via ocregister: Southern California’s economy is growing at its slowest pace in more than seven years, according to an index from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. To create regional indexes that track a region’s business output, Fed researchers reviewed a …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about recent news out of the Federal Reserve as the Fed basically threatens to restrain growth. Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve said that the Fed will raise interest …
via GPC Once again, the economy appears to be roaring as it enters the late stages of a major credit expansion. Once again this late stage credit expansion is entering the inflationary blow off top. And once again, “growth” sectors of the …
The power of Collateralized Loan Obligations. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. “The global leveraged loan market is larger than – and growing as quickly as – the US subprime mortgage market was in 2006,” said the …
h/t @StockBoardAsset Germany Warns of Global Slowdown pic.twitter.com/FHWzxb68TB — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 8, 2018 https://twitter.com/andreascseh/status/1049661489760620544 Gordon reacts to recent announcement that IMF cut global growth forecasts for this year and next… pic.twitter.com/x9ZkEfCTo4 — Kevin Muir (@kevinmuir) October 9, 2018 this does …
via Hankyoreh: “If North Korea introduces reforms and openness, it will achieve rapid economic growth in the double digits or higher.” Speaking in an Oct. 2 interview on the Traffic Broadcasting System (TBS) program “Kim Eo-jun’s News Factory,” world-renowned investor …
by Michael Snyder We just got more evidence that the U.S. economy is starting to slow down. The U.S. economy must produce somewhere around 200,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth, and last month we were way …
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/china-censor-economic-news.html A government directive sent to journalists in China on Friday named six economic topics to be “managed,” according to a copy of the order that was reviewed by The New York Times. The list of topics includes: ■ Worse-than-expected …
BY PATRICK WATSON The US economy is at “full employment,” says the official 3.9% unemployment rate. The problem is that fully employed people haven’t seen enough wage growth. It’s a puzzle. Wages used to rise faster when unemployment was this low. That’s …
President Trump does not want you to see this chart pic.twitter.com/4etERDKKBG — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 22, 2018 "76% of $SPX companies (74 of 98) have issued negative EPS guidance for Q3 to date, which would be the largest % for …
$TLRY is the perfect example of why there is no sustainable growth in America — money is used to speculate on non-sense and not used for productive means. — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 19, 2018 When people get lucky and think …
This is not a signal of global reflation, or synchronised growth, but the evidence of secular stagnation caused by constant demand-side policies. pic.twitter.com/nhcBfnrCED — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) September 17, 2018 terrible miss NY FED MFG — US SLOW DOWN COMING? …
Russian intervention in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea resulted in swift economic sanctions from leaders across Europe, the United States and beyond. These punishing sanctions were designed to hurt the Russian economy. However, they have had mixed results. Instead of bringing the Russian Bear to its knees, the sanctions have resulted …
via Markit Global PMI at second-lowest since November 2016. Slower developed and emerging market growth. Exports and consumer sector see steepest slowdowns. Prices rise sharply. Global economic growth edged lower in August, according to the latest PMI surveys, down to …
BREAKING: The White House: “The Atlanta Fed now predicts 5 percent growth in the third quarter — putting the economy on the track that candidate Trump promised, even as Democrats scoffed.” "The Atlanta Fed now predicts 5 percent growth in …
via Sven Carlin: Summary Even if HTHT’s stock is already 37% below its 52-week high, there is more room to fall. Its valuation is stretched when compared to its outlook and competition. Both Huazhu and its competition have big growth plans. …
via techdirt: Telecom monopolies have a pretty good racket going. They’ll consistently demand all manner of tax cuts, subsidies, and other government perks in exchange for broadband networks they only half or partially deploy–or jobs that never materialize. The nation’s telcos in …
via The Phoenix The markets are getting downright ugly. While US stocks have performed relatively well recently, globally things are looking worse and worse. Germany’s DAX never reclaimed its former high established back in January. Instead it’s been carving out a …
by sundance When China announced the One-Road/One-Belt initiative (now banned from discussion in Beijing); in combination with a looming trade confrontation with President Trump; CTH pointed out that sketchy pandas’ bamboo economy was very vulnerable because it was deep, but narrow – simply …
By Bob Shanahan The U.S. economy grew even faster during the second quarter than what was initially reported. New numbers reveal a larger bump in corporate spending. The Trump/GOP tax cuts helped jumpstart the economy from April to June this …
Study shows global forest loss over past 35 years has been more than offset by new forest growth: A team of researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has …
by Shaun Richards Today brings us back to the domestic beat and in fact the heartbeat of the UK economy which is its labour market. This has in recent years seen two main developments. The first is a welcome rise …
The "synchronized growth" mirage is fading. The bond market -like most markets- is a game of relatives. As investors become aware of liquidity and solvency risks in "high yield" and emerging markets, funds flow into US treasuries and dollar assets …
Via ZeroHedge And just like that, a million hopeful voices cried out in horror… Real average hourly earnings shrank by the most since 2012 in July… For years hope has been soaring that household income will rise any minute now… and …
https://twitter.com/RooseCapital/status/1027308766809804800 "Libor OIS Spread behaving erratically, or signalling unease in the US dollar funding market as in the run-up to the financial crisis?" h/t @Mora_Wealth pic.twitter.com/1zwq1lGSfx — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 8, 2018 should we not be concerned about this gap? …
via @DowdEdward: The stock market is in the process of topping. The Growth Factor vs the Value factor is flipping. There is not enough market cap in value to to offset this rotation and keep the indices up. It started a …
by visualcapitalist In any large set of data, there are bound to be some interesting outliers. Today’s data visualization comes to us from Reddit user /r/mythicquale and it shows the population growth of every country using data and projections from the United Nations …
via Ivan Levingston Banks were among the top beneficiaries when Republicans slashed corporate taxes in December to stoke the U.S. economy. So how are the nation’s largest financial institutions treating employees, customers and investors? Twenty-three firms deemed most important by the …
China’s contribution to global growth is equal to US/EU/Japan combined 📈; so trade wars will have big consequences: eg does it cause their credit bubble to pop: China’s total credit mkt debt has gone from $7T–>$34T in 9 yrs. $3T …
