Today's release of the Chicago Business Barometer for September jumped 11.2 points to 62.4. This is further evidence of an economy that is rebounding strongly…
Higher Unemployment Level As Some States Are Slower To Reopen
Improvement is being made in the job market as the continuing claims data and unemployment rate continue to decline. In addition to the continuing claims…
Individual Investor Sentiment Not Matching Actions
The American Association of Individual Investor's Sentiment Survey release for the week ending 9/23/2020 showed bullish investor sentiment fell 7.1 percentage…
Here We Go Again: Value To Finally Outperform Growth?
So far for most of the month of September, the large cap value stock space has outperformed large cap growth. Since the end of the financial crisis of 2008…
The first two days of September saw the S&P 500 Index get off to a nice positive start, up 2.29% on a price only basis. Since then though the market has…
Small Business Optimism, And Importantly Hiring Plans, Remains Favorable
The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index for August was reported at 100.2, which is a 1.4 increase over July's reading. The NFIB report notes seven of the 10…
