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This Evening’s Earnings
Shipment Cycles
I was looking at the economic database (available to premium members) and stumbled upon the odd symbol FR:ANXAVS which is described as “Value of Shipments” (defined in detail here). This spans decades, and the relatively steady up/down pattern is clear to see, in spite of all the Fed’s best efforts to strangle the life out of natural economic cycles:
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