These moves provide our organization some salary cap flexibility. While helping balance the roster, today's trade adds another big man and gives us a player who is a proven shooter in this league.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

I want to caution you against the idea that balance has to be a routine that looks the same week in and week out.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens

We did expect a sharp deterioration of the trade balance. The real story on the trade numbers is that the import surge reflects very solid domestic demand.

Any upside in the greenback today may be mitigated by tomorrow's (Friday's) trade balance figures, which are the key release of the week. If they show a larger-than-expected deficit for June, dollar selling will dominate the theme in the currency markets.