The good news is that many of the property owners have been approached preliminarily and most have expressed support for the trail, ... Not all, but most.

With no major earnings news scheduled and losses in Tokyo, the (U.S.) market is lacking support for further gains.

A further rise (in the Nikkei) would need support from good fundamental news, such as corporate earnings or consumer spending.

[The licensing board decisions are] not happy news, ... but it's also not an immediate and final statement that says, 'This stuff is going to start shipping the day after tomorrow.'

We are seeing in the numbers he is ahead, but the depth of his support is not as great as it could be, so I think what is going to happen is, they're going to take a look at him and compare him to Gore and see where it all plays out.

Part of it was to support the facility,