Silke
14.05.2001, 14:48
erfreulich können wir dies zur Kenntnis nehmen!
Allerdings sollten man auch auf einen Absatz insbesondere Achten. Das Verhältnis der Lagerbestände zu den Verkäufen nimmt nicht ab!
Produktionen scheinen ziemlich auf Sparflamme zugunsten des Lagerbestands-Abbau zu laufen!
Dies ist zwar gut aber wir werden noch mehr "Sommerpausen" und noch mehr Arbeitslose zu sehen bekommen!
Oder interpretiere ich diese Passage falsch???
danke
silke
ECONOMIC REPORT
Business inventories fall in March
By Rachel Koning, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 8:33 AM ET May 14, 2001
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Business stockpiles fell more than expected in March, supporting Federal Reserve hopes that once an inventory overhang is reduced, the domestic economy can return to a more robust rate of growth.
Inventories at U.S. factories, retailers and merchant wholesalers fell 0.3 percent in March, the Commerce Department reported Monday. The decline follows a 0.4-percent fall in February.
It was the first time for back-to-back monthly inventory declines since January-February 1992, a Commerce official confirmed.
Economists surveyed by CBS.MarketWatch.com expected inventories to fall 0.2 percent in March. Stockpiles were reduced 0.4 percent in February.
Inventories compared to the same month a year ago, however, are up 3.8 percent.
Sales, meanwhile, were off 0.3 percent in March and 0.4 percent in February, the government's report showed.
The inventory-to-sales ratio, a measure of just how fast businesses are moving stock out the door, hovered at 1.37 in March, unchanged from a month earlier.
The ratio for the two months stands at its highest mark since 1.38 in January 1999.
All told, economists still widely expect the interest-rate-setting Fed members to reduce their lending target at a meeting to be held Tuesday in order to pump more life into the economic expansion.
After recent mixed signs on the economy's potential for recovery - a weak jobs report but rebounds in retail sales and consumer confidence - analysts are divided in their prediction for the Fed's rate cut.
A slight majority still looks for a half-point reduction, but some Fed watchers are willing to bet the central bank opts for a tamer quarter-point cut as they wait for more data to be issued.
Financial markets will be closely listening to the Fed's statement for clues on when the rate-cutting cycle is nearing an end
Allerdings sollten man auch auf einen Absatz insbesondere Achten. Das Verhältnis der Lagerbestände zu den Verkäufen nimmt nicht ab!
Produktionen scheinen ziemlich auf Sparflamme zugunsten des Lagerbestands-Abbau zu laufen!
Dies ist zwar gut aber wir werden noch mehr "Sommerpausen" und noch mehr Arbeitslose zu sehen bekommen!
Oder interpretiere ich diese Passage falsch???
danke
silke
ECONOMIC REPORT
Business inventories fall in March
By Rachel Koning, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 8:33 AM ET May 14, 2001
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Business stockpiles fell more than expected in March, supporting Federal Reserve hopes that once an inventory overhang is reduced, the domestic economy can return to a more robust rate of growth.
Inventories at U.S. factories, retailers and merchant wholesalers fell 0.3 percent in March, the Commerce Department reported Monday. The decline follows a 0.4-percent fall in February.
It was the first time for back-to-back monthly inventory declines since January-February 1992, a Commerce official confirmed.
Economists surveyed by CBS.MarketWatch.com expected inventories to fall 0.2 percent in March. Stockpiles were reduced 0.4 percent in February.
Inventories compared to the same month a year ago, however, are up 3.8 percent.
Sales, meanwhile, were off 0.3 percent in March and 0.4 percent in February, the government's report showed.
The inventory-to-sales ratio, a measure of just how fast businesses are moving stock out the door, hovered at 1.37 in March, unchanged from a month earlier.
The ratio for the two months stands at its highest mark since 1.38 in January 1999.
All told, economists still widely expect the interest-rate-setting Fed members to reduce their lending target at a meeting to be held Tuesday in order to pump more life into the economic expansion.
After recent mixed signs on the economy's potential for recovery - a weak jobs report but rebounds in retail sales and consumer confidence - analysts are divided in their prediction for the Fed's rate cut.
A slight majority still looks for a half-point reduction, but some Fed watchers are willing to bet the central bank opts for a tamer quarter-point cut as they wait for more data to be issued.
Financial markets will be closely listening to the Fed's statement for clues on when the rate-cutting cycle is nearing an end