41.   The ACM said the latest data provided hard evidence the Asian turmoil was already hitting manufacturing activity.

42.   The data may provide some hints as to whether the Federal Reserve will move soon to raise interest rates, traders said.

43.   The data will provide, for the first time, a comprehensive climate read-out of the interior of the ice shelf.

44.   The new economic data will provide an indication on whether the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, brokers said.

45.   Traders said the upcoming employment data would provide clues on the future direction of of U.S. interest rates and stock prices.

46.   He added that it was unclear whether the data would provide an exact cause of the crash.

47.   Australian shares rose marginally Thursday after stronger than expected February employment data provided some support, brokers said.

48.   But economists remained sceptical and suggested that the data would provide the ECB with an argument in favour of higher rates if and when it needed one.

49.   Loeb said he did not know how long the analysis would take, adding that it was unclear whether the data would provide an exact cause of the crash.

50.   Ralph Sueppel, an analyst at JP Morgan in Frankfurt, says recent German economic data provide a favorable setting for a reduction of the repo rate.