Friday, December 19, 2008
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Chance of making a H&S,
who wants to hold in to the weekend?
is this the end of the Christmas Rally?
Low volume, watch out for fast moves.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Monday, December 8, 2008
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S&P 500 and the economy Obama's pledge
Traders increased bets the Fed will lower its target rate on overnight loans between banks to 0.25 percent from 1 percent on Dec. 16 after companies cut workers at the fastest pace in 34 years in November. Futures contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade show 76 percent odds of a three-quarter-percentage point cut, up from 26 percent a week ago.
The U.S. is starting to look like Japan in the 1990s, when the Bank of Japan struggled to revive growth as the combination of deflation and recessions stranded the nation in the so-called Lost Decade. Yields on Treasuries are falling as the government sells a record amount of debt to prop up the American economy.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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Monday, November 24, 2008
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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New claims are the sign the market needs for new lows.
We still have the Philly Fed and Leading Economic Indicators ahead. So the 10-yr is up almost 2 points, but mortgages are only up (better) between .250 and .5 in price. We are continuing to see the "flight to quality" exclude mortgages, and other debt instruments, as volatility and credit risk limit interest in anything but Treasuries.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
S&P 500 and the Economy Car makers come begging
General Motors Corp. tumbled 15 percent and Ford Motor Co. lost 25 percent as auto executives pleaded to Congress for federal aid. JPMorgan Chase & Co., Cisco Systems Inc. and General Electric Co. helped lead declines after government reports showed consumer prices decreased by the most on record and housing starts sank to an all-time low. Citigroup Inc. slid 9.6 percent on the fifth-biggest U.S. bank's plan to buy $17.4 billion of assets from structured investment vehicles it advises.
The S&P 500 slipped 2.9 percent to 833.98 at 12:45 p.m. in New York. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 163.76 points, or 1.9 percent, to 8,260.99. The Nasdaq Composite Index decreased 3.3 percent to 1,434.49. Almost 11 stocks fell for each that rose on the New York Stock Exchange.
U.S. builders in October broke ground on the fewest new homes and obtained permits for future construction at the lowest levels on record, signs the housing slump may extend into a fourth year. Construction starts on housing fell 4.5 percent in October, less than economists forecast, to an annual rate of 791,000 that was the lowest since records began in 1959, the Commerce Department said. Building permits, a sign of future residential projects, dropped 12 percent to a 708,000 pace, the lowest since at least 1960.
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we have broke through the floor established at 816.75
Looking for 1st target at 780 then 742, if we hit that in Thursday's session we could be looking at catastrophe levels on friday depending on how Asian then European markets close.
Still no sign of capitulation, just exhaustion.
who is left holding?
The big three flew to Washington in private jets, with 24 million plus salaries on the line I guess I too would use the corporate jet to get there.
This excess is the ruin.....
Jeffersonian economics hits homes. Hello Citibank.
Thomas Jefferson 1802
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Economy, sears and the week, before market close
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, speaking at a panel discussion hosted by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, said policymakers ``stand ready'' to take additional actions to help the economy.
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Trading levels of support and resistance for yesterdays rally and retracement.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
S&P 500 watch for the rally.....look at these levels, bottom is in..for now
Looking here for a run.
move down rejected trend line about to be tested.
We shall see.
Looking for new highs to come on.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Monday, November 10, 2008
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
S&P 500 and the economy, Europe rates down, too late.
The Bank of England cut its key interest rate by 1.5 percentage points today, more than anticipated, to 3 percent, the lowest level since 1955. The European Central Bank, Swiss National Bank and central banks in Denmark and the Czech Republic also lowered rates.
Futures on the Chicago Board of Trade show a 100 percent probability policy makers will lower the target rate for overnight bank loans by at least a half-percentage point at their meeting Dec. 16. Traders saw 22 percent odds the Fed could drop the rate to 0.25 percent, compared with no chance yesterday. The central bank reduced the rate by 1 percentage point last month in two cuts.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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S&P and the economy, Hello is somebody sleeping?
