New home sales surprised the experts. The Commerce Department said that new home sales were up by 13.8% for March, and last week used home sales were up as well. One economist says that the housing market still has a lot of room to maneuver and that a slump is more like a 'soft landing' for 2006. The 30-year mortgage is averaging 6.49% nationwide.

Retailers, after reporting a better than expected January, are having the opposite effect for February. Cold blizzard-like conditions in the Midwest and eastern Atlantic states hurt same-store sales, although Wal-Mart showed a 2.9%+ gain. Retailers are looking forward to March with the Easter spending.

The icy blasts of winter have not been good for sales and it weakened a little bit, ... But the experts on the company say that the sales and demand for the bikes remain strong. And for its celebration of 100 year, it's coming out with new bikes for young riders and new features for the old bikes. And they think that the stock will be up to $60 in 12 months.

This year has been very strong for the e-commerce industry. Every indicator in this space, from online sales, broadband growth and domain registration is up. It's not surprising that individuals, small businesses and even the bigger brick-and-mortar retailers who didn't have an online presence before now have a Web site.

This is E-commerce, ... It's potentially the future of drug sales, and we realize we have to get in front of this very quickly.

Despite the slippage in home sales there is no evidence of any nationwide softening of home prices, though it may be difficult to avoid some slippage in the price of residential real estate if only because a slower pace of home sales is likely for 2006,