by sslifer | May 25, 2023 | Miscellaneous
May 25, 2023 Corporate profits from current production (corporate profits before tax with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments) fell by $40.5 billion in the first quarter which works out to an annualized rate of decline of 1.3% after after having...
by sslifer | May 9, 2023 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
May 9, 2023 . Small business optimism declined 1.1 points in April to 89.0 after falling 0.8 point in March. It has been bouncing around at about this same level since June of last year. These levels are roughly in line with the low point in the March/April 2020...
by sslifer | Mar 8, 2023 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
March 8, 2023 The trade deficit widened by $1.1 billion in January to $68.3 billion after widening by $6.6 billion in December. While volatile on a monthly basis, the deficit has narrowed dramatically since April of last year because exports have been essentially...
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...
by sslifer | Jun 9, 2022 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
June 9, 2022 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 | Jun 9, 2022 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
June 9, 2022 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 virus eased its grip and the...
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