GDP Lame, Corporate Profits Decline & Bad Chicken

  • Post author:
  • Post category:Economy

From the Commerce Department, GDP @ 2.2% and Corporate Profits declined in Q4, breaking a long trend up.  That is a major concern.  Here is a blurb from DoC (click to expand) and here is the full report.

corp.profits

Hello economic deceleration, AKA NFTRH’s number 1 big picture theme, which with the patience of an elephant we have kept intact due to our macro tools, including and especially this one showing gold (counter cyclical) vs. commodities (cyclical).

au.crb

Implications for the stock market if corporate profits continue downward?  Cue the chart of charts…

sp500

Adjusting for time frame it’s a little better but regardless, a decline in the corporate profits trend is “not gonna be good for anybody” (ref. Seinfeld Fried Chicken episode).  “Mess you up!”

bad.chicken

sp500.2

Subscribe to NFTRH Premium for your 25-35 page weekly report, interim updates (including Key ETF charts) and NFTRH+ chart and trade ideas or the free eLetter for an introduction to our work. Or simply keep up to date with plenty of public content at NFTRH.com and Biiwii.com. Also, you can follow @BiiwiiNFTRH.

Gary

NFTRH.com