U.S. Economic Metrics

Retail sales shows solid resilience of the consumer and their spending habits. However, please note that some retailers have come out recently and started to warn that they are seeing the consumer ... [Read More]

This is the chart of U.S. Pending Home Sales. Note the slight uptick over the last few months as rates declined. However, since then rates have moved higher again. This likely will signal a drop ba... [Read More]

This chart shows the JOLTS (Job Openings) data. When analyzing this data, it is important to note that historically job openings are still elevated. This explains why the job market has been sol... [Read More]

The Non Farm Payrolls Report is released on the first Friday of every month. It shows the job gains or losses from the prior month. The chart reveals that while payrolls have been falling over t... [Read More]

The Unemployment Report shows how many people are fully unemployed. To be unemployed you must be actively looking for work or you are not counted. This metric does not take into account people w... [Read More]

The U-6 Unemployment data shows people that are under-employed. This means people might have a part-time job but would like full-time work, or they are looking for full, but only being offered p... [Read More]

The CPI data is the most important inflation gauge for investors. This stands for Consumer Price Index. It is the inflation that the consumer sees. It is made up of a basket of goods and tracks ... [Read More]

The United States GDP is currently 27.94 trillion. Just prior to the covid, it was 22 trillion and before the financial crisis of 2008-09 it was 14.90 trillion. Based on these metrics, the US ec... [Read More]

The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates aggressively over the last couple years to combat high inflation. The current effective fed funds rate sits at 5.33%. While the fed funds rat... [Read More]

The Case-Shiller Home Price Index is trading at all-time highs. This is a major thorn in the side of the Federal Reserve who said one of the things they wanted to achieve was more affordable hom... [Read More]