Today, the U.S. Census Department released its monthly New Residential Home Sales Report for June showing the third consecutive increase in sales of newly constructed single family dwellings bringing the seasonally adjusted annual sales pace to 384,000...

Today’s employment situation report showed that things have taken a turn for the worse for full-time workers with the full-time unemployment level jumping to 13,901,000 workers or 11.1% of the civilian workforce, very near the highest rate seen in 41...

Today’s Employment Situation report showed that in September “total unemployment” jumped to 17.5% of the civilian population or 41.4 million people. The traditional unemployment rate is calculated from the monthly household survey results using...

Today’s Employment Situation Report continued to reflect weakness in the job market with the unemployment rate jumping to 10.2% while the Establishment survey showed a decline of 190,000 non-farm jobs since August. It’s important to note that...

The following charts provide a simple comparison between the big stock bounce that occurred in the wake of the DOW crash of 1929 and the bounce we are seeing today in the S&P 500 index. The method of alignment was simple… take the first definitive...

The Commercial Paper (CP) market is essentially a private debt market used by corporations as a cheaper means of funding typical recurring operations than drawing on a line of bank credit. Commercial paper, as financial instrument, is by no means a...