The Bush administration's most recent budget forecast, issued in July, projected a $482 billion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year, which started Oct. 1. Since then, the government has taken over mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, intervened to save insurance company American International Group Inc., and embarked on the bank rescue program. As a result, borrowing needs are expected to rise to a record $550 billion in the three months to Dec. 31, the Treasury said Nov. 3. That follows a $530 billion record in the July to September quarter. California embraced municipal debt as they approved about $39.7 billion of new borrowing, representing about 83 percent of measures for which results were available. Californians approved at least $27 billion, including money for schools and loans to veterans.
Voters in 41 states from Rhode Island to Alaska considered $66.4 billion of bond proposals yesterday, the second-biggest slate after November 2006's $78.6 billion, according to Ipreo, a New York-based financial data provider. The measures sought the largest amount of new borrowing during a presidential election.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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Monday, November 3, 2008
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S&P 500 day trading and Economy - labor-unemployment-
It is estimated that a Labor Department report on Nov. 7 will show payrolls shrank by 200,000 workers last month. The unemployment rate may jump to its highest level in more than five years.
And in case you are wondering why mortgage yields are higher again, here is a little background provided by our President(can you believe it) that will help you answer any questions you may have. Here are the main drivers:
1) International selling. A variety of factors - including some recent confusion over the semantics of whether the GSEs are "explicitly" or "effectively" guaranteed by the government - have created a new wave of MBS selling around the world. The general "flight-to-quality" has become so intense that investors are now carefully differentiating between degrees of government support and the fact that the GSE backing is considered "effective" but not "explicit" is actually very meaningful to investors in agency corporate debt as well as agency MBS.
2) Unintended consequences of the FDIC guaranteeing more forms of senior bank debt. As more and more investment alternatives become explicitly guaranteed by the government, the new abundance of risk-free investment choices has caused FNMA/FHLMC corporate debt costs to increase. As the GSEs' cost to finance MBS increases, holding MBS in their portfolios becomes less economical and the market expects them to be less involved in purchasing MBS.
3) Similar to #2 above, as sovereign debt issuers around the world issue debt at increasing yields, these investment alternatives also siphon-off potential demand for FNMA/FHLMC corporate debt and force the agency's funding costs higher making additional portfolio growth uneconomical to the GSEs.
4) De-leveraging continues across the investment community and is made worse at the moment since some dealers have year-ends in Nov and are not anxious to dramatically increase positions at this time.
5) Some investors are reallocating money back to stocks and out of MBS. This back-and-forth will obviously continue as the economic story plays-out.
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Friday, October 31, 2008
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Job losses, increases in food and fuel costs and falling property values brought an end to the longest expansion in spending on record and made the economy the most important issue in next week's presidential election. The collapse in lending and sentiment this month indicate Americans will keep retrenching.
Treasuries rose, with two-year notes headed for the best month since February, as slowed consumer spending added to speculation the U.S. economy will continue to deteriorate and boosted demand for the safest assets. U.S. debt gained after a government report showed personal spending fell 0.3 percent in September, more than forecast, and the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation cooled.
Futures on the Chicago Board of Trade show an 84 percent probability the Fed will reduce its target rate to 0.5 percent at its Dec. 16 meeting. The odds a week ago were zero. The rest of the bets are for a quarter-percentage point reduction.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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S&P500 day trading coach SP500 emini futures GDP falls
The Advanced GDP for the third quarter fell by a less than expected -0.3% vs. the consensus forecast of -0.5% as consumers slashed their spending by 3.1%, the quickest spending reduction in 28 years and first drop in spending in 17 years. Business spending declined by 1%. The inflation measuring Chain Deflator jumped to 4.2% from the second quarter's level of 1.1%, largely stoked by record high fuel costs when oil reached a peak of $147/barrel in the third quarter.
