{"id":1446493,"date":"2023-12-29T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1446493"},"modified":"2023-12-29T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T20:00:00","slug":"and-the-final-economic-data-point-of-2023-is-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/and-the-final-economic-data-point-of-2023-is-a-disaster\/1446493\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;And The Final Economic Data-Point Of 2023 Is A Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8230;And The Final Economic Data-Point Of 2023 Is A Disaster<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Remember<strong> in November when Chicago PMI unexpected exploded higher,<\/strong> back above 50 to its highest since May 2022, prompting an array of self-reinforcing, goal-seeked &#8220;see, we told you so, the economy is awesome&#8221; narratives?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well all that is now out the window<\/strong> as December&#8217;s Chicago PMI plunged back to earth &#8211; from 55.8 to 46.9 (back into contraction) and well below the expected level of 50&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm3C7E.jpg?itok=5V_H45MM\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>That is the biggest MoM puke in Chicago PMI since April 2020 &#8211; the peak of the COVID lockdowns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the hood, everything was a mess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>New orders fell and the direction reversed<\/strong>; signaling contraction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Employment fell and the direction reversed<\/strong>; signaling contraction<\/p>\n<p>Inventories fell and the direction reversed; signaling contraction<\/p>\n<p>Supplier <strong>deliveries <\/strong>rose at a <strong>slower <\/strong>pace; signaling expansion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production <\/strong>rose at a <strong>slower pace<\/strong>; signaling expansion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Order backlogs fell at a faster pace<\/strong>; signaling contraction<\/p>\n<p>Only 1 component rose in December &#8211; and that is not good news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prices paid rose at a faster pace<\/strong>; signaling expansion<\/p>\n<p>2023 ended with &#8216;hard&#8217; data unchanged &#8211; no &#8216;real&#8217; economic progress. &#8216;Soft&#8217; survey data has risen (as stocks soared) in the last two months, but recently (and confirmed by Chicago PMI), &#8216;soft&#8217; data has started to crumble back to reality&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm1DCE.jpg?itok=0Q3WgPhG\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;and just like that, the<strong> final economic data-point <\/strong>of 2023 is a <strong>disaster<\/strong>&#8230; perfectly summing up Bidenomics.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 12\/29\/2023 &#8211; 10:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/economics\/chicago-pmi-pukes-18-month-high-biggest-drop-covid-lockdowns\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/economics\/chicago-pmi-pukes-18-month-high-biggest-drop-covid-lockdowns<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;And The Final Economic Data-Point Of 2023 Is A Disaster Remember in November when Chicago PMI unexpected exploded higher, back above 50 to its highest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}