One of the things I like to do to try and gauge the markets temperature is to go to Yahoo! Finance and scan the AP news headlines. The following are some of the headlines that caught my attention this morning. Unemployment in Conn. rises as job growth stalls Mass. unemployment rate climbs to 7 percent […]
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A Little More Sputtering
Earlier today the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reported that manufacturing activity decreased 0.53 percent in April. The decline follows a 0.23 decline in March. This information only serves to reinforce information presented in my earlier post (i.e. national economic activity is weak). According to the report: “Three of the four broad categories of indicators that make […]
