Adding fuel to all of this political fire is an evolving media landscape that some brokers say is not exactly helping the situation — at least in terms of promoting a stable economic environment like the one that is supported by most of the key
economic data points of the past year (i.e., inflation, employment and gross domestic product).
United States
economic data points to strong growth and the only what drags down the market is global worries.
This strong growth - driven by both occupancy and rate improvement and which was even stronger at upper upscale, urban, and luxury properties - comes at a time when
economic data points have called into question the near - term sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery and would appear to demonstrate that as yet no reigns have been placed on corporate travel.
As a whole, the movements have been modest in scale, continuing the pattern seen around most Chinese
economic data points of late.
From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite
economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.
Recent
economic data point to some growth firming, inflation remains hard to find and long - term rates are up by barely 10 basis points (bps) from where they started the year, according to data accessible via Bloomberg.
Here is
an economic data point that you will not hear about in the mainstream financial media: U.S. wage growth in 2017 had been the weakest since 2010.
Also,
economic data pointed to a strong rebound in demand for manufactured goods in July, particularly for cars.
Not exact matches
«Major (cloud) infrastructure service providers are now also critical
points for systemic failure, and any
data breach or significant downtime can have a cascading effect impacting thousands of businesses, with a great potential for
economic impacts,» Goddjin observes.
Investors have been buying equities because of strong
economic data and earnings growth, according to Phipps, who
pointed out they have been mostly ignoring political turmoil, including the specter of nuclear war between the United States and North Korea and the investigation of potential links between the Trump campaign and Russia.
At this
point, pretty much any
economic data report is of interest to U.S. markets, with the Federal Reserve watching closely for evidence of a sustained
economic recovery before it finally implements its long - awaited interest rate hike.
Data from China's National Bureau of Statistics showed the consumer price index rose 3.2 percent in February from a year ago, versus expectations of a 3.0 percent rise, while annual industrial production (IP) growth in January and February combined at 9.9 percent was the lowest since October 2012 - the starting
point of China's nascent
economic recovery.
Latest
economic data from China show both industrial production and retail sales grew by less than expected at the start of the year,
pointing to an uncertain outlook.
In
economic data, total mortgage application volume fell 0.2 percent for the week and was 0.8 percent lower than a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted survey.On Tuesday, U.S. markets finished in the red, with the Dow closing down more than 400
points, while on Wednesday, markets in Europe and Asia were both trading deep in the red.
«Forward - looking orders
data point to solid output gains in coming months,» said David Hensley, director of global
economic coordination at JPMorgan Chase in New York.
«Overall, the
economic data has been improving and that's
pointing to a growth rate of about 2 %,» El - Erian (left) told Bloomberg Television Friday morning.
And our BlackRock GPS, which combines traditional
economic indicators with big
data signals such as Internet searches, still
points to above - trend growth as the global economy transitions from catchup to steady expansion.
Lynn Reaser, chief economist of the Fermanian Business &
Economic Institute at
Point Loma Nazarene University, said it's unclear whether the last two months of disappointing
data are a reflection of employers growing more cautious.
U.S. stock futures
pointed to a slightly higher open, as investors prepped for another busy day of earnings and
economic data.
U.S. futures
pointed to a slightly higher open on Monday as investors looked ahead to a busy week for
economic data and earnings.
But at this
point,
economic data have consistently contradicted Achuthan's «rolling over» assertion and claim that we're now in a recession, a position that is rapidly becoming an embarrassment.
MNI Fixed Income Bullet
Points focuses on trading flows, shifting market sentiment and expectations, news driving the market,
economic data, monetary and fiscal policy, key market levels, central bank market activity, and global capital flows.
Mario Draghi said Thursday that recent
data points to «some moderation» in the
economic growth in the 19 countries that use the euro, while still remaining «consistent with a broad - based expansion.»
He says that based on the
economic data, the fed has set up some parameters for itself and from a
data dependent
point of view, they have everything they need, but James believes that what will hold back the feds will be market instability.
We were selected by the World
Economic Forum's Tipping
Point report as the «Shift in Action» for Smart Contracts, for our work on allowing smart contracts in the Bitcoin network to be automatically triggered by external
data.
