paid Economic Survey • 1 min read Sweet & Sour Today's release of November's Consumer Confidence Index showed that the labor market remains relatively tight. The…
paid Inflation • 2 min read Ups & Downs Of Inflation We certainly aren’t out of the inflation woods yet, but we do seem to be heading in the right…
public Economic Survey • 1 min read Small Business Owners Have Some Bad News The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) released its October survey of small business owners today. They remain pessimistic about…
paid Political Cycles • 1 min read Third Year of Presidential Cycle Is Bullish We previously observed that the stock market has a strong tendency to perform well following midterm elections irrespective of the…
paid Economic Calendar • 1 min read Economic Week Ahead, November 7-11 You can access a “live” version of the calendar below--with links to our automatically updated charts for most of the…
public Inflation • 1 min read PMI Prices-Paid Indexes Predicting Falling Inflation Rapidly rising inflation since early last year has forced the Fed to raise interest rates significantly this year. That'…
public Fed • 2 min read Powell Turns Even More Hawkish During his press conference today, Fed Chair Jerome Powell continued to read from the Volcker 2.0 script. His punchline…
paid Fed • 2 min read What Will Powell Say? Tomorrow afternoon, the FOMC is widely expected to increase the federal funds rate by 75bps to a range of 3.…
public Surveys • 1 min read Regional Surveys Suggest Weak M-PMI Bonds and stocks might rally tomorrow if the M-PMI is as weak as suggested by the regional business surveys conducted…
public Inflation • 1 min read MegaCaps, ECB & ECI History shows that the Santa Claus rally usually starts during October. This year, the S&P 500 had a…
paid Economic Calendar • 1 min read The Economic Week Ahead, October 24-28 The Q3 earnings reporting season will get most of the attention this week from equity investors. Fortunately, we all get…