| WEEKLY QUOTE“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
– Bruce Lee WEEKLY TIP While scholarships are offered to students, no one offers a scholarship for retirement. Put your own retirement planning before any college planning (or risk moving in with your kids someday). WEEKLY RIDDLE It can be told and made, and cracked and played – and yet, it is only spoken. What is it? Last week’s riddle: I can’t walk, but at times I run and I am very difficult to hide. I am always with you. What am I? Last week’s answer: Your nose.
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June 25, 2012 WALL STREET FINDS THE POSITIVE IN THE NEGATIVE Moody’s Investors Service downgraded 15 major banks late last week, yet financial stocks rallied Friday – Wall Street was bracing for deeper cuts. Investors also liked a new accord in Europe – Germany joined France, Italy and Spain in support of a €130 billion stimulus plan to help EU economies in the face of coming austerity cuts. It could be approved at this week’s EU summit. Even with last Thursday’s Dow dive of more than 250 points, the DJIA is up about 2% for June.1 EXISTING HOME SALES FALL 1.5% in MAY In the view of the National Association of Realtors, a lack of cheap inventory was behind the downturn. The sales pace in May was still 9.6% better than a year ago with the median price up 7.9% year-over-year to $182,600, a 2-year high. May housing starts fell to 708,000, down from April’s 744,000; building permits rose to 780,000 in May compared to April’s 723,000.2,3 LEADING INDICATORS BOUNCE BACK A VOLATILE WEEK TAKES DOW DOWN 1% The DJIA lost 0.99%, to be precise; Friday, it settled at 12,640.78. The S&P 500 lost 0.58% for the week, closing Friday at 1,335.02. The NASDAQ pulled off a 0.68% weekly gain to get to 2,892.42. Oil dove 5.08% last week on the NYMEX to $79.76 a barrel; gold retreated 3.76% on the COMEX to $1,566.90 an ounce. Gas prices also fell slightly: AAA’s survey fell to $3.45 a gallon last week.1,5 THIS WEEK: A Supreme Court ruling on the Obama administration’s health care reforms could come as early as today … or later this week. Monday will bring the May new home sales report. Tuesday, the April Case-Shiller Home Price Index and the Conference Board’s June consumer confidence survey appear plus earnings from H&R Block and CKE Restaurants. Earnings from Monsanto, Lennar and General Mills complement Wednesday’s releases on May durable goods orders and May pending home sales. Thursday, EU leaders meet for another summit on the debt crisis; also, the final read on Q1 GDP comes out along with new weekly jobless claims figures and earnings from Accenture, RiM, Family Dollar and Nike. Friday, May consumer spending data and June’s final University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey arrive plus earnings from KB Home and Constellation Brands.
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1 – money.msn.com/market-news/post.aspx?post=95f998bd-6fbe-4de1-9b51-8cb1f437973a [6/22/12] 2 – articles.marketwatch.com/2012-06-21/economy/32343033_1_median-prices-prices-surge-home-sales [6/21/12] 3 – briefing.com/investor/calendars/economic/2012/06/18-22 [6/22/12] 4 – http://www.conference-board.org/data/bcicountry.cfm?cid=1 [6/21/12] 5 – montoyaregistry.com/Financial-Market.aspx?financial-market=common-financial-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them&category=29 [6/22/12] 6 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=DJIA&closeDate=6%2F22%2F11&x=0&y=0 [6/22/12] 6 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=COMP&closeDate=6%2F22%2F11&x=0&y=0 [6/22/12] 6 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=SPX&closeDate=6%2F22%2F11&x=0&y=0 [6/22/12] 6 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=DJIA&closeDate=6%2F22%2F07&x=0&y=0 [6/22/12] 6 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=COMP&closeDate=6%2F22%2F07&x=0&y=0 [6/22/12] 6 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=SPX&closeDate=6%2F22%2F07&x=0&y=0 [6/22/12] 6 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=DJIA&closeDate=6%2F21%2F02&x=0&y=0 [6/22/12] 6 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=COMP&closeDate=6%2F21%2F02&x=0&y=0 [6/22/12] 6 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=SPX&closeDate=6%2F21%2F02&x=0&y=0 [6/22/12] 7 – treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=realyield [6/22/12] 7 – treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=realyieldAll [6/22/12] 8 – treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/press/preanre/2002/ofm10902.pdf [1/9/02] |
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Weekly Economic Update June 25,2012
June 29, 2012 — Phillip StatlerWeekly Economic Update June 18, 2012
June 18, 2012 — Phillip Statler|
WEEKLY QUOTE “Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it is many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.”
