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height=95 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image002.png@01D5AEFB.B4420EB0"><span class=style30><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:1.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style='height:.1in'><td width=847 colspan=5 valign=top style='width:634.95pt;border:solid #BFBFBF 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:.1in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Update<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Market Turnover ZWL$9,795,150.22 with foreign buys at ZWL$2,912,671.32 and foreign sales were ZWL$885,447.70 Total trades were 195<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The All Share index started the week on a lower note after shedding 2.44 points to close at 232.48 points. OLD MUTUAL LIMITED lost $1.8627 to close at $34.0733, DELTA CORPORATION eased $0.0509 to end at $3.4763 and BAT lost $0.0500 to end at $47.4500. CASSAVA SMARTECH ZIMBABWE LIMITED traded $0.0451 lower to settle at $1.4227 while ECONET WIRELESS slumped $0.0112 to close at $1.4953.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Trading in the positive; AFRICAN DISTILLERS LIMITED added $0.0500 to close at $3.0500 , ZIMPLOW HOLDINGS LIMITED gained $0.0400 to end at $0.5500 and POWERSPEED ELECTRICAL rose by $0.0220 to $0.3700. Other counters trading in positive were DAIRIBOARD ZIMBABWE PRIVATE LIMITED which traded $0.005 stronger at $0.3405 and FIRST MUTUAL PROPERTIES which advanced $0.0045 to close at $0.165.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img border=0 width=740 height=244 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D5AEFB.B4420EB0"></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> Global Currencies & Equity Markets<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Kenya<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Kenyan shilling firms against the dollar<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>(Reuters) - The Kenyan shilling firmed against the dollar on Monday supported by tightening liquidity in the local money market and inflows from diaspora remittances, traders said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>At 0838 GMT, commercial banks quoted the shilling at 101.35/55 per dollar, compared with 101.45/65 at Friday's close.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Egypt<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Egypt sells $1 bln in dollar-denominated T-bills -central bank<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>(Reuters) - Egypt has sold $1 billion in one-year dollar-denominated T-bills at an average yield of 3.589%, the central bank said on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The bank said the T-bills will mature on Dec. 8, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> </span><a href="mailto:info@bulls.co.zw"><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=300 height=296 id="_x0000_i1028" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D5AEFB.B4420EB0"></span></a><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>GLOBAL MARKETS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Stocks, gold little changed as trade war spurs concerns<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>(Reuters) - Global equity markets traded flat on Monday on hopes officials would delay more U.S. tariffs set to take effect on Chinese goods this coming Sunday, while gold held firm as investors hedged against a possible escalation in the trade war.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Crude oil prices fell and the dollar slipped against the safe-haven Swiss franc after data showed Chinese exports in November shrank for the fourth straight month, reviving concerns about damage to global demand caused by the 17-month trade spat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Investors braced for other political and economic news in a busy week. The U.S. Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting begins Tuesday, a UK election on Thursday could be decisive for Britain’s plans to leave the European Union and a potential agreement related to a North American trade pact may be reached.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Dec. 15 deadline that will usher in $156 billion in U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods stirred caution, leading MSCI’s all-country world index to trade flat while shares on Wall Street slid and European equities closed lower.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Investors have bid up stocks in recent weeks, pushing the three major Wall Street indexes close to record highs and MSCI’s gauge of global equity performance to less than three points from its all-time peak.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Buoyed by Friday’s blockbuster U.S. jobs report, traders and investors held out hope for a delay in the U.S. tariff deadline, while expecting more positive gestures from both sides.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Large-cap U.S. equities are trading at about 17.5 times forward earnings, noted Michael Mullaney, director of global markets research at Boston Partners in Boston. The S&P 500 could reach 3,250 or 3,300 next year if a trade agreement is reached, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>China hopes it can reach a trade agreement with the United States that satisfies both sides, Assistant Commerce Minister Ren Hongbin told reporters overnight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe shed 0.13%, while stocks on Wall Street and in Europe closed lower. MSCI’s emerging markets index rose 0.21%.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.24%.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 105.46 points, or 0.38%, to 27,909.6. The S&P 500 lost 9.95 points, or 0.32%, to 3,135.96 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 34.70 points, or 0.4%, to 8,621.83.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Against the Swiss franc, which tends to draw investors during times of geopolitical or financial stress, the dollar was 0.23% lower.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The dollar index, a measure of the greenback against six other major trading currencies, slipped 0.05%, with the euro up 0.05% to $1.1063. The Japanese yen weakened 0.04% versus the greenback at 108.64 per dollar.