Posts Tagged ‘ Leading Indicators ’

Weekly Spectrum: Short Week, Housing & Earnings Focus

Jan 18th, 2010 | By Rob

The January 18 – 22 business week will begin one day late, due to Martin Luther King Jr holiday, leaving only Tuesday to Friday for market action to be staged. The most notable economic data releases will be the Housing Market Index (HMI) and Housing Starts numbers; while Treasury International Capital data, the Producer's Price
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Price Indexes, Fed Meeting, Quad Witching

Dec 14th, 2009 | By Rob

The last five days before the shortened Christmas week may bring tidings of inflation, Bernanke rhetoric, and volatile Friday trading as investors unwrap both producer price (PPI) and consumer price indexes (CPI), foreshadowing Bernanke language, and a "quad witching" day on friday. We will get a taste testing of government debt as the 4 week, 3
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The Weekly Spectrum

Nov 16th, 2009 | By Rob

The five day trading week spanning November 16-20, 2009 will leave few stones unturned as the current economic strength is weighed and measured via the Retail Sales, Industrial Production, New Housing Starts, and Leading Indicator reports.  Retail Sales The September report showed negative growth in total sales on the back of a massive pullback from the
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