Steve Butler
Steve Butler
Steve Butlerwon six national driving championships in USAC Sprint Car and Silver Crown open-wheel racing. Butler was highly regarded for his technical skills and performed chief mechanic duties on several of his winning race cars. He also communicated his view of racing to fans both as author and television commentator. Despite a relatively brief racing career, Butler is an inductee into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. He retired at age 37 to pursue both an engineering career and...
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It is absolutely a chance to buy the U.S. dollar. The Canadian dollar is on the sidelines.
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Rising commodities prices definitely contributed to the fortune of the Canadian dollar today. Commodities have been a positive factor for the Canadian dollar in 2005 and the market expects good news to continue this year.
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Our joint venture with Qwest capitalizes on this explosive new market by creating the industry's first total solution for managed and implemented business applications,
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The market is speculating that the Fed may keep going. The interest rate in Canada right now lags behind that in the U.S. The big question is whether the Bank of Canada can keep up the pace with the Fed to narrow the rate gap.
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Commodities continue to look soft. The slowing down of commodities could drag on the Canadian economy a bit.
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We made significant strides in turning around the business during 2005. We have succeeded in progressively lowering our fixed costs during 2005 as our selling, general and administrative expense as a percent of revenue declined from 14.5% in the first quarter to 12.1% in the fourth quarter. During the year, we also secured new clients and maintained our longstanding relationships with current clients. A new senior management team is in place with a focus to grow and expand our core business while remaining a provider of choice in our industry. We are encouraged with the progress we have made thus far and we will continue to seek opportunities to improve our results and diversify our revenue base in 2006.