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01 Personal Income and Outlays @ 8:30 AM |
02 Manufacturer's Shipments, Inventories, and Orders @ 10:00 AM |
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06 | 07 | 08 Monthly Wholesale Trade @ 10:00 AM |
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| 12 | 13 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services @ 8:30 AM |
14 Manufacturing and Trade: Inventories and Sales @ 8:30 AM
Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services @ 8:30 AM |
15 | 16 New Residential Construction @ 8:30 AM |
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| 26 | 27 Advance Report on Durable Goods @ 8:30 AM |
28 New Residential Sales @ 10:00 AM
Gross Domestic Product @ 8:30 AM |
Bulls (Colts?) versus Bears (DA Bears?)
Tis’ the season for market “Barometers,” and one of recent vintage is the Super Bowl Indicator. If an "old" NFL team wins the big game on February 4th, the stock market will have a good year.
The Flight Log
Recently we have seen plastered all over the media “new all time highs for the Dow Jones Industrial Average”. The media reports this as being negative, “the top is near”, “and it can’t go higher” or “watch out below”. Wouldn’t it be nice if the media could just report the facts, instead of giving a bias?
The O. Report: The Wall of Worry & Risk Reward
It is said that the market climbs a “Wall of Worry.” This means it often rises in spite of the negatives overhanging it. During the last couple of years this was certainly the case.
New Opportunities for Trade with China
The first American to profit in trade with China did so a year after the Revolutionary War ended and Americans were free to trade outside the sphere of Britain’s influence.