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>U.S. Treasury yields fell after rising three straight days as risk appetite ebbed after the weak Chinese trade data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Benchmark 10-year notes rose 5/32 in price to yield 1.8277%.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>German exports rose unexpectedly in October, a morale boost for Europe’s largest economy, but had little impact on European bonds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Yields on Germany’s 10-year bund, a benchmark for the euro zone, fell to -0.304%.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Oil prices fell on the Chinese export data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Brent futures fell 14 cents to settle at $64.25 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate oil futures slid 18 cents to settle down at $59.02 a barrel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>U.S. gold futures settled mostly unchanged at $1,464.90 an ounce.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> </span><a href="mailto:info@bulls.co.zw"><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=300 height=296 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D5AEFB.B4420EB0"></span></a><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:.3in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:.3in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Commodities Markets<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:.3in;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Copper scales 4-1/2-month peak on China demand optimism<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>(Reuters) - Copper prices climbed to 4-1/2-month highs on Monday as hopes of stronger growth and demand in top consumer China were reinforced by numbers showing surprisingly robust imports.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>However, nervousness about the United States and China agreeing a so-called “phase one” deal aimed at de-escalating their prolonged trade dispute weighed on sentiment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange ended up 1.4% at $6,075 a tonne in official rings. Prices of the metal used by investors as a gauge of economic health peaked at $6,076.50, the highest since July 22.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>DATA: China’s overall imports unexpectedly rose 0.3% from a year earlier, marking the first year-on-year growth since April and above the consensus for a 1.8% decline.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>China’s factory activity showed surprising signs of improvement in November, with growth picking up to a near three-year high, a private sector survey showed last week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>COPPER: China’s copper imports rose to 483,000 tonnes in November, up 12.1% from the previous month to their highest in more than a year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>TRADE: China said on Monday that it hoped to agree a trade deal with the United States as soon as possible, amid intense discussions before new U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports are due to kick in on Dec. 15.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>STOCKS: Also supporting copper prices are sliding stocks of the metal in LME warehouses and cancelled warrants — metal earmarked for delivery — at more than 40% of the total. Stocks stand at 190,825 tonnes MCUSTX-TOTAL.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>TECHNICALS: Strong support for copper at $5,995, the 200-day moving average breached on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>SPREAD: The premium for the cash over the three-month aluminium contract was at $7 a tonne, down from $22 at the start of December, the highest since July last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It appeared last month MALSTX-TOTAL and has attracted large amounts of aluminium to LME warehouses. Stocks at more than 1.28 million tonnes are at their highest since February and up more than 30% since early November.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Three-month aluminium closed down 0.5% at $1,757.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>PRICES: Zinc and lead were little changed at $2,239 and $1,893 respectively, tin gained 0.3% to $17,120 and nickel lost 1% to $13,340 a tonne.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Aluminium producers prepare for troubled times ahead: Andy Home<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>(Reuters) - The aluminium market is in trouble again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The London Metal Exchange (LME) price touched a three-year low of $1,705 per tonne in October and has failed to stage any significant bounce over the intervening period. It is currently trading around the $1,760 level.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Earlier this year there was a lot of excited talk in the market about growing supply deficits and falling stocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Fast forward to today and LME stocks are surging again and no-one is talking about deficits any more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>LME stocks are a poor lens through which to understand aluminium’s dynamics but the rapid increase in visible tonnage has reinforced concerns about a deteriorating demand outlook.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Aluminium producers have been here before and know trouble when they see it with Hydro announcing output cuts and both Alcoa and Rio Tinto reviewing their smelter portfolios.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>STOCKS SURGE AS SPREADS TIGHTEN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Almost 394,000 tonnes of aluminium have been warranted in the LME warehouse system over the last four weeks, and the headline total has jumped from 940,500 tonnes to 1,288,150.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Most of the inflow has been split across just three locations — Port Klang and Johor in Malaysia, and Singapore.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>This appears to be the emerging stocks liquidity hub for the global aluminium market with new CME warehouses in the region also attracting metal. The same three locations account for around 65% of the 20,237 tonnes in the CME system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>There’s a natural analytical instinct to interpret LME stock movements as a sign of underlying production-usage dynamics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>But as ever with the LME aluminium contract, surging stocks say far more about LME timespreads and the storage market than about the fundamentals of the aluminium market.