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Retail sales in Russia plunged in July and sales of new cars in particular were down even more.
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Investors and economists have been looking for the consumer to drive the economy, particularly as about 70% of gross domestic product comes from the consumer spending component.
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The reading for wholesale trade in June came out with some mixed fanfare on Tuesday. It will play into GDP revisions for the second quarter.
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Nonfarm productivity managed to post a small gain in the second quarter of 2015. While that gain was smaller than expected, there may be some relief here that productivity went back up.
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The U.S. trade balance, what the rest of us have grown used to calling the trade deficit, widened out to -$43.8 billion in June.
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The report on factory orders in the month of June came in with a gain that was ahead of the consensus estimates from Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
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thinkstock.comPuerto Rico defaulted on its $58 million debt repayment this week for the first time in its history. With its failure to repay creditors, the commonwealth joins the ranks of countries...
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The final figures for China's manufacturing in July, supplied by Caixin, showed a number posted at a 15-month low.
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ThinkstockInvestors, economists, and business owners just got to see their first view of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2015. The US economy grew by 2.3% in the second...
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ThinkstockGross Domestic Product (GDP) will be released on Thursday morning. Bloomberg has the consensus economist estimate as a gain of 2.9% for the second quarter, with a range from economists of...
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The Conference Board has released its Leading Economic Index for the month of June.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago releases an national activity index each month, and it is indicating that economic growth managed to increase slightly in the month of June.
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Among the many observations from the July NABE Business Survey is that GDP growth in the second quarter may have been as low as 2.1%.
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The Empire State Manufacturing Survey, the manufacturing report from the Federal Reserve of New York, came out with a six-point gain for the month of July.
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The notion that the U.S. economy can entirely break from the effects of the recession has disappeared, at least according to the White House.
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