Dataquick is now reporting a 7.4% increase in closed sale values for the 30 days ended June 7 versus a year ago. This would represent…
Dataquick is reporting a 6.3% increase in sale prices and a 10.1% increase in sales volume for May versus May 2011. Versus 3 years ago,…
Consumer, Retail, Consumer Confidence, Stocks and Housing – Don’t Believe The Media Boilerplate Hype
This is an update of the permanent page of Retail, Consumer Confidence, Housing and Stock Price Charts which will be updated whenever new data is available.…
Globe and MailUS factory orders declineMarketWatchBy Jeffry Bartash WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – Orders for goods produced in US factories dropped 1.5% in March, the biggest decline in three years, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Economists s…
Just as I thought, futures are jamming on positive futures in Europe which is natural considering Germany was down 5%, France 5%, and Italy 7%+ yesterday. (Italy markets fell the most in 3 years! Italy is quickly reach critical meltdown and could mak…
If things are so fundamentally bad, can someone please explain CAT earnings to me? The last 3 years for construction, worldwide, have NOT been good. I simply don’t get it. Here in CA, contractors are trying to pay their debts with the barter of used…
In both Europe and America the financial sector has been on the edge of disaster for the last three years. Each time a crisis flares up, the fixers rush in with a remedy. Bailouts, TARPs, TALFs, ZIRPs, QEI, QEII and now the ‘twist’.
In its lat…
Independent Economist Andy Xie has been a China bear for some years now, so long that as if there is no one who wants to listen to him again. Well, at least I will still first read about what he said before dismissing him.
In the Lujiazui forum,…
