- U.S. retail sales rose 0.5% in May, the first gain in three months -- much of the gain was due to higher gas prices.
- U.S. jobless claims fell 24,000 last week to 601,000.
- China’s copper imports rose 6% in May
- China’s urban fixed-asset investment (building railways, oil pipelines, low cost housing) rose 32.9%.
- Boeing projects a market for 29,000 new commercial airplanes valued at $3.2 trillion over next 20 years. They project strong global demand, more efficient commercial airplanes in response to high fuel prices, aging fleets and environmental concerns.
- (Spiegel) The Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna has launched an art installation that puts its animal’s side-by-side with symbols of humanity's trashing of the environment -- including abandoned cars, rusty bathtubs and toxic waste.
- (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu, causing mostly mild disease outbreaks on four continents, prompted the World Health Organization to declare the first influenza pandemic since 1968
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"(Spiegel) The Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna has launched an art installation that puts its animal’s side-by-side with symbols of humanity's trashing of the environment -- including abandoned cars, rusty bathtubs and toxic waste."
eh, what?! relevance?
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