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		<title>Mathematica work-flows. Retrieving, processing and presenting data. #2 Processing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The State&#8217;s in a fiscal hole: will they raid their insurance trusts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Retail sales: no boom, just doom and gloom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Census Bureau released the Advance Monthly Retail Trade and Food Services Survey late last week and on the face of it it seems like good news. By that I mean good news that IS good, whereas &#8220;less bad&#8221; has often been taken as being good in recent times. Seasonally adjusted retail sales were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildebeests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9244296&amp;post=536&amp;subd=wildebeests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trade data points to L shaped outlook.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first glance the contraction in the trade deficit for October looks positive. I&#8217;m generally wary of seasonally adjusted data &#8212; not because seasonal effects don&#8217;t exist but because I prefer to see the raw data and the algorithm used to do the smoothing. Non seasonally adjusted data for the trade in goods is available [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildebeests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9244296&amp;post=524&amp;subd=wildebeests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rail freight: proof of an economic train wreck?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Total carloads and intermodal rail freight data are plotted in the two charts below as 4 week moving averages. The improvement we&#8217;re seeing needs to be viewed in the context of a trending increases in freight that occurs throughout the year through to October. The data certainly lacks the characteristics of a V shaped rebound. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildebeests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9244296&amp;post=522&amp;subd=wildebeests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China has now become the biggest risk to the world economy (?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Australian economy is doing better than most at the moment, it still has its problems &#8212; while unemployment is low, a large number of people were forced into part time work during the short recession, and has its concerns &#8212; economic growth is too heavily dependent on China. Interesting coverage of a tour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildebeests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9244296&amp;post=531&amp;subd=wildebeests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commodity charts show no signs of much economic recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are buoyant times for (some) commodity investors, and (some) commodity producers, what does it mean in terms of a global recovery? A common feature among people drawing conclusions about the economy from commodity markets tends to be a sole focus on price, and even then only prices in exchange traded commodities. If buyers out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildebeests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9244296&amp;post=527&amp;subd=wildebeests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copper: What the bellwether metal tells us about a recovery.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article from Reuters titled &#8220;Economic optimism lifts US copper to 13-month peak&#8221; provides an example of the leap of faith many are taking when they observe rising copper prices and conclude that global economic prospects are brighter. The article included a lot of bullet points, but most related to matters unrelated and unconnected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildebeests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9244296&amp;post=514&amp;subd=wildebeests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US trade data shows a limp recovery after crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baltic dry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article over on SeekingAlpha recently &#8220;Baltic Dry Index&#8217;s fall misleads investors.&#8221; The author pointed out that while the BDI is down, there is also a surplus of ships, so that the BDI weakness is not entirely due to lower levels of trade. Among the discussions that followed was a comment/question about the seasonality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildebeests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9244296&amp;post=506&amp;subd=wildebeests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iron ore and coal. Why it is all about China.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[commodities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hear a lot about the BRIC countries. The plot below &#8212; world crude steel production this decade as of end of August &#8212; pretty much sums up why it is all about China, the &#8220;C&#8221; in BRIC, when it comes to iron ore and metallurgical coal demand. The plot shows the enormous growth in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildebeests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9244296&amp;post=500&amp;subd=wildebeests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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