– Scott Berkun
WEEKLY TIP Sometimes filing separately can reduce a married couple’s federal tax burden. If one spouse has large itemized deductions or if both spouses are in markedly different tax brackets, it could be a good move.
WEEKLY RIDDLE I can’t walk, but at times I run and I am very difficult to hide. I am always with you. What am I?
Last week’s riddle: Two couples played paintball. Each person had blue, green, yellow, or red paint, and wore a uniform in one of those same colors. Barbara used blue paint. The person wearing green used yellow paint. Steven did not wear the red uniform. Vicki used green paint and wore blue. Ian used the same color paint as his t-shirt. Can you match each person to the color of paint and uniform they used?
Last week’s answer: Ian: wore red, red paint; Barbara: yellow, blue; Steven: green, yellow; Vicki: blue, green |
IF GREECE EXITS THE EURO, WHAT COMES NEXT? Best-case scenarios for Greece seemed to fade as the weekend neared. Concerns mounted that Sunday’s special elections would either bring another parliamentary deadlock or a victory for parties opposing scheduled austerity cuts. Some economists maintained that a Greek exit from the euro would not be abrupt and not produce a shock like the 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse. Anxiety was tempered by anticipation: expectations of a central bank response grew. In fact, last week the Bank of England announced plans for 6-month loans and liquidity injections to shield the U.K. financial system from any fallout. Yields on Spanish 10-year notes hit 7% last week, a sign of skepticism about that nation’s bank bailout.1,2
Consumer prices declineD in MAY The federal government’s Consumer Price Index fell 0.3% for May, thanks largely to a 4.3% drop in energy prices. Core CPI rose 0.2% for the third straight month with 12-month consumer inflation at 1.7% (a long way from the 3.9% annualized inflation measured in September). May’s Producer Price Index dropped 1.0%.3 SALES & SENTIMENT SLIP, HOME EQUITY INCREASES HOPES RISE … AND SO DO STOCKS New hope of central bank intervention (and expiring options and futures) pushed stocks higher last week, with the major indices performing as follows: S&P 500, +1.30% to 1,342.84; DJIA, +1.70% to 12,767.17; NASDAQ, +0.50% to 2,872.80. Gold was up 2.31% for the week to $1,628.10, oil down 0.08% on the week to $84.03.6,8 THIS WEEK: Besides global market reaction to Greece’s special elections (and a possible central bank response), Monday will also mark the start of a G20 summit. Tuesday, a two-day FOMC meeting begins and data on May housing starts arrives in addition to Q1 earnings from Adobe Systems, FedEx and Discover. Wednesday, the Fed will make a policy statement; earnings from Bed, Bath & Beyond also come out. Thursday, we get data on May’s existing home sales, the Conference Board’s latest LEI report, and Q1 earnings from Rite Aid, Oracle and ConAgra. Friday, Q1 results arrive from Darden Restaurants.
Sources: money.msn.com, bigcharts.com, treasury.gov, treasurydirect.gov – 6/15/126,9,10,11 Indices are unmanaged, do not incur fees or expenses, and cannot be invested into directly. These returns do not include dividends.
