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Factory orders slip 0.2% in August
Marketwatch ^
| 10.4.11
| Steve Goldstein
Posted on 10/04/2011 7:40:57 AM PDT by Free Vulcan
...Factory orders fell 0.2% in August. Economists had expected a 0.3% drop...
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: factory; orders
To: Free Vulcan
See, things aren’t all that bad. Orders only fell 2/3rds of what was expected.
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posted on
10/04/2011 7:50:39 AM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Free Vulcan
After the Marketwatch article on the Wall St protests I think I’ll just ignore everything they print from now on.
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posted on
10/04/2011 7:52:27 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Free Vulcan
When I see numbers like this I wonder, can an accurate measurement of +/- .1 percent be made. If so, then how about .01?
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posted on
10/04/2011 7:57:40 AM PDT
by
pappyone
To: skeeter
After the Marketwatch article on the Wall St protests I think I’ll just ignore everything they print from now on.
I thought for sure it'd have an ope-ed byline. But no. It was meant to be straight news. Unreal!
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posted on
10/04/2011 8:27:11 AM PDT
by
nhwingut
(Palin '12... Accept No Other)
To: Jim from C-Town
See, things aren’t all that bad. Orders only fell 2/3rds of what was expected.lols.
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posted on
10/04/2011 8:30:06 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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