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The ongoing dot.com market correction is far from having a negative effect on online retailing as a whole. It has actually led online retailers to renew their focus on customer service, cost reduction and profitability.

We have to get (Juan) going. I think (hitting coach) Hal (McRae) sees the correction that he needs to make.

We had a very good run. You have a pullback and correction at some stage and we are in a process to do that at the moment.

Last year there was a lot of noise in the sector. But on a positive note, you've seen a correction in the group.

David Jones

Jobs cuts tend to lag the process. You've had an inventory correction (that) may be getting near the end, you still have to superimposed investment boom/bust cycle that has been taking place, and there's still a process squeeze.

It is a reminder of just how far these markets have moved that even the savage fall in silver has merely taken us back to where we started the month. It would take more broad-based weakness to suggest ... that a more sustained correction is under way.

Japan's had a terrific run over 2005 -- the market was up 30-40 percent in local currency terms -- so some kind of correction was likely.

I think the market correction is a slow bleed. It's being nickel-and-dimed to death.

I think we probably need to take it even lower before the correction that we've been seeing is done.

We are expecting to see some correction in the housing market after previously robust data. That will put some downside pressure on yields, which means the curve may invert some more.

What we have been seeing today and yesterday is a rather normal correction after the nearly vertical rise in high-tech shares in recent sessions. Investors will be taking refuge in other sectors until high-tech stocks find a floor.

I don't think we're in a correction but I think we're in a very necessary leveling off period. A correction is probably over 10 percent down from the current levels and I don't think there's any reason for us to see that, but I do think given that the fact that the markets went up 7 or 8 percent in less than two months of the new year that we have to have perhaps have a couple of months time when the market doesn't go anywhere.

For the U.S., the correction is essentially over.

We maintain our overweight (rating), as we think a recent correction in this well-diversified vehicle safety supplier has been unjustified.

H shares were still in a correction mode because many are already regarded as being expensive.

I think we've been in a type of correction since mid-June.

I think what we're seeing is really a normal correction and a very healthy correction in what had been a very overvalued sector, the Internet sector.

Larry Beinfest

He has been a tremendous player in this organization for a long time. It's obviously a tough trade to make, but necessary given our market correction to our payroll.

Has it done any damage, or is it just a correction in an upward trend? That's a tough call.

Over the next few trading sessions, it will be important to watch whether the stock market sells off on rising volume. If that should happen, that could mean a spring correction is on the way.

I still want to see this correction find some decent physical demand ... Once we can prove that physical demand is actually going to support gold, that will encourage people to take gold higher again.

July sales always looked unsustainably high relative to the level of mortgage applications so a correction was due. This drop in sales does not mark the start of a sustained weakening.

Gold's momentum is likely to take it to either side of $600, but then a serious correction is likely to unfold.

Overall this period of dollar strength since January can still only be viewed as a correction to the 3 years of weakness,

Relative to where the stocks were earlier this year and the expectations people had for growth, some correction was necessary. Their valuations were as lofty as I have ever seen in 20 years of following the semiconductor industry. They were truly off the charts.

John Rogers

I think we're in the midst of a pretty significant correction right now. All of a sudden you see opportunities starting to creep in.

My sense is the next correction will be serious.

The fact that we have gone three years without a correction tells me we are overdue for one. Markets don't go in one direction without interruption.

Wole Soyinka

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.

Charles Francis Richter

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

We're likely to see a sharp and meaningful correction that lasts a few months.

It feels uncomfortable. It is uneasy. We're not used to this situation in the market. But, after all, this is the much-awaited correction that many people have been looking for in recent years.

Richard Boucher

one would expect more than the kind of correction we've seen so far.