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Category: Chart Of The Day

(Just Charts)

NOT A STOCK PICKERS MARKET

The stock market has turned into a schizophrenic herd of sheep.  Correlations have entirely converged in recent months as money simply flows from bullish to bearish depending on the current [ … ]

PUTTING THE JOBS DATA IN PERSPECTIVE

Yesterday, the Labor Department reported that nonfarm payrolls (jobs) decreased by 54,000 in August — the third consecutive decline. Today’s chart puts the latest data into perspective by comparing job losses following the beginning of the current economic recession (solid red line) to that of the last recession (dashed gold line) and the average recession from 1950-1999 (dashed blue line).

READER QUIZ: WHICH IS WHICH?

In our continuing effort to decipher the ECRI’s Weekly Leading Index we decided to explore what, in our opinion, looks more like a coincident indicator than a leading indicator.  This [ … ]