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Citations. 1 – http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/business/global/europe-braces-for-greek-vote-and-maybe-more.html [6/15/12] 2 – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2bb1de8c-b6cd-11e1-8c96-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1xtvQqrp4 [6/15/12] 3 – http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2012-06-13/econ-reports-0614-cpi-jobless-claims/55592570/1 [6/15/12] 5 – http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/06/15/bloomberg_articlesM5NW0W07SXKX01-M5NWG.DTL [6/6/12] 6 – money.msn.com/market-news/post.aspx?post=85df9010-4f02-4208-bbdf-5f7a52a60a67 [6/15/12] 7 – http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-14/americans-see-biggest-home-equity-jump-in-60-years-mortgages.html [6/14/12] 8 – montoyaregistry.com/Financial-Market.aspx?financial-market=common-financial-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them&category=29 [6/15/12] 9 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=DJIA&closeDate=6%2F15%2F11&x=0&y=0 [6/15/12] 9 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=COMP&closeDate=6%2F15%2F11&x=0&y=0 [6/15/12] 9 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=SPX&closeDate=6%2F15%2F11&x=0&y=0 [6/15/12] 9 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=DJIA&closeDate=6%2F15%2F07&x=0&y=0 [6/15/12] 9 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=COMP&closeDate=6%2F15%2F07&x=0&y=0 [6/15/12] 9 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=SPX&closeDate=6%2F15%2F07&x=0&y=0 [6/15/12] 9 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=DJIA&closeDate=6%2F14%2F02&x=0&y=0 [6/15/12] 9 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=COMP&closeDate=6%2F14%2F02&x=0&y=0 [6/15/12] 9 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=SPX&closeDate=6%2F14%2F02&x=0&y=0 [6/15/12] 10 – treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=realyield [6/15/12] 10 – treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=realyieldAll [6/15/12] 11 – treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/press/preanre/2002/ofm10902.pdf [1/9/02] |
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Weekly Economic Update June 11, 2012
June 11, 2012 — Phillip Statler| WEEKLY QUOTE“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
WEEKLY TIP Too many retirement savers put a majority of their assets into a single stock (usually a company stock). Remember the merits of diversification.
WEEKLY RIDDLE Two couples played paintball. Each person had blue, green, yellow, or red paint, and wore a uniform in one of those same colors. Barbara used blue paint. The person wearing green used yellow paint. Steven did not wear the red uniform. Vicki used green paint and wore blue. Ian used the same color paint as his t-shirt. Can you match each person to the color of paint and uniform they used?
Last week’s riddle: Name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday.
Last week’s answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. |
June 11, 2012
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IS A FIX COMING FOR EUROPE’S DEBT CRISIS? Last week, global markets rallied on European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s assertion that risks to the EU economy had increased, interpreting it as a signal that the ECB and other central banks might take swift action to rescue weaker eurozone nations. (Stateside, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered no signal of more easing, but San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen hinted that it might be possible.) Friday, President Obama urged EU leaders to address the sovereign debt crisis decisively, a request that gave stocks a boost Friday, even as Reuters reported that Spain was going to ask for an EU/IMF bailout. Will the EU and IMF decide to create something like TARP, or enlarge their bailout fund? The world is watching, and Greece’s special elections are coming up.1,2,3 SERVICE SECTOR GROWS SLIGHTLY FASTER Many analysts had predicted a May decline in the Institute for Supply Management’s closely watched non-manufacturing index. That didn’t happen: the primary index rose 0.2 points in May to 53.7, and the new orders index rose 2.0 points to 55.5.4 LATEST BEIGE BOOK REASSURES ANALYSTS GREAT GAINS ON WALL STREET New hope of central bank action spurred the following weekly advances: S&P 500, +3.73% to 1,325.66; DJIA, +3.59% to 12,554.20; NASDAQ, +4.04% to 2,858.42. Gold lost 1.89% last week with futures settling Friday at $1,591.40. Oil rebounded with a 1.05% gain for the week, settling Friday at $84.10 on the NYMEX.3 THIS WEEK: Monday, markets may react to the anticipated weekend request by Spain for bank recapitalization; also, Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference begins with the promise of new product introductions. Nothing major is scheduled for Tuesday. Wednesday, the Commerce Department releases the May Producer Price Index and May retail sales data; JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon testifies before the Senate. Thursday offers the May Consumer Price Index and earnings from Smithfield Foods, Kroger and Pier 1. Friday is a quadruple witching day that also marks the release of the University of Michigan’s preliminary June consumer sentiment survey along with data on May industrial production.
