Expenses, fixed costs down 1. 3 . They are not willing to buy buildings, take on higher represent, not buying computers or equipment because they dont believe the demand is coming. They are not making any bigger investment. Thats what we need to lift the economy is that investment, and the fact its declining . Wow, thats really a bad sign. Neil scott, a Better Future indicator . What so many ceos are saying im preparing for the worst just in case. Suspect that a more telling future . Yeah, look at Consumer Spending numbers. The positive note is it increased, but guess what . Its down from the First Quarter and down from last year so youre right, the businesses look at the dollars from the wallets saying, hey, they are not flying out of there. If you look the the investment numbers, convicting to gdp last year and the year prior, which, by the way, gdp, 1. 7 , below the trend this year, 3 in 2010. The economys deaccelerating. Neil adam, do you think of that . Well, things could be bette
Expenses, fixed costs down 1. 3 . They are not willing to buy buildings, take on higher represent, not buying computers or equipment because they dont believe the demand is coming. They are not making any bigger investment. Thats what we need to lift the economy is that investment, and the fact its declining . Wow, thats really a bad sign. Neil scott, a Better Future indicator . What so many ceos are saying im preparing for the worst just in case. Suspect that a more telling future . Yeah, look at Consumer Spending numbers. The positive note is it increased, but guess what . Its down from the First Quarter and down from last year so youre right, the businesses look at the dollars from the wallets saying, hey, they are not flying out of there. If you look the the investment numbers, convicting to gdp last year and the year prior, which, by the way, gdp, 1. 7 , below the trend this year, 3 in 2010. The economys deaccelerating. Neil adam, do you think of that . Well, things could be bette
Losing streak, but we have some breaking news on sac capital. This, of course, is the eye wantic hedge fund that has been embattled by both the sec and federal prosecutors. Dow jones is reporting there may be a settlement for Insider Trading charges. All kinds of charges have swirled around this country along with accusations of failing to supervise. Were going to have more in just a minute from Charlie Gasparino whos working on this story, but it appears there could more than a 1 billion settlement to settle all of these charges that have beleaguered sac capital. Lets get back to the markets, Home Builders leading the s p 500 higher for a couple of reasons. Lennar, kb home all up after lennar and kb posted better than expected quarterly earnings, and separately this is sort of the big data story here, and you just heard ashley and tracy talking about this, the chase shiller in caseshiller index did look to show that once again we have home prices that are continuing to rise. For the m
Expenses, fixed costs down 1. 3 . They are not willing to buy buildings, take on higher represent, not buying computers or equipment because they dont believe the demand i coming. They are not making any bigger investment thats what we need to lift the economy is that investment, and the fact its declining . Wow, thats really a bad sign. Neil scott, a Better Future indicator . What so many ceos are saying im preparing for the worst just in case. Suspect that a more telling future . Yeah, look at Consumer Spending numbers. The positive note is it increased, but guess what . Its down from the First Quarter and down from last year so youre right, the businesses look at the dollars from the wallets saying, hey, they are not flying out of there. If you look the the investment numbers, convicting to gdp last year and the year prior, whh, by the way, gdp, 1. 7 , below the trend this year, in 2010. The economys deaccelerating. Neil adam, do you think of that . Well, things could be better. Fac
Expenses, fixed costs down 1. 3 . They are not willing to buy buildings, take on higher represent, not buying computers or equipment because they dont believe the demand is coming. They are not making any bigger investment. Thats what we need to lift the economy is that investment, and the fact its declining . Wow, thats really a bad sign. Neil scott, a Better Future indicator . What so many ceos are saying im preparinfor the worst just in case. Suspect that a more telling future . Yeah, look at Consumer Spending numbers. The positive note is it increased, but guess what . Its down from the First Quarter and down from last year so youre right, the businesses look at the dollars from the wallets saying, hey, they are not flying out of there. If you look the the investment numbers, convicting to gdp last year and the year prior, which, by the way, gdp, 1. 7 , below the trend this year, 3 in 2010. The economys deaccelerating. Neil adam, do you think of that . Well, things could be better.