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To: ItsAllCyclical who wrote (20603)	1/28/2005 12:37:35 PM
From: Zincman	Respond to of 108726

<<US Demand>> How ironic? tinyurl.com U.S. 4th-Qtr Growth Slows, Inflation Up (Reuters) - The U.S. economy grew at a weaker-than-expected 3.1 percent annual pace in the final quarter of 2004 year, its slowest since the beginning of 2003 as the country's trade performance deteriorated and inflation picked up, a government report on Friday showed. The increase in fourth-quarter gross domestic product, or GDP, which measures total output within U.S. borders, was down from a 4 percent gain in the third quarter and was the weakest since a 1.9 percent pace in the first quarter of 2003. More...