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IMF forecasts, Canada will be fastest growing economy in G7 in 2025 🤣 https://t.co/lU8nK2w8Vb — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August 13, 2024 Interesting, to see this data. People in the UK should be asking their leaders, why the low growth? pic.twitter.com/9ZQkAkKRUS — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) August 13, 2024
by confoundedinterest17 We’re going down! After May’s MoM deflationary impulse (thanks to a plunge in energy costs), June was expected to see a modest 0.1% rise (and we have seen energy prices starting to rise again). Sure enough, headline PPI printed HOT at +0.2% MoM (and May was revised higher), pushing the YoY print up …
One southern city has become a boomer boomtown thanks to an influx of older Americans flocking to its age-restricted, bustling community. Georgetown, Texas is officially the fastest-growing city in the country in part due to its wealthy 55-and-older community called Sun City Texas. An analysis of Census Bureau data for cities with populations of at …
Related pic.twitter.com/Y12wOrXqsX — Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) July 4, 2024 31% if German electricity generation used to come from nuclear, today about 25% come from coal instead. It’s really difficult to find another policy more disastrous for environment than German „green“ approach. pic.twitter.com/TCpArIouns — Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) July 4, 2024
These people don’t want to buy any dip. They want to sell high and retire. NVDA FACING INSIDERS SELLING THE STOCK AT THE FASTEST PACE IN YEARS. byu/Androcles_InTheSky inwallstreetbets h/t OhWhiskey
Home prices are dropping thanks to high mortgage rates weighing on demand. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate edged up last week, hovering above 7%. Real estate experts expect affordability to slowly improve as inventory rises and borrowing costs ease. Home prices are falling at the fastest pace in over a year, thanks to demand plunging …
Hedge Funds dumped stocks at the fastest rate since January and, in particular, sold Industrials at the fastest pace in a decade. Source: Goldman Sachs pic.twitter.com/uUOdF1d3Pk — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) May 28, 2024
BEIJING – China’s home prices fell at a faster pace in April, underscoring why the government is stepping up efforts to tackle the years-long property crisis. New-home prices in 70 cities, excluding state-subsidised housing, slid 0.58 per cent from March, data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China showed. Values of existing homes fell …
Bulls, you are now back on track for the fastest crash from all time high in history. pic.twitter.com/Al2GqeJkDF — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) May 15, 2024 GameStop, $GME, down 35%. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 15, 2024 BREAKING: The S&P 500 has just hit its 23rd all time high this year and is now up 29% since October …
by confoundedinterest17 Will The Fed keep on printing?? Ahead of tomorrow’s CPI, traders are eyeing this morning’s Producer Prices for any hints that the disinflation trend will return…or not. The answer is “not!” April Producer Prices rose 0.5% MoM (vs +0.3% exp), with March’s +0.2% MoM revised down to -0.1% MoM. The downward revision did not …
Top 10 Emerging Markets Here are the fastest-growing emerging economies, based on real GDP compound annual growth rate (CAGR) forecasts over the period of 2024-2029: Rank Country Projected CAGR (2024-2029) 1 Guyana 19.8% 2 Mozambique 7.9% 3 Rwanda 7.2% 4 Bangladesh 6.8% 5 Ethiopia 6.7% 6 Niger 6.7% 7 Uganda 6.6% 8 India 6.5% 9 …
United States Employment Cost Indexhttps://t.co/ctIxwn2OIh pic.twitter.com/pqibeiF878 — TRADING ECONOMICS (@tEconomics) April 30, 2024 U.S. labor costs surged beyond forecasts in the first quarter, climbing 1.2% amid a boost in wages and benefits, reinforcing early-year inflation concerns. The Employment Cost Index (ECI) uptick may influence Federal Reserve deliberations as it navigates monetary policy amidst mounting price …
Home Prices rose by 6% year-over-year during January, the fastest increase since January 2022 pic.twitter.com/SxWWnQ4BcA — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) March 27, 2024 Home prices increased at the fastest clip since 2022 at the start of the year, according to one closely watched home price gauge published Tuesday. Home prices nationally in January were 6% …
Feb 4, 2024 #china #news #immigration A growing number of Chinese nationals, trying to escape repressive politics and a bleak economy, are headed to the U.S. They’re turning to a gap at the southern border with Mexico as a way to get in. #news #immigration #china “60 Minutes” is the most successful television broadcast in …
