minimalist ones. it is a maximalist candy bar. it s like if you combined all the things in a snickers bar and a milky way and a crackle bar, it s got like carmel and peanuts and puffed rice and a nougat and a cookie and a whole bunch of other stuff in there. picnic bars are like a jambalaya of candy bars. and they re delicious. they re not a big thing in the united states, for whatever reason, although i think you can get them here. i know they are very popular in lots of other parts of the world. here, for example, are picnic bars on a supermarket shelf in russia. and you can see from the little price tag looking thing there that they re listed for 14 rubles each, which is almost nothing. 14 rubles is like 16 cents in u.s. dollars. picnic bars that cheap in russia? no, actually, they re not. this was not a blow-out 16-cent sale on delicious candy bars. you see the description written there in russian. if you translate that into english, it says, this quote, russian soldiers
classic hershey s bar which just chocolate or a heath bar which is toffee in the middle and then chocolate. my favoritee is a payday bar.ay i don t even know what that is. it s basically like peanuts and goo. i don t know. but a picnic bar, on the other hand, is not one of those minimalist ones. it is a maximalist candy bar.ma it s like if you combined all the things in a snickers bar ane a milky way and a crackle bar, it s gotba like carmel and peans and puffed rice and a nougat and a cookie and a whole bunch of a other stuff in there. picnic bars are like a jambalaya of candy bars. and they re delicious. they re not a big thing in the united states, for whatever reason, although i think you can get them here. i know they are very popular in lots of other parts of the world. here, for example, are picnic bars on a supermarket shelf in russia. and you can see from the little price tag looking thing there that they reth listed for 14 ruble s each, which is almost nothing. 14 r
Around the highs of the session, we are singing seeing bigger point swings returning to the markets over the past several weeks. The telecoms index is the best performing group, up by about 1 . Technology has also been gaining. When you look at the telecoms and the networking of equipment stocks, at t, verizon, cisco, all on the rise. A couple of events going on this week could be giving them a boost. First, you have the mobile World Congress going on in barcelona. Thats the meeting of various telecom and mobile phone companies. They have talked about the push for five g technology and how it could be beneficial. Media, the Morgan Stanley tech conference will be going on over the next four days or so. Looks like these companies are catching a bid, going into that. Then there is technology. Looking at technology ever since the broader stock market hit it flows of the year, it is the group that has done the best. Incidentally, it is the leading group for the year to date. Tech has contin
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