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November 08, 2007
We won't be able to write a typical comment today. We urge you to "search" in our archives for comments about the Fed and how we have believed for some time that they are in a box with no good solutions. The markets have finally come to the same conclusion. The Fed has to ease as the housing recession is spilling over onto "main street" and if they continue to ease the dollar will accelerate its decline after losing one third of its value over the past 5 years. The low interest rates and falling dollar will encourage foreign governments to unload their US investments (mostly fixed income) and discourage new investments. Also, the lowering rates could cause inflationary worries and controlling inflation is the main job of the Fed. After all, if central banks all over the world could remedy economic problems, debt problems, and credit freezes by printing more money or giving every man, woman, and child $100,000, there would never be any of those problems again. The printing of excess money is the road to economic ruin by central banks that choose to do so--we hope helicopter Ben understands this reality.
Many of our past reports detail this problem and you can search for "Fed" in our archives to find them.
Die Börse hat angefangen zu denken (wenn auch kurzweilig) - die relative Stärke ergibt sich aus der fundamentalen Konjunkturverfassung einzelner Länder. Hoffentlich kann sich der DAX auch mittel- und langfristig von DJ/Nasdaq lösen.
Das Verbrauchervertrauen steht für ca 2/3 der amerikanischen Wirtschaftsleistung und es ist verdammt nochmal eingebrochen. (mal wieder) 75 anstatt der erwarteten 80 (die auch schon schlecht waren).
Bin überzeugt, dass wir hier noch lange nicht das untere Ende erreicht haben.
Ich würde sehr gerne mal einen längeren CHart dazu sehen... hat vielleicht wer was aktuelles zur Hand?
Dankeschön schonmal.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071109/consumer_confidence.html?.v=6
Consumer Confidence Plunges to Lowest Reading Since Gulf Coast Hurricanes of 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumer confidence plunged in early November to the lowest level since Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and sent oil prices soaring in 2005.
The RBC Cash Index showed consumer confidence fell to a reading of 64 this month, down sharply from an early October reading of 80.6, when consumer sentiment was on the upswing as the stock market stabilized temporarily following a turbulent August.
The 64 reading was the lowest point for the monthly survey since it hit 61.5 in September 2005, a month when energy prices soared, reflecting the shutdown of Gulf Coast refineries after Katrina struck.
The RBC Cash Index was in line with other surveys of consumer confidence, including the Conference Board's consumer sentiment survey which has also dropped to the lowest level since the fall of 2005.
Economists said conditions are being exacerbated by renewed problems in financial markets as investors have become worried by a string of huge losses reported by some of America's largest corporations, including General Motors, Merill Lynch and Citcorp. These sobering earnings reports are raising concerns about how many more billions of dollars in losses have yet to be announced.
There also are worries about the fall in the value of the dollar to record lows, which makes imports more expensive for U.S. consumers, and a big run-up in oil prices, which briefly traded above $98 a barrel this week. Since August, crude oil prices have soared by 42 percent.
The rise in oil prices, blamed in part on the weak dollar and increased Middle East tensions, has pushed gasoline prices above $3 a gallon at the pump.
"We have a perfect storm of negative factors affecting the consumer right now," said David Jones, chief economist at DMJ Advisors, a Denver consulting firm. "We have higher energy prices, declining home prices and a crisis-related tightening of credit." [Schön gesagt...]
Economists are worried that a deepening slump in housing, which has dampened sales and prices, could intensify in coming months because of continuing credit problems.
Many lenders, faced with soaring defaults on subprime mortgages, loans made to borrowers with weaker credit, have tightened their standards, making it harder for prospective buyers to qualify for a loan.
The housing crisis is coming after a five-year boom that saw sales set a string of records and home prices rise at double-digit rates in the hottest markets. With home prices now falling in many parts of the country, the worry is that consumers, feeling less wealthy as they see their biggest asset shrink in value, will start to pull back on their spending. Such a drop would be magnified by the surge in energy bills, which would leave consumers with less to spend on other items.
That is making for a bleak outlook for the upcoming holiday shopping season. The nation's big chain stores Thursday reported disappointing sales results for October, setting an un-festive tone for the all-important Christmas shopping season. Consumer spending is closely watched because it accounts for two-thirds of total economic activity.
The government reported last week that the overall economy grew at a solid 3.9 percent rate in the July-September quarter. But economists believe that pace will skid to a much weaker 1.5 percent growth rate in the current quarter and slow even farther in the first three months next year, the point many of them believe will be the time of maximum danger for a possible recession.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Thursday that Fed officials believe growth will "slow noticeably" in the current quarter and remain sluggish in the first part of next year before staging a rebound.
The economic weakness has taken a toll on President Bush's approval ratings, which fell in November to a record low of 32 percent for his handling of the economy, according to a separate AP-Ipsos poll.
The RBC Cash Index showed weakness in all categories from expectations about the future, job security, current conditions and feelings about investments. The overall index is benchmarked to a reading of 100 in January 2002, when Ipsos started the survey.
[Das ist mal richtig krass: 2002=100 war die Wirtschaft ohnehin in schlehcter Verfassung, da der NDX da gerade von 5000 auf unter 1000 einbegrochen war... nunmehr liegen wir deutlich drunter!!!]
The consumer confidence index for November was based on responses from 1,001 adults surveyed Monday through Wednesday. Results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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