A couple of minor technical problems called “business” and “life” have now intruded on my increasingly bogged down publication schedule that, in the interest...
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US Service Sector Growth Slows More Than Forecast – CNBC.com
CNBC.comUS Service Sector Growth Slows More Than ForecastCNBC.comUS service companies, which employ roughly 90 percent of the work force, expanded more slowly in April. Companies saw less growth in new orders and hired at a weaker pace. The ISM's s...
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US service companies expanded at a slower pace in April as new orders … – Washington Post
BloombergUS service companies expanded at a slower pace in April as new orders ...Washington PostWASHINGTON — US service companies, which employ roughly 90 percent of the work force, expanded more slowly in April. Companies saw less growth in new ord...
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ISM and New Factory Orders Charts Explained in Real Terms
As this data is updated monthly you can access the updated data from the Economic Charts menu in the lower left sidebar. Or just bookmark the permanent page. ISM New Orders Index Not Seasonally Adjusted The ISM not seasonally adjusted (in other words, actual) new orders index as of April 2012 has been diverging...
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Global manufacturing growth remained modest in April
News Release- Produced by JPMorgan and Markit in association with ISM and IFPSM At 51.4 in April, up from 51.1 in March, the JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI™ signaled a modest expansion of the world manufacturing sector for the fifth month in a row. Output, new orders and employment all continued to rise during the latest...
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US manufacturing powers up in April
US manufacturing powers up in April (via AFP) US manufacturing activity jumped in April in broad-based growth, according to a closely watched index released Tuesday. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index was at 54.8 percent in April, from a 53.4 percent reading in March. The sharp gain in the ISM purchasing managers index...
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Midwest business barometer drops in April – Reuters
WINA AM 1070Midwest business barometer drops in AprilReuters| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Business activity in the Midwest slowed more than expected in April, falling to its lowest since November 2009 as new orders slipped, a report showed on Monday. The Insti...
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ISM in Wonderland Media Reporting Versus Reality, Which Do You Prefer?
The big economic news story on Monday was the ISM Purchasing Managers Index. The headline number was only mildly positive, but it was enough so that Bloomberg was beside itself with joy. “Manufacturing in the U.S. expanded at a faster pace in March, driven by gains in employment and production that signal the world’s...
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Euro trash banks head to landfill
As things get worse for the European banks ahead of the Sept. 7 German constiitutional court ruling on the EFSF http://www.zerohedge.com/news/more-bad-news-euro-banks-socgen-intesa-and-unicredit-
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The Real Reason for Yesterday’s Stock-Market Sell-Off
On Aug. 11, 2010, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 265 points, or 2.5%.
This Tuesday - almost exactly one year later - the Dow dropped ... 265 points.
Those carbon-copy stock-market sell-offs weren't a coincidence. - as yesterday's (Thursday's) 512-point drop and further weakness will prove.
Although the...
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Week-long Rally Shows Bull Market Still Has Some Kick Left
U.S. stocks ripped higher every day of the past week following positive news on U.S. manufacturing, Greek sovereign debt and an absolutely epic amount of short-covering.
The past week's rally has shown at least that the spirit of the bull market still lives. It rarely pays to...
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ISM Services A Pretty Good Indicator
The ISM Non-Manufacturing index rose to 57.1 in December. This chart shows the ISM Non-Manufacturing index overlaid with the S&P 500. It shows that the stock market does not lead the economy. The idea of the market as a discounting mechanism is a Wall Street shibboleth. In fact, there are instances where economic data...
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Hooks
The Federal Reserve will buy $600 billion of Treasuries over the next 8 months. It will relax its 35% self-imposed limited per security. This is in addition to the $35 billion per month anticipated from mortgage securities maturing. In effect, the Fed is going to monetize the entire Treasury issue going forward. James Cramer...
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My Rapid Fire Tweets This Morning
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Mission Accomplished: Stranguflation
The Fed’s ludicrous attempts to thwart a deflating credit bubble with easy money has only lit a fuse under food and prices paid for goods producers. Talking the QE2 game and intervention into the market is showing up in M2, and as I anticipated has translated into inflating the essentials that people need and input goods...
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Don’t Fight the ISM?
I just love correlation charts. Unlike the useless, biased spin fed to us from Wall Street’s market strategoists and egonomists, the charts are just the facts, M’am, just the facts, and you can see them for yourselves. I ran these ISM charts back to 1948 when the ISM, formerly the NAPalM, began this survey....
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More Little Lies and Big Spin- Gains or Blips?
The FIM (Financial Infomercial Media) has gifted us with more nonsense today in the form of Pending Homes Sales data from the NAR (Realtors) and the Purchasing Managers Manufacturing Index from the ISM (Purchasing Managers). Bloomberg was positively ecstatic about the housing data, proclaiming “The number of contracts to buy previously owned homes rose...
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