The difference in the game was our inside game and our rebounding. We had a lot of put backs on the offensive boards.

If you're facing the consumer, it's difficult to make money. The stock market is going to be more and more selective.

It will create some short-term noise in a (stock) market that's already looking to try and take some profits on anything related to China. You are not going to get a collapse in demand out of China.

There's been a lot of speculative money going into commodities and commodity-related stocks. But there are still good long-term bets. You have just got to get your money-management right and buy when they aren't loved.

Some risk is being taken off the table and a little bit of rotation has gone on. People are scratching around for fundamentals in what is really just a positioning exercise that's going on.

There's nothing in this statement that we didn't already know, ... Telecom operators have not been spending and six months ago we thought Marconi would go bust. Its priority is to cut debt.

You get the cash; then what do you do for your next trick?

We got a little pay back, as they beat us by seven points in our gym. We came out of the blocks well, something that we haven't been doing, and shot well early. We made our free throws down the stretch and played good defense all game.

OPEC has been quietly asked to ease pressure on the world economy,

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