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Submitted by Nick Colas of Convergex

Supermodels And Other Productivity Measures

Exceprted from the NY Times and a Google search.

'Nuff said!

The market took one look at today's dismal jobs data and marked down the data-dependent Fed's rate-hike schedule to record lows. June odds are now at 4% - the lowest on record...

And even out to Feb 2017 there is a less than 50-50 chance of The Fed acting...

Researchers have broken the record for growing a human embryo in the laboratory and keeping it alive beyond the stage when it would naturally implant in a mother’s womb. The human embryo was grown in a lab  for twice the length of time previously possible in what has been hailed as a breakthrough that could “revolutionise” medicine…..but it also raises fresh ethical questions about when life begins.

Astronomers at Stanford University in California have finally found evidence for the existence of elusive dark matter – something that was, until recently, considered just hypothetical.  Dark matter accounts for approximately 27% of the mass and energy in the observable universe – and has remained invisible to scientists until now. The discovery was made by accident as astronomers examining a massive nearby galaxy found a strange distortion on its edge. The distortion, it turns out, was a smaller, invisible galaxy composed entirely of dark matter.