by sslifer | May 13, 2025 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
May 13, 2025 . Small business optimism fell 1.6 points in April to 95.8 after having declined 3.3 points in March to 97.4 after falling 2.1 points in February to 100.7 after having declined 2.3 points in January. The media focus seems to be on the fact that the index...
by sslifer | May 6, 2025 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
May 6, 2025 The trade deficit widened by $17.3 billion in March to a record to $140.5 billion after having narrowed by $7.5 billion in February Firms have been racing to import goods prior to the imposition of tariffs. Exports rose $0.5 billion or 0.2% in March to...
by sslifer | Mar 27, 2025 | Miscellaneous
March 27, 2025 Corporate profits from current production (corporate profits before tax with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments) rose by $204.7 billion in the fourth quarter which works out to an an increase of 5.4% after after having fallen 0.4%...
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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