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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Market commentary from current issue of CONSENSUS National Futures and
Financial Weekly.

2. Featured commodity of the CONSENSUS Index of Bullish Market Opinion.

3. Partial Outline of leading articles in current issue of CONSENSUS.

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FEATURED SELECTION:


THE JANUARY EFFECT DID IT START THIS SPRING? by  Kansas City Board of Trade,
Kansas City, Missouri

(December, 2000) When we embarked into the year 2000, industry analysts
questioned whether the phenomenon known as the January Effect would occur as
many changes were in store. There were many questions about Y2K and any
technical glitches that might appear. Thankfully, there were not any
problems, but a very different year was in store for the markets...


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CONSENSUS Index of Bullish Market Opinion
Contrary opinion index of market advisors
75% + overbought
25% - oversold

FEATURED MARKET: COCOA:  29%

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PARTIAL OUTLINE OF FEATURED ARTICLES IN CURRENT ISSUE OF CONSENSUS FUTURES
AND FINANCIAL WEEKLY:


WILL THE ELECTION EVER END?  by AIC Investment Advisors, Inc.

(December 4, 2000) For millions of Americans familiar with hotly contested
presidential election campaigns and then the concession speech by the loser,
either election night or the following day, the current morass in Florida is
astonishing. Surrounded by seemingly battalions of lawyers of whom many are
nothing more than town-hall hangers-on, the battle in various courts seems to
stretch to the horizon...


SOYBEAN PRICES: HEADED HIGHER by Richard A. Brock  & Associates, Inc.

(December 1, 2000) Despite the fact a record amount of soybeans were
harvested in both North and South America in 2000, and Brazil and Argentina
are both set to produce another record crop, soybean prices have been working
higher the past few weeks. How can prices move higher if the world is awash
in soybeans?..

OPTIONS FOCUS by Salomon Smith Barney

(November 2000) Stock index futures and options provide investors with
efficient tools to help minimize losses in a declining stock market. If the
price correlation of a stock portfolio and the index futures used as a hedge
is high, the risk on that equity portion protected by the futures could be
neutralized or its exposure reduced against the effects of a market decline
or advance...


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