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To: Les H who wrote (7314)	5/5/2003 10:33:20 AM
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Timing of rate cut becomes critical nationalpost.com He notes there has been 33 consecutive monthly declines in manufacturing payrolls and overall factory capacity utilization is still only running near 75%. "What are you going to do: hire a worker to stand around a look at idled machinery?" A further reduction in borrowing rates will not magically spark an uptick in demand from tapped out U.S. consumers or foreigners who have long lost their appetite for the high-technology and financial services that made the United States the centre of the universe just a few years ago.