According to Briefing.com, the next scheduled release day was originally set for March 17th, 12:00 am for Jan numbers, 8:30 am for Feb, but it is now listed as TBA (To Be Announced?)
originalskunk, thanks for the link.
gamalruach, higher PPI numbers would indicate inflation pressures and may lead to interest rate hikes. Higher rates, may support dollars strength all else being equal.
I would like to see what the numbers would have been with the existing formulas...
U.S. Labor Dep't cites big strides on delayed PPI
Fri Mar 12, 2004 03:44 PM ET
"The wholesale price data had originally been scheduled for release on Feb. 19, over three weeks ago, but was postponed indefinitely when BLS ran into trouble converting the data to a new industrial...
I hear you. It's really worst than 30 trillion if you consider the following,
The $44 trillion hole?
Recent study says Social Security, Medicare shortfalls could be far bigger than previously thought.
May 29, 2003: 3:46 PM EDT...
Debt: $7,008,318,270,477
Your family's share $111,613
Current Fiscal Year Yr: $607,453,502,767
Clock parameters updated Wed Dec 31 2003
http://www.toptips.com/debtclock.html
Up to last minute
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Subtract the GDP components that rely on debt refinancing, home building, and corporate earnings based on lower rates- subsequent dollar devaluation.
Adjust trade deficits for the dollar devaluation.
The numbers are not looking all that great.
Consider no new job growth, add existing job...
Only the ones who have been that rich and lost it all, subsequently forced to live like beggars, and ONLY they CAN understand the value of being rich.
Money isn't everything? IT IS THE ONLY THING in our times and lives that matters. Secondary only to good health, and even that you can buy...
Shelley Nunez
Nurse Practitioner
"If we go into another recession, does that mean a bunch of stockbrokers will kill themselves like in the '80s? Because that was great."
Linda Irving
Research Assistant
"So people finally figured out that all that money in Internet stocks is largely...