One of my favorite indicators for large cyclic trends has accurately forecasted every inflationary and deflationary cycle since it was created in 1957.

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You may want to watch this index carefully should you want to invest in certain stocks and commodity related markets. Over the last half-century, this index has seen some remarkable moves both on the downside and in the last few months on the upside. I believe that this is the indicator that everyone should watch. If you trade stocks or futures and are interested in world trade trends, this is the indicator to track.

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The Williams Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, gathering, processing, and transportation of natural gas in the United States. The company operates through four segments: Exploration and Production, Gas Pipeline, Midstream Gas and Liquids, and Gas Marketing Services. The Exploration and Production segment produces, develops, and manages natural gas reserves primarily located in the Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent regions of the United States. It also has oil and gas interests in Argentina and western Venezuela. The Gas Pipeline segment owns and operates a 10,300-mile natural gas pipeline system extending from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the offshore Gulf of Mexico through Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to the New York City metropolitan area. This segment also owns and operates a 3,900 miles of natural gas pipeline system extending from the San Juan basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado through Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington to a point on the Canadian border near Sumas, Washington. The Midstream Gas and Liquids segment engages in gathering, treating, and processing natural gas; fractionation, storage, and transportation of natural gas liquids (NGLs); and oil transportation. It produces NGLs, ethylene, and propylene, which are used primarily for the manufacture of plastics, home heating, and refinery feedstock. The Gas Marketing Services segment manages various natural gas-related contracts, such as transportation, storage, and related hedges, and provides services to third-parties, such as producers. As of December 31, 2007, The Williams Companies had proved natural gas reserves of 4,143 billion cubic feet of gas equivalent. The company was founded in 1908 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Baker Hughes Incorporated supplies products and technology services, and systems to the oil and natural gas industries worldwide. It operates in two segments, Drilling and Evaluation, and Completion and Production. The Drilling and Evaluation segment provides products and services used to drill and evaluate oil and natural gas wells. Its products include drilling fluids, completion fluids, drill bits, and fixed-cutter polycrystalline diamond compact bits. This segment also offers fluids environmental services; drilling and evaluation services, which include directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling, and logging-while-drilling services; and formation evaluation and wireline completion, and production services. The Completion and Production segment provides equipment and services used from the completion phase through the productive life of oil and natural gas wells. It principally offers wellbore construction, cased-hole completions, sand control, and wellbore intervention solutions. This segment also offers oilfield chemical programs for drilling, well stimulation, production, pipeline transportation, and maintenance programs; various process and water treatment programs, and finished fuel additives for the refining industry; and a variety of products and services for the pipeline transportation industry. In addition, it provides electrical submersible pump systems and progressing cavity pump systems, as well as permanent monitoring systems and chemical automation systems. Baker Hughes offers its products primarily through its sales organizations, as well as through independent distributors, agents, licensees, or sales representatives. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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Occidental Petroleum Corporation operates as an international oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, the Middle East/north Africa, and Latin America. The company, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, explores for, develops, produces, and markets crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas. It owns oil and gas producing interests principally in California, the Permian Basin of west Texas and New Mexico, and Kansas and Oklahoma; Oman, Qatar, Yemen, and Libya, as well as in the United Arab Emirates through a partnership with Dolphin Energy Limited; and Colombia and Argentina. As of December 31, 2007, the company had proved reserves of approximately 2,866 million barrels of oil equivalent. Occidental Petroleum Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary, OxyChem, manufactures and markets chlor-alkali products and vinyls in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and Chile. The company was founded in 1920 and is based in Los Angels, California.

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Exelon Corporation, a utility services holding company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity to residential, commercial, industrial, and wholesale customers in northern Illinois. The company also purchases and sells electricity and natural gas on retail basis to customers in southeastern Pennsylvania. It generates electricity through nuclear, fossil, and hydroelectric generation facilities. As of December 31, 2008, Exelon owned generation assets with an aggregate net capacity of 24,809 megawatts. The company distributed electricity to approximately 3.8 million customers in northern Illinois and 1.6 million customers in southeastern Pennsylvania, as well as natural gas to 485,000 customers in Pennsylvania. Exelon Corporation was founded in 1887 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Entergy Corporation, an integrated energy company, engages primarily in electric power production and retail electric distribution operations in the United States. The company generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electric power in Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana, including the City of New Orleans. It also operates a natural gas distribution business. The company owns and operates nuclear power plants located in the northern United States, as well as markets the electric power produced by those plants primarily to wholesale customers. In addition, it operates non-nuclear wholesale assets business, which sells the electric power produced by power plants to wholesale customers. As of December 31, 2007, the company served approximately 2.7 million utility customers. It owned and operated power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity. Entergy Corporation was founded in 1989 and is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides onshore contract drilling services to independent oil and natural gas operators in North America. It provides pressure pumping services consisting of well stimulation and cementing for completion of new wells and remedial work on existing wells to oil and natural gas operators primarily in the Appalachian Basin. The company also provides drilling fluids, completion fluids, and related services to oil and natural gas operators offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and on land in Texas, Southeastern New Mexico, Oklahoma, and the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana. In addition, it engages in the development, exploration, acquisition, and production of oil and natural gas assets in West and South Texas, Southeastern New Mexico, Utah, and Mississippi. As of December 31, 2007, the company had a drilling fleet of 350 land-based rigs. Patterson-UTI Energy was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Snyder, Texas.

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Exxon Mobil Corporation engages in the exploration, production, transportation, and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It also engages in the manufacture of petroleum products, and transportation and sale of crude oil, natural gas, and petroleum products. The company manufactures and markets commodity petrochemicals, including olefins, aromatics, polyethylene and polypropylene plastics, and other specialty products. Exxon Mobil also has interests in electric power generation facilities. As of December 31, 2007, it had 7744 millions of barrels of liquid proved reserves, and 32,610 billions of cubic feet of proved reserves of natural gas. Exxon Mobil also operated 16,797 gross wells. The company operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Russia/Caspian region, and South America. Exxon Mobil was founded in 1870. The company was formerly known as Exxon Corporation and changed its name to Exxon Mobil Corporation in 1999. Exxon Mobil is based in Irving, Texas