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Intuit Small Business Index: Up Fractionally
The latest Intuit Small Business Employment Index (SBI) came out this morning, which measures employment in firms with fewer than 20 employees with data going back to 2007. The real-time data comes directly from Intuit software, not from surveys, an…
NFIB: Small Business Index Unchanged in October
The latest issue of the NFIB Small Business Economic Trends is out today. The update for October came in at 96.1, unchanged from the previous month. The index remains at the 29th percentile in this series. Today’s number came in slightly below the I…
S&P 500 Snapshot: The Selloff Accelerates
On a day with relatively little economic news US equity markets declined at an accelerating rate, with the benchmark S&P 500 posted its fourth consecutive loss. The index opened at its -0.13% intraday high, plunged sharply and slid to its -1.48% int…
Weekly Gasoline Price Update: Regular and Premium Up Two Cents
It’s time again for our weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The price of Regular and Premium gained about two cents each. WTIC ended today at $48.37, up $2.23 from the previous week. According to Ga…
Multiple Jobholders: Two Decades of Trends as of October
What are the long-term trends for multiple jobholders in the US? The Bureau of Labor Statistics has two decades of historical data to enlighten us on that topic, courtesy of Table A-16 in the monthly Current Population Survey. At present, multiple …
The Labor Market Conditions Index for October: Back Above Zero with Revisions
The Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) is a relatively recent indicator developed by Federal Reserve economists to assess changes in the labor market conditions. It is a dynamic factor model of labor market indicators, essentially a diffusion inde…
World Markets Weekend Update: Six Up, Two Down
Six of eight indexes on our world watch list posted gains over the past week, up from three up the previous week. China’s Shanghai Composite was the outstanding performer, up a whopping 6.13%. France’s CAC 40 was a distant second with its substantia…
S&P 500 Snapshot: Flat for the Day, Up 0.95% for the Week
The better-than-forecast October employment report presumably strengthened the odds of a December Fed rate hike, but the market’s reaction was surprisingly subdued. The S&P 500 opened fractionally lower, hit its 0.09% intraday high minutes later and…
The Big Four Economic Indicators: September Nonfarm Employment
Note: This commentary has been updated to include Nonfarm Employment for October. As the adjacent thumbnail of the past year illustrates, Nonfarm Employment remains in its upward trend and the October report of 271K new jobs is the biggest monthly i…
ECRI Weekly Leading Index: "Checked by China"
ECRI’s latest weekly data point shows a fractional decrease from the previous week’s revised number and their latest feature commentary published earlier this week highlights the impact of declining Chinese imports.
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October New Jobs Surprise Forecast; September Revised Slightly Downward
Today’s report of 271K new nonfarm jobs in October was significantly higher than the Investing.com forecast of 180K. September nonfarm payrolls was revised downward by 5K. The unemployment rate dropped 0.1 to 5.0%.
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S&P 500 Snapshot: A Fractional Decline Before Friday’s Employment Report
The S&P 500 ended the session with a fractional decline. The pre-market economic release of weekly jobless claims was a bit disappointing. Today’s seasonally adjusted 276K new claims was a 16K rise over the previous week and the largest weekly incre…
New Jobless Claims: Worse than Forecast
Today’s seasonally adjusted 276K new claims was worse than the Investing.com forecast of 262K. The four-week moving average is at 262,750, up from last week’s 259,250, which was at a its lowest levels since 1973.
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S&P 500 Snapshot: A Modest Decline Snaps a Two-Day Rally
The S&P 500 ended the session with a modest -0.35% decline. The pre-market economic news was a tepid estimate of 182K new nonfarm private employment jobs from ADP countered by the September trade balance, which was the lowest since February. The S&P…
ISM Non-Manufacturing: October Growth at Faster Rate
Today the Institute for Supply Management published its latest Non-Manufacturing Report. The headline NMI Composite Index is at 59.1 percent, up 2.2 percent from last month’s 56.9 percent. Today’s number came in above the Investing.com forecast of 5…
Anticipating October Employment: ADP Report at 182K
The economic mover and shaker this week is Friday’s employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This monthly report contains a wealth of data for economists, the most publicized being the month-over-month change in Total Nonfarm Employmen…
September Trade Deficit Lowest in Seven Months
The U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, also known as the FT-900, is published monthly by the Bureau of Economic Analysis with data going back to 1992. The monthly reports include revisions that go back several months. This report detail…
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- Re: Need Advice on Asset Allocation February 25, 2021If you wanted to get to 20% bonds quickly, one possibility would be to — use the $ from CDs to purchase municipal bonds in your taxable account (maybe state specific; I live in CA and hold CA munis through Vanguard’s funds). This would get you 156K in bonds. — you need to be closer […]theorist
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