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1 – http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/markets-global-idINL1E8H6FCI20120606 [6/7/12] 2 – http://www.cnbc.com/id/47720735/ [6/7/12] 3 – money.msn.com/market-news/post.aspx?post=c3e3a1ff-6754-4802-a4c2-41f8bba675f0 [6/8/12] 4 – http://www.ism.ws/ISMReport/NonMfgROB.cfm [6/5/12] 5 – articles.marketwatch.com/2012-06-06/economy/32069969_1_economic-reports-beige-book-moderate-growth [6/6/12] 6 – montoyaregistry.com/Financial-Market.aspx?financial-market=common-financial-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them&category=29 [6/8/12] 7 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=DJIA&closeDate=6%2F8%2F11&x=0&y=0 [6/8/12] 7 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=COMP&closeDate=6%2F8%2F11&x=0&y=0 [6/8/12] 7 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=SPX&closeDate=6%2F8%2F11&x=0&y=0 [6/8/12] 7 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=DJIA&closeDate=6%2F8%2F07&x=0&y=0 [6/8/12] 7 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=COMP&closeDate=6%2F8%2F07&x=0&y=0 [6/8/12] 7 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=SPX&closeDate=6%2F8%2F07&x=0&y=0 [6/8/12] 7 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=DJIA&closeDate=6%2F7%2F02&x=0&y=0 [6/8/12] 7 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=COMP&closeDate=6%2F7%2F02&x=0&y=0 [6/8/12] 7 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=SPX&closeDate=6%2F7%2F02&x=0&y=0 [6/8/12] 8 – treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=realyield [6/8/12] 8 – treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=realyieldAll [6/8/12] 9 – treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/press/preanre/2002/ofm10902.pdf [1/9/02] |
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June Monthly Update
June 7, 2012 — Phillip Statler
MONTHLY QUOTE
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”
– John Ruskin
MONTHLY TIP
If you are marrying before the end of 2012, the IRS will consider you married for all of 2012 and you will have to file your 2012 federal return(s) as either married filing jointly or married filing separately.
MONTHLY RIDDLE
Which of these five words doesn’t belong in this list: that, what, cat, sat, chat.
Last month’s riddle:
A man tells a friend that he married three women yesterday, and it was all legal. In fact, it was routine. How can he make such a statement?
Last month’s answer:
He is a justice of the peace.
June 2012
THE MONTH IN BRIEF
Things fell in May: stock and commodity prices, Treasury yields, mortgage rates, gas prices and the value of the euro. Investors worried about fragmentation of the eurozone, the possibility of default in Greece and bank woes in Spain. U.S. economic indicators ranged from tepid to middling, leading some analysts to wonder if another stimulus was needed. All told, it was a rough month for the market – the poorest month for the Dow since May 2010. Would 2012 simply be a replay of 2011 on Wall Street? Hopefully, the sense of déjà vu would pass.1
DOMESTIC ECONOMIC HEALTH
While May was a month marked by descents, the jobless rate managed to tick up to 8.2%. May’s unemployment report was quite bad: just 69,000 new jobs were created, while a Reuters poll of economists forecast payrolls swelling by 150,000.2
Actually, some stateside indicators did hint at continuing economic strength. Our manufacturing and service sectors were still growing, although the pace of growth had moderated: after a 1.4% gain in April, the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing PMI fell 1.3% in May to 53.5. (However, the new orders sub-index went all the way north to 60.1.) In April, ISM’s service sector PMI had been at 53.5; May’s reading improved to 53.7. May car sales were very strong: Toyota’s U.S. sales rose 87%, Nissan’s 21%, and Chrysler’s 30%; sales of General Motors cars and trucks were up 11%. This was nice to hear after the April durable goods report, which showed a 0.2% advance with auto sales powering the gain. 3,4,5,6,7
The federal government said that consumer prices were flat in April (producer prices retreated 0.2%, the first such decline since December). As it happened, 12-month consumer inflation was but 2.3% in May (the lowest annualized inflation since February 2011). Consumer confidence was either notably up or notably down, depending on which poll you believed; the Conference Board’s May survey recorded a 3.8% drop (down to 64.9 from 68.7 for April) while the University of Michigan’s survey hit 79.3 – a 3.8% rise to the highest level since October 2007. 2,7,8,9,10
