It's probably end-of-the week profit taking.

Nick Sloane

New York markets have been up for the last four or five days so you have a little bit of profit-taking that spread over into Canada.

Bruce Latimer

You hear a lot of these rumors, a lot of speculation by possibly energy trading companies that may stand to gain a profit from that. But it's really hard to say.

Cynthia Harris

Profit margins have been badly affected in some industries. Those who have lent companies money to expand will have some issues getting their money back and that means more bad loans.

Huw Mckay

This is clearly a profit warning. The world isn't getting any better and yields are only going one way -- down.

Chris Tarry

We understand the company needs to be competitive, the company needs to make a profit. ...We're just trying to maintain what we have. We feel they shouldn't go after more profit by just taking away from us.

Jerry Stayton

What we are seeing is (non-profit organizations involved in housing) are needing to serve more.

Alfredo Chaparro

Small businesses are extraordinarily independent in their thinking, and they often believe they can go it alone. There is real danger that by refusing to borrow, businesses will forgo growth and profit.

Steve Buster

He makes sales but he begs people to give him some back for himself. It's not for profit, it's for personal use.

Tod Young

If they get things right, the park will grow and grow and then they will show a profit. If not, the dinosaurs die and the park goes bankrupt.

Debbie Murry

We can only provide workers to non-profit organizations. We have about 13 people place in Crawford County right now but would like to see more organizations open their doors to our workers.

Betty Johnson

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

Robert G. Menzies

This is such a tight market for all petrochemical and refined products that they needed to do this. Every day of discontinued or reduced production is a day of lost profit or lost profit opportunity.

David Dismukes

The Australian wine consumer represents less than 15 per cent of our profit pool.

Trevor O'hoy

It's a savage profit warning for the UK with the number for 2007 likely to shift materially below current expectations. You are probably looking at cuts of between 30 and 50 percent to UK profitability for 2007.

Christian Maher

They can't just do nothing. They have to have to be dynamic to be able to profit from it and I'm not sure if they can do that.

Paul Bacot

We were not very happy with our results in the US last year. But with the Q7 model we will return to profit in the US this year.

Martin Winterkorn

The GDP figure was within our estimates and there was no surprise there. That lack of surprise may have prompted profit- taking.

Tsuyoshi Shimizu

It was profit taking from yesterday's 100-point gain, ... At HK$2.5 billion the volume was extremely thin ahead of the Christmas holiday.

Alex Tang

It's a savage profit warning for the UK, with numbers for 2006/07 likely to shift materially below current expectations. You are probably looking at cuts of between 30 and 50 percent.

Christian Maher

I think it (Hutchison) was being driven down by the heavy cost of third generation mobile phone licenses and the stock is also affected by some profit-taking.

Lawrence Wu

That's something I've found in any business that never works. You can't save your way to a profit.

Larry Crain

The key reason for our increase in profit was global crude price volatility.

Subir Raha

This being the last day of the week I expected prices to come down on profit-taking.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

[Until a simpler and more secure day comes, only a handful of companies will persist in giving consumers more payment options than plastic.] We're looking to make a nice profit tapping into this market, but checking is an old payment method, ... You can't afford to ignore it, but I wouldn't plan my business around it for the next five years.

Tim Stevens

So many things change for the NYSE when it goes public, and certainly one of those things is the relationship with the floor. And they're going to look at the floor as a profit center.

Richard Herr

When you get better people in your buildings from a profit perspective, you see great results in your food and beverage, entertainment and gaming.

Jim Murren

Our new fiscal year 2007 profit forecasts call for a fifth consecutive year of double-digit profit growth, driven by solid top-line growth as well as labor cost reductions.

Kathy Matsui

Profit sharing, we put in place as soon as I arrived. That was important to me.

Leo White

The idea of saying we all sit together and agree to share the profit is highly problematic because different groups of people will demand a bigger slice of the pie.

Ian Angell

The market hit a new technical high and I think a lot of people feel that fundamentals aren't going to carry through, so there has been some profit-taking.

Tony Gordon

If the game becomes hotter and hotter, they can't buy the tickets at a price that allows them to make a profit or break even. They might have to buy tickets at a loss. If it's just some guy working out of his house, he might decide to not get the tickets.

