Showing posts with label gasoline sales decline. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

LONG BOND HIT RECORD LOW! DECEMBER RETAIL SALES DOWN.

The yield on the government's 30-year bond fell to a record low of 2.395 percent, surpassing the previous record low of 2.443 percent set in July 2012, according to Tradeweb data. Recently, it traded at 2.432 percent.*

A weak morning got even weaker after 8:30 a.m. ET when December retail sales came in down 0.9 percent, well below consensus estimates of a 0.2-percent drop. It was the largest monthly decline since January 2014.
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But hold on. Much of the drop—not surprisingly—was due to a decline in gas station sales, which were down 6.5 percent from November, the largest month-over-month decline since December 2008, and 14.2 percent from a year earlier.**

* http://www.cnbc.com/id/102332516
** http://www.cnbc.com/id/102336449