The prospect of an elusive " soft landing" has combined with hype over the productivity-boosting promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to give investors a fillip.
(Without these, the bank would have made a pre-tax profit of $844m.) The deal is nonetheless likely to provide a big fillip to UBS's wealth-management business in the long run.
The fillip comes from a reduction in borrowing costs, which allows companies to keep more of their profits and encourages customers to spend more on their products.
And it was this fillip that must have given the owner of our villa the confidence to show us Christ looking out at us, full face, unequivocally a man of power.
There are days wi' you, as wi' other folk, I suppose, when yo' get up and go through th' hours, just longing for a bit of a change — a bit of a fillip, as it were.