I forgot to mention this since the holiday vacation: Yahoo’s Tech Ticker reviewed all of the footage and market calls from the year, and selected their “Guest of the Year.”
Pretty cool stuff . . .
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Retail Sales in Jan rose .4% headline m/o/m, .7% ex auto's, .6% ex auto's and gasoline and .7% at the core. The headline figure was less than expected while the rest were slightly better. But, with respect to non headline sales, because Dec figures were revised lower, taking the two months together were about in line with forecasts overall. Sales rose in electronics, building materials, food/beverages, clothing, sporting goods, dept stores and restaurant/bars and fell interestingly for online retailers, health/personal care, furniture and motor vehicle/parts. Bottom line, headline sales were below expectations due to the greater than expected fall m/o/m...
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January 7th, 2010 at 8:39 am
barry w/henry blodget?
those 2 shouldnt go together…
January 7th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Congrats BR! Keep it rolling, but don’t get a big head. Such temptations go with the territory.
January 7th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Mazel Tov
January 7th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Good on you mate.
January 7th, 2010 at 10:10 am
…and you only had to pay Task 10 G’s for the honor!
January 7th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Oh you’re such a modest man!
January 7th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
You’re just too good Barry.
January 7th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Beware mean reversion!