As a general rule, national job creation is improving when jobless claims fall below the 400,000 threshold. And with that, I’m rolling out a new homemade chart, showing weekly, initial unemployment claims going back to the beginning of 2007. (Remember, unlike the monthly jobs chart, a lo...
Making matters slightly worse, the private-sector totals for April and May were alsorevised in the wrong direction. And with that, here’s adifferenthomemade chart, showing monthly job losses/gains in the private sector since the start of the Great Recession. The image makes a distinction —...
Over the years, I’ve served thousands of clients by helping them find their optimum place to live. But, it’s important to know that you don’t have to move in order to be happy. Just like your natal chart, AstroCartoGraphy also helps you understand the planetary forces that you are d...
Chart: Convergence of long-term government yields between China and Japan Source: Refinitiv The debate raging over the size of stimulus is hardly new, but the risk of deflation, flagged by Yi Gang, former governor of the People's Bank of China at the Bund Forum on September 6, has put ...
This potent week around the New Moon is especially favorable for you, making it the perfect time to unfurl your sails and chart a course for the rest of the year. So, set your intentions, align your actions, and prepare for an incredible journey ahead. But that’s not all. Mark ...
You can use the S&P 500 allocations to each sector, listed in the Sector Performance chart above, as a guideline. Investors who want to make tactical shifts in their portfolios can use Schwab Sector Views' Outperform, Underperform and Marketperform ratings as a resource. These ratings can be...
For instance, if you visualize sales data distribution across product categories in a pie chart, you can set an alert to notify you if the share of any category drops below a certain threshold. This helps you quickly identify and address potential issues with that product line. You can ...
Our Chart of the Month (COTM) focuses on this second risk and looks at both the revised "savings rate," which, through the miracle of government data revisions, has now shifted from negative to positive for the last three years, and consumer confidence. With the revised data, consumer ...
Perhaps the old, grinding status quo will return, and we will go back to the days of coordinated campaign planning, of weekly protests in the firing zone; or perhaps this new level of horror will become the norm; or maybe, somehow, we will chart a path out of this current catastrophe....
Chart: Sales of innovative drugs newly added to NRDL (RMB, million) Source: CMH, Deloitte Research A tradeoff between price and market share is an essential part of the national negotiation on drug prices The latest update also covers 45 patented drugs with excellent clinical value but high ask...