Archive for July 1st, 2009

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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

PMI – “less bad”


The  seasonally  adjusted  Kagiso  PMI  for  June  increased  slightly  for  the  second  consecutive  month  to  37.9  points  from  37.3  during  May, confirming a bottoming out of the index in May.
The slowing in the contraction of output volumes continued with both the seasonally adjusted business activity and seasonally adjusted new sales orders indices increasing from 35.1 [...]

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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Stock market performance during economic cycles


This post features an interesting analysis on the performance of the S&P 500 Index during various phases of the economic cycle.

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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Barry Ritholtz: Fix what’s broken


An excellent interview by Kate Welling with Barry Ritholtz, author of “Bailout Nation” and editor of “The Big Picture” blog, has just been published and is shared in this post.

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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Hopeful economic signs – moonwalk!


Another great cartoon on the economy by Tom Toles.

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