Word: sentimentals
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...percent. But whatever it is, remember that 0.5 percent of that comes form the shrinking trade deficit - which is because of declining U.S. consumer demand for imports rather than anything encouraging like freer trade. Also Friday, the University of Michigan reports its second-half-of-June consumer sentiment numbers to its paying customers at 9:45 a.m. Somebody usually leaks it to the rest...
...labor market, the Labor Department serves weekly unemployment claims, the Employment Cost Index and Help-Wanted Index on Thursday. But first figure out which way to read unemployment indicators - low, it's an inflation worry; high, it's a consumer-sentiment risk...
...percent in June after May's upwardly revised 0.4 percent hike. That was a soft number, but look at what kept the overall number in positive territory - auto sales. Those about to tighten their belts do not buy new cars. And the University of Michigan's respected consumer sentiment index rose to 93.7 percent in July, according to a Reuters report, compared with a reading of 92.6 percent in June...
...course, possible that the earnings reports of the next few weeks could contain such a sentiment. But don't believe it until you hear...
...original idea was intended to combat the lingering public sentiment that Bush isn't experienced or serious enough for the job. But the effect has often been to make the President appear removed from the people--more concerned with touting his tax cut to Congressmen than projecting the regular-guy image voters responded to during the campaign. Hughes is brewing a remedy. Beginning this week, when Bush attends an inner-city block party in Philadelphia on July 4--and continuing through meetings next week with families designed to show his concern for their health-care problems--Hughes will...