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23
Nov
2009
Week of November 23, 2009. Consumer Confidence.

10 hours ago by Administrator

Because consumer spending drives two thirds of the US economy, consumer confidence, sentiment and expectations have the ability to move stock and bond prices and are use to predict economic growth. They tend to be leading indicators, meaning they improve before the economy turns around. Together, my ...

Yelenna Rondon, MSIM, CFA. ... - yrimc.com/blog

Contrasting the ECB with the Fed

21 hours ago by Mitul Kotecha

Whether its year end book closing/profit taking and/or renewed doubts about the shape of recovery, asset markets have turned south recently. Investor mood appears to be souring as risk aversion creeps back into the market psyche. A string of disappointing US data releases over the last week includin ...

ECONOMETER - mitulsstakeonit.wordpress.com · 1 reference

Consumers remain cautious heading into key shopping season as confidence ...

22 hours ago by Alex Tarrant

The pending shopping season may not be as strong as many are wishing for after consumer confidence fell in November, the ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Index showed. (Update 1 includes full comments.) Confidence for current conditions fell 4.1 index points from October and remained below the Ind ...

The Rates Blog - interest.co.nz/ratesblog · Rank: 52,402 · 91 references

22
Nov
2009
May the Best Car Win

1 day ago by sbparks

You’ve probably seen all of the commercials lately for GM’s campaign, “May the Best Car Win.” I’m excited, because there are so many commercials, ads, and other media that are letting the consumer choose for themselves. Chevrolet continues to prove that its cars are the most fuel efficient and can b ...

Parks GM, New Albany, MS - parksgm.wordpress.com

Weekly Rewind / November 16-20

1 day ago by rslowery

LyondellBasell receives offer from Indian Reliance Industries. What a short, strange trip it has been. The bond market has a healthy appetite for TALF-backed CMBS. Mortgage restructuring for Woodlands and Deerbrook Mall could extend terms until 2014, possibly 2018. CRE is getting blamed left and rig ...

Robert Lowery's Blog - tenantrepresentative.wordpress.com · Rank: 192,027 · 1 reference

21
Nov
2009
US Economics Week Ahead: Is There Time for Turkey?

2 days ago by Michael McDonough

The market will be providing a cornucopia of data this week centered on Tuesday and Wednesday, which you can mull over as you begin brining your turkeys—as an aside here’s the recipe I will be following this year. Also, I wrote an interesting column on Friday for Real Money titled ‘ Talking Turkey o ...

Fiat Economics - fiateconomics.com · 3 references

20
Nov
2009
Current Virginia Housing Market Trends and What They Mean for a Virginia Realtor

3 days ago by helenatalbot

MRIS compiled a list of statistics and trends for the second quarter of 2009. Taken from the report by Rosemary deButt, Housing Analyst, MRIM, here are the highlights for the Virginia real estate market as of June 2009. In May, 72.5% of residents were able to afford a median priced home across the n ...

HelenaTalbot - helenatalbot.wordpress.com

19
Nov
2009
The Roller Coaster of Economic Indicators

4 days ago by jfrankel

The economy has been on a roller coaster ride since the cyclical peak of December 2007. (See illustration.) The gradual slide of early 2008 turned into a terrifying freefall in the last quarter of 2008 (after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy) and the first quarter of 2009. Now the train is probably at ...

Jeff Frankels Weblog - content.ksg.harvard.edu/blog/jeff_frankels_weblog · Rank: 72,025 · 148 references

Check Out Line: Consumers spending again?

4 days ago by Roni Deutch

From Reuters.com: Check Out home-related retailers Sears Holdings and Williams-Sonoma reporting better-than-expected quarterly results. Does this mean consumers are feathering their nests again? Somewhat, according to Barclays analyst Michael Lasser, who said Williams-Sonoma’s results were “an indic ...

Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog - ronideutch.blogspot.com · Rank: 11,765 · 64 references

Wanye Swan is at it again!

4 days ago by khoairs

Our tresuarer Wanye Swan, otherwise I called him the “Pied Piper of Canberra”. He’s recent continuing praises of Australia is still outperforming the rest of the world according to these OECD data, While expecting Australia to “to experience a relatively more robust recovery, having been affected le ...

Khoairs's Blog - khoairs.wordpress.com

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