The East Coast heat wave through May 28, boosted demand for seasonal goods and helped offset cool weather in the West to drive up same-store sales by 0.4 percent. But the gain wasn’t enough to hold up the year-on-year rate which slipped slightly to plus 2.8 percent. ICSC-Goldman sees sales rising about three percent in… read more
Monthly Archives: June 2011
ADP Employment Report : Futures Trading, Trading in Futures, Futures Brokers, Futures Trading Brokerage
ADP employment was at 38,000 prior was at 179,00 ADP estimates private payroll at 38,000 for the month of May down from expectation at 210,000… read more
Redbook – Economic News, Futures trading, Futures broker, Futures Trading Brokers
Redbook is a measure of sales at chain stores, discounters, and departments stores. This weeks reading came in slightly better: up 0.2%. Prior Actual Store Sales Y/Y change 3.4 % 3.6 % … read more
Trade Alert! – New swing trading opportunity in the Japanese yen. – swing trading strategies, swing trading signals, action reaction, market timing, price action, reversal dates.
TMV Swing Trade report – The Japanese yen completed the 5-wave corrective pullback when it reached the upward sloping parallel line two days after the May 20, 2011 reversal date. After testing support, the yen rebounded with two sharply higher price bars and closed above the20-day EMA, before testing the parallel line at 122.29, for… read more
Motor Vehicle Sales Rise in April – Economic news, Futures Trading News, Futures Trading Brokerage, Futures Brokers
April showed an increase in motor vehicle sales to 10.1 million sales of light motor vehicles; which is up from the previous month’s 9.9 million reading. The import of vehicles declined however, to 3.1 million from 3.2 million. Therefore the combined reading of domestic and imported vehicle sales remained steady at 13.2 million annualized pace.… read more
Challenger Job-Cut Report : Futures Trading, Trading in Futures, Futures Brokers, Futures Trading Brokerage
Layoff announcements was at 37,135 for the month of May. Government and non-profit groups layoffs came in at 14,755… read more
MBA Purchase Applications : Futures Trading, Trading in Futures, Futures Brokers, Futures Trading Brokerage
Purchase Index was at 0.0% prior was at 1.5% Refinance Index was at -5.7% prior was at 0.9% Composite Index was at -4.0 prior was at 1.1% Purchase application was at unchanged for the week of May 27 … read more