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Crain's Chicago Business, Aug 10, 2011, "Market Turmoil Puts Some Chicago Businesses on Hold" – Dominick Mondi, senior managing director in Mesirow Financial Institutional Sales and Trading, discusses the current market situation and its impact on business, "the markets have gotten tough so they look for guidance, liquidity and ideas – all things you need to provide in a marketplace that has additional layers of risk. The downgrade of U.S. debt by Standard & Poor's Corp. late Friday, the stressed U.S. economy and widening debt worries in Europe, among other things, all call for slowing down to assess major business moves."

Investment Management Weekly, Apr 28, 2011, "Fed Lowers Growth Forecast as Bernanke Warns of Deficit" – Dominick Mondi, senior managing director in Mesirow Financial Institutional Sales and Trading, is quoted as saying the municipal market is "hinging back to fundamentals again. The immediacy of crises in the Middle East and Japan has passed. We are still on the back end of the recovery for municipalities."