Dave Brailsford

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

James Rouse

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

John Mcnamara

Profit margins improved dramatically, very quickly, so everyone started moving at the same time, and that's somewhat unfortunate.

Marcel Coutu

Our net profit number is likely to lie north of 30 billion pesos -- another historic high for PLDT and for any other Philippine corporate.

Manuel Pangilinan

We want to tell people, 'Here's a place for you to do your stuff.' We want it open, not just for people here, but everywhere. We are non-profit. We want it to be affordable and available.

Joe Speed

We're not sports junkies; we're looking for opportunities to make a profit.

Lewis Wolff

The onslaught of profit revisions simply has investors too afraid to push the high-techs or broader market higher.

Nobuaki Kurisu

After six days of rises it's normal to have profit taking.

Huang Seen

There's some profit-taking now, but look at where we are. It's broken $520, the target we had yesterday ... looks like $525 is the next target.

Darren Heathcote

Making the morning-after pill over the counter would only benefit those that profit from its increased sale, but the real price will be paid by women and girls who would suffer the health consequences.

Wendy Wright

We'll try very hard to keep this year's profit equal to last year's.

Victor Hsu

The purpose of the fund is to revitalize properties and neighborhoods. It's a profit-driven fund, but it has a community benefit agenda, too.

Casey Cummings

They've come in a bit ahead of our forecasts ... on the operating profit and adjusted earnings figures.

Neil Clifford

We're delighted to have this relationship with a not-for-profit health care network that has been serving the Rio Grande Valley so well for 80 years.

John Casey

The main thing to know is we don't plan to make a profit on this. The houses will go for what the market will bear.

John Burness

This is a company that makes 25 per cent gross profit when the norm is 12 per cent. I am sure they could act very positively to make bus travel a more pleasurable experience.

Coun Tilsley

The supervisor who made the call has not been reassigned. He has been disciplined and it will go on his record. They felt it was an unintentional mistake and they felt he wasn't profiting from this.

Scott Ishikawa

This is our fight. This is the fight that defines us as a party and is the most worthwhile fight we're going to face. Having for-profit health care does nothing to shorten the wait list for those of us who can't afford to pay the fee, it only lengthens them.

Jennifer Howard

Telemarketers take up to 95 percent of the profit from a donation.

Sandra Miniutti

Tyson Foods is currently experiencing extremely difficult industry dynamics in two of its largest businesses, poultry and beef. This has severely pressured sales and profit margins and has caused Tyson Foods' credit ratings to deteriorate.

Farha Aslam

It was costing me as much to run the business to make any profit.

Bill Hewitt

The festival is a non-profit organization. We are not funded by the county. It takes approximately 200 to 250 volunteers to put on the festival.

Betty Morrison

The park started sinking because there wasn't a profit center built in out there. To further its sinking, the park has been under-utilized.

Jack Mathers

A for-profit wouldn't be able to work on this level -- it's so long-term, risky and it takes a lot of investment at first.

Nick Moon

One little pit stop in a Formula 500 race. It's just profit taking.

Ash Rajan

This organization that we disrupted today embraced the American capitalist ideal and would sell any drug that would turn a profit and did not discriminate in its dealings with any other drug organization.

Tom Pickard

Harlequin stabilized its operating profit in 2005 after experiencing a significant decline in profits in 2004.

Robert Prichard

No. If there's profit, it'll go to reducing the debt. We're still carrying $30 million in debt.

Cal Nichols

You're going to see good profit growth over the next several quarters, but it's not going to be as strong as it's been of late. Still, it will be better than a poke in the eye.

Paul Kasriel

It was a very good performance. The mix is different to last time, but the profit margin should have improved slightly.

Youssef Ziai

You have to remember that we are a non-profit and our mission is to bring arts, culture and music to the city. That's why we're here.

Sheila Hughes

There is talk of some downgrades in earnings after people had a closer look at yesterday's profit report.

David Massey

If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go down. The profit margins, which are three to four times the profit margins of other Fortune 500 companies, they might go down somewhat -- not research and development.

Ron Pollack

This would be saving city funds because it would be run by a non-profit. And they would be providing services we can't afford to provide on a city budget. We'd love to see that.

