We wrote about the Cass Freight Index last year and today we have an update on this data point. By way of re-introduction, this index comes from Cass Information Systems, a…
Month: January 2020
US Stocks: Too Far, Too Fast? Yes…
Has the S&P 500 run too far, too fast over the last few months? It certainly feels that way, with the index up 11% over the last 65 trading days (roughly…
Pickup Sales As Economic Indicator
Ever since we covered the auto industry in the 1990s, monthly sales data for large pickups has been one of our go-to measures of American small business health. Whether the end…
Yahoo Finance: "Why the cannabis industry has stalled for more than a year"
Excerpt from Yahoo Finance quoting DataTrek co-founder Jessica Rabe: …. “Jessica Rabe, co-founder at DataTrek Research, wrote Monday that 2020 still presents the cannabis space with a huge opportunity for clarity regarding…
US Labor Markets: A Deep Dive
We’re 1 day late with our usual look at the US Jobs Report because we took its spot in “Data” yesterday with a preview of US corporate earnings season; today…
DataTrek's Nick Colas on CNBC's ETF Edge
DataTrek co-founder Nick Colas discussed his 2020 outlook on a slew of ETFs related to bitcoin, the legal marijuana industry, growth versus value funds and emerging markets on CNBC’s ETF…