My question is this. Are we going to believe weather does not affect a nation's economy? I just can't laugh at that. Just ask any country that has suffered drought or flood if the weather affected their economy :-)

Sir, I did not say that the weather in Europe did not affect Europe. We were talking of another part of the world. The Northern Unites States where the weather had not been bad. My apologies if I was not clear on that point.

Chase.