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(XOM) Retail Sales Below Expectations in March
Retail Sales were slightly below expectations for March. Total retail sales rose 0.4%, and are up 7.1% from a year ago. The consensus of forecasters was looking for a rise of 0.5%. However, February was revised up from 1.0% growth to 1.1% growth, which more or less offsets...
13Apr2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AAPL) Company News for January 26, 2011 – Corporate Summary
• Stryker (NYSE:SYK) reported Q4 EPS of $0.93, ahead of the Zack Consensus Estimate of $0.89 per share. Revenues for the quarter rose 8.6% to $2.0 billion, well above the Zack Consensus Estimate of $1.970 billion • Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) reported Q4 EPS of $0.26, ex-items,...
26Jan2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(FNM) Case Schiller Home Price Index Shows U.S. Home Prices Rose in May
The Case Schiller Home Price Indexes were generally higher in May. On a seasonally adjusted basis (and there is significant seasonality to home prices, so looking at the unadjusted numbers the way that most of the media does is a serious mistake) both the Composite 20 (C20)...
27Jul2010 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(SHW) Good News, Bad News For U.S. Existing Home Sales
In April, existing home sales rose a greater-than-expected 7.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.77 million. That is up 22.8% from the 4.70 million rate of a year ago. The expectations were for a rate of 5.65 million, and the March numbers were revised slightly higher....
24May2010 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(WMT) National Association of Realtor’s Pending Homes Sales Index Up
The National Association of Realtor’s (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index rose 5.3 percent in March to 102.9 from 97.7 in February, and is 21.15 above March 2009 when it was 85.0. This is on top of a 8.3% increase in February. The data reflects contracts and not closings, which...
5May2010 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(FNM) U.S. Existing Home Sales Slip Slightly
Existing home sales fell by 0.6% (seasonally adjusted annual rate) to 5.02 million from a 5.05 million rate in January. This was just 7.0% above the extremely depressed rate of a year ago. However, it was slightly better than the consensus expectations of a 5.00 million rate. Existing...
27Mar2010 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued($MSFT) Institute for Supply Management’s Survey Shows Manufacturing Dips but Still Strong
The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing survey slipped to a reading of 56.5 from 58.4 in January, a drop of 1.9 points and below the 58.0 reading that was expected. However, anything over 50 indicates that the manufacturing economy is expanding, so this is...
1Mar2010 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued($WMT) U.S. Retail Sales Advance (Seasonally Adjusted)
In January, retail sales (seasonally adjusted) increased by 0.5% over the December level, and were 4.7% higher than a year ago. That was significantly better than the 0.3% increase that was expected by the consensus of economists. It was also a very nice pick up over the 0.1%...
14Feb2010 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(LZB) Institute for Supply Management Manufacturing Index Soars
The Institute for Supply Management’s survey of the Manufacturing sector of the economy rose by 3.5 points to 58.4 in January from 54.9 in December. That far exceeded consensus expectations for an increase to 55.5. It is also the highest reading on the consensus index since...
1Feb2010 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(ABB) Zacks #5 Rank Additions for Tuesday – Zacks Tale of the Tape
Here are the stocks added to the Zacks #5 Rank (“strong sell”) List today: ABB Ltd (ABB) Actuant Corp (ATU) Allegheny Energy Inc (AYE) Benchmark Electronics Inc (BHE) Blyth Inc (BTH) Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc (BBW) Cincinnati Financial Corp (CINF) Cleco Corp (CNL) CONMED...
26May2009 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued