Policy tightening, shifting dynamics in the domestic economy and slower global growth has changed the game for the economic environment. Despite our expectations for firmer growth in 2015, the economy will enter uncharted territory as businesses and consumers navigate the path to normalization of rates, a flatter yield curve, and structural reforms in other economies. […]
Continue ReadingIndependent Online: Transport: Movement of freight grows PR Newswire: Nationwide Shipment of Goods Reaches $13.8 Trillion, Census Bureau Reports PanAm Post: Don’t Fall For Unasur’s Olive Branch of Open Immigration
Continue ReadingEconomics Group: Weekly Economic & Financial Commentary U.S. Review Blockbuster Payrolls Set the Tone Nonfarm payrolls surged 321,000 in November, as the workweek and average hourly earnings picked up. The employment report, coupled with lower gas prices, bodes well for consumption in the fourth quarter. The ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing indices remained firmly in expansion territory, […]
Continue ReadingLOGIN CREATE AN ACCOUNT December 2014 Despite Global Slow Down, Drought, California Exporters May Have Best Year Ever A variety of adverse conditions have combined to affect California exports in the latest numbers. Nevertheless, year-to-date, the state is on course to achieve its best export year ever. Read Full Analysis Now SHARE: Meet Our […]
Continue ReadingUS Outlook Report: The U.S. Consumer is Doing Just Fine There was much hand wringing earlier this week with the release of the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) estimate of an 11.0 percent drop in Thanksgiving weekend sales and 5.2 percent drop in buyer traffic from a year ago. The Thanksgiving weekend that includes Black Friday […]
Continue ReadingInstant Analysis of Today’s Employment Report for November Economists got their Christmas present early this year. A blowout November jobs report put a smile on my face this morning. November’s +321K nonfarm payroll jobs easily surpassed consensus expectations for +230K. Some analysts were talking about downside risks to the number due to weather, a weaker […]
Continue ReadingEconomics Group: Weekly Economic & Financial Commentary U.S. Review Hey U.S. Economy, Pace Yourself A revision to GDP figures released this week report that the U.S. economy grew at a 3.9 percent annualized rate in the third quarter. Early indicators of fourth quarter growth were not quite as rosy. We learned that, although consumer spending is […]
Continue ReadingNewsletter November 24, 2014 COURT RULES THAT CONSTITUTION DOES NOT EMPOWER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO REGULATE A THREATENED SPECIES LIVING ONLY WITHIN ONE STATE A federal district court in Utah has ruled in People for the Ethical Treatment of Property Owners v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that Congress’s constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce does […]
Continue ReadingOn November 23, 2014, Port of Oakland Executive Director Chris Lytle published an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle on the value of Oakland’s port, and how work stoppages are placing thousands of jobs at risk. Click here or follow the link below to read the full article. SF Gate: Port of Oakland too essential to […]
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