The event of the month on Wall Street was Facebook’s IPO, which ended up being fumbled by NASDAQ. Trading glitches aside, this IPO did not turn out to be the next Google: shares were initially offered at $38 on May 18 and closed just slightly higher at the end of the trading day. On June 4, the share price settled at $26.90.11
GLOBAL ECONOMIC HEALTH
The odds of a Greek default appeared to increase. A growing number of economists and money managers felt that it would return to the drachma following its June 17 elections, a direct result of being unable to form a coalition government. After the new Greek elections were announced on May 14, $894 million worth of assets left Greek banks in a day. Spain’s government announced that €100 billion had left that country in the first quarter. Major Spanish lenders appeared in jeopardy; analysts estimated it would take €60-80 billion from the IMF to backstop them. Adding to worries that Europe might return to economic balkanization, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi and EU economy commissioner Olli Rehn both warned that the eurozone was in serious trouble. Euro area unemployment hit 11.0% in April, rising 0.7% in a month. The Markit eurozone PMI fell to 45.1 in May (lowest reading in almost two years) and the U.K.’s benchmark manufacturing PMI dropped to 45.9 from 50.2 in April.2,12,13,14,15
In fact, manufacturing PMIs seemed to retreat worldwide in May. For example: China’s “official” PMI slipped unexpectedly to 50.4 from April’s 53.3 mark; China’s HSBC PMI went from 49.3 to 48.7; Australia’s went from 43.9 to 42.4; Germany’s from 46.2 to 45.2; Brazil’s remained flat at 49.3 and South Korea’s PMI was a relatively healthy 51.0. JPMorgan’s global manufacturing PMI was at 50.6 in May, down from 51.4 in April to its lowest point since December.6,15
WORLD MARKETS
The Shanghai Composite lost only 1.00% in May; other major benchmarks fared worse. In the rest of the Asia Pacific region, the Sensex lost 5.81%, the Hang Seng 12.07%, the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries 7.46% and the Nikkei 225 9.32%. In Europe, the DAX dropped 8.70%, the CAC 40 6.09% and the FTSE 100 7.51%. (All of the above May performances have been measured in U.S. dollar terms by Morningstar.) The MSCI Emerging Markets Index dropped 11.67%; the MSCI World Index lost 8.99% for May.16,17
COMMODITIES MARKETS
The dollar certainly had a great May – the U.S. Dollar Index, in fact, gained 5.43%. Natural gas futures also rose 6.00% for the month. Aside from those advances, there were marked descents for major commodities. Oil futures retreated 17.49% on the month, falling to settle at $86.53 on the NYMEX. Heating oil slipped 15.11%; RBOB gasoline dropped 12.86%. The upside: retail gas prices fell 5.14% last month. As for metals, gold lost 6.01% in May and that put it at -0.17% for the year. The COMEX price was $1,564.20 on May 31. Copper lost 12.12% in May while silver slipped 10.51%. Marquee crops suffered May losses, too: coffee futures declined 9.25%, corn 12.46%, cotton 19.63% and wheat only 1.64%.1,2
REAL ESTATE
Some good news came in from the Census Bureau and the National Association of Realtors: new and existing home sales had improved in April. New home purchases rose by 3.3% while residential resales were up 3.4% for the month to near-January levels (January 2012 saw the best sales pace in almost two years). NAR said that pending home sales had decreased 5.5% in April, but they were up 14.1% from a year ago. The March edition of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index hinted that the pace of decline in housing prices could be moderating – the index was down just 1.9% for the last 12 months.18,19,20
With Treasury yields moving further into negative territory during May, mortgage rates went still lower. Freddie Mac noted the following decreases in average home loan interest rates between its April 26 and May 31 surveys: 30-year FRMs, 3.88% to 3.75%; 15-year FRMs, 3.12% to 2.97%; 5/1-year ARMs, 2.85% to 2.84%. Average rates on 1-year ARMs actually ticked up from 2.74% to 2.75%.21
LOOKING BACK…LOOKING FORWARD
After the worst month for stocks in two years, the major U.S. indices were all still in the black YTD. At the end of the month, the S&P 500 was at 1,310.33, the NASDAQ at 2,827.34 and the Dow at 12,393.45. Look at the month-ending real yield on the 10-year Treasury.1,22
% CHG Y-T-D 1-MO CHG 1-YR CHG 10-YR AVG
DJIA +1.44 -6.21 -1.40 +2.49
NASDAQ +8.53 -7.19 -0.28 +7.50
S&P 500 +4.19 -6.27 -2.59 +2.28
REAL YIELD 5/31 RATE 1 YR AGO 5 YRS AGO 10 YRS AGO
10 YR TIPS -0.50% 0.80% 2.54% 3.48%
Sources: money.msn.com, bigcharts.com, treasury.gov – 5/31/121,23,24,25
Indices are unmanaged, do not incur fees or expenses, and cannot be invested into directly.
These returns do not include dividends.