Richard James

My only hope is to profit from the work of the big teams with nine men and stay with the top riders.

Robbie Mcewen

The market turned lower in late morning due to profit-taking after the sharp gains of 200 points yesterday.

Jackson Wong

This is an egregious breech because what it does is clearly put people in an opportunity to profit from the proposed construction.

Peter Kormos

A profit like this in a year like last year is a superb result.

Dane Douetil

I think in general what we have seen is a little bit of profit-taking.

George Davis

Dealers are losing their profit margins, cutting prices to get sales.

Trilby Lundberg

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

Ricardo Semler

When I found out about it, I was shocked, dumbfounded. I could not believe this would happen with a non-profit entity in the state of Iowa.

Richard Running

The new structure...will allow our company to move forward with a better alignment of our resources against the tremendous volume and profit opportunities we see before us.

M. Douglas Ivester

The court's decision confirms that people cannot build a business on stealing the creative work of others and profiting from it.

Michael Speck

We have not read the opinion but we are aware of the denial of the Certificate of Need. We are very disappointed in this opinion. The opposition of the CON by several Harrison County hospitals who are owned by for-profit out-of-state interests is very unfortunate.

Richard Lucas

The ANC is in the weakest position it's been in a while. So there's a little uncertainty and a little profit taking.

Tubby Goodwin

Dividends paid out are a share of profit, not interest. In that sense, they are no different from your traditional funds.

Peter Chiang

We've sunk just about every dime of profit into this operation, but it's not just the money. When you see a beautiful animal like that slaughtered... it's such a waste. Who would do such a thing? I would like to know.

Dick Johnson

We expect firm profit growth to support the equity market.

Stephen Halmarick

This is all pure profit for us.

Mark Berry

I'm optimistic that we'll make a profit for our first year here. We've been breaking even for 10 years.

Brian Shaw

We have entrusted our health care system to for-profit companies.

James Lardner

The forward production growth guidance of 5% is very admirable for a super oil major. Its operating profit surpasses General Electric and Microsoft.

Gordon Kwan

The market is not only based on yield, but also on growth. The market is anticipating that profit growth is going to improve.

Chris Reilly

Ask a few questions. Just because it's got a good name and seems to be rising all the time doesn't mean that fundamentals like making a profit and understanding what the product is suddenly don't apply.

Angela Knight

Evidence is accumulating that growth in the fourth quarter slowed in the euro zone. Two-year bonds should profit from this development.

Bernd Weidensteiner

You are guarding yourself against a catastrophic event. BSE is a good example of that. You have some protection but you still can't ensure a profit with LRP.

William Edwards

I'm confident that this year will be a good one for BMW. They are in a good position with their models to re-establish earnings growth and catch up on the profit side.

Stefan Bauknecht

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

They need to get realistic and quit getting greedy, and realize a profit is a win. There's no sin in making a profit.

Denny Grimes

It is important to strike a balance between store openings and profit making.

Sun Luan

It's a pretty bad sign. It's a sign for what investors are willing to pay for an Internet company that's not making a profit.

Kyle Huske

Everyone's question now is how much more upside there is in Apple's products. There's some pretty hard profit-taking. A lot of longs have gotten nervous.

Tim Biggam

Most of the covered bridges have non-profit groups that adopt the bridge for the weekend. They sell light refreshments, our souvenirs and help people get from bridge to bridge.

Betty Morrison

We reiterate our concern about the profit drag from selling fewer SUVs.

Robert Barry

The numbers were mostly in line with what we were expecting. We've marginally upped our profit forecast to just above 25 million pounds and are holding our overweight recommendation.

Geoff Miller

To operate at a profit, we must invest in these aircraft, and we must do so quickly.

Doug Steenland

What were once common issues that women face, such as low desire and dryness during sex, are now part of the burgeoning industry of goods to sell women for profit.

Patti Britton

I think the Nasdaq was facing a lot of profit taking already. Certainly on the Nasdaq today, the Microsoft issue is hitting stocks in general.

Terrence Gabriel

We're in the business of publishing but we see this as a new profit center.

Stephen Colvin

The for-profit environment adds to the pressures and potential conflicts of interests.

Barbara Roper

These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.

Anna Aurilio

You can't believe the number of non-profit organizations (around Whitefish). There're hundreds.

