Why have earnings fallen over the last two years while the economy has ...

Why have earnings fallen over the last two years while the economy has grown? My monthly review of stock market valuation indicators Published: March 25, 2024 at 6:37 a.m. ET ... Read More

If the Economy Is Shaky, Why Are Company Profits Still Strong?

The lack of really bad news in earnings in part explains why the S&P 500 stock index has bounced about 12 percent from its low point in June, and why Wall Street analysts still predict that ... Read More

Earnings Reports, Layoffs Reflect Slowing Economy as 4Q GDP and ...

Earnings, Layoffs Show Economy Slowing. Economy. ... has seen home sales fall by more than a third in the past year as mortgage rates have doubled from below 3% to around 6% now. Read More

Here's why Americans are so unhappy with the economy, in 3 charts

Indeed, a report last fall from real estate data provider ATTOM finds that home prices in 99% of 575 U.S. counties are unaffordable for the average income earner, who makes about $71,000 a year ... Read More

Dow Q1 2025 Earnings Preview: Over 100% fall in earnings expected Y/Y - MSN

Over the last 2 years, DOW has beaten EPS estimates 63% of the time and has beaten revenue estimates 75% of the time. Over the last 3 months, EPS estimates have seen 0 upward revisions and 9 downward. Read More

Cracker Barrel (CBRL): Buy, Sell, or Hold Post Q1 Earnings?

Cracker Barrel’s 17.7% return over the past six months has outpaced the S&P 500 by 12.1%, and its stock price has climbed to $64.64 per share. This was partly due to its solid quarterly results, and ... Read More

Americans’ wages are finally outpacing inflation. But could it last ...

US wages have been on the rise, but it sure hasn’t felt like it. For more than two years, persistent and pervasive inflation has taken big bites out of Americans’ paychecks. In June, for the ... Read More

They Used to Be Ahead in the American Economy. Now They’ve Fallen ...

As the American economy has shifted over the past 40 years away from manufacturing and toward services and “knowledge” work, this less visible hierarchy within the economy has shifted, too. Read More

Are Workers Getting Ahead In Trump's Economy? One Economic Statistic ...

According to real median weekly earnings for full-time workers 16 and over, purchasing power fell by two dollars a week in the first quarter of 2025. Real wages are measured in 1982-1984 dollars. Read More

It's not just vibes. Americans' perception of the economy has ...

But since Americans are currently reeling from the aftershocks of not only this year's 3.2 percent year-over-year inflation but also last year's 7.8 percent inflation and 2022's 6.2 percent ... Read More

Why economists say falling inflation isn’t enough to relieve ... - PBS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation has reached its lowest point in 2 1/2 years. The unemployment rate has stayed below 4 percent for the longest stretch since the 1960s. And the U.S. economy has ... Read More

Biden's Economy Is Booming. Here's Why You're Not Feeling It

This means that inflation, despite having fallen drastically from last year's 40-year high of 9.1 percent, has remained somewhat stubborn and Americans continue to feel it in the cost of things ... Read More