by sslifer | Apr 10, 2024 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
April 10, 2024 . Small business optimism fell 0.9 point in March to 88.5 after declining 1.1 points in February. That is the lowest level for this series since December 2012 which makes the current level even lower than the low point in the March/April 2020 recession...
by sslifer | Mar 7, 2024 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
March 7, 2024 The trade deficit widened by $3.3 billion in January to $67.4 billion after having narrowed by $1.5 billion in December. t it has been largely unchanged during the course of the past year. Exports rose $0.3 billion or 0.1% in January to $257.2 billion. ...
by sslifer | Nov 29, 2023 | Miscellaneous
November 29, 2023 Corporate profits from current production (corporate profits before tax with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments) rose by $105.6 billion in the third quarter which works out to an annualized rate of increase of 3.3% after after...
by sslifer | Sep 12, 2023 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
September 12, 2023 Economists like to keep an eye on the amount of leverage amongst corporations. When corporations take on huge amounts of debt in relation to their net worth, any economic downturn will be much more severe than it would otherwise be as corporations...
by sslifer | Sep 12, 2023 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
September 12, 2023 Corporate cash holdings in the first half of 2020 as the government quarantine basically caused the economy to stop dead in its tracks. Firms needed to raise money wherever they could to keep them going until such time as the virus eased its grip...
by sslifer | Jun 9, 2022 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
June 9, 2022 The trade-weighted value of the dollar, which represents the value of the dollar against the currencies of a broad group of U.S. trading partners has risen 7.7% from where it was at this time last year and it is expected to continue to rise in value...
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