Retail Sales Dec 2022
Retail sales declined 1.1% in December (-1.8% including revisions to prior months), lagging the consensus expected decline of 0.9%. Retail […]
Retail sales declined 1.1% in December (-1.8% including revisions to prior months), lagging the consensus expected decline of 0.9%. Retail […]
The Producer Price Index (PPI) declined 0.5% in December, coming in well below the consensus expected -0.1%. Producer prices are […]
This chart is intended to provide an update on bond prices, which are typically sensitive to changes in interest rates. […]
We wrote last week about the soft landing that markets now seem to expect. If the US does have a […]
• Covered call strategies tend to be most beneficial when the stock market posts negative returns, or when returns range […]
View from the Observation Deck Global central banks have been forced to tighten monetary policy as they battle inflation, leading […]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined 0.1% in December, matching consensus expectations. The CPI is up 6.5% from a year […]
Not long after Friday’s Employment Report multiple analysts and commentators were calling it a “goldilocks” report, by which they meant […]
The ISM Non-Manufacturing index dropped to 49.6 in December, well below the consensus expected 55.0. (Levels above 50 signal expansion; […]
Nonfarm payrolls increased 223,000 in December, beating the consensus expected 203,000. Payroll gains for October and November were revised down […]
