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With the post office story and then the talk about the Senate office buildings being evacuated, sure, that got the market re-bid again.

With the physical trade still quiet because of the summer slowdown, the markets seem to be at the whim of the funds, so more exogenous issues such as the equities, oil, bonds and the dollar, or any other event that impacts the funds, needs to be watched closely.

Word of mouth is the most powerful form of communication and marketing out there.

Woodcrest is the big dog. It gives us both performance and performance-per-watt leadership. That'll be the one we position most aggressively, market most aggressively and use as the flagship product. If it's not in a particularly energy-efficiency (focused) segment, Dempsey is a great product.

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.

We're still struggling in a fog of volatility that may obscure the fact the market is, or may be close to, bottoming,

We're still returning to pre-hurricane levels but in general this is a good report. This is further evidence labor markets are still healthy in the U.S.

We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.

We're still in sluggish trade. Confidence is not good in Hong Kong; investors are still worried about interest rates and the market is not optimistic about the results announcements.

We're going to continue to see short-term volatility. But that isn't necessarily bad, as it means markets are trying to build a base.