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Housing starts, Industrial Production, Q3 GDP
Economic Releases
Oct 17, 2019
Fell back this month after last month’s spike from the drop in rates and still looking to me like it’s going nowhere from historically depressed levels, and not population adjusted: Highlights Upward trajectory is the theme of housing starts and permits, in data where September’s headlines don’t always tell the fundamental story.
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Retail sales, Business inventories
Economic Releases
Oct 16, 2019
Weak income and employment growth tends to coincide with weak retail sales growth, as the global trade collapse continues: Highlights The consumer cooled but not enough to not knock back a still rising trend for retail sales which in September fell an unexpected 0.3 percent. All the breakdowns also came in well
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NY manufacturing, Trucks, China
Economic Releases
Oct 15, 2019
Rolled over and headed lower: Note the collapse in the growth of China’s imports due to the tariffs, which equals rest of world exports to China:
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Bank loans, CEO confidence, India
Economic Releases
Oct 12, 2019
Tariffs have caused a global economy (that has a pro cyclical bias) to turn south. It’s always an unspent income story. When decisions to not spend income (decisions to ‘save’) are not sufficiently ‘offset’ by agents spending more than their incomes GDP (sales/income) decelerates until said deficit spending- private or public- expands
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JOLTS, Wholesale trade
Economic Releases
Oct 09, 2019
Heading south: Sales in contraction year over year and inventories again elevated: Highlights Wholesale inventories rose 0.2 percent in August which is down from an initial estimate of 0.4 percent posted late last month. Inventories in July rose 0.2 percent. Sales at the wholesale level are subdued, unchanged in August to keep
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Small business, Japan, Rails
Economic Releases
Oct 08, 2019
Highlights Small business optimism continues to ease, down 1.3 points in September to a slightly lower-than-expected 101.8. No components rose in the month with six down and three unchanged. The report notes that uncertainty is up and respondents are more reluctant to make major spending commitments. Tariffs are cited by 30 percent
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Employment, Vehicle sales
Economic Releases
Oct 04, 2019
Weakness continues and new tariffs kicking in will only make it worse: Highlights Is there slack in the labor market or isn’t there? Judging by September’s 3.5 percent unemployment rate, a rate that falls below Econoday’s consensus range, there may not be much available capacity at all. Yet wage pressures, as measured
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ISM services, Durable goods orders, NYC, Trump comments
Economic Releases
Oct 03, 2019
The service sector is in full retreat: Contraction: Trump says China should investigate the Bidens, doubles down on Ukraine probe
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Employment, Vehicle sales, Consumer durables, NYC
Economic Releases
Oct 02, 2019
Rapid deceleration: BEA: September Vehicles Sales increased to 17.2 Million SAAR “The job market has shown signs of a slowdown,” said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and co-head of the ADP Research Institute. “The average monthly job growth for the past three months is 145,000, down from 214,000 for the same time period
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ISM Manufacturing, Construction, Trump Fed comments
Economic Releases
Oct 01, 2019
The deceleration that’s been going on all year due to the tariffs seems to finally be getting some media attention after US manufacturing reports that it’s in contraction. Something like the 10th plague… Highlights Contraction in export orders is severe and is pulling composite activity for ISM manufacturing’s sample under water. September’s
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