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...next quarter, the rate at which people are losing their jobs may slow, but average wages will probably drop sharply at the same time. The effect of fewer people losing jobs while those who are working make less is no clear sign that the economic world is getting better. GDP numbers which are significantly influenced by dangerous trends in inventories like the Q4 2008 figure defy clear interpretation...
...market is also rallying ahead of two pieces of bad news. One is the unemployment number for March and the other is the GDP figure for the first quarter. If one or both of these is "better than expected" stocks may climb even higher. Over the last six months, these figures have usually been worse than analysts have forecast and there is not much in the way of anecdotal data to support anything other than the fact that figures will keep getting worse. The most important bellwether for economic activity may be the rate of contraction in manufacturing...
...Corporate earnings were worse than expected in the fourth quarter of last year. With the end of the current quarter a week away, the largest American companies will begin the process of "pre-announcing" their numbers. Most public companies want to race out bad news quickly, so that they cannot be accused of sitting on material information that could be damaging to shareholders any longer than is necessary. Earnings for the first quarter of 2009 will be dismal. Securities analysts, with a multi-decade track record of being overly optimistic, are the very people whom investors rely on for forecasts...
...Unemployment lags by a quarter or two, but the jobs picture should begin to improve by the end of the year. But, that is a classic recession and the economy as it is moving now, may not follow a pattern that looks anything like what it has done in the past. It may not even share many traits with The Great Depression. This downturn is likely to be sui generis...
...Sonoma State Seawolves in comeback fashion on Sunday afternoon at Rohnert Park, Calif. With the win, Harvard advanced to 5-7 overall on the season and 1-1 to start its six-game West Coast trip. Sonoma State jumped to an early 3-1 lead in the first quarter with Harvard failing to convert on several initial opportunities. The Crimson still trailed the Seawolves 6-3 at the half. “It took us a little while to adapt to the officiating, and we got into a little foul trouble early,” Farrar said of the first...