Friday, January 04, 2019

The Bad Stuff That the Stock Market Worried About Is Starting to Happen | Bloomberg

Looks like the final months of the Trump administration aren't off to a great start...
"For the first time during Donald Trump’s presidency, both economic statistics and sentiment indicators are missing analysts’ expectations. So-called hard data includes government and private-sector data on consumer spending, jobs, manufacturing and housing, while the soft stats looks to Fed factory surveys and consumer confidence polls.

Anything that suggests cracks in the earnings and macro foundation would go down poorly on Wall Street. That’s what was happening Thursday, as Apple’s outlook clouded profit forecasts at everything from semiconductor suppliers to electronics retailers, and the Institute for Supply Management index miss spurred speculation the economy isn’t doing as well as hoped."
The Bad Stuff That the Stock Market Worried About Is Starting to Happen | Bloomberg

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