It's an archaic process. It can be done with more rapidity, in a better pricing environment, skipping the third party in toto. I wish I could figure out a way to short seat on the Exchange.

It promotes them being in a social environment, and to party. I don't understand why it's allowed.

I vividly recall Charlie Clough being fired in early 2000 coincident with the market top. He was wildly bearish. Nobody has ever accused brokerage management of having good timing.

The inventory of unsold homes has been building in the past four or five months - which is not surprising, as affordability has gotten stretched and stretched, and creative financing has grown more absurd.

It's really getting treated with skepticism. Investors have turned in their rose-colored glasses for accounting visors.

The company faces the dual challenge of lower power system orders and a likely hiatus in jet production.