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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William H Huebl who wrote (53866)	8/8/2001 3:17:37 PM
From: Skeet Shipman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Are you enjoying the TURKEY SHOOT? That high-flying flock of tech turkeys is back again. Just watch what happens to them. Employment by States: According to sources at the BLS, sampling errors and difficulties at the state level are more acute relative to the national level. And state errors usually point in the same direction, so that when summing state employment figures, the small errors accumulate to yield a noticeable difference against the U.S. More importantly, when the U.S. slows precipitously, state data often experience difficulties reflecting the trend. A similar situation occurred during the 1991 recession, when revisions ended up axing more than 1 million jobs from the preliminary estimate, with several states suffering harsh and telling adjustments.