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China clearly continues to have a major impact on what they are doing. With commodity prices as strong as they are at the moment, and not showing any signs of a change of direction, one would think there is still room for some improvement in earnings in 2006.

The market is following what's going overseas. With the reporting season just about complete, people are starting to look again at what's going on outside. The U.S. seems to be slowing a little bit at the moment, but Asia should make up some of the gap.

It looks like they are trying to throw their weight around and trying to influence a free market process. We'll have to see whether that works. The market is still short of materials.