June 1 marked the Dow’s worst day of 2012 as anxieties over the eurozone intensified. The middle of June could bring some pronounced volatility before and after Greece’s special elections. Could U.S. economic indicators be encouraging enough to divert Wall Street’s attention from Greece and Spain this month or even provide a shot of confidence? That seems a best-case scenario. While few analysts think the U.S. could slip back into a recession, there was basically a market correction as of June 1 (the S&P 500 was down 9.94% at the close of trading on that day from its April 2 peak), and even bulls are bracing for severe fallout from Europe. At the top of June, the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P were all below their simple 200-day moving averages yet oversold according to their relative strength indexes. Interpret that as you wish; staunch bulls might see grounds for a rally, should the Street somehow take its mind off Europe.5
UPCOMING ECONOMIC RELEASES: Here’s what ahead in terms of stateside news for the rest of June: a new Beige Book from the Federal Reserve (6/6), April wholesale inventories (6/8), May retail sales figures, April business inventories and May’s PPI (6/13), May’s CPI (6/14), the initial June consumer sentiment survey from the University of Michigan and the report on May industrial output (6/15), May housing starts and building permits (6/19), a Fed policy announcement (6/20), May existing home sales and the May Conference Board Leading Economic Indicators index (6/21), May’s new home sales (6/25), the Conference Board’s June reading of consumer confidence and the April Case-Shiller home price index (6/26), April durable goods orders and May pending home sales (6/27), the federal government’s final estimate of Q1 GDP (6/28), May personal spending (6/29) and the University of Michigan final June consumer sentiment survey (6/30).
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Citations.
1 – http://money.msn.com/market-news/post.aspx?post=a78bb8b0-421f-43b2-afb3-f036986bc71a [5/31/12]
2 – http://www.cnbc.com/id/47645265 [6/1/12]
3 – http://www.ism.ws/ISMReport/MfgROB.cfm [6/1/12]
4 – http://www.ism.ws/ISMReport/NonMfgROB.cfm [6/5/12]
5 – money.msn.com/market-news/post.aspx?post=109dd732-6daa-4f8a-b878-a8ee80dd9aba [6/1/12]
6 – articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-24/economy/31831869_1_orders-for-long-lasting-goods-aircraft-and-parts-orders-durable-goods-orders [5/25/12]
7 – online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304192704577405853805485804.html [5/15/12]
8 – http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm [5/11/12]
9 – http://www.conference-board.org/data/consumerconfidence.cfm [5/29/12]
10 – thomsonreuters.com/content/financial/pdf/i_and_a/438965/gains_in_confidence_depends_on_job_growth.pdf [5/25/12]
11 – http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06/D9V6I7401.htm [6/4/12]
12 – http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/business/global/euro-zone-nears-moment-of-truth-on-staying-together.html [6/3/12]
13 – http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/16/152816508/greece-sets-new-election-for-june-17-fear-of-bank-runs-reported [5/16/12]
14 – epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-01062012-AP/EN/3-01062012-AP-EN.PDF [6/4/12]
15 – seekingalpha.com/article/635791-a-bad-week-for-risk [6/4/12]
16 – news.morningstar.com/index/indexReturn.html [5/31/12]
17 – mscibarra.com/products/indices/international_equity_indices/gimi/stdindex/performance.html [5/31/12]
18 – http://www.freep.com/article/20120523/BUSINESS07/120523032/U-S-new-home-sales-April-housing-market [5/23/12]
19 – http://www.mortgageloan.com/pending-home-sales-hit-bump-9083 [5/30/12]
20 – blogs.wsj.com/developments/2012/05/29/behind-the-numbers-does-case-shiller-show-a-market-bottoming-out/ [5/29/12]
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23 – bigcharts.marketwatch.com/historical/default.asp?symb=SPX&closeDate=5%2F31%
MONTHLY QUOTE
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”
– John Ruskin
MONTHLY TIP
If you are marrying before the end of 2012, the IRS will consider you married for all of 2012 and you will have to file your 2012 federal return(s) as either married filing jointly or married filing separately.
MONTHLY RIDDLE
Which of these five words doesn’t belong in this list: that, what, cat, sat, chat.
Last month’s riddle:
A man tells a friend that he married three women yesterday, and it was all legal. In fact, it was routine. How can he make such a statement?
Last month’s answer:
He is a justice of the peace.
