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January performance was the strongest since May 2003. Unusually strong equity market volatility and narrowing credit spreads created an exceptional trading environment for many hedge fund managers. The VIX, a measure of equity market volatility, jumped more than 21% to 14.56 after the January 20 stock market close, the biggest one-day percentage jump in nine months. Most hedge fund strategies require volatility to produce meaningful returns.
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The retail slowdown has continued in the first half of 1998 and has resulted in higher retail cancellations and returns, ... We believe that in the current environment many retailers are being more conservative in their future purchases, leaving more open-to-buy dollars available for at-once business. This situation, in combination with the unusually low at-once business in last year's second half, creates the potential for our performance to be better than our backlog trend indicates.
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The transition period was utterly chaotic until we regained control and caused an unusually high level of stress in the facility, ... We were so busy working our flights and trying to manage the situation that there was little time to take care of routine, but essential work. Instead what you had were controllers finding a flight in their airspace and having to find out from the previous controller where that flight was and where it was going. It definitely slowed the system and we couldn't work as many planes as quickly as we usually do. Controllers did a remarkable job to keep the system together.