purchasing manager survey results
Last Day for Voting in the 2024 U.S. Election
November 5, 2024
In these polarized times, one area of wide agreement surrounding today’s U.S. election is that the stakes riding on the outcome are enormously high. Voters have been prepped not to be surprised if the winners of the presidential race and several congressional contests remained undecided at the end of this day, if not for several […] More
Bombardment of Horrific Data Reported Today Around the World
April 23, 2020
There were 4.427 million new U.S. jobless insurance claims last week. The 5.787 million average of new claims in the past four weeks is up from an average of 2.898 million in the prior four-week period and just 210,750 per week during the four weeks through February 22. Continuing jobless insurance claims of 15.976 million […] More
Regional Themes
January 24, 2020
Asian market activity was depressed by Chinese New Year holiday observances. Equity markets were shut in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, South Korea, and Taiwan. That being said, fears and anger related to the coronavirus outbreak have intensified. Some 40 million people in China have been quarantined. In other Asian news, Japanese CPI inflation ended […] More
