Articles tagged with: October
Today, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their Existing Home Sales Report for October showing a continued trend down coming in the wake of the now obviously phony baloney government tax credit sponsored surge …
Today’s release of the Chicago Federal Reserve National Activity Index (CFNAI) indicated that national economic activity remained in contraction in October with the index improving slightly to -0.28 while the three month moving average dropped …
Looking at the most recent OECD economic indicators, Greece makes by far the weakest showing in all the Eurozone appearing to have clearly collapsed into recession.
Industrial production has fallen off a cliff, consumer confidence remains …
The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) publishes a wealth of data tracking the fundamental economic dynamics of the world’s largest economies.
The OECD leading indicator, industrial production, business confidence and consumer confidence series all …
The October edition of Donald Coxe’s Basic Points research report (subtitled “Two Days After Hallowe’ en”) arrived in my inbox a few days late, but nevertheless still makes for good reading. His investment recommendations, as …
Today’s New Residential Construction Report showed a slight gain to single family permits and notable decline single family starts which, along with a series of downward revisions to prior months results, suggest that housing is …
Analysis of weekly unemployment data and covered employees shows that 5,977,844 benefit paying jobs have been lost in the last year.
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The above chart is from reader Tim Wallace. I added …
Today, the Federal Reserve released their monthly read of industrial production showing a notable slowing with total industrial production remaining flat from September but remaining 5.35% above the level seen in October 2009.
While this report …
New car registrations in the EU27 (data for Cyprus and Malta unavailable) decreased to 1,027,036 units in October, marking a 16.6% contraction compared to October 2009. Ten months into the year, demand for new cars …
On November 5, the administration was singing the praises of an economic recovery that allegedly created 1.1 million jobs this year. Before we dive into what’s really happening with jobs, please consider Remarks by the …