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• r  depending on the season
  prices are seasonally adjusted

• The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for unemployment insurance dropped to a seasonally adjusted 530,000 from an upwardly revised 551,000 the previous week.
• The numbers (unlike those in the chart above) are not seasonally adjusted because I've not aware of any seasonally adjusted jobs data for the 1930s:.
• It was bad enough in seasonally adjusted terms: 741,000 jobs lost.

News & Articles

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• Gold, silver trade lower; physical demand poor
  MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian gold and silver futures traded slightly lower on Monday, still consolidating in recent price ranges, with the physical market witnessing subdued demand in a seasonally slow period ...
  June 17, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
• Japan Tertiary Industry Index Flat In April
  An index measuring tertiary industry activity in Japan was flat on month in April, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said on Monday, standing at a seasonally adjusted 99.7.
  June 17, 2013 - RTT News
• U.S. Producer Prices Jump 0.5% In May
  U.S. wholesale prices jumped a seasonally adjusted 0.5% in May to mark the first increase in three months, spurred by higher costs for gasoline, eggs and light trucks.
  June 14, 2013 - FOX Business

Quotes

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• Paul Otellini in Wall Street Journal
  In a statement, Otellini said the company's results "reflect improving conditions in the personal-computer market segment, with our strongest first- to second-quarter growth since 1988 and a clear expectation for a seasonally stronger second half."
• Eric Schmidt in Sydney Morning Herald
  Google grew at an impressive pace during a seasonally slower quarter,company chief executive Eric Schmidt said in a statement.
• Steve Odland in Reuters.uk
  We knew we were facing significant head winds as we entered the second-quarter this year, a quarter which also is seasonally our lowest point for sales,Chief Executive Steve Odland said in a statement.