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Weakness in the capital markets, compounded by an erosion of corporate and investor confidence, has depressed activity in a number of our most important businesses, ... While we have seen some encouraging economic data of late, the current environment remains very challenging.

Weakness in overseas and regional markets affected trading, dragging down blue chips and H shares early.

Weakness in high-tech shares, which are the key contributor to the Nikkei, pushed down the market.

You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness . . .

We are seeing particular weakness non-Japan Asia Pacific, which is about 30 percent of unit mix.

We are reducing our March quarter revenue estimate due to growing evidence that PC unit growth did not likely come up to our expectations. PC growth was very sluggish from November through February, and while it reaccelerated in March, it does not appear to have occurred fast enough to offset the weakness earlier in the quarter.

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

The overall weakness was so pervasive that it would be silly to completely dismiss the devastating weakness of this report.

The overall case for Australian dollar weakness is still in place with a steady interest rate outlook in Australia and a diminishing interest rate spread against the U.S..

The payroll figures are telling us the U.S. economy is exceptionally weak, and the weakness goes beyond anything that is associated with geopolitical risk and the other excuses we've had.

The outlook statement talks of continued weakness in recruitment markets which management argue -- more persuasively than other peers -- is cyclical rather than structural given a softer public sector in late 2005.

We played a good team tonight, and they exposed a weakness of ours that was not being able to take care of the ball. That's why we scheduled these guys. It will make us better.

This says to me that interest rates are firmly on hold. This economy is slowing down and there may be a bit more weakness to come.

Those areas of strength are indeed offsetting those areas of weakness as was evidenced in the manufacturing sector.

We actually think that we're being somewhat optimistic in saying we don't see it spreading beyond that. There will be weakness in retail, for sure, and in manufacturing. But not widespread losses.

We are going through a period of weakness in March and toward the end of February. And that relates to things like Japanese (fiscal) year-end and a few other technical factors. I think getting on the March 30 FMOC meeting, the Fed (will do) nothing that reassures people . . . and I think we set ourselves up for an April bond rally.

We recommend adding to positions on weakness as we expect the share gain and profitability improvement thesis to reaccelerate in 2006.

There is a very strong chance we'll see a rate hike in Slovakia. On top of that, the central bank will be very reluctant to see any currency weakness as it wants to curb inflation.

The question is how much of that weakness has been caused by Oracle itself and does it go away once the deal actually closes.

Trading performance across the last six months has been solid despite weakness in the UK carbonated soft drinks market.

Trade with Europe is being hit by the strength of sterling and the weakness of the euro. European exporters are winning market share at U.K. companies' expense.

Traders found some weakness in the factory orders in the ISM report after digging around.

You look at your team, and sometimes you might have a weakness here or there, or you might make a mistake here or there, and it gets covered up by somebody else. This time, it didn't get covered up. Again, we'll go in, we'll make the corrections, and the special teams unit will be better.

Today's data is supporting the notion the Fed will go only one or two more times. We're in a period of dollar weakness at the moment.

Today's activity is pretty gloomy. The Nasdaq and S&P weakness does not look good for the marketplace.

We do expect broad-based dollar weakness to resume when or shortly after the U.S. Federal Reserve begins to signal the end of the current tightening cycle.

The decline in US aluminum consumption in 2005 involved a great deal of de-stocking. As such, we expect strong buying appetite on any price weakness as order books are looking healthy.

The decline in the length of the average work week ... tells us this leading employment indicator does not foreshadow any immediate end to this general pattern of weakness in the labor market.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

I'm not impulsive at all - except about buying clothes. That's my biggest weakness.

I just wanted to show the migrants as complex humans with flaws and weakness, with good and bad things, and show that they're parents and family men. I wanted to show them with everything, as they are.

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

Let weakness learn meekness.

Life does not forgive weakness.

Life never forgives weaknesses.

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

These Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of these women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness...We are not going to have our men become subservient.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

To have weakness is not to be flawed--it's to be complete.

I'd have to acknowledge that I have a weakness for the fairer sex - and I hope I never get over it.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of the team, it is never new information.

God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.

Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot.

A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness ...

It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

We should start to see better numbers in the May data. If we don't see improvement, it would be much more worrisome than the recent weakness and might inspire the Fed to cut in June. My own view is that we will see better numbers.

We should see continued consumer weakness in October and November, while industry overall does quite well. The soft trajectory going into the fourth quarter has adverse implications.