The contraction in economic activity in the third quarter is a sign we are headed into a recession although the second quarter GDP showed a gain of 2.8%. By definition, it takes two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth for the economy to officially be deemed in recession.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
S&P 500 Market capitulation Vs Exhaustion Oct 28 Double bottom.
Yes, there is alot of joy over the fed cuts, and possibly they are going to be priced into today’s rally off the bottom. I have posted a chart showing the volume, which is decreasing for the push down.
On the daily I was looking for a reversal bar yesterday, and a retracement to 942 over these next few days, 50% retrace on last swing h/L.
There is price divergence on the daily also looking at the last low and previous swing low, in fact the volume would make you think the previous move down was the end because of exhaustion vs capitulation. I prefer the capitulation side better. Cleaner recovery. This way it could be a long time till the market recovers.
8 million will be a sell off extraordinaire, a capitulation, that is what I am looking for as a capitulation in the classic sense Vs. the pitter patter decreasing volume on the daily giving us exhaustion. ON 10/10 when the pundits on cnbc said it was a capitulation I laughed because of the lack of a true sell off in terms of Volume, not price…..when they are in line then capitulation occurs. It is much lower in this market and with the intervention levels we are seeing I don’t know if we willl see it happen.
Consumer confidence at low, Fed to cut wed.
Monday, October 27, 2008
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Fed funds rate moving, fed buying stocks and Dollar has taken off.
It will take more time for the market to digest the impact of the government action we've seen this month, including the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The TARP was originally designed to buy troubled mortgage securities from financial institutions, but instead the first $250 billion is being invested (sunk) in bank preferred stock. Mr. Paulson determined that buying bank stock would be an easier and much faster way to get capital to them than trying to convince the banks to sell him their bad paper at pennies on the dollar. Now he's hoping the banks will use this capital to make loans to "Main Street". Time will tell if it was the right move. Looking pretty dismal so far as all the moves up are sold off by institutional investors. The Market Makers are showing their position.
Also, heads up on the dollar as we are about to hit some resistance on its raise to the top of the currency bucket. Also realize that the Yen is at a major resistance point on many currency fronts. Asia markets have lost half of their values this year. We are watching days where some markets are loosing 5% or more. This money is all flooding into dollars.
This international meeting will be a little rally hoax and expecting bigger declines.
Oil and gold will keep declining with this pressure.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
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855 is the point of control
837.25 is area for break down watch for volume pressure on approach.
819.75 is major support then 801-3. If we get to this level the sell off could reach capitulation levels. Looking for 8 million.
Greenspan - I was wrong but I was right Fed and Debt
First, he poses the question, "what went wrong with global economic policies that had worked so effectively for decades?" Then he answers, "The breakdown has been apparent in the securitization of home mortgages."
Perhaps, this means that for the last 10 years the nation has been living in the 40% twilight zone, as I don’t recall any economists vocalizing eminent danger from the shaky mortgage products that Fannie and Freddie were dumping on the bond markets. We heard plenty about the "irrational exuberance" over rising home prices but a strange silence about the way they were being financed. How can a condition in the making of this magnitude slip under the radar of the nation’s brightest economic minds?
Now Greenspan points back, "In 2005, I raised concerns that the protracted period of underpricing of risk, if history was any guide, should have dire consequences…" If he means the underpricing of credit, he forgets that it was he who kept interest rates low, adding fuel to the financing frenzy…thus the housing boom.
The futures market is pricing in a rate cut of 50-75BP at their next FOMC meeting. That will lower the Fed discount rate to at the most 1.0%, leaving little room to move.
Now we have a problem, the credit crisis was allowed to fester and grow in a low interest rate environment and when the Fed wants to stimulate more lending and borrowing, they only have a 1.50% margin to work with. How can you lower rates below 0.0?
Mr. Greenspan is not the only public figure who is expressing surprise at extent of the credit collapse, and in the next breath has taken credit for forewarning its coming.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
S&P 500 Fearful - greedy the market and the investors
This kind of makes me laugh because the Market Makers are setting this scenario for fast implementers in the market place.