The Euro Fact of fiction, the Euro remains a
point of contention, but topside conviction remains low ahead of the Italian election compounded by softer EU
economic data.
The US economy continued to expand in September of this year, with some of the key
economic data in October
pointing to robust
economic activity that could well extend into the last three months of 2017.
This was reinforced later in June by
economic data which showed that the economy was not deteriorating further and by the Fed's decision to cut official interest rates by 25 basis
points rather than the 50 basis
points that had been widely anticipated.
In the US, 10 - year bond yields are currently 4.4 per cent, around 120 basis
points above the mid-June trough, reflecting the run of positive
economic data in recent months.
Our BlackRock GPS — which combines traditional
economic indicators with big
data signals such as Internet searches —
points to a rise in G7 growth estimates in the months ahead.
For the most part, we think that scenario is very much still intact; the US
economic data continues to
point to a strengthening US economy.
The
point is that the oil industry believed the
economic data and media hype about a strong economy and thus kept pumping.
the
data - scrap means nothing; OR, it is simply a
point in time for the nominal, and when war /
economic depression hit, then they will reconsider the church, but at this time the
data - scrap means nothing.
Today we are being
pointed at, that brand is being tarnished by President John Mahama who by the way is the worst performing President in the history of the 4th Republic, you can look at the
economic data», he noted.
The president of the U.S. - Cuba Trade and
Economic Council
points to the
data he has been able to cobble together that show no exports from the New York companies Chobani, Regeneron, Pfizer and Cayuga Milk Ingredients.
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data fiasco
The Saratoga County
Economic Index is a quarterly event that tracks the health of the Saratoga County Economy using key
data points selected by Saratoga Partnership staff.
Those two contrasting
data points are part of a massive new analysis of the state of education around the world by the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
When looking at The Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
data, two key
points stand out.
Supplier
data, reported by China
Economic News Service,
points to the original 1024 × 600, 7 ″ tablet still being offered for the foreseeable future — which makes sense, since it's a popular device, low cost, and there are probably a couple million in warehouses selling at a steady rate.
As my colleague Russ Koesterich
points out in a recent post,
economic data was mixed over the first quarter, with sluggish
economic growth, a soft jobs report and weak manufacturing reports leading to diminishing consensus around company earnings.
Despite negative sentiment, much of the
data points to continued and accelerated
economic expansion going forward.
This webinar presentation (which was just under an hour long) offered a very high level view of recent
economic developments as well as trends and forces impacting markets and where the
data appears to be
pointing to opportunities for investors.
The jumbo market remains competitive for lenders according to
data from our Weekly Application Survey, as the spread between conforming 30 year fixed rate loans and jumbo 30 year fixed rate loans widened to 12 basis
points over March and April, the widest this spread has been since early 2016,» said Joel Kan, MBA's Associate Vice President of
Economic and Industry Forecasting.
Economic data is stronger than at any
point in the last few years.
The starting
point for the artists featured in You Don't Need a Weatherman are investigations aimed at revealing social dynamics,
economic systems, and political relations within an increasingly complex world of virtual representation, infinite sources of information, and invisible
data flows.
From a survival perspective, I understand the
data to
point to ongoing and escalating catastrophic harms, suggesting to me in public health at least, that the time for «playing games» with
economic models or other approaches that simply tinker and tweak on the periphery has to be urgently replaced with an ideological transformation, exactly along the lines that Mike and Ken were speaking to last night.
Entering a New World (pdf) Introduction A Massive Market Failure Environment and Civilization China: Why the Existing
Economic Model Will Fail Mounting Stresses, Failing States A Civilizational Tipping
Point Plan B — A Plan of Hope Chapter 1
Data (xls)
Here is a start: skeptics should criticize the IPCC, skeptics should ask for access to
data and analytical disclosures, skeptics should not criticize the science with
economic arguments, skeptics should not put words into the mouths of those they criticize, skeptics should define some goalposts so that progress can be understood from their
point of view, skeptics should use the peer - reviewed literature....
But there is no doubt that
economic history has reached a
point where the owners of vast troves of
data, most of it given to them by unthinking consumers, are the corporate titans of the age.