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US Economy:(April 2013 Jobs report) Productivity increases to carry GDP recovery?

Though deeper data slices have yet not been attended to at known blogs( the best yet at calculatedriskblog.com), tonight’s Jobs report was more than an optimistic prediction of continuing recovery int erms of the 165k jobs added. Figures for women

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Posted in Financial Markets

Ben Bernanke Speaks: US and UK join hands to go down the unlimited QE lane

Making news this Wednesday as the FOMC meeting gets over is the continuing of the Federal Reserve along new NGDP targets or in this particular US cae an unemployment target of 6.5% to continue the $45B open ended QE program.

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Posted in Financial Markets

US Economy: BLS Employment Situation Report, July 2012 (Current Jobs Report)

After the rash of electronic hiccups hitting RBS results and the Big Board, Wall Street got the reprieve it needed to continue the celebrations when the Jobs report before the open posted a 172000 improvement in Private non farm payrolls

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Posted in Amitonomics, Financial Markets, housing, Retail Lifestyle, US

Here Comes the Fed Decision – FOMC Statement – July-August 2012

The statement reiterates it noted the deceleration in the First Half of the year and to be fair to them have not added any new spin to what has already become painfully obvious to most observers except for not giving

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US Week Ahead: Facebook, Netflix, Apple and the Digital Economy (July 22, 2012 – July 28, 2012)

These Retail lifestyle champions, variously featured on our series’ would report along with Earnings behemoth Amazon with a dominant share of all digital sales and now local warehouses and the cloud as well.  Ford and Boeing will also report for

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Retail Lifestyle, US

US Morning Report: Jobs report denies Thursday’s Private payrolls report / Services optimism

Th eJobs report finally came out to a measly 80K. Private Payrolls are up 84K and the unemployment rate unchanged. Dow Futures are down 60 points as we speak with much more ahead of us. The Participation rate is better

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US Economy: There you go, now you can bin it! – Jobs Friday / ISM for May

  Recovery hopes dashed by Bad News Thursday were yet eagerly awaiting the expected 158,000 Job additions in the Jobs report after a mid afternoon stock recovery. The Dow Jones is now trading another 200 points lower after the report

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Posted in Amitonomics, housing, Retail Lifestyle, US

US Economy: This week was a loser! Jobs Report, Apple’s $1 Tln, Bank of America and the Housing recovery

The bearish ISM services PMI (The ISM Nonmanufacturing indices) also had a strong almost 90% correlation with the BLS report historically and  was pointing down. On the plus side Bank of America almost wants its downgrade yesterday as it will

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Financial Markets, Retail Lifestyle, US

US Economy: Worries about the “head fake” in housing data, production declines and then Bernanke speaks..

Markets shoot up knowing well enought hat the mixed housing and manufacturing data showing wweakness in consumption and housing is really not significant and that the recocery is on. The movie Hunger Games was good too, and the time difference

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Posted in Amitonomics, Retail Lifestyle, US

US Economy: Jobs report nods with 733,000 new jobs..

The Barclays team and some at NPR are the first in many likely to ascribe the new  lows in Labor participation rate the status of an urban legend. Irrespective of numbers of Jobs added, Jobs left at a pace of

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