In general, it's been a very strong quarter, both in terms of companies' sales and earnings, and also in terms of their bookings.

With supply generally loosening, we believe the overheated environment that boosted the programmable logic device market in the first half of the year has cooled. We believe this limits the amount of earnings upside over the next six-to-nine months, particularly relative to the high end of expectations.

We've seen the best net sales in long-term mutual funds we've seen in 12 years.

It's difficult to predict what short-term sales will be. We don't think we can mitigate this in the near-term.

Sales of seemingly small items such as binoculars and bird seed are becoming a major force in the nation's economy as people take a greater interest in watching wildlife.

Every week the state puts out a new sales tax permit report that you can ask for sorted by ZIP code. We get a copy of that report to make sure that new folks coming into the city are reporting to the correct city. Every week there's an error.