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Jackson Hole To Be Empty: July Retail Sales Spike As Producer Prices Have Highest Increase In 6 Months
Dash any hopes about a "surprise" Jackson Hole announcement by the Fed. The reason: July retail sales posted the biggest beat to expectations, rising at 0.8% on expectations of a 0.3% increase, which was above the highest Wall Street estimate of 0.6%, and which despite the downward revision of June headline retail sales from -0.5% to -0.7%, means that the Fed will now be looking at the possibility of inflation rising as a result of increased consumer spending. Ex autos and gas, the increase in spending was +0.9%, on expectations of a 0.5% rise (prior revised from -0.2% to -0.4%). Was this spike in spending credit driven or not? This will be seen once the next personal savings and consumer credit report is out, but that won't happen until after Jackson Hole. So those who trade based on hope and prayer may be well-advised to shelve those two strategies for the next 3 weeks, especially since PPI rise 0.3%, on expectations of a 0.2% pick up following June's 0.1% increase: the biggest increase in 6 months.
All that said, the volatility in this series is getting quite ridiculous as can be seen on the chart below. Expect major revisions next month.
Some of the key categories responsible for this rise:
- Sporting goods: +1.6%,-1.2% last
- Non-store retailers: 1.5%, 0.2% last
- Furniture: +1.1%, 0.4% last
- Health and Personal care: +1.1%, -1.5% last
- Building Materials: 1.0%, -2.3% last
- Electronics: +0.9%, -1.1% last
- Clothing: 0.8%, 0.4% last
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Algos Gone Wild!
ES just spiked to 1409.5
Gold/silver attack now occuring.
Massive in gold and silver. Also massive in lulz!:
http://www.quantsig.net/img/com_gold.png
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Or USD being unattacked.
what planet are those people from that appear on Kingworldnews????????????
Unfortunately, the powers that be will never let retail stocks reach their true value. If they allowed this to happen, there would be a revolution in consumer spending, and the central banks' manipulative tightening scheme would fall apart.
as goes europe.....today will be an up 1% day for the US....there is no such thing as bad news once again as the global CB's have played this perfectly by announcing NOTHING......uncertainty is equities bff
Sure it works because americans have lost their minds and their souls....operation 'Turn the Country into Greedy Money Fuktard Sellouts' has worked.
same story for decades....just different mechanisms
Well I'd be comfortable saying the avg person of the 1920's would be a far better person that the avg govt suckling pig person that permeates the year 2012.
Hard to argue
By better I guess you mean more independent, less state-servile? Look at the conditions they lived in compared to those experienced post-war (WWII). The words "spoiled" and "sheltered" come to mind. Being a superpower will do that *cough*BrettonWood*cough*petrodollar*cough*.
Producer Prices Have Highest Increase In 6 Months
That's nothing......wait until the next 6 months.
Surprise, nothing before the election.
Surprise not to me....remember I was the guy here saying since 18 months ago 'No QE3' and getting flamed and ridiculed as a fool.
This should baffle them.
Should baffle 'them' who?
The fed silly.
OH right....as if what...the Fed had 'no idea'? And I'm the 'silly' one?
Seriously WTF has happened to ZH?
It was tongue in cheek you douche. Chill.
Fuck you little name calling cocksucker!
LOL!
The BIGGEST problem we have is shown in this article....we have a 'Fed Overlord' looking to 'tame inflation' due to a little .02 'rise' in spending? This is ludicrous, no forces are allowed to just work, they will micro manage us all into ruin and starvation!
this is complete bs...you cant trust any numbers no more...none of the numbers match..as they cant do qe, they will make up numbers along the way..
Wait, June dropped by .7%, and July rose by .8%. So, that's basically flat. No change over the 2 month period. Big whoopdeedoo
No, the really scary number is the jump of 1.5% from June to July.
YAY lets pump stocks then!