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The driver of the recent stocks deluge was a tightening in the front part of the LME forward curve. The cash-to-three-months timespread CMAL0-3 flared out to a backwardation of $22.75 per tonne early last week. It was the highest premium for cash metal since December of last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>LME spreads are key to the profitability of storing metal under financing deals. When spreads are relaxed, as was the case for the first nine months of this year, financing metal in cheaper storage outside of the LME warehouse system was profitable, which is why LME stocks fell to a decade low of 895,625 tonnes in early September.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Spreads tightness, by contrast, deters demand from both off-market financiers and physical users while simultaneously encouraging short position holders to deliver metal into the LME system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The resulting ebb and flow of metal between exchange and off-exchange storage has been a defining feature of the LME marketplace for much of the last decade.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The current spreads tightness has yet fully to play out despite the high level of metal deliveries into LME warehouses. The benchmark cash-to-three-months period was still valued at a $7.25 per tonne backwardation at Friday’s close.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>DEMAND SHOCK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>LME stocks movements do not provide a linear read-through to the underlying state of the physical market but they do carry psychological weight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Just as the steady draws in the first part of the year dovetailed neatly with a narrative of a tightening market balance, so the most recent increases reinforce negative sentiment about aluminium’s deteriorating outlook.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The real stocks story, however, continues to play out in the non-LME storage market, where up to 10 million tonnes of metal are sitting in the statistical shadows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>There were strong indications that such shadow stocks were falling earlier this year but the trend is believed to have gone into reverse as demand has weakened.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Global aluminium demand is widely expected to contract this year for the first time since the Global Financial Crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The demand hit relative to some of the other base metals will be mild but this is still a shock for a market that has long enjoyed a stellar usage growth profile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The transport sector has powered aluminium usage in recent years but it has turned negative this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Automotive sales are falling just about everywhere as the industry struggles with the combination of cyclical downturn and structural shift to electric vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In other sectors a more positive story is outweighed by a surge in aluminium scrap availability occasioned by China’s steady clampdown on imports of what it terms “waste”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>SUPPLY CUTS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>You can understand why producers are once again running the ruler over their operations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Norsk Hydro has announced a 20% cut at its Slovak smelter in the fact of what it termed “a demanding market”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Alcoa has an ongoing review of 1.5 million tonnes of smelter capacity, while Rio Tinto has flagged a potential output cut at its Tiwai Point plant in New Zealand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The last time producers were forced collectively to curtail capacity was during the price trough of 2015-2016, when LME aluminium touched a multi-year low of $1,432.50.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The irony is that global production hasn’t been rising at all this year, not even in China, the world’s largest producer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Production outside China was flat year-on-year in the first 10 months of 2019, while run-rates in China fell by 1.5% on the back of a number of unforeseen outages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>That’s one of the reasons China’s exports of semi-fabricated products have also been running flat relative to 2018 levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The problem is that production is expected to accelerate again next year with analysts at CRU forecasting Chinese output to rise by 7% in 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Unless there is a sudden turnaround in demand, that production surge is going to come at just the wrong time for an aluminium market that is struggling to hold even these low price levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nor is there much in the way of support from the production cost curve since the price of alumina, the key metallic input into the aluminium smelting process, is also falling.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The CME’s alumina contract is currently trading around $279 per tonne, down from $418 in April.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Aluminium is currently experiencing something of a perfect bear storm - demand weakness, falling raw material prices, rising visible stocks and a sense that the downtrend in shadow stocks has ended. Relatively weak production in China is the one positive and that doesn’t look likely to last.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Supply cuts are back on the agenda as producers look to their operating margins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>And if all that sounds familiar, it’s because aluminium’s future is looking a lot like its past.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.55in;text-indent:1.35pt;line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal 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