The latest retail sales data is out, and its rather mixed: -Gap fell 2 percent. They expect pressure on profit margins to continue into...
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Its "Trash a Trade-Group’s Spin" day here at the Big Picture. After this morning’s look at the National Retail...
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I’m kinda dumfounded to see this issue come up time and again, but — there they go again: The National Retail Federation is once...
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A Trader friend emailed this: It has been 95 trading days since we have had a down 1% close. This is 4.5 standard deviations from the...
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Last year, we lamented the passing of M3 reporting. This broadest of money supply measures had shown a discomforting increase in...
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The Dow made another record high close yesterday. Or did it? Remember, the Dow is price weighted, which makes its price behavior a bit...
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With CPI coming out at 8:30 this morning, I wanted to take a few moments to note some of the oddities and aberrations in the Producer...
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Nothing much on the economic calendar today, but the rest of the week is full of market-moving economic data: As Kevin at Minyanville...
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Ever wonder why the doctors who accidentally kill patients aren’t allowed to perform the autopsies? An article in Barron’s...
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There were two rather interesting points worth repeating in Barron’s Up and Down Wall Street column this morning. The first will be...
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