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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: mungofitch ✹✺ SILVER
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Subject: Re: VL Dec132024 datafile has errors
Date: 12/12/24 9:54 AM
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Thanks for the heads-up.

At least they are getting more consistent -- consistently bad. This is a follow up to the file dated November 22 (released Nov 18) that was all bad too.

I have never delved very deeply to figure out which fields are junk when this happens, and which ones are good.
"Stock Price" and "Current P/E Ratio" are bad. But "Div'd Yield" and "Market Cap $(Mil)" seem to be OK.
But rather surprisingly, the "Total Return xx-Week" and "Total Return YTD" fields seem (?) to be OK as well.
(the "Total Return xx-Year" fields are updated only monthly anyway, so they are the usual stale-but-right figures)

Jim
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