"The Great Equity Fraud of 2012" Chapter 20 in your kiddos econ text books. Now turn to page 300 Children.. "Back in 2012 there was a president. The worse one in the countries history.,,Had he done his job he woundt have had to call up the printer in chief to make a market that has existed for over 100 years into a complete joke...."
So I see inflation from these numbers....but gold and silver getting hit.....and here I thought PM´s were a hedge against inflation......this is how screwed our markets are...or maybe it shows how bad our business schools are doing teaching Economics
The Fed doesn't care, remember - food, fuel inflation is "transitory"..Ben loves that word!!
yes yes inflation here we come...that means treasuries should start selling off hard now was people demand higher rates....haha yeah right....this is just a blip on the screen.
What are people actually buying? Another shirt? Dress? Ping pong paddle? I do notice people grabbing stuff that's 60-80% reduced but not buying the 20-30% sales (sort of like houses).
"Baffling" is right....that said, I couldn't be prouder of the American consumer --- who never stops spending !
All kinds of things! Canned goods, ammo, 5 gallon buckets...
On credit + spending those gubment checks!
I Had to buy an air conditioner in July that's probably why the bump..
There will be NO QE in the USA until 2013. When Germany leaves the irreversible EURO.
<---producer price index
<---parasite price index
The Fed will keep the numbers afloat until they absolutely have to.
2013 is when the SHTF
LOL everybody's got it 'all figured out' again.
i say in Nov when fraud- bummer gets elected out.
Very high chance in my opinion that they do the exact opposite of what all these geniuses have figured out is the sure thing, not a 'glide thru' and 'QE for Christmas' at all but a sudden catastrophy and market panic to ensure 'Much hated whitey repub' is the next puppet for the real bad shit to hit...its perfect, media can immediately skewer 'hated whitey repub' for all the sudden collapse and pandemonium, and gives bankers the perfect escape...'Hey, it wasnt our fault its whitey repub that ruined it all'.
People have so many holes in their clothes and so many broken appliances from living in austerity that they finally gave up and went to K-Mart for the first time in a year. Sorry kids, no Christmas this year. Daddy needed new underwear and a coffee maker so he could drive around to temp agencies and fill out job applications.
Speaking of jobs, what is with the Welfare-to-Work program that dipshit Romney is pushing from the Clinton era? If people are working, why don't you just give them a fucking JOB and stop calling it welfare. It's retarded. If there is work for people on welfare, then why do they have to be on fucking welfare? Do you see what I'm saying. Is this filtering through your thick skull to your dead lump of grey? If there is WORK, then why isn't it just called a JOB? ARE THERE JOBS OR NOT YOU FUCKING PIGS?
More crony bullshit. Kill 'em all.
Retail wise, at least things are going swell in Rome, Italy:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/summer-gloom-crisis-hit-rome-shops-111232155.html
Bullish?
OT, but I saw this and just had to ask the obvious question.
what the hell does the National Weather Service need with 46,000 rounds of ammo?
the order for the .40 cal hollow point ammo can be viewed at fedbizops.gov.
will the DHS soon be classifying inclement weather as a terrorist organization? last I knew you can't shoot at a tornado, or a hurricane, or drought, so...
anyone?
Looters.
and/or mynocks.
I wonder whether the Sporting Goods increase were mostly bullets and guns from the hunting aile?
Probably inspired by the Olympics.
LOL yea 400-500 pounders buying diving tights inspired by Olympic performances!
Stocks rally but dollar rallying too inidicates some unpricing of QE3.......possibly. Or maybe this is just a temporary correlation shift.
ive long since understood data earnings dont mean a thing anymore. I dont even try to disect it. Waste of time. Ben Bernake you dispicable excuse for a human. The wreckage you cause. . i wonder how you sleep at night?
Jackson Hole = sell the news.
Zero sugar + zero volume = Dow 12200 range.
SURE, has anybody thought about inflation making the numbers bigger because food and necessities are up every month? Why does people not look at numbers after even lie inflation numbers are used to adjust. I guess, just wake me up whenthe revolution party starts. Just saying......