Yes, most people are fearful, yes, there is opportunity.
Have you been convinced by the Pundits it is a bottom? Ready to just jump in so you won't miss it this time?
Well stay tuned, because you and everyone else are ready to jump in when their looks to be some sunshine. Now if this is the situation, when investors, who are the late implementers in the market place are sitting on the side lines with money in hand, who do you think will sell into this next demand surge?
The Market Makers and the Money Makers (TM) because they know that the pundits have set this as a bottom and there is more to go (to the downside).
Yes, if you are an intraday trader there is alot of money to be made but what if you are a hold and hope investor(HH)? Normally, you will wait til it seems safe, then you will stick your toe in, see it go up a little and as you think it is alright, the selling will start. You will probably be on a little vacation and not have your stops in because you haven't been taught this risk type management. The stock will surge and while you are on your trip you will think that this time you got it right. A 10-20% gain in a few weeks. You now decide to forget the news, enjoy your trip because you have earned it. Maybe it is time to reward your self, get a massage, go to the expensive restaurant.
Here is the Investors first mistake. They haven't bagged the profits. They think because they have seen the value go up that it is theirs. So, it is ok to charge a little more to the room or get another round of golf in, and maybe buy that gold anklet for your wife.
HH investor gets home, safe in the knowledge that he made that extra 20% in the market to turn on the TV. He notices that the Dow is now 400 points lower than when he bought the stock. A little worried he turns on his PC and goes on his online account to see that his stock is now 20% down from his purchase price. What to do?
One of the codes we have as Money Maker is that we enter the market with a stop and a target. We know when to get in and when to get out.
If you can apply these simple guidelines to your trading, investing and speculations you will always be able to mange your risk, bag your profits and have actually earned you vacation purchases.........
Just keep it in mind.....the profit is yours only after you have taken it.
Friday, October 24, 2008
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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S&P 500 emini futures day trading coach. This is the trade we took this afternoon for 14+ points.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
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Friday, October 17, 2008
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
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S&P 500 emini futures trading , this is a circuit breaker chart
You can see how many times the market took on the low and bounced.
Plunge team was in the market.
S&P 500 hit the thresh hold and as you can see the aggressive sellers were all filled.
There is a bout a 2 tick bounce on this action.
Very risky play.
Watch your self on the breaker levels if they come. If they shut the market for 2 hours, you could gap down.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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Monday, October 6, 2008
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
S&P 500 and the Economy. Financials wounded. short sale ban
The dollar rose against the euro, approaching a one-year high, after the Senate approval, bolstering expectations the U.S. will act faster than Europe to address the seizure in credit markets. The dollar advanced to $1.3883 per euro at 12:46 p.m. in London, from $1.4009 late yesterday in New York. Asian stocks and U.S. futures fell on concern the package won't be enough to avert a recession, with futures on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index falling 1.1 percent and the MSCI Asia Pacific Index lost 1.3 percent.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
US to lose financial super power status, say Germany
Germany blamed the United States on Thursday for spawning the global financial crisis with a blind drive for higher profits and said it would now have to accept greater market regulation and a loss of its financial superpower status.
In some of the toughest language since the crisis threw Wall Street banks into financial disarray earlier this month, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck told parliament the turmoil would leave “deep marks” on both sides of the Atlantic, but called it primarily an American problem.
“The world will never be as it was before the crisis,” Steinbrueck, a deputy leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), told the Bundestag lower house.
“The United States will lose its superpower status in the world financial system. The world financial system will become more multi-polar,” he said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose conservatives rule in coalition with the SPD, and Steinbrueck both pushed the Group of Eight (G8) to agree measures to boost financial market transparency during Germany’s presidency of the G8 last year.
But their drive collapsed amid opposition from Washington and London.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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This past week we have seen some records broken.
