one of the things that we do when we write out our analysis is we put the quarter on quarter figure on there. We put the year on year figure there so that the data presented both ways. I think if you, you can't miss the year on year perspective, particularly because that's the way the Chinese government reports its data. But the quarter on quarter is extremely important too, because that gives you a sense of how things have changed over the course of a few weeks or months. In terms of reporting quarterly data or eight times a year data, instead of going into months and weeks, it's, you know, what we found is that when you report data out of China in particular, but this applies to most monthly data, you get an extraordinary amount of white noise. And what, what are the problems with the PMI, which is, which was released monthly. And this is not just a China issue. This is any PMI released monthly. Is it people make a lot of very small movements? You know, you can have a movement in one (14/57)
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