4/16/2020 Retail Sales Slaughter-Manufacturing Massacre-Oil Slipping to Low

| April 16, 2020

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Retail Sales Slaughter-Manufacturing Massacre

An 8.7% month-over-month fall in retail sales occurred in March, says the US Census Bureau, exceeding the projected 8% drop that many economists were expecting, according to FoxBusiness 4/15/2020. Can you say slaughter?

Also…

A massive contraction in the Empire State Manufacturing Survey for April showed to be -78.2 vs the expected -35. Can you say massacre?

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Oil Slipping to Low

US crude prices touch an 18-year low, reports WSJ 4/15/2020. Something is slipping

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