ThinkstockThe U.S. markets had three economic reports to digest this Friday. However, the reports have so far not been enough to sway investors significantly one way or the other as the market continues to…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department may have given a disappointing uptick in the unemployment rate two weeks ago, but the weekly jobless claims picture is coming out in a different light…
ThinkstockBusiness inventories rose less than expected in the month of December. We would caution that this is an older number and is not generally a market-moving release. Also note that this does coincide with…
ThinkstockWe had two rounds of economic readings this Wednesday morning: retail sales for the month of January, as well as import and export prices for the month of January. Retail sales rose by 0.1%…
ThinkstockOne of the hangovers of Hurricane Sandy was the effect on late October economic activity. Everything from employment data to retail sales dipped, and sometimes collapsed, depending on an area’s proximity to the storm. Along…
ThinkstockConsumer Credit is on the rise yet again according to the Federal Reserve, although with it being a December reading we might consider it somewhat expected. What investors need to know is that this…
ThinkstockThe January ISM Report on Business for the nonmanufacturing sector came in at 55.2%, down from 55.7% in December. The result was also just above the Dow Jones consensus of 55.0% and even closer…
ThinkstockMonday is looking soft after weeks and weeks of a rally and inflows. Pullbacks are good right now. But the pullback that we were seeing of more than 100 points in the DJIA is…
ThinkstockWe have two important readings out this morning, after the key unemployment report from earlier. We have seen the University of Michigan consumer sentiment reading. This report was immediately followed by the ISM Manufacturing…
ThinkstockThe World Economic Forum in Davos will give economists a chance to flog their views of the 2013 recovery, and apparently they will not be optimistic. According to the Financial Times: The world economy…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has released its Regional Survey of Business Activity. The bank showed that the service sector activity improved and was bolstered by nonretail services. It also showed that the current…
ThinkstockOne report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is the National Activity Index for the month of December, which was released this morning. It is somewhat misleading by the name because it is…
ThinkstockThe Reuters/University of Michigan survey is out with its preliminary January reading on consumer sentiment. Its sentiment index came in at 71.3, which is rather disappointing. Make that extremely disappointing. The December reading was…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has released data showing that industrial production and capacity utilization rates both rose in December. When you consider that the entire media and business focus was around the coming fiscal cliff…
A slew of economic data was released this morning. We got a look at retail sales, wholesale inflation via producer prices, and also the Empire Manufacturing reading. Some data is more current than others.…