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Barry the Hatchet. It's Monday October 13, 2014.

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Wall Street Weatherman is liking the forecast he's seeing for Apple.

Behrens had Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White checking the Apple Barometer.

That's his name for a group of companies with which he has contact in the

Cupertino Company's supply chain. Bottom line, sales growth for companies in

Apple's supply chain is up, though not as much as in years past. Mostly. Basically, sales growth

for the supply chain was up last quarter versus the same quarter a year earlier,

though down versus the same quarter averaged out over the past nine years.

Again, growth was down, not sales. It's a bit confusing.

What's not confusing was the growth scene last month at FoxCon.

White doesn't put the world's largest contract manufacturer in the barometer readings because it's too big on its own.

How FoxCon is doing is still a great way to monitor

apples vitals though since they are Apple's largest supplier.

According to the analyst FoxCon reported a 51% month over month increase at the end of September, well above

historical seasonality of up 19% over the past nine years, and better than the up 20%

month over month in September of 2013.

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