Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). And, your first question comes from the line of Peter Appert with Piper Jaffray.
Peter Appert - Piper Jaffray
Thank you. Tony can you give us any additional color on revenue trends geographically and any early flavor for how would your line August to look?
Tony Aquila
Yes. Hey, Peter, first of all, it's Tony. What we're starting to see in July is we are starting to see things kind of firming up. We had kind of a scattering, the countries didn't, they kind of broke away from their pattern for a few months, as they were going through kind of the global issues out there in the market and we think it was to my comments earlier where people delayed claims and now they are feeling better being able to pay their deductibles and so we're now seeing July come in more consistent with what we expected and showing positive trends.
I would say that from a mature country's perspective it's a little harder for us to see in the evolving countries because we're penetrating and adding new customers right now and as you saw from some of the examples I gave like Romania and others, they're just kind of blowing right through this, we can't even see what the effects are of the economy.
Peter Appert - Piper Jaffray
This basically is the reason why you're still comfortable with the six to eight in the context of obviously less than that in the fourth quarter?
Tony Aquila
Yes, I mean we're just trying to figure out, we're not trying to time the recovery. We believe there are positive trends but we're going to take and really focus on what we know versus some of the things that we're traditionally used to.
Peter Appert - Piper Jaffray
Then Tony, any comments on the acquisition pipeline and probability that you're going to be able to close something here early in fiscal '10?
Tony Aquila
Yes, I think my comments there would be very much in line with what we said in the past and what we've done in the past. I think we are very targeted on our acquisitions, or pipeline is very active and I think within reasonable period of time, we will have some more details on that.
Peter Appert - Piper Jaffray
Okay and Dudley, now even at it for a little while, thoughts on further leverage in the margin story. Now you sort of backed away from giving specific margin targets on a go forward basis, but what's your comfort level in terms of the ability to take the margins into the 40% plus range?
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