Julie Palmer, a retail expert at Begbies Traynor, said retailers faced a particularly disappointing deal in the weeks following the apparent success of "black Friday" at the end of November. In New York, the U.S. energy information administration (EIA) released data showing U.S. crude inventories fell by 649.5 million barrels a day in the week ended Dec. 15, beating expectations. Gasoline stocks rose by 12.37 million barrels, but the increase was less than expected. The difference between financial capital preservation and physical capital preservation The response to multilayered values is rational. Rational (including abstract thinking with image thinking) is higher animals, are now known to have intelligent human only) on the basis of intellectual responses, to the further development of it by means of language, text or image will intellectual formed by various basic concept and basic image fixed in the form of the second signal system in the brain, and within the brain to be more complex, the deeper, longer series "sex", "rigid instinct", "elastic instinct" and "intellectual" and other forms of reaction. Among them, the cognition of the relation between the basic concepts forms the abstract thinking, and the person's understanding of the relation between the basic images forms the image thinking. Rationality is human to the second signal system of "reflection" type of reaction activity, it can find out the basic concept and basic image, more general internal relation and essence difference between to discover things between the movement of more general and more abstract and change rule. For example, people form "water" and "to..." through the practice of production and life. To ", "low" and "flow", the concept of nouns, prepositions, adjectives, verbs, between these concepts through a certain form of conditioned reflex established a mutual connection, thus obtained the "water flows downwards" such a logic rules.A senior tax official with knowledge of the investigation said: