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@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Here are just a few of the things that pandas does well:
     and saving/loading data from the ultrafast [**HDF5 format**][hdfstore]
   - [**Time series**][timeseries]-specific functionality: date range
     generation and frequency conversion, moving window statistics,
-    date shifting and lagging.
+    date shifting and lagging
 
 
    [missing-data]: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/missing_data.html#working-with-missing-data