[colinmhayes]

You're quoting backward looking numbers, not forward looking ones which is the entire point of this post. If core went up 6% in january and 0 since then you could say the same thing, but no one would think it's a problem.

[spaceman_2020]

I'm not sure I follow. The trend is clearly on the up month-over-month, not down or flat. Is there any other way to infer this?

Genuinely curious.