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To: carranza2 who wrote (31430)	3/20/2008 11:53:05 AM
From: Riskmgmt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218705

>>Yessie is my contraction for a combo of Yen/Swissie.<< OMG. that's a new one on me. <g> Can't believe that I was the only one who asked what it was. I guess then I am in good company. Now let us pray we are right and "gotgold?" don't turn into "soldgold?"! :}

To: carranza2 who wrote (31430)	3/21/2008 5:44:54 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218705

just in in-tray quote CHINA SLOWDOWN IS BECOMING APPARENT From Charles DeTrenck: The critical theme for us continues to be a rather rude slowdown in trade volumes out of China post Chinese New Year. We are still trying to understand the storms and pre-Olympics effects versus a 'real slowdown' (higher costs and lower demand). That volumes have not really picked up in last 2-3 weeks should become more and more of a concern, though we have to keep an open mind that some of the slowness could still reverse a little... * We met with port, forwarder and shipping companies this week * The HK port player saw Asia-Europe Westbound as 12-13% in 2008 (low-end consensus) * Other meetings pointed to utilization to Europe as about 70% level now (very low) * Asia-Europe is clearly the key to rates and sentiment given this has been strongest * We need to watch every week the pick up from Asia...so far the poor Feb looks = in March unquote