Personal Income and Consumption June 2024
Personal income rose 0.2% in June (+0.1% including revisions to prior months), lagging the consensus expected 0.4%. Personal consumption rose […]
Personal income rose 0.2% in June (+0.1% including revisions to prior months), lagging the consensus expected 0.4%. Personal consumption rose […]
View from the Observation Deck As represented in the chart above, a seismic shift in the performance of small cap […]
New orders for durable goods declined 6.6% in June (-6.5% including revisions to prior months), falling well short of the […]
Real GDP increased at a 2.8% annual rate in Q2, beating the consensus expected 2.0%. The largest positive contributions to […]
New single-family home sales declined 0.6% in June to a 0.617 million annual rate, lagging the consensus expected 0.640 million. […]
View from the Observation Deck Today’s blog post is for those investors who want to drill down below the sector […]
Existing home sales declined 5.4% in June to a 3.890 million annual rate, below the consensus expected 3.980 million. Sales […]
There are signs US economic growth is slowing down. In particular, jobless claims, perhaps the best high-frequency economic indicator, have […]
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View from the Observation Deck We update this post on small-capitalization (cap) stocks every now and then so that investors […]
Industrial production increased 0.6% in June (+0.9% including revisions to prior months), easily beating the consensus expected gain of 0.3%. […]
Housing starts rose 3.0% in June to a 1.353 million annual rate, beating the consensus expected 1.305 million. Starts are […]
View from the Observation Deck We update this post every few months so that investors can see which of the […]
Retail sales were unchanged in June (+0.2% including revisions to prior months), beating the consensus expected decline of 0.3%. Retail […]
