Employment, Trade, M2, Public employment, Rig count
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Aug 04, 2017
More than the entire gain in civilian employment seems to have been via part time work: Highlights The second half of the year opens on a strong note as nonfarm payrolls rose 209,000 in July, far above Econoday’s consensus for 178,000. The unemployment rate moved 1 tenth lower to 4.3 percent while
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Factory orders, ISM services, China investments, ISM NY
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Aug 03, 2017
Up nicely but not so good excluding aircraft orders, which are highly volatile: Highlights Factory orders surged 3.0 percent in June but were skewed higher by a more than doubling in monthly aircraft orders. Excluding transportation equipment, a reading that excludes aircraft, orders actually fell 0.2 percent in the month following a
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ADP, Euro inflation, Mtg purchase apps, Loan officer survey, Saudi output, jobs
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Aug 02, 2017
Highlights ADP sees the private payroll reading in Friday’s employment report coming in at 178,000. But ADP has been wild lately, evident in its sharp 33,000 upward revision to June which is now at 191,000. Econoday expectations are calling for 175,000 in private payroll growth in Friday’s report and 178,000 in total
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Construction spending, Personal income and spending, Vehicle sales
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Aug 02, 2017
The chart is consistent with the deceleration in real estate lending as previously discussed: Highlights June’s construction spending report has much in common with June’s personal income and outlays released earlier this morning: lack of any apparent life. Spending fell an unexpected 1.3 percent in June with a 3 tenths upward revision
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Chicago PMI, Dallas Fed, Pending home sales, Swiss reserve tax
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Jul 31, 2017
The PMC annual bike ride is this weekend, so much appreciate that those of you who haven’t yet done so get your donations in, thanks, and if any of you will be there, let me know and I’ll be looking for you! http://www2.pmc.org/profile/WM0015 Settling down a bit: Better than expected: Better than
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GDP personal income, Employment growth, Agricultural states performance, Rent growth, Chief of staff
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Jul 30, 2017
In line with low aggregate demand: http://econintersect.com/a/blogs/blog1.php/gdp-growth-seems-to-be-normalizing As mentioned above, real per-capita annual disposable income dropped materially (by $74 per annum). At the same time the household savings rate was reported to have dropped by -0.1% from a sharp downward revision (-1.2%) to the prior quarter. It is important to keep this
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GDP, Consumer sentiment, Rail traffic, Vehicle sales, Credit check
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Jul 29, 2017
Up as expected though way down from initial forecasts as data deteriorated, and q1 was revised lower. More q2 data will be released over the next month when the first revision will be released. Consumer spending up vs prior quarter (but down year over year) even as consumer credit numbers decelerate, with
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Durable goods orders, Inventories, Trade, Consumer charge offs, Euro lending
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Jul 27, 2017
The theme of today’s data seems to be higher q2 gdp than otherwise, but for the wrong reason- over production- as spending weakened and unwanted inventories rose. Nice headline number for durable goods orders but most of the gain was in civilian aircraft which happens every year about this time. However, as
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New home sales, CAB, house prices
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Jul 26, 2017
New homes aren’t built without permits, which have flattened as well, and are therefore not adding as much to growth: Highlights New home sales are steady near the best levels of the expansion, at a 610,000 annualized rate in June. The 3-month average is 597,000 which is, however, noticeably below the first-quarter
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Consumer confidence, Euro zone comments
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Jul 25, 2017
Consumer confidence (soft data) up for the month but retail sales (hard data) continue to decelerate: No one talking about how this reduced what would have been private sector income and net financial assets by exactly that much, as the savings on interest was not spent by the governments but instead went
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