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Steven Hansen

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Steven Hansen, Publisher and Co-founder of EconCurrents, is an international business and industrial consultant specializing in turning around troubled business units; consults to governments to optimize process flows; and provides economic indicator analysis based on unadjusted data and process ...more
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June 2015 Texas Manufacturing Survey Manufacturing Activity Continues To Contract For Fourth Month
Monday, June 29, 2015 2:05 PM EDT
The market expected -16.0 to -11.0 (consensus -13.5) versus the actual -6.5.
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May 2015 Pending Home Sales Index At Highest Level In Nine Years - But NAR Warns Of Housing Price Bubble
Monday, June 29, 2015 10:49 AM EDT
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) seasonally adjusted pending home sales index again improved and is now at their highest level in over nine years.
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Is That Giant Sucking Sound Productivity?
Saturday, June 27, 2015 11:10 AM EDT
In the last few quarters, the USA has seen a fairly significant decline in headline productivity growth. Some have suggested there is a correlation to GDP...
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Leading Index Review: May 2015 Philly Fed Leading Index Projects Economic Growth Now At 1.6%
Friday, June 26, 2015 3:02 PM EDT
This leading index is now forecasting growth at 1.6% over the next 6 months. A review of all major leading indicators follows - and no leading index is particularly strong.
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Trucking Tonnage Index Recovers Partially In May 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015 10:44 AM EDT
The American Trucking Associations' (ATA) trucking index rose 1.1% following an upwardly revised decline of 1.4% in April.
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20 June 2015 Initial Unemployment Claims Rolling Average Again Marginally Improves
Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:57 PM EDT
The market was expecting the weekly initial unemployment claims at 270,000 to 275,000 (consensus 273,000) vs the 271,000 reported.
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Rail Week Ending 20 June 2015: Just Another Bad Week For Rail
Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:44 PM EDT
Week 24 of 2015 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) contracted according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data.
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May 2015 CFNAI Super Index Continues To Show USA Economic Softness
Monday, June 22, 2015 9:37 AM EDT
The economy was growing insignificantly faster last month based on the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) 3 month moving average - but continues to grow below the historical trend rate of growth.
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Here You Go Again - Deficit Spending Vs. Austerity
Saturday, June 20, 2015 2:01 PM EDT
In general, most people advocating austerity as an economic tool see a country's economy similar to a business or household budget.
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May 2015 Leading Economic Index Rate Of Growth Strongly Improves Again
Thursday, June 18, 2015 5:11 PM EDT
The Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for the U.S. "increased sharply again" this month - but the authors believe the outlook is for more economic expansion in the second half of the year.
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June 13, 2015 Initial Unemployment Claims Rolling Average Marginally Improves
Thursday, June 18, 2015 10:44 AM EDT
The market was expecting the weekly initial unemployment claims at 265,000 to 280,000 (consensus 275,000) vs the 267,000 reported.
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May 2015 Residential Building Sector Shows Strength In Multi-Family Housing
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 12:32 PM EDT
Residential building data continues to show relative strength - but this strength is in multi-family housing. The rolling averages are the best metric to view this series - and the rolling averages continue to accelerate.
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June 2015 Empire State Manufacturing Index Unexpectedly Contracts
Monday, June 15, 2015 1:44 PM EDT
The Empire State Manufacturing Survey unexpected declined and is now in contraction. Key internals are in contraction.
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Happy Days Are Here Again?
Saturday, June 13, 2015 12:47 PM EDT
It seems the little noticed Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTS) report this past week have a few believing happy days are here with record high job openings.
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May 2015 Producer Prices Year-Over-Year Deflation Decreases
Friday, June 12, 2015 1:03 PM EDT
The Producer Price Index year-over-year deflation continued - but was marginally less than last month. The intermediate processing continues to show a large deflation in the supply chain.
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Joe Sixpack's Situation In 1Q2015: Joe Is Better Off
Friday, June 12, 2015 10:47 AM EDT
A Federal Reserve data release (Z.1 Flow of Funds) for 1Q2015 - which provides insight into the finances of the average household - shows a modest improvement in average household net worth.
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