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If this were a stock chart, I would be buying this base formation.

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Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) has a bearish-looking macro chart, but ignited out of a lower base yesterday before closing just back below the pivot.

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The monthly chart shows the completion of a long-term base as resistance from 2008-2009, line e, was overcome in September.

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The good news for Clearwire was the display of a chart that showed smaller footprint cell sites that would include base station cards for a multiplicity of services including: LTE (yes, long term evolution), WIMAX, some successor concept that would continue to use the IDEN spectrum in the low bands to keep the push to talk business users happy, and CDMA as well.

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Housing starts beat estimates by over 100, 000, and this chart confirms that they clearly have bottomed after completing a nice base in late 2011.

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The chart below plots the velocity of the U.S. monetary base against interest rates since 1947.

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For example, the Conference Board in the November 2012 Global Outlook (see chart below) forecasted an annualized growth rate of 2.3% in its base case for the years 2013-208 and a further reduced annualized growth rate projection of 2.0% in its base case for the years 2019-2025, representing a distribution of roughly 18% of overall World output.

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The chart of existing home sales does appears to have bottomed, as it has broken out of its base formation.

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