David Stewart

There are some profit-taking pressures coming into the market.

David Ging

The ... document reads like a love letter to for-profit health care providers.

Gil Mcgowan

There is a round of profit-taking since the net profit is a few percentage points below our forecast.

Peter So

The University Credit Union is a non-profit organization, so any investments made are going to benefit the member.

Valerie Henry

Pretty much the only variable factors I can see in [the midterm plan] are fuel costs. For JAL to turn a profit, some tough cost management is necessary--and it will be impossible to accomplish if [another such event] were to happen.

Yasuhiro Matsumoto

I'm afraid what this says is that the future of newspapers depends more on people who care about profit than (journalism's) community responsibility. I don't think it's the (type) of company which matters so much as the will of the people who run it.

Jim Naughton

They sought out every loophole they could to profit from California's misery.

Bethany Mclean

We've asked Yahoo to use their filtering to prevent piracy, not for profit. We tried to discuss it with Yahoo.

Jeff Brown

Ericsson will report a loss of $1.8 billion and Nokia a profit of $1 billion.

Paul Cooper

You basically put out of business the for-profit insurance companies in the state of Ohio.

Rep. Michael Skindell

The market has had a respectable run-up since its January 24 lows, and today you're seeing some profit taking.

Joe Sunderman

We expect prices to recover from this trough as investors flock back into the dips although this might occur after another round of profit-taking.

Anindya Mohinta

We also worked hard on costs and managed to limit rises in sales, general and administrative costs to the growth pace of sales, which helped pump up top-line (operating) profit.

Toshizo Tanaka

The victims in this case included a not-for-profit corporation and a religious institution operating schools, hospitals, and convents.

Thomas Barnett

Possibly we could see a little bit of profit taking because investors had been anticipating that when the Fed does meet next week that they won't raise interest rates.

Sam Stovall

Monday was a very big day but the market is volatile and I guess there was some profit taking but industrials and some insurers are stable.

Ferdi Heyneke

Eighty percent of all revenue is concentrated in 15 enterprise software companies. Eighty percent of profit comes from three companies and over half of that profit comes from one company -- Microsoft.

Ray Lane

This company is a giant in a way, but a baby in terms of being a profit-making corporation. It will be a great investment over the next decade.

Lawrence Goldstein

This is a staggering profit and proof that we are being gouged by the oil industry.

Jamie Court

The problem of obesity affects families, schools, employers and entire communities and must be addressed through partnerships that combine the strengths of the public, private and non-profit sectors.

Charles Stokes

It's hitting us big-time today. People are looking to use this as an opportunity to profit. It's almost beyond comprehension. It's a further tragedy beyond what has already happened.

Phil Zepeda

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

Francois Fúnelon

We anticipate it won't just be the mayors, ... but it'll be church leaders and faith leaders and non-profit leaders who will come forward from these communities and will help and assist with the effort. But the contact point and encouragement is initially going to come on a city level and the mayors that we've identified will help coordinate that.

Tim Pawlenty

It used to be that producers would make a profit, with the idea that they would put that money into a new show.

Sandy Duncan

We are very pleased to be reinstating cash distributions, a confirmation of the numerous profit enhancing operating and financial initiatives completed over the last two years.

Jon Grant

The availability of low-cost imports also affects retail prices, which have declined by more than 35 percent since 1997, with much of that decline coming in the last six months. As a result, we are no longer able to make an adequate profit manufacturing bicycles in North America.

Peter Larson

The prospect for some profit taking ahead of the weekend break doubtless remains.

Matthew Buckland

The kind of investment that would profit from such a climate (created by the amendments) would only be what we call 'hot money', which is very short term.

Yanuar Rizky

The price will be decisive, along with how well they can prove that they're capable of making a profit. I'm not particularly positive about Air Berlin.

Michael Rachor

We're profiting from the negotiations. As long as he keeps scoring the important goals, I don't get so nervous that he hasn't signed with us.

Felix Magath

The profit taking is still continuing today.

Ken Hasegawa

They buy a company early enough that they still have good sales, just not profit.

Matthew Will

Never be frightened to take a profit. Better in your pocket then theirs.

