21.   The data will make it easier for scientists to add nutrients to crops or increase resistance to drought and pests through both conventional breeding techniques and genetic engineering.

22.   The data made U.S. interest rates more likely to rise and reduced the value of fixed-interest investments such as British government bonds.

23.   The Fed cut rates last week, and while the market was looking for another rate reduction later this month, the data could make that less likely.

24.   The omitted data would have made the situation look even worse.