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The S&P 500 is back near all-time highs.A recent rally in tech, including a nearly 30% pop in Nvidia (), has helped bring the index up more than 7% since its Aug. 5 bottom.. In that time, the ...
Stocks had their best week of 2024 as fresh economic data helped ease recession fears. For the week, the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC ) popped nearly 4% and the Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC ) soared more than 5.2% ...
Also a week ago the Commerce Department reported that retail sales rose 1.0% in July, the largest increase since January 2023, supported by robust gains in online shopping. Sales in June fell a ...
An economic indicator is a statistic that conveys certain information about economic activity. Economic indicators allow investors to analyses the economic performance of a state, country or region, as well as make forecasts about future performance. For example, each quarter the United States releases data on gross domestic product (GDP). This ...
All three major indexes jumped last week as a bunch of economic data, including a consumer price index reading and a retail sales report, pointed to a soft-landing scenario for the economy.
Blue Chip Economic Indicators is a monthly survey and associated publication by Wolters Kluwer collecting macroeconomic forecasts related to the economy of the United States. [1] The survey polls America's top business economists, collecting their forecasts of U.S. economic growth, inflation, interest rates, and a host of other critical ...
Though as Yahoo Finance's Jared Blikre highlighted last week, the rally to start 2023 might put history on the side of investors. When the S&P 500 is up more than 10% entering August, as was the ...
Nowcasting in economics is the prediction of the very recent past, the present, and the very near future state of an economic indicator. The term is a portmanteau of "now" and "forecasting" and originates in meteorology. Typical measures used to assess the state of an economy, such as gross domestic product (GDP) or inflation, are only ...