by sslifer | Jan 8, 2026 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
January 8, 2026 The trade deficit for October $18.8 billion to $29.4 billion after narrowing by $7.5 billion in September. That is the smallest trade deficit June 2009. Exports rose 2.6% in October to $302.0 billion after having risen 3,6% in September. In the past...
by sslifer | Dec 23, 2025 | Miscellaneous
December 23, 2025 Corporate profits from current production (corporate profits before tax with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments) rose $166 billion in the third quarter which works out to an 18.0% annual rate after rising at a 0.7% pace in the...
by sslifer | Dec 11, 2025 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
December 11, 2025 . Small business optimism fose 0.8 point in November to 99.0 after having declined 0.6 point in October. The index level remains slightly above the 40-year average rate of 98.0 which is regarded as the breakeven point for this series. NFIB Chief...
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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