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2016-03-12 Economy

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Posted by badanov 2016-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Is this change significant, or within normal variation around the current mean?

Posted by trailing wife 2016-03-12 14:41|| 2016-03-12 14:41|| Front Page Top

#2 @#1: Baltic Dry Index BDIY:IND

Up a "skootch," but not by much.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-03-12 17:13|| 2016-03-12 17:13|| Front Page Top

#3 rail traffic amso up a tick and many more trucks; at least here on the west coast

Posted by Clomomble Ebboluger3716 2016-03-12 17:42|| 2016-03-12 17:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Is this change significant, or within normal variation around the current mean?

Baby steps. The BDI went down to a record low 288 just four weeks ago and appears to be recovering. It peaked at 11,700 just before Obama took office.

No one knows what a normal recovery is when this kind of economic activity shells out, but I guess we will soon see.

Posted by badanov 2016-03-12 18:26|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2016-03-12 18:26|| Front Page Top

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