North American Rail Freight Car Loads - Ending December 17th

[Parsad]

Looking real good!  Cheers!

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-22/north-american-rail-freight-carloads-for-dec-17-table-.html?cmpid=yhoo

[shalab]

The shops are still full - may be people are doing their x'mas shopping. Looks like a strong pull to end the quarter; expect this to keep going into next year.

 

 

[Parsad]

Record numbers for online retailers as well.  As the excess housing inventory decreases, at some point, you could see signifcant growth...probably at least a couple of years away.  I suspect with housing prices probably dropping another 5% or so in the next 8-12 months, that will probably be the bottom.  Cheers!

[ERICOPOLY]

Another measure of economic activity (counting the diesel fuel purchased by truckers) suggests a disappointing 0%-1% GDP growth rate in Q4.

 

http://ceridianindex.com/news/release/November-PCI-Increases/

 

[Uccmal]

Another measure of economic activity (counting the diesel fuel purchased by truckers) suggests a disappointing 0%-1% GDP growth rate in Q4.

 

http://ceridianindex.com/news/release/November-PCI-Increases/

 

 

Well Eric, quite obvious what's going on.  Everyone is using rail....lol.

[Parsad]

Yes, I do the same thing with Christmas lights, but I think it may say two different things:  Either more confidence, or more people are staying home for the holidays instead of travelling.  Definitely more lights this year than the last three.  Cheers!

[shalab]

You could be right that more people are staying home - in which case, it is a fillip to the local economy.

 

I just came across this article which pegs U.S growth at roughly 3% in Q4 and downplays the Euro zone crisis as not impacting U.S growth in 2012.

 

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/US-economy-gaining-momentum-as-global-growth-slows/articleshow/11223219.cms