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Secular Trends In Employment: Goods Prodution Versus Services Providing
The Department of Labor has monthly data on employment by industry categories reaching back to 1939. At the highest level, all jobs are categorized in either Service-Providing Industries or Goods Producing Industries. The adjacent chart illustrates the ratio of the two since 1939. The latest monthly employment report showed a gain of 250K nonfarm payrolls, […]
Frozen In Time, The Wrong S-Curve
As usual, Paul Krugman starts out with a serious attempt at answers before detouring into his current profession. Dr. Krugman used to be an Economist, and a pretty good one too (for whatever that’s worth). Nowadays, he employs his New York Times column as a mouthpiece for really blatant politicking. It isn’t even so much an arm […]
The Latest Look At The Total Return Roller Coaster – Monday, Nov. 5
Note: We’ve updated the charts below based on monthly data through October. Here’s an interesting set of charts that will especially resonate with those of us who follow economic and market cycles. Imagine that five years ago you invested $10,000 in the S&P 500. How much would it be worth today, with dividends reinvested but adjusted […]
Agriculture Markets Report – Monday, Nov. 5
(Video length 00:10:10) A review of the day’s trading in the agriculture markets.
Here’s What Looms On Election Eve
Video Length: 00:15:00 Stocks diverge today in pre-election trading. The monsters of tech were sent lower today while financials bounced on the Berkshire Hathaway earnings. Here’s what you need to know before tomorrow’s crucial election on how it may impact stocks for the rest of the week…
Booking Holdings Jumps Despite Earnings Miss
CNBC’s Seema Mody reports on Booking Holdings EPS miss.
Slight US Crop Changes Expected With Corn Up & Soybeans Down
Market Analysis The upcoming USDA’s crop report has the trade anticipating slightly lower US corn and soybean crops resulting in modest changes in each upcoming 2018/19 balance sheets on November 8. A wire service survey is projecting 57 million drop in the US corn output to 14.721 billion bu. crop while this same trade group […]
The Range To Watch For The Metals
(Audio length 00:09:29) Richard Postma joins me today to share the targets he is watching for the gold. We also discuss how the USD longer term charts are providing insights into where the metals might trend from here.
Bad Omen: The Buyback Trajectory Is Slowing
Ok, it’s time for an update on the corporate bid for U.S. equities as investors ponder the outlook for markets after a truly abysmal October for stocks that were sitting at fresh all-time highs a scant six weeks ago. Anytime there’s a selloff and folks are looking for excuses to stay bullish, buybacks obviously come […]
