Industrial Production / Capacity Utilization April 2022
Industrial production increased 1.1% in April (+1.0% including revisions to prior months), easily beating the consensus expected gain of 0.5%. […]
Industrial production increased 1.1% in April (+1.0% including revisions to prior months), easily beating the consensus expected gain of 0.5%. […]
Retail sales rose 0.9% in April (+1.5% including revisions to prior months) versus a consensus expected a gain of 1.0%. […]
The consensus among economists puts the odds of a recession starting sometime in the next year at 30%, according to […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. Year-to-date through 5/10/22, the S&P 500 Index was down 15.65% on a total return […]
The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.5% in April, matching consensus expectations. Producer prices are up 11.0% versus a year […]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.3% in April, above the consensus expected +0.2%. The CPI is up 8.3% from […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. U.S. money market fund (MMF) assets totaled $4.51 trillion for the week ended 5/4/22, […]
At the end of 2021, we set out our projections for the stock market in 2022: 5,250 for the S&P […]
Nonfarm payrolls increased 428,000 in April versus a consensus expected 380,000. Payroll gains for February and March were revised down […]
Nonfarm productivity (output per hour) declined 7.5% at an annual rate in the first quarter, coming in below the consensus […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. From 2003-2021, the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (an index designed to measure a […]
