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What Recession? State Coincident Indicators

Barry Ritholtz

The State Coincident Indicators are composed of four state-level variables: 1) Nonfarm payroll employment; 2) Average hours worked in manufacturing by production workers; 3) Unemployment rate; and 4) Wage and salary disbursements deflated by the consumer price index. The post What Recession?

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WeTrade Platform's Nasdaq Transfer From OTC Could Raise $121 Million

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“Our goal is to provide technical and auto-billing management services for 100 million micro-business online stores in China through big data analytics, machine learning mechanisms, social network recommendations and multi-channel data analysis,” the company said in its filing.

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PayPal Invests In Extend As Merchants Seek New Ways To Boost Online Conversion

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In addition, Levin said Extend is also going vertical by managing manufacturer's warranty programs and even catalog-specific parts failures, which can enable companies to do supplier clawbacks. Traditionally, OEMs were blind to what happens after the manufacturer warranty period, [which was] typically one year,” he noted.

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REST API integration for flexible and regulated bulk data loading from any external system

Spreadym

A business performance management system exists for further analysis of how a company grows and develops compared with strategy and current operational plans and financial budgets. From Excel to EPM System Excel allows users to collect data with various resources for on-request data analysis.

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Three Tips to Increase Profit Margins During Times of Uncertainty

Centage

Look for ways to solve customers problems without creating new issues for your manufacturing or supply chain. Ideal for today’s volatile economy, Planning Maestro is a financial budgeting, planning and analysis software created by and for modern finance leaders. Additionally, companies can increase margins by optimizing costs.

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What Data Makes NBER Recession Calls?

Barry Ritholtz

You can see why the NBER does not rely on GDP (pink line) alone; GDP was slightly negative, while Manufacturing and Trade Sales were more negative. It is difficult to look at these 6 (or 7) data points honestly and draw the conclusion that the nation’s economic activity in the first half shrunk.

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Fed Concerned Trade War Could Trigger Recession

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Since the September Federal Reserve meeting, surveys and other economic data have hinted that weakness in manufacturing might be spreading into other parts of the U.S. and China trade war, combined with recent data analysis, suggests a rate cut at the end of October and again in December. .

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