All companies can use real-time continuous data to monitor shelf-life, cash flow, debtors outstanding.

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This is what this data is supposed to monitor, but the well flow evidence would appear to have been ignored, because at this point the BP rig supervisors should have gone to a well kill operation and started to pump heavy mud back into the well bore to restore the primary control mechanism.

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While demand data flow continues to show robust readings, it will be important to monitor how the recent spike in market volatility will impact private consumption going forward, wrote Guilherme Loureiro, a Brazil analyst for Barclays Capital.

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Operations people, such as the CTO for electronic equity order flow or the operations director for fixed income, equities or market data, will want to monitor systems in real-time.

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