June 2012
THE MONTH IN BRIEF
Things fell in May: stock and commodity prices, Treasury yields, mortgage rates, gas prices and the value of the euro. Investors worried about fragmentation of the eurozone, the possibility of default in Greece and bank woes in Spain. U.S. economic indicators ranged from tepid to middling, leading some analysts to wonder if another stimulus was needed. All told, it was a rough month for the market – the poorest month for the Dow since May 2010. Would 2012 simply be a replay of 2011 on Wall Street? Hopefully, the sense of déjà vu would pass.1
DOMESTIC ECONOMIC HEALTH
While May was a month marked by descents, the jobless rate managed to tick up to 8.2%. May’s unemployment report was quite bad: just 69,000 new jobs were created, while a Reuters poll of economists forecast payrolls swelling by 150,000.2
Actually, some stateside indicators did hint at continuing economic strength. Our manufacturing and service sectors were still growing, although the pace of growth had moderated: after a 1.4% gain in April, the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing PMI fell 1.3% in May to 53.5. (However, the new orders sub-index went all the way north to 60.1.) In April, ISM’s service sector PMI had been at 53.5; May’s reading improved to 53.7. May car sales were very strong: Toyota’s U.S. sales rose 87%, Nissan’s 21%, and Chrysler’s 30%; sales of General Motors cars and trucks were up 11%. This was nice to hear after the April durable goods report, which showed a 0.2% advance with auto sales powering the gain. 3,4,5,6,7
The federal government said that consumer prices were flat in April (producer prices retreated 0.2%, the first such decline since December). As it happened, 12-month consumer inflation was but 2.3% in May (the lowest annualized inflation since February 2011). Consumer confidence was either notably up or notably down, depending on which poll you believed; the Conference Board’s May survey recorded a 3.8% drop (down to 64.9 from 68.7 for April) while the University of Michigan’s survey hit 79.3 – a 3.8% rise to the highest level since October 2007. 2,7,8,9,10
The event of the month on Wall Street was Facebook’s IPO, which ended up being fumbled by NASDAQ. Trading glitches aside, this IPO did not turn out to be the next Google: shares were initially offered at $38 on May 18 and closed just slightly higher at the end of the trading day. On June 4, the share price settled at $26.90.11
GLOBAL ECONOMIC HEALTH
The odds of a Greek default appeared to increase. A growing number of economists and money managers felt that it would return to the drachma following its June 17 elections, a direct result of being unable to form a coalition government. After the new Greek elections were announced on May 14, $894 million worth of assets left Greek banks in a day. Spain’s government announced that €100 billion had left that country in the first quarter. Major Spanish lenders appeared in jeopardy; analysts estimated it would take €60-80 billion from the IMF to backstop them. Adding to worries that Europe might return to economic balkanization, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi and EU economy commissioner Olli Rehn both warned that the eurozone was in serious trouble. Euro area unemployment hit 11.0% in April, rising 0.7% in a month. The Markit eurozone PMI fell to 45.1 in May (lowest reading in almost two years) and the U.K.’s benchmark manufacturing PMI dropped to 45.9 from 50.2 in April.2,12,13,14,15
In fact, manufacturing PMIs seemed to retreat worldwide in May. For example: China’s “official” PMI slipped unexpectedly to 50.4 from April’s 53.3 mark; China’s HSBC PMI went from 49.3 to 48.7; Australia’s went from 43.9 to 42.4; Germany’s from 46.2 to 45.2; Brazil’s remained flat at 49.3 and South Korea’s PMI was a relatively healthy 51.0. JPMorgan’s global manufacturing PMI was at 50.6 in May, down from 51.4 in April to its lowest point since December.6,15
WORLD MARKETS
The Shanghai Composite lost only 1.00% in May; other major benchmarks fared worse. In the rest of the Asia Pacific region, the Sensex lost 5.81%, the Hang Seng 12.07%, the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries 7.46% and the Nikkei 225 9.32%. In Europe, the DAX dropped 8.70%, the CAC 40 6.09% and the FTSE 100 7.51%. (All of the above May performances have been measured in U.S. dollar terms by Morningstar.) The MSCI Emerging Markets Index dropped 11.67%; the MSCI World Index lost 8.99% for May.16,17
COMMODITIES MARKETS
