Retail sales numbers show consumer spending faltered in March
Retail sales fell 0.4% in March–worse than the flat reading than economists had expected–as–probably–January tax increases in the fiscal cliff package kicked in
Why markets aren’t worried about inflation even as central banks flood the world with money
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Back in January, the forecast was for first quarter 2013 earnings at Standard & Poor’s 500 stocks to climb 4.3% from the first quarter of 2012. The current Wall Street projections call for year over year first quarter earnings growth of just 1.5%.
What else is new for a commodity: Copper is caught between low prices and rising costs
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Already reeling, gold takes two more body blows today
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Yesterday Fitch cut China’s long-term local currency credit rating from AA- to A+. Because of the uncontrolled growth of China’s shadow banking sector, Fitch said, total credit may have reached 198% of GDP by the end of 2012, up from 125% in 2008. Despite the downgrade, the iShares FTSE China 25 ETF (FXI) is up 0.99% as of 12:30 p.m. New York time today.
Is the German economy about to falter?
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Inflation in China rose at only a 2.1% annual rate in March, well below the 2.5% rate expected by economists and even further below the 3.2% annual rate reported for February. Turns out that Lunar New Year holiday spending, which always temporarily raises food costs, was at work again this year. With the passing of February’s holiday period food costs and the inflation rate have dropped back to well below the government’s 3.5% inflation target for 2013.
Forget those growth worries–it’s still a central bank world
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