Retail Sales August 2023
Retail sales rose 0.6% in August (+0.2% including revisions to prior months), beating the consensus expected gain of 0.1%. Retail […]
Retail sales rose 0.6% in August (+0.2% including revisions to prior months), beating the consensus expected gain of 0.1%. Retail […]
The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.7% in August, coming in well above the consensus expected +0.4%. Producer prices are […]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.6% in August, matching consensus expectations. The CPI is up 3.7% from a year […]
View from the Observation Deck Today’s blog post is for those investors who want to drill down below the sector […]
A month ago, many people were pretty sure serious inflation concerns had passed. After the equivalent of 22 quarter-point rate […]
View from the Observation Deck The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that U.S. petroleum consumption averaged nearly 20.28 million barrels […]
The ISM Non-Manufacturing index rose to 54.5 in August, easily beating the consensus expected 52.5 (Levels above 50 signal expansion; […]
The trade deficit in goods and services came in at $65.0 billion in July, smaller than the consensus expected $68.0 […]
Back in the 1980s, President Reagan took enormous political heat (Sam Donaldson comes to mind) for being fiscally irresponsible. His […]
The ISM Manufacturing Index increased to 47.6 in August, beating the consensus expected 47.0. (Levels higher than 50 signal expansion; […]
Nonfarm payrolls increased 187,000 in August, narrowly beating the consensus expected 170,000. Payroll gains for June and July were revised […]
Personal income rose 0.2% in July (+0.1% including revisions to prior months), lagging the consensus expected +0.3%. Personal consumption rose […]
