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The new Covid outbreak, social restrictions, business closures, and lockdowns render most of the upcoming data mostly irrelevant. Market measures of US inflation expectations have risen, and the Democratic Party securing the Senate (50/50 but the Vice President breaks ties) has booste...

ADP let the cat of the bag on Wednesday when the payroll processing provider announced it believed the level of private employment had declined in December 2020. Since it wasn't likely to have been wildly inaccurate, it set the stage for a renewed negative number in the main governmen...

U.S. nonfarm payrolls lost 140,000 jobs in December, the first monthly decline since the historic, shutdown-driven plunges in March and April. The latest decline brings the eight-month post-plunge recovery to 12.32 million and is far from offsetting the 22.16 million loss in March and...

The goods trade balance pre-pandemic was increasing, but from the pandemic onward, has trended sideways, with a downward move in latest months. Consumer goods accounted for a large component of the increase in imports, so may represent the shift in consumption patterns specific to the...

The headline December Services Purchasing Managers’ Composite Index is at percent 57.2, up 1.3 from 55.9 last month. Today's number came in above the Investing.com forecast of 54.6 percent. The Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index at 59.4 percent is up 1.4 from a seaso...

The ISM composite services index posted a reading of 57.2 in December, rising 1.3 points from 55.9 in the prior month. Among the key components of the services index, the business activity index rose to 59.4 in December, up from 58.0 in November. The services new orders index incr...

Initial unemployment claims have remained above 700k in every single week for forty-two weeks, and there is, as yet, no end in sight. What the jobless figures show, as the ADP estimates on private payrolls have, and what the BLS payroll reports tomorrow probably will, is that the econ...

Will Biden's stimulus plans continue to buoy markets? Sectors to watch in 2021. What will benefit from a weak US dollar? For further details see: Will Biden's Stimulus Plans Fuel Markets In 2021?

Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance totaled 787,000 for the week ending December 26, down 3,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised tally of 790,000. The number of ongoing claims for state unemployment programs totaled 5.206 million for the week ending Decemb...

20 years ago, investors not only paid 10 times revenues for Sun Microsystems, but also paid that ridiculous multiple for 44 other stocks in the S&P 500 Index. Currently, nearly 60 of the S&P 500 Index components trade at more than 10 times revenues. There's no telling when...