In addition to providing liquidity to our original shareholders, TA's resources and networks will accelerate our growth plans to take advantage of the significant opportunities in the credit derivatives market.

If you have $30 billion of GM debt underlying some multiple of that amount in outstanding credit-default swap contracts, then you need to have a way to cash-settle those contracts after a credit event.

If telecom are seen as a rightful infrastructure for the growth of many other sectors in the economy and the multiplier force, then I think it doesn't deserve to be taxed so high.

We believe the growth will also be rapid in Taiwan.

A slump in growth will continue until rising U.S. demand triggers an export-led recovery in Asia, most likely by mid-2003.

This is a report that suggests that economic growth is slowing very sharply. It's a report that indicates growth will probably only be moderate in the fourth quarter this year and in the first half of next year.