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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Richard Boucher

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

The only thing to push the market higher would be a correction in the oil price.

There are a number of potential catalysts for a short-term correction in the sector.

The rebound in the technology shares since September 21 has been huge. I think the valuations are too high again. I don't think people learned their lessons with the correction we had.

We had a defensive breakdown. We made a correction during the intermission before overtime. The game was a great experience for the kids.

My sense is the next correction will be serious.

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.