CalculatedRisk @ December 11, 2011 # Comments Off
Earlier:
• Summary for Week ending Dec 9th
Retail sales for November is the key report this week. For manufacturing, the December NY Fed (Empire state) and Philly Fed surveys, and the November Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report w…
CalculatedRisk @ December 10, 2011 # Comments Off
This was a light week for economic data and most of the focus was on Europe.
The good news included fewer initial weekly unemployment claims, an increase in consumer sentiment and an increase in rail traffic. However the ISM non-manufacturing index w…
CalculatedRisk @ December 8, 2011 # Comments Off
On Sunday I posted Comments on the Employment-Population Ratio with a follow up yesterday: Labor Force Participation Rate by Age Group
Some people have wondered why the participation rate has been declining for the younger age groups.
First below …
CalculatedRisk @ December 2, 2011 # Comments Off
Here are the earlier employment posts:
• November Employment Report: 120,000 Jobs, 8.6% Unemployment Rate
• Employment Summary, Part Time Workers, and Unemployed over 26 Weeks
• NEW Employment graph gallery (fast, no scripting)
And a few more gr…
CalculatedRisk @ December 2, 2011 # Comments Off
This was another weak report, and the headline number was slightly below consensus forecasts. However there were some positives too: the unemployment rate declined to 8.6% and the payroll employment was revised up for September and October.
There w…
CalculatedRisk @ December 2, 2011 # Comments Off
From MarketWatch: U.S. economy adds 120,000 jobs in November
The U.S. gained 120,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 8.6% from 9.0%, the Labor Department said Friday. The government also revised jobs data for October and September to…
CalculatedRisk @ December 1, 2011 # Comments Off
Tomorrow (Friday) the BLS will release the November Employment Situation Summary at 8:30 AM ET. Bloomberg is showing the consensus is for an increase of 131,000 payroll jobs in November, and for the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 9.0%. The c…
CalculatedRisk @ November 30, 2011 # Comments Off
On Central Bank action, from the WSJ: Central Banks Take Coordinated Action and from the Federal Reserve: “The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are today…
CalculatedRisk @ November 29, 2011 # Comments Off
An update: Case-Shiller, CoreLogic and others report nominal house prices. However it is also useful to look at house prices in real terms (adjusted for inflation), as a price-to-rent ratio, and also price-to-income (not shown here).
Below are three g…
CalculatedRisk @ November 16, 2011 # Comments Off
Earlier today the BLS reported:
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) decreased 0.1 percent in October on a seasonally adjusted basis … The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.1 percent in October; this was the sa…