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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (20745)	6/24/1998 4:53:00 PM
From: Math Junkie	Respond to of 70976

I'm not saying you were intentionally misleading people, just that it would have that effect, for anyone who didn't happen to notice the link to the underlying data, and the drop in the last two weeks. I agree that price declines are the norm, but I'm sure that 25 per cent in two weeks is not the norm. And by the way, the period of no decline was from May 15th to June 5th. That's three weeks, not six, on my calendar. So if we split the difference, and consider the entire five weeks from May 15th to June 19th, a 25 per cent drop in five weeks still seems like a lot. That would imply about an 82 per cent drop since November, and since the actual drop has only been about 63 per cent since then it appears the fall is steepening, if anything.