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To: Brilliant

The strength in housing construction in April came entirely from a huge increase in apartment construction, which can be extremely volatile from month to month.

8 posted on 05/16/2008 1:12:12 PM PDT by anymouse
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to a seasonally adjusted annual rate...

the last seasonal adjustment out of the US government turned a gas price increase into a seasonally adjusted gas price drop - I kid you not. So, I think the reasonable man will await confirmation of the statistic averaged over a period of time before making a financial bet on which way things will go.

9 posted on 05/16/2008 1:48:20 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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