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To: Dennis R. Duke who wrote (41439)	3/29/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 61433

Financial stats from this week's Economist: <<< FINANCIAL INDICATORS EXPORTS Despite concern over its trade deficit, a preoccupation that is likely to increase this year, America remains by a wide margin the world's biggest exporter. In 1997 it sold merchandise worth $689 billion to foreigners, or 12.6% of the global total, according to new figures from the World Trade Organisation. Germany accounted for 9.4% of worldwide exports and Japan 7.7%. Asian turbulence notwithstanding, China continued to move up the rankings: in 1996 it was in eleventh place with 2.9% of worldwide exports; last year it moved up to tenth, with 3.3%. Real GDP in Eastern and Central Europe and in the former Soviet Union rose by 1.4% in 1997, the first year of positive growth since communism, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist. >>>