100 point ranges
6 million contracts traded
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Goldman and Morgan Stanley
The last two remaining Wall Street investment banks gave up their relatively non-regulated status and are now commercial banks as the Federal Reserve approved Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to become bank holding companies yesterday. The reason? Morgan and Goldman can now permanently borrow from the government, since banks can borrow from the Federal Reserve at the discount window. Less risk, less profit, but the ability to buy retail banks and add stability. It is an interesting trade-off.
Nomura Securities is close to buying Lehman's Asian operations as Lehman continues to be divvied up.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
emini dow trading no more AIG on the DJIA
They mentioned it is because of "Financial Distress"
You think?
Put this together with the fire sales going on and where do you think the market is heading?
We have had alot of intervention. Do you think the intervention will change over time. Maybe letting individual companies fold rather than being taken over by the government.
We shall see.
Central banks, the fed and more money into the pool
The Fed increased the amount of dollars that the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Canada, the Bank of Japan and other counterparts can offer from $67 billion ``to address the continued elevated pressures in U.S. dollar short-term funding markets.'' Investors stockpiled money on concern more financial institutions would fail after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the problems with AIG. The cost to hedge against losses on U.S. government debt climbed to a record yesterday.
Watch yourelf out there.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
US Economics AIG MArkets set for a rally
What a month, first 50% of homes in the US become the fed's property and next we have a 90 billion dollar bail out of AIG..
Stocks opened lower, but have moved into positive territory one day after The Dow lost 500 points. Time to get back to where we started, remember elections are around the corner.
Oil prices are still falling like, down $4 to $91 per barrel. Looking for $82 then we shall see where it is going. If elections are over it is time to focus more on international problems to take the eye off the wounded US economy. Of course we won't see a 25% decrease in gas prices. Just a dime here and there.....
Hope you have an edge, a money maker edge, we will be having a class in SanFrancisco in October with the Emini Futures coach.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
S&P 500 and the Economy. Lehmans wounded.
Treasuries briefly rose after Lehman reported a loss. Government debt failed to rally further because investors expect lending programs created by the Federal Reserve this year will keep financial institutions like Lehman from failing.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
S&P 500 Emini futures support and resistance Sept. 10
break down from 22.50
high of 49
low 1216, unless lots of aggressive sellers.
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Fannie and Freddie moving market
There are many unknowns, but one thing is clear... for now, the international and domestic stock markets have greeted the "mother of all bailouts" as positive. Stocks are moving significantly higher and treasuries are getting crushed in the stampede to equities. In fact, trading volume was so high in London this morning that the computer system at the London Stock Exchange melted down. London traders have been without access to their computerized pricing system for more than six hours.
Secretary Paulson and James Lockhart, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), have indicated that the portfolios of the "former GSEs" must shrink to reduce future risk to taxpayers. That's a nice idea, but who will buy mortgages in this environment if Fannie and Freddie decelerate their purchase activity? And, what kind of mortgages will Fannie and Freddie be buying in the future? Will they take on more or less risk? Will they continue to be saddled with the obviously impossible dual responsibilities of creating shareholder value while meeting the affordable housing goals of our government? Congress needs to define the roles of these two companies for the long term.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
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Friday, September 5, 2008
Non farm payroll and the economy
Nonfarm payroll (NFP) employment continued its downtrend in July with U.S. employers shaving 51,000 jobs, marking the first time since May 2002 that the economy lost jobs for seven consecutive months. The Labor Department also reported last month that the U.S. unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent—its highest level in more than four years—erasing all job gains made over the last year. Revisions to May and June's payrolls showed a total of 26,000 fewer jobs were lost than previously expected, bringing the number of jobs lost so far in 2008 to 463,000.
On the inflation front, the Commerce Department reported last week that the GDP price index was revised to an annualized 1.2 percent—up from the initial estimate of 1.1 percent—virtually eliminating any claims of recession for spring. The sharp easing in overall price index was technical in nature, caused by a spike in nominal imports cutting into nominal GDP growth. In contrast, the inflation for final sales of domestic purchases was revised up to a strong 4.3 percent, compared to the initial estimate of 4.2 percent.