America's Economic Future – A Discussion By Ted Kavadas
On January 6, 2016, The Conference Board released the 4th Quarter Measure Of CEO Confidence. The overall measure of CEO Confidence was at 45, down from 48 in the third quarter. [note: a reading of more than 50 points reflects more positive than negative responses] Notable excerpts from this January 6 Press Release include: CEOs’ assessment …
Recently Deloitte released their “CFO Signals” “High-Level Summary” report for the 4th Quarter of 2015. As seen in page 2 of the report, “One hundred twelve CFOs responded during the two-week period ending November 20. Seventy-six percent of respondents are from public companies, and 82% are from companies with more than $1B in annual revenue. …
On December 9, 2015 the December Duke/CFO Global Business Outlook was released. It contains a variety of statistics regarding how CFOs view business and economic conditions. In this CFO survey, I found the following to be the most notable excerpts: Business spending will be weak in 2016 because of slowing growth in China and low oil …
The November NFIB Small Business Optimism report was released yesterday, December 8, 2015. The headline of the Small Business Economic Trends report is “Small Business Optimism Collapses In November After Three Stagnant Months.” The Index of Small Business Optimism dropped 1.3 points in November to 94.8. Here are some excerpts from that I find particularly …
In the last post (“3rd Quarter 2015 Corporate Profits“) I displayed, for reference purposes, a long-term chart depicting Corporate Profits After Tax. There are many ways to view this measure, both on an absolute as well as relative basis. One relative measure is viewing Corporate Profits as a Percentage of GDP. I feel that this …
Today’s GDP release (Q3, 2nd Estimate)(pdf) was accompanied by the BLS Corporate Profits report for the 3rd Quarter. Of course, there are many ways to adjust and depict overall Corporate Profits. For reference purposes, here is a chart from the St. Louis Federal Reserve (FRED) showing the Corporate Profits After Tax (last updated November 24, 2015, …
On October 9, 2015, The Conference Board and PwC released the 3rd Quarter Measure Of CEO Confidence. The overall measure of CEO Confidence was at 48, down from 58 in the second quarter. [note: a reading of more than 50 points reflects more positive than negative responses] Notable excerpts from this October 9 Press Release include: …
The September NFIB Small Business Optimism report was released today, October 13, 2015. The headline of the Small Business Economic Trends report is “Small Business Optimism Continues To Be Low.” The Index of Small Business Optimism increased .2 points in September to 96.1. Here are some excerpts from that I find particularly notable (but don’t …
Recently Deloitte released their “CFO Signals” “High-Level Summary” report for the 3rd Quarter of 2015. As seen in page 2 of the report, “One hundred fourteen CFOs responded during the two-week period ending August 21. Seventy-one percent of respondents are from public companies, and 84% are from companies with more than $1B in annual revenue. …
On September 10, 2015 the September Duke/CFO Global Business Outlook was released. It contains a variety of statistics regarding how CFOs view business and economic conditions. In this CFO survey, I found the following to be the most notable excerpts: Ninety-three percent of U.S. companies say they have job openings in key positions and nearly half of …