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To: bobby beara who wrote (4773)	12/22/1999 3:00:00 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5676

There is NO INFLATION!! Only 5.9% in Germany German Import Prices Increased 1.4% in November, Exceeding Forecasts By Christiane Buehler and Hellmuth Tromm German Import Prices Rose 1.4% in November and 5.9% in Year Wiesbaden, Germany, Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Prices of goods imported into Germany rose for a 10th straight month in November, evidence that the euro's decline and rising oil costs are fueling inflation in Europe's largest economy. Import prices rose 1.4 percent from October and rose 5.9 percent from a year earlier, the Federal Statistics Office said. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News forecast prices would climb 0.7 percent in the month and 5.2 percent in the year. Oil prices doubled this year and the euro declined 14 percent against the dollar. That's fed through to consumer prices. Annual inflation quickened to 1 percent in November from 0.2 percent in January. ''The effects of rising oil prices and the falling euro will last a few months, so we can expect import prices to increase further,'' said Christoph Hausen, an economist at Commerzbank AG. A report on December consumer prices, expected tomorrow, is likely to show that annual inflation accelerated to 1.1 percent from 1 percent, the third month in a row that it sped up. The ECB on Nov. 4 raised its benchmark refinancing rate by half a percentage point to 3 percent, the first increase since the euro's start on Jan. 1, as an economic revival in the 11- nation euro region takes hold. The bank aims to keep annual inflation in the area below 2 percent. Many analysts expect another rate increase in the first quarter of next year. The 17-member ECB council, which last week left interest rates unchanged, next meets Jan. 5. Import prices were mainly boosted by a 10 percent monthly increase in raw oil and oil products as well as an 8 percent rise in natural gas. In November, the price of crude oil rose 8.6 percent from October and almost doubled from a year earlier, the Hamburg-based HWWA economic research institute said. Excluding oil, import prices rose 0.7 percent in the month and rose 1.6 percent in the year. In October, overall import prices rose 0.4 percent in the month and 4.2 percent in the year. Export prices, the tag German companies put on goods shipped abroad, rose 0.2 percent in November, and advanced 1.1 percent in the year.

To: bobby beara who wrote (4773)	12/22/1999 6:52:00 AM
From: JDinBaltimore	Respond to of 5676

BB, How are Ya! Here's a bit of info for the seismic calcs. Subject: The Full Moon Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:00:10 -0500 From: HL Camp & Company programtrading To: programtrading.com For Wednesday, December 22, 1999 and the Full Moon. For Execution of Buy/Sell Programs Our FairValue for today is $18.62. That does not change during the day. Our computers are set for program buying at $20.80 and set for program selling at $16.42. If you would like to watch these premium execution levels, the ticker symbol is PREM ($PREM, @PREM, $SPS, $SPINX). If you've surfed our web site, you probably read some of our research based on the Moon at programtrading.com Tonight the Moon is full again. And this one is special. Why? Because accourding to Major Walter S. Chai of the US Air Force, this year will be the first Full Moon to occur on the winter solstice, on December 22 (commonly called the first day of winter) in a long long time. Since a full moon on the winter solstice is occurring in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon will appear about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in its elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth). And since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at this time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon is about 7% stronger, making the Moon brighter. Also, this is the closest perigee of the Moon for the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. If the weather is clear and there is a snow cover where you live, it is believed that even car headlights will be superfluous. On December 21, 1866, the Lakota Sioux took advantage of this combination of occurrences and staged a devastating retaliatory ambush on the US Calvary in the Wyoming Territory. So, tonight will be a super bright Full Moon. Much more so than usual. It hasn't happened this way for 133 years. Our ancestors saw it 133 years ago. Our descendants will see it again in about 100 years. Baltimore