The other day the President gave the first authorative & concrete figures on war production "Production is running 94 or 95% of objectives," he said.
Figures on industrial production and exports are still plummeting.
Figures on industrial production in France and Italy are expected Monday and for the euro zone as a whole Wednesday.
"In particular, current figures on industrial production and incoming orders suggest markedly reduced investment activities on the part of German firms against the backdrop of uncertain sales prospects.
Analysts said the bank's reversal of course on interest rates was insufficient to counteract dismal figures on industrial production in January that came out on the same day.
And Saturday, China is scheduled to release monthly figures on industrial production, inflation and retail sales that most analysts expect will provide more evidence that the world's second-biggest economy, after that of the United States, has stalled.
In Germany, for example, manufacturing orders are rising, but the latest figures on industrial production showed a surprising fall; imports are rising sharply, suggesting robust demand, but retail sales are falling.
The climatic conditions of older periods, however, have to be "reconstructed" with the help of historical documents (which contain figures on food production, the length of growing seasons, and the duration of ice on bodies of water) and other indirect measures of climate (including "climate proxies" such as tree rings, ice cores, and sediment cores).
Later Friday morning, the Street will get new figures on industrial production and consumer sentiment.
Acuthan is radically suggesting we are too overly focused on the negative GDP number, the weak figures on industrial production and rising unemployment.
