Retail Sales March 2022
Retail sales rose 0.5% in March (+1.2% including revisions to prior months). The consensus expected a gain of 0.6%. Retail […]
Retail sales rose 0.5% in March (+1.2% including revisions to prior months). The consensus expected a gain of 0.6%. Retail […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. The old axiom in the stock market about selling your stocks at the close […]
The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 1.4% in March, coming in above the consensus expected +1.1%. Producer prices are up […]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 1.2% in March, matching consensus expectations. The CPI is up 8.5% from a year […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. Today’s blog post is one we do ongoing so that investors can monitor fluctuations […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. Companies have a number of ways in which to return capital to their shareholders. […]
The ISM Non-Manufacturing index increased to 58.3 in March, slightly below the consensus expected 58.5. (Levels above 50 signal expansion; […]
Visualizing the Commodity Super Cycle Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the world has seen its population and the […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. One of the most common questions we field on an ongoing basis is the […]
The trade deficit in goods and services was essentially unchanged, coming in at $89.2 billion in February, larger than the […]
Intellectuals and politicians often try to verbally summarize or justify conventional thinking in pithy ways. Milton Friedman (in 1965) and […]
