Industrial Production / Capacity Utilization
Industrial production increased 0.3% in September (+0.1% including revisions to prior months) beating the consensus expectation of 0.0%. Utilities output […]
Industrial production increased 0.3% in September (+0.1% including revisions to prior months) beating the consensus expectation of 0.0%. Utilities output […]
Retail sales rose 0.7% in September (+1.0% including revisions to prior months), easily beating the consensus expected gain of 0.3%. […]
View from the Observation Deck Companies often return capital to their shareholders through dividend distributions. The practice is so common […]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% in September, above the consensus expected +0.3%. The CPI is up 3.7% from […]
The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.5% in September, coming in above the consensus expected +0.3%. Producer prices are up […]
View from the Observation Deck Companies have a number of ways in which to return capital to their shareholders. As […]
Back in 2008, Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson, using fear of financial collapse, convinced President Bush and Congress to 1) […]
Nonfarm payrolls increased 336,000 in September, easily beating the consensus expected 170,000. Payroll gains for July and August were revised […]
View from the Observation Deck As we head into third quarter earnings season, we thought it would be timely to […]
The trade deficit in goods and services came in at $58.3 billion in August, smaller than the consensus expected $59.8 […]
The ISM Non-Manufacturing index declined to 53.6 in September, narrowly beating the consensus expected 53.5 (Levels above 50 signal expansion; […]
