Layoffs jumped while job openings pulled back as last year drew to a close. That’s the upshot from the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), providing further evidence that…
Author: DataTrek Research

Dollar Direction & Equity Sector Exposures
The DXY Dollar Index had a bit of a rally today, up 0.5 percent, and is 1.1 percent higher than the middle of last week; these moves are getting some…

IBD: "Can Stocks Keep Soaring In 2021? Just Look At The Past Five Days"
Excerpt from Investor’s Business Daily quoting DataTrek’s Jessica Rabe: …. “There’s an old Wall Street adage that the stock market’s performance during the first five trading days or month of…

America’s Economic Recovery: Regional > National
Every Sunday in Disruption we look at traffic congestion patterns around the world, leveraging tech-enabled crowdsourced measurements from millions of smartphones and GPS systems. The idea here is the traffic congestion…

FT: "Investors look past the storming of US Capitol"
Excerpt from the Financial Times quoting DataTrek’s Nick Colas: …. “Markets, rightly in our view, see the US government as ultimately a stable enough set of institutions even if things…

Money Flows, Gas, and The Wall Of Worry
Three Data items today: #1: Mutual and exchange traded fund money flows for 2020. The Investment Company Institute data is now available through December 29th, so we have a pretty good…