The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods advanced 1.7 percent in August , seasonally adjusted. This increase followed a 0.9-percent decline in July and a 1.8-percent advance in June. Prices for finished goods less foods and energy rose 0.2 percent...
Topics: bar chart, graph, PPI, producer price index

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Savvy investors understand that the market usually bottoms and turns up long before unemployment peaks. In other words, the market discounts the bad news in advance. So it is easy to understand how the market can rally in spite of the negative...
Topics: chart, graph, trend, unemployment

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Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline in August (-216,000), and the unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent , the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Although job losses continued in many of the major industry sectors in August, the..
Topics: employment, facts, report, situation, statistics, unemployment

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The Institute for Supply Management factory index (ISM)index rose to 52.9% in August, the first time the index has been above 50% since the early days of the recession in January 2008. "The year-and-a-half decline in manufacturing output has...
Topics: business, economy, factory, index, ism, manufacturing

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I am wondering if many people understand that we spend twice as much on healthcare as most industrialized countries. At the same time, our world ranking in healthcare delivery is poor. It might be interesting to note that the profits of healthcare...
Topics: Country, healthcare, insurance, rankings, Relative, spending

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