excellent performance in our corporate and capital markets driven businesses.

With scandal-ridden capital markets, a mediocre recovery and still high valuations, a lengthy bottoming and healing period is needed before we get a substantial upturn in equities.

The company's excellent financial performance, including 16 consecutive quarters of revenue and profit growth, and the successful expansion of its retail and wholesale businesses, has not been reflected in our recent stock price performance.

These figures represent a very strong performance, reflecting excellent market conditions, exclusive products and continued focus on investment in service and value for our customers.

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

We shopped the world's markets until we dropped. We bought a lot more of everything, including capital and consumer goods, foods and motor vehicles.