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“You’ve caught me in my seasonal depression era, so this probably sounds a little negative, but I think just better than where I am right now,” she says.

A second sits near the seasonal edge of the ice in September, and the third was consistently ice-covered in 1980 but now experiences periodic ice-free conditions.

Large companies say they are likely to add far fewer seasonal workers than in other recent years, while more people are looking for holiday jobs to tide them over in a difficult hiring market.

They say corporate stock buybacks, strong seasonals and positive fund flows should support a year-end rally, particularly with “insatiable” retail investors as well as systematic investors largely on the sidelines.

Improvement in GRM is aided by stronger seasonal demand for middle distillates during the winter season, together with ongoing maintenance shutdowns at regional refineries in October, the analysts say.