There are a lot of people in the Middle East who believe our weakness is our inability to stay the course, and they believe that two casualties today, two casualties tomorrow, four the next day, will eventually drive us out,

We believe the comments on PC demand add weight to the view that the PC cycle may have bottomed. However, we believe it is still too early to 'call the bottom' -- especially if emerging weakness in European IT demand dampens prospects for a PC rebound there.

We came in higher but couldn't hold it, which underscores the weakness of the market. The overall supply of crude is very adequate and there is no risk of a shortage out there.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

We view any weakness in Target shares as similar to early November which saw weather-related slowness.

We would be better buyers on weakness rather than sellers on weakness, given an expected sales acceleration in April, which could carry into summer.

This survey reflects that CEOs are more concerned about the weakness in the economy than they were six months ago.

This report backs the Reserve Bank remaining on hold ahead. Weakness in retail and transport is being mitigated by a pickup in mining and construction.

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

We're not a big corporation - we're not a Wal-Mart, not that we're taking shots at them, because they're a great operation, ... But we have more flexibility, which is both a strength and weakness of our store.

Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.

To see a recovery at all, you're going to need to see a pick-up in techs. Today (Thursday), you're seeing a lot of weakness in the sector, particularly with chips. Also the restaurant sector is down.

We had a big rally on Friday, so any weakness this morning is basically the market trying to unwind some of the strength from Friday.

We believe Microsoft will be hurt by weakness in the consumer PC space, which represents roughly 10-15 percent of its business. As we have said, the shift to browser-based computing is slowing the need for upgrades, and perhaps the more sophisticated gaming platforms are removing the need for homes to have the latest high performance PC's. As a result, corporate PC's will have to pick up the slack in the next quarter.

We believe, like many technology companies, that the current weakness in worldwide economic conditions is resulting in a slowdown in PC sales, corporate IT spending and consumer online services and advertising.

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

This really muddies the waters on jobs, ... I continue to see a lot of labor market distress, and I am more impressed by the sudden weakness in the Challenger report than by the rebound in the cantankerous ISM.

When you have that kind of injury, you have to change your whole style of wrestling. You have to learn how to defend a weakness you've never had before. But the harder it got, Ali just kept working harder.

There are a few tentative hints -- higher new orders, a drop in the inventory-to-sales ratio -- that the period of maximum weakness has likely passed. Although further declines in output are anticipated, the rate of decline should gradually diminish.

We've got to become a better hitting ball club. That's our weakness right now.

While it's a bit of a surprise, the slightly downbeat news on confidence can be explained by the ongoing weakness in employment, and perhaps consumers are a little concerned about the backup in mortgage rates. But while they're becoming less confident, they're still buying -- the latest sales numbers still look good.

Unfilled orders earlier in the year contributed to weaker sales results for the balance of the year for Russell Athletic. Additionally, sales weakness in Mossy Oak continued throughout the year, with declines of approximately 20% from 2004.

Unearned revenue is really important because it gives visibility into future revenue. In our view, concerns about it have created the weakness in Microsoft's stock for the past couple of years,

Exporters' earnings are vulnerable to the dollar's losses and the trend for more weakness is hurting shares.

Exporters' earnings are vulnerable to the dollar's declines and the trend for more weakness is hurting shares.

We've been rallying most of this last quarter on the basis of a little more hope that we have bottomed and that the consumer economy would not suffer the weakness of the manufacturing economy. Today's job report gives us some hope that that is happening.

We see potential for further downside pressure over the near term, but the market generally appears well supported at the moment. So any weakness is unlikely to be very violent or major.

We've been a pretty good rebounding team all year long, but tonight for some reason, we just didn't click and we didn't rotate across and get our box outs like we should have. Give them credit. They found a weakness and took advantage of it.

We were expecting weakness but it came even weaker than we feared. The key thing is business traffic is way off.

While we are seeing some softness in many categories, comparable sales performance in our North America retail stores continues to be impacted by weakness in desktops, laptops, monitors and printers and the related 'market basket' of higher margin goods historically linked to purchases of these items.

While the timing of this executive departure is not particularly good for Wal-Mart in light of the Coughlin situation, which exposed weakness inside the upper ranks of Wal-Mart management, the loss of Kevin Turner is not going to alter the course of the company.

While the housing sector is slowing, almost all of its weakness will be offset by the improving factory sector, ... More interest rate hikes will be necessary to slow the economy sufficiently to alleviate the Fed's fears of building inflationary pressures.

Weakness was widespread, extending the period of pronounced weakness.