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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Pitera who wrote (5221)	12/7/2001 1:07:18 AM
From: James C. Mc Gowan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

LOL, Dean Wormer, Faber College, Toga/Market Party and Our Lady of Perpetual Recession, in 2 posts. You're on a roll, John, ROLF James Edit: GE Chart means they'll have to saddle up Jack Welch again. Or maybe a golf cart,ggg.

To: John Pitera who wrote (5221)	12/7/2001 9:00:36 AM
From: macavity	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33421

Japan. 10 years of reducing rates has done nothing at all, but perpetuate companies to keep on hiding. MOF should raise rates - tough love! It is the land of the living dead, and it needs a slayer sharpish. -macavity

To: John Pitera who wrote (5221)	12/9/2001 2:53:09 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 33421

Hi John.. >>The government announced this morning that Japan's real gross domestic product shrank 0.5%, or an annualized 2.2%, between July and September, compared with the previous quarter. That puts Japan technically in a recession -- its fourth in a decade -- under the common definition of two straight quarterly contractions. The government also revised down the second quarter's contraction in GDP to 1.2% from 0.7%.<< 4 recessions in a decade. And our last recession was when? I heard an economist talking about the "recovery" yesterday and was citing the service sectors with emphasis on such groups as "healthcare and security". I personally do not see how we can have a recovery without corresponding manufacturing growth. We had an increase in sales in October that came not from an increase in production, but a reduction in inventory. If the increase in sales is met entirely through an increase in production, there will be a big positive effect on economic growth. If the increase in sales is met through a reduction in inventories, there will be no impact on economic growth at all. For example I had read that the higher car sales in October were matched by a reduction in inventory. I can personally attest to that. We went looking for a vehicle with the 0% sales incentive and found little by way of selection, so rather than buy something we didn't really want, we declined. In other words, we're not that desperate. I still keep returning to the decreasing demand dynamic...(DDD for short?) and Japan's continuing economic woes looms larger as a result.