The housing market in Central Oregon remains strong, as the region continues to be one of the fastest-growing areas in the nation. We are very excited about being in the expanding community of Madras and look forward to making this facility a base of operation for this important market in Oregon.

Spain is one of Europe's fastest-growing mobile markets.

Gains in the market are fund-led. Trading in the region remains relatively strong with funds pursuing select stocks, among them metals. Overnight gains on Wall Street also helped sentiment.

It was in a market that was growing but has declined, at least as far as housing starts. What it all comes down to is housing starts. Our benchmark is 3,000 starts annually in a market. There were not very many in these areas and 95 percent of our customers are builders. It is not a people issue, it is a market issue.

This should induce some slowing in housing market activity, but we expect the housing market in 2006 to be strong, nonetheless.

There were a lot of rumors going around about comments that Mr. Greenspan made. One was regarding the housing market.