Bloomberg says that global corporate profits are being hit by the Euro crisis. Maybe so, but second quarter corporate taxes in the US hit a…
The feedback of failure, loss and defeat is our most helpful teacher.
I want to praise horrendously costly lessons, as those are the only ones we really learn from. We hype the value of “book learning” and give lip-service to “learning fr…
Is Apple going to $1,000 per share and dragging the market higher with it?
Sometimes one chart tells us more than a thicket of charts. Every analyst and punter seeks an “edge” by plotting and comparing innumerable indicators, ratios, correlat…
If this rally runs out of steam, history suggests the next move down could plumb depths not seen in years.
If the market rolls over here, the next bottom might be a lot lower than most players think possible. After all, the “news” is all posi…
As the U.S. dollar strengthens against other currencies, the phantom corporate profits generated by a devaluing dollar will vanish.
One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it ar…
If the conventional econometric model based on metrics like forward price-earnings ratios and a declining unemployment rate is so accurate, then why did it fail so completely, totally and utterly in predicting the 2008 meltdown?
A certain flavor…
It’s not just gasoline consumption that’s declining–petroleum and electricity consumption are also dropping. Is that indicative of economic growth?
A number of readers kindly forwarded additional data sources to me as followup on last week’s en…
U.S. ECRI Materials Prices Fall at a 19.1% Rate
By Chris Middleton – Oct 13, 2011 10:06 AM ET
U.S. industrial prices rose 0.34 percent today, according to the ECRI materials prices daily report. The smoothed annualized growth rate, which is designed …
U.S. ECRI Materials Prices Fall at a 20.8% Rate
By Chris Middleton – Oct 5, 2011 9:55 AM ET
U.S. industrial prices fell 0.3 percent today, according to the ECRI materials prices daily report. The smoothed annualized growth rate, which is designed to …
U.S. ECRI Materials Prices Fall at a 9.8% Rate
QBy Chris Middleton – Sep 22, 2011 11:02 AM ET .
U.S. industrial prices fell 0.84 percent today, according to the ECRI materials prices daily report. The smoothed annualized growth rate, which is designed…