We have seen an increase in postponements or cancels due to market conditions. That's now starting to become more commonplace than it was three months ago.

The Chinese market is just starting to wake up to this sector. It's a good one to watch.

There is a huge ethnic market. The increase in the ethnic market for goats has been due to the increase of immigrants coming from places where goat meat was the primary meat staple. The other primary meat staple from most of these areas was sheep. So the ethnic demand has increased there, too. There's more growth (in sheep) because the sheep industry started out smaller (than goats) so it's been a more rapid growth, a kind of a catch up situation.

What the underwriters do is discount them off the current market [valuation], which entices institutional investors to come in and sop up all the stock.

It seems to be gathering steam, ... The IPO market can be healthy even if the broader market doesn't know where it's going.

This year has seen the rebirth of the car, as we saw a two percent increase in that segment's market share, while SUV market share decreased by nearly the same percentage. We expect this trend to continue in 2006, as manufacturers will be launching new hybrids, subcompacts and other fuel-efficient products.