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The key items in this week’s economic calendar are FOMC minutes, inflation via (PPI/Core PPI, CPI/Core CPI) and manufacturing activities via leading indicators and Philadelphia Fed. Earnings calendar is quite busy with notable companies such as Kraft Foods (KFT), Merck (MRK), Whole Foods (WFMI), Deere (DE), Hewlett Packard (HPQ) and JC Penny (JCP). You can view all [...]
This week is not so heavy on the economic calendar front. One notable item is the January retail sales. Earnings reports continue to be heavy. Notable companies set to report this week include: CVS Caremark (CVS), NYSE Euronext (NYX), Baidu (BIDU), Walt Disney (DIS), Sprint (S), Phillip Morris (PM) and Duke Energy (DUK). You can view all [...]
This week is full of economic reports. The most important one is the employment report on Friday. It is expected that unemployment rate will continue to remain close to 10%. In addition, we are going to get a picture on manufacturing and services sector via ISM index and ISM Services Index. Earnings reports will continue to [...]
The key item on the economic calendar is the Fed’s rate decision this Wednesday. It is expected that the Federal Funds Rate will stay at 0.25%. Unabated unemployment rate and the lack of inflation prevents the Federal Reserve from raising rates at this point. We are also going to get a picture on manufacturing via [...]
This week is not too heavy on the economic front. We are going to get a glimpse of inflation via PPI and Core PPI as well as US manufacturing and industrial production situation via Leading Indicators and Philadelphia Fed. On the earnings front, we have an extremely busy week with financials in the focus. Notable companies [...]
Last Friday’s unemployment rate is still sitting at 10% with employers continuing to slash jobs. The reality is that even if the economy is going to fully recover itself, it will be a slow one at best. This week, we are going to get a picture of December retail sales and December inflation via CPI and [...]
The China miracle just sounds too good to be true. Perhaps that is just the case. by David Barboza Friday, January 8, 2010 provided by James S. Chanos built one of the largest fortunes on Wall Street by foreseeing the collapse of Enron and other highflying companies whose stories were too good to be true. Now Mr. Chanos, a wealthy [...]
This week is a busy week on the economic front. On Friday comes the important jobs report with unemployment rate still expected to be over 10%. In additon, we are going to get a picture of the manufacturing services situation, pending home sales and consumer spending via auto/truck sales. On the earnings front, several notable companies [...]
This week’s highlight is the FOMC interest rate decision that is set to be released Wednesday December 16th. It is expected that the Fed will keep its 0% rate policy at least until the middle of 2010. In addition, we are going to get a picture on inflation via PPI and CPI. We also get [...]
Important items on the economic front this week are retail sales and consumer credit. Both are going to give investors a good idea of how consumers are holding up. In addition, we continue to get updates on the jobs front with the weekly jobless claims and continuing jobless claims. The consensus is that unemployment is [...]
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