- While some warn of an imminent recession transports seem to point the other way.
- (FT) Chinese copper inventories stood at 1.9m tonnes at the end of 2010, more than the US consumes in a year. The estimate is significantly higher than the 1.0m-1.5m tonnes range foreign executives had assumed and may indicate lower demand than thought.
- Western Europe's cocoa grind rose 14.0% YoY
- The USDA raised its world wheat stock estimated to 202.4m tonnes -- the highest for 10 years.
- Google's earnings rose 29%.
- Thai authorities are battling to keep the country's worst floods in decades from inundating Bangkok, urging the city's 12 million residents not to panic after a dyke burst in the northern suburb.
- The U.S. Labor Department said that the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims for jobless benefits was 404,000 in the week ending Oct. 8, a decrease of 1,000 from the previous week.
- Australia's unemployment rate fell to 5.2% in September, down from a 10-month high of 5.3% in August
- U.K. unemployment rate in the June-August period stood at a depressing 8.1%, the highest in 15 years.
- MoM the Eurozone industrial production rose by 1.2%, and 5.3% YoY.
- North American railcar owners pulled 11,087 more units out of storage
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