would have been optically conclusive; and we cannot see, according to any of the mesmeric hypotheses, any mesmeric reason why it should not have succeeded: it was, however, declined.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various