John Stephenson of First Asset Investment Management, a Canadian fund manager, reckons the idea that speculators swamp every other price signal is odd.

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Or the odd shape of the oil-futures price curve, which suggests the market thinks the price could spike later this year, then fall and return to today's prices by 2012.

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That they can sell these cars for half the price of the originals suggests that something odd is going on.

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This immediately struck me as odd, since any other hotel of this size and price I have been to either has it owns shuttle or would simply have a bellman take me over, but I schlepped down the driveway in the tropical heat and waited for the bus.

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Almost all of the 30-odd stocks on the new bourse are trading below their IPO price.

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