TTH - you are correct of course. What is also true is that:a)...

TTH - you are correct of course. What is also true is that:

a) the data that I have pulled out represents accurately footnoted news that is ostensibly not good news. You were aware of this data and yet chose not to highlight it.

b) your "glass half full" approach always relies on things having turned around at some point AFTER the last period for which historical data has been provided. This always remains a possibility. However, your posts prior to today have implied that things have gotten better in the current HALF. Now, you are reduced to arguing that things have gotten better in the current QUARTER, as in fact they got WORSE in the first quarter based on a simple straight line analysis.

I admire your optimism.