The dollar certainly had a great May – the U.S. Dollar Index, in fact, gained 5.43%. Natural gas futures also rose 6.00% for the month. Aside from those advances, there were marked descents for major commodities. Oil futures retreated 17.49% on the month, falling to settle at $86.53 on the NYMEX. Heating oil slipped 15.11%; RBOB gasoline dropped 12.86%. The upside: retail gas prices fell 5.14% last month. As for metals, gold lost 6.01% in May and that put it at -0.17% for the year. The COMEX price was $1,564.20 on May 31. Copper lost 12.12% in May while silver slipped 10.51%. Marquee crops suffered May losses, too: coffee futures declined 9.25%, corn 12.46%, cotton 19.63% and wheat only 1.64%.1,2
REAL ESTATE
Some good news came in from the Census Bureau and the National Association of Realtors: new and existing home sales had improved in April. New home purchases rose by 3.3% while residential resales were up 3.4% for the month to near-January levels (January 2012 saw the best sales pace in almost two years). NAR said that pending home sales had decreased 5.5% in April, but they were up 14.1% from a year ago. The March edition of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index hinted that the pace of decline in housing prices could be moderating – the index was down just 1.9% for the last 12 months.18,19,20
With Treasury yields moving further into negative territory during May, mortgage rates went still lower. Freddie Mac noted the following decreases in average home loan interest rates between its April 26 and May 31 surveys: 30-year FRMs, 3.88% to 3.75%; 15-year FRMs, 3.12% to 2.97%; 5/1-year ARMs, 2.85% to 2.84%. Average rates on 1-year ARMs actually ticked up from 2.74% to 2.75%.21
LOOKING BACK…LOOKING FORWARD
After the worst month for stocks in two years, the major U.S. indices were all still in the black YTD. At the end of the month, the S&P 500 was at 1,310.33, the NASDAQ at 2,827.34 and the Dow at 12,393.45. Look at the month-ending real yield on the 10-year Treasury.1,22
% CHG Y-T-D 1-MO CHG 1-YR CHG 10-YR AVG
DJIA +1.44 -6.21 -1.40 +2.49
NASDAQ +8.53 -7.19 -0.28 +7.50
S&P 500 +4.19 -6.27 -2.59 +2.28
REAL YIELD 5/31 RATE 1 YR AGO 5 YRS AGO 10 YRS AGO
10 YR TIPS -0.50% 0.80% 2.54% 3.48%
Sources: money.msn.com, bigcharts.com, treasury.gov – 5/31/121,23,24,25
Indices are unmanaged, do not incur fees or expenses, and cannot be invested into directly.
These returns do not include dividends.
June 1 marked the Dow’s worst day of 2012 as anxieties over the eurozone intensified. The middle of June could bring some pronounced volatility before and after Greece’s special elections. Could U.S. economic indicators be encouraging enough to divert Wall Street’s attention from Greece and Spain this month or even provide a shot of confidence? That seems a best-case scenario. While few analysts think the U.S. could slip back into a recession, there was basically a market correction as of June 1 (the S&P 500 was down 9.94% at the close of trading on that day from its April 2 peak), and even bulls are bracing for severe fallout from Europe. At the top of June, the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P were all below their simple 200-day moving averages yet oversold according to their relative strength indexes. Interpret that as you wish; staunch bulls might see grounds for a rally, should the Street somehow take its mind off Europe.5
UPCOMING ECONOMIC RELEASES: Here’s what ahead in terms of stateside news for the rest of June: a new Beige Book from the Federal Reserve (6/6), April wholesale inventories (6/8), May retail sales figures, April business inventories and May’s PPI (6/13), May’s CPI (6/14), the initial June consumer sentiment survey from the University of Michigan and the report on May industrial output (6/15), May housing starts and building permits (6/19), a Fed policy announcement (6/20), May existing home sales and the May Conference Board Leading Economic Indicators index (6/21), May’s new home sales (6/25), the Conference Board’s June reading of consumer confidence and the April Case-Shiller home price index (6/26), April durable goods orders and May pending home sales (6/27), the federal government’s final estimate of Q1 GDP (6/28), May personal spending (6/29) and the University of Michigan final June consumer sentiment survey (6/30).
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Citations.
1 – http://money.msn.com/market-news/post.aspx?post=a78bb8b0-421f-43b2-afb3-f036986bc71a [5/31/12]
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11 – http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06/D9V6I7401.htm [6/4/12]
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