We continue to view ourselves as a growth company and continue to work hard at improving the numbers,

Strong lending results, respectable deposit growth, well-behaved credit trends and excellent results from some of our fee businesses have not been enough to overcome the performance in spread-based revenues.

Deposit growth year to date has not been sufficient to fund loan growth or to prevent further contraction in the net interest margin,

Because of the amount of growth in container shipping, we needed to reopen it.

I work for a trading company. With the amount of time required on the council, I asked them to cut my compensation in half, which amounted to a $5,000 a month cut. That's neither here nor there in some ways, but as I looked at the council compensation compared to other cities, it was not balanced, especially in this form of government.

He's not getting the kind of diversification he thinks because they're all in large company growth, ... If he held small company funds or value funds or foreign, he'd have wider diversification, and far lower risk.