Why are they talking about anything other than real GDP in a time of large and uncertain inflation? If we have 20% inflation, we would have ~20% dollar growth cooked in. Or perhaps more interesting is if we have 10% inflation reported by current metrics, but the real number is 20%, then there’s an extra …
Some pretty startling numbers regarding planned layoffs in 2024 according to a recent survey Buckle up. https://t.co/Q5Q0w0rmfA — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) January 10, 2024 Massive Layoffs Are Coming in 2024 Mass layoffs are in store for 2024, and it might end up affecting nearly half of companies, according to a new poll. That’s the latest …
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https://t.co/KraPDgOOQm — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) November 16, 2023 More Chinese cities record falling home prices in October BEIJING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — More Chinese cities reported falling home prices in October, official data showed Thursday. The National Bureau of Statistics said 56 of 70 large and medium-sized cities saw month-on-month drops in new home …
Auto loan delinquencies among subprime borrowers reached a nearly-30-year high in September of 6.1% – the highest rate since 1994, per the Fed. Read more: https://t.co/MLaHAqNcKg — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) November 15, 2023 Auto Insurance rates are crazy…40% up in 2 years. More accidents has to be the cause. Plus the cost to repair has skyrocketed …
The rapid steepening of the yield curve from inverted levels suggests an impending economic downturn. Caution: Yield curve has begun steepening rapidly from inverted levels This brings the economy closer to an economic downturn Buckle up pic.twitter.com/JfBgBxOZgq — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) October 29, 2023 BREAKING: Americans spent money at the fastest rate in nearly two …
Obtaining credit will be “much harder” pic.twitter.com/Pd2gXm5mn3 — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) October 11, 2023 Rapid rate hikes have helped fuel an increase in company failures this year—and there’s probably more pain to come. Bed Bath & Beyond is one of the more well-known brands to implode this year under the weight of, among other …
Truckload carriers continue to exit the market at their fastest pace in over 5-years. Still a lot of capacity relative to demand, but as spot rates remain low and fuel costs rise, carrier exits show no signs of slowing down. pic.twitter.com/ckJqGPxIYT — Luke (@LukeFalasca) September 27, 2023
via cryptopolitan: The World Trade Monitor, an analytical tool from the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, adds to this gloomy narrative with its June data showing a 2.4% contraction. The implication is evident: the world is slowing down. Post-pandemic, economies had briefly rallied, driven by a surging demand for global goods exports. But alas, …
Sounds right until it isn't! Problem is that the faster bonds sell off the greater collateral hit and impairment to Global #liquidity https://t.co/6GW0EYopoj — CrossBorder Capital/ GLIndexes (@crossbordercap) September 26, 2023 #recession … #StockMarket Bubble edition#Leverage 📉 #MarginCall 📈 https://t.co/nig1oqQvQ8 pic.twitter.com/FmkeTm30lS — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) September 26, 2023 #recession … Global $USD #Liquidity Squeeze edition$DXY …
UK households withdrawing savings at fastest ever rate, official figures show UK households are pulling money out of their savings accounts at the fastest rate ever recorded, as they draw on rainy day funds to weather the cost of living storm. Figures from the Bank of England show households withdrew a net £4.6bn from banks …
via naturalnews: Americans are pulling hundreds of billions of dollars out of banks at the fastest pace in nearly 39 years as many economic experts are beginning to predict a repeat of the 2008 “Great Recession.” According to an analysis of the most recent data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), “depositors took a total of $472 billion out …
As of 1Q23, household net worth as a % of disposable personal income fell to 760%, down from 840% a year earlier … in year/year terms (not % change, just a change in %, orange), fastest decline since 4Q08 pic.twitter.com/EL2IIQfCWq — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) June 12, 2023 The lowest-earning quartile of workers is experiencing …
From commercial loans to the corporate bond market. Things look fragile. The "experts" tell us it's nothing like 2009 yet they said we had nothing to worry about back then either. I think things are going to get messy. — Jason Stapleton ☕️ ✍🏼 🎙️ (@Jason_Stapleton) June 2, 2023 Default wave imminent, will peak in 2024, Deutsche Bank says …
