Small-cap stocks, which were lagging in the first half of the year, staged a nice comeback over the past three months on talks of tax reform. The optimism intensified after the House and Senate passed the tax bill, though the
December 11, 2017
Let’s take a close look at the latest employment report numbers on Full and Part-Time Employment. Buried near the bottom of Table A-9 of the government’s Employment Situation Summary are the numbers for Full- and Part-Time Workers, with 35-or-more hours as the
A strong session from Asia to open the week with Hang Seng and Shanghai both higher by 1%. Having seen a brief wobble at the start of trading, the move was quickly rejected and we traded from strength to strength.
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The Treasury Department upped its 10-year GDP forecast to 2.9% from 2.2% based on the Senate tax plan. It won’t happen. Fake Math Today, the Treasury Department revised its Economic Forecast, based on the Senate Tax Plan. OTP has modeled the
Mattel (MAT) warned in a regulatory filing that fourth-quarter gross sales may be negatively impacted by tighter inventory management at key retailers. This comes not long after Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy to help the toy retailer relieve itself
The Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index – which forecasts employment for the next 6 months improved with the author’s saying “The decline in the Employment Trends Index in November comes after one of the largest monthly increases ever last month“.
Below is a historical chart showing the annual cost of insuring against default for 5 years (5-year CDS) for three major US banks and brokers — Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and Citigroup. The price is in basis points, and basically
The U.S. economy added 228,000 jobs in November. What does it mean for the gold market? November Payrolls Beat Expectations Total nonfarm payroll employment increased 228,000 in November. The rise followed an increase of 244,000 in September (after a downward revision), according
In her testimony to the Congressional Economic Committee on November 29, 2017, the Fed Chair Janet Yellen said that the neutral rate appears to be quite low by historical standards. From this, she concluded that the federal funds rate would