Michael Levy

If you do that, you're dead. You're giving very sensitive financial information to an institution for a reason and it's not so they can take that information and profit from selling it to someone else. It's a clear misuse.

Blake Darcy

We are optimistic for the profit which could exceed your plan -- 16 million US dollars and the majority come from the sponsors.

Jiang Xiaoyu

The U.K. market has had a pretty much uninterrupted bull market, so the potential for profit taking is large.

Jeremy Le Sueur

I have no question there is a need. I am not sure it is appropriate. What other for-profit ventures would we open ourselves to if we allow something like this to begin there every day?

Greg Coffman

Although Circuit City's first-quarter sales slightly exceeded expectations, we anticipate that the merchandise sales mix will result in lower overall gross profit margins than we initially estimated.

Richard Sharp

It's time to take profit as the market rose for most of the last two weeks.

James Lago

We cut profit to get aid down there.

Joseph Rice

We believe that the wholesale power market is broken. Out- of-state generators are charging us outrageous prices. We don't make a profit on the power we buy from out-of-state generators. We are basically paying out 15, 18, 40 cents a kilowatt hour and we're only allowed to collect about a nickel from our customers.

Chris Warner

We're buying the UPC power because we need it. We are a co-op and are not out to make a profit. If [utilities] have more power than needed at any given day or hour, the excess is sold to the New England Power Pool.

Avram Patt

I think today's action is a little bit of profit taking. There's some consternation in the bond market. We think this market in equities is going higher later this year.

Stuart Freeman

We don't profit from that. We want to be part of the solution. High gas prices don't help us.

Chris Kozak

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Non-profit work has been a great experience for me for over 30 years and I will miss the notion of training young people to manage our future.

Greg Beck

We now know there's more than enough profit involved in downtown development to sustain more resources for affordable housing.

Tim Harris

What it has going for it is that it's in the consumer staple area. Unfortunately, it has a lot of losses and they are not looking to make a profit anytime soon.

Tom Frangione

The wanted to make sure the profit doesn't go into our general fund but into other low-income housing project.

Maxine Lutz

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Dan McKinnon

We're not looking to make any more profit off the change.

Brian Dawson

There is some classic, typical profit-taking going on.

Christoph Eibl

This is a hundreds of billions of dollars industry, with the majority of profit coming from in-store sales. A lot of retailers have lost money.

John Eichberger

All of these things reduce accidents, but they're being ignored because it's much easier to place a camera there and let the city profit from its mistakes.

Eric Skrum

So far the corporate profit outlook remains positive. I don't hear a lot of companies saying they're going to reduce their profit forecasts because of interest-rate concerns, and that's a positive for the market.

Eric Kuby

Now I too can profit from the train which is at Petacchi's disposition.

Erik Zabel

I was absolutely appalled. The reality is that these guys can profit from stealing the people's money back on July 7, and they're going to profit for some time to come.

Eric Epstein

I find it appalling from an ethical and moral vantage point that you can actually profit from stealing from the treasury. There should be an incentive to return the money.

Eric Epstein

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

Eric Anderson

In general it's a healthy profit taking move for the EM market, and for the domestic markets in Latin America as the stock and currency markets are coming off.

Enrique Alvarez

Our number one priority is public safety, and that hasn't changed. But the cost is what it is. A deputy costs a certain amount, so do cars and gas. We aren't making a profit here, and that's important to remember.

Elliot Cohen

I think we were probably a bit overdone on the upside and there's some profit-taking taking place today.

Edward Meir

The companies are profiting from these higher prices. This is becoming a familiar picture among energy and mining stocks and we expect it to continue.

Edwin Slaghekke

But they (amusement parks) have other pressures on them as well -- to minimize publicity and maximize profit -- that need to be acknowledged and accounted for to ensure that safety receives its due.

Ed Markey

People involved in printing are looking for people to do more with their pictures than print 4x6 photos. Making calendars, greeting cards, etc. are another way to monetize images, with good profit margin opportunities.

Fred Lee

Would we ever consider acting like any other not-for-profit and doing a capital campaign to get Caterpillar (Inc.) to buy us a building?

Ed Barry

Despite lower domestic-brand new vehicle sales during the fourth quarter, our company was able to realize meaningful improvements in our overall profit performance.

Earl Hesterberg