U.S. Retail Sales Up 0.5% in June, May Number Revised Up From 0.8% to 1.3%… Excluding car and fuel, sales rose 0.3%. What it means – The gains in June were good, but it was the revisions to the May ...
Week In Review – July 16 2018
President Trump Orders Trade Representative to Identify $200 Billion Worth of Additional Goods for Tariffs… After implementing 25% tariffs on $34 billion worth of goods we buy from China last week, ...
“He huffed and he puffed…”
Until recently the “trade war of words” seemed a lot like the wolf in “Little Red Riding Hood.” There was a great deal of huffing and puffing. Market pundits assumed all would end well with no real ...
Week In Review – July 9 2018
U.S. Economy Created 213,000 Jobs in June… The jobs total in May was revised higher by 21,000. Unemployment ticked up from 3.8% to 4.0%, reflecting more people participating in the labor ...
GE Evicted From The Dow
It has been decades since General Electric lost its glitter. The only original component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been replaced by Walgreens Boot Alliance (WBA). Officially, Walgreens ...