Retail Sales Miss For 4th Month In A Row: First Time Since Lehman Retail Sales Miss For 4th Month In A Row: First Time Since Lehman 04-14-15 Zero Hedge After 3 months of missed expectations and the first consecutive drop in retail sales since Lehman,retail sales rose 0.9% in March (missing expectations of +1.1%), following […]
GLOBAL SLOWDOWN – Overwhelming Proof of the SEVERITY China Data Point to Sharper Slowdown 03-11-15 FT BALTIC DRY – “Worst Market Conditions Since the 80’s” Shipbuilding Orders Slump As Baltic Dry Hits Fresh Record Low 02-18-15 ZH Record Low Baltic Dry Casualties Emerge: Third Dry-Bulk Shipper Files For Bankruptcy In Past 3 Weeks 02-23-15 ZH JAPAN AUSTRALIA GLOBAL US GLOBAL […]
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Goldman, BofA Warn Crude Crash Will Have Negative Impact On GDP, Earnings 01-12-15 Goldman Sachs via ZH GDP – The “I” Investment Is An Important Component BofA recalling that Investment is a very distinct component of GDP. With the oil price falling, capital budgets in the energy sector have come under renewed pressure. According to Census Bureau’s Annual Capital […]
August Retail Sales: Post-Winter Bounce Fading Fast 09-12-14 ALHAMBRA PARTNERS The retail sales release for August was actually quite alarming. The track of sales pretty much confirms the end of the spring “bounce” that showed up in Gallup’s figures, but the real concern is that the “bounce” itself was never more than a minor adjustment; an absence of […]
S&P Exhaustion S&P Overextended The S&P is sitting a full 34% above its 200-weekly moving average. We have NEVER been this overextended above this line at any point in the last 20 years. Trading Volume US Trading Volumes Have Plummeted 50% Since 2008 FED Balance Sheet -v- S&P Price Has […]
Insider Trading and Financial Terrorism on Comex Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler July 16, 2014. The first two days this week gold was subjected to a series of computer HFT-driven “flash crashes” that were aimed at cooling off the big move higher gold has made since the beginning of June. During this move higher, […]
Institutions Selling Corporate Buy-Back Growth Rate of Corporate Buy-Back Growth How Executive Incentives Can Destroy a Nation
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Charts of Note COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE – Imploding Retail Floor Space Requirements Retail Store Closures Soar In 2014: At Highest Pace Since Lehman Collapse 04-21-14 Zero Hedge What a better way to celebrate the rigged markets that are telegraphing a “durable” recovery, than with a Credit Suisse report showing, beyond […]
FINANCIAL STRESS – Increasing Despite Increases in Net Worth ITS ABOUT GETTING A REAL JOB -If You Are: Outsourced Downsized Right-Sized Merged Out Contracted Out Put on Part Time or simplyt Laid-Off Finding Work is Brutal! ITS ABOUT GETTING A REAL JOB -Finding Work That Pays Enough to Support a Family Is Nearly Impossible ITS […]