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But if commodity demand is any indicator, the China dragon is still hungry for raw materials.
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The growing Chinese demand is an indicator of where mobile phone manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Research in Motion and others will be seeing most of their sales growth in the coming years.
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Significantly, non-food manufactured products inflation, an indicator of demand side pressure, rose sharply from 4.8% in January to 6% in February and continues to stay well above its medium-term trend.
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As a result, LCD flow name composite, our most real time indicator of market demand, rallied 21 bps during the first week of March to a six week high of 99.8.
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Then again (indicator theory), demand for advertising should hint at larger economic trends.
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According to Peter DeLongchamps, vice president manufacturer relations at Group 1 Automotive, one indicator of pent-up demand is the fact that scrappage rates have exceeded new-vehicle sales in recent months.
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While the sell-outs are a good indicator of the pent-up demand that Nokia and Microsoft have managed to create prior to the Lumia launch and is in line with our long-term view of the company, investors should be careful not to read too much into the news for we have no idea what the actual sales number are.
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