A dip and a recovery due to the hurricane (as per vehicle sales data), chugging along at modest rates of growth, and still down from high a couple of years back, not adjusted for inflation: The NY Fed reports household debt growth decelerated in q1, in line with the deceleration in bank lending: Note the deceleration since January for both of these charts, inline with decelerating bank loan growth: Analyst Opinion of Business Sales and Inventories This was a worse month for business sales compared to last month – and inventories remain elevated. Our primary monitoring tool – the 3 month rolling averages for sales – declined and remains in expansion. As the monthly data has significant variation, the 3 month averages are the way to view this series. Now he’s gone too
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A dip and a recovery due to the hurricane (as per vehicle sales data), chugging along at modest rates of growth, and still down from high a couple of years back, not adjusted for inflation:
The NY Fed reports household debt growth decelerated in q1, in line with the deceleration in bank lending:
Note the deceleration since January for both of these charts, inline with decelerating bank loan growth:
Analyst Opinion of Business Sales and Inventories
This was a worse month for business sales compared to last month – and inventories remain elevated. Our primary monitoring tool – the 3 month rolling averages for sales – declined and remains in expansion. As the monthly data has significant variation, the 3 month averages are the way to view this series.
Now he’s gone too far…
;)
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