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What you need to know to calculate annual decline over any time period.

The Wall Street Journal summarise Chinese Q4 data with 5 key points
– The growth rate of 6.9% for the full year is the slowest since 1990
– The expansion for the fourth quarter came in at 6.8%, slightly below the median forecast of 6.9%. That means the growth momentum slowed a tad more than economists expected in the last three months of the year.
There is more at the article, but not a lot more

Chinese shares picked up on Tuesday as the Asian giant confirmed that fourth-quarter growth met expectations, albeit the weakest in nearly seven years, underlining the task Beijing faces in stabilizing activity while reforming its economy. “This is a new risk for China.

Oil futures remained under pressure on Tuesday following a slide that has seen prices fall by more than a quarter since the beginning of the year as the full return of Iran to oil markets adds to an already huge supply overhang. Traders said that the diverging movements between Brent and WTI crudes was largely due to technical trading in order to get the two benchmarks back slightly closer together. The U.S.

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It’s as easy as adding and subtracting.

The United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities found in 1975 that the CIA submitted stories to the American press:

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