As you may know we have found several interesting items to follow this year….
First was the TSA throughput, measuring the upward trend in traffic passing through TSA security … here, here and here
Then we stumbled upon the Kastle back to work index, showing commercial office vacancy rates of the ten largest cities – interesting Kastle is a security monitoring company among other things, but hence the ability to share the data.
Used Auto Prices
Recently through the grapevine we heard stories of used auto purchase increases, which make sense as folks exit the larger metro areas and possibly avoid crowded public transportation …
So here is a longer dated chart …
Let’s look a little closer …magnifying the most recent activity
So this is the Price Index for Used Cars and Trucks from the St. Louis Fed (FRED) database….
Surprising at first, but upon second thought…. not surprising at all !
We will keep track, and hope you find it maybe just a little bit as interesting as we do!
Have a Great “Used Car and Truck Flying off the shelf” Day!
John A. Kvale CFA, CFP
Founder of J.K. Financial, Inc.
A Dallas Texas based fee only
Financial Planning Total Wealth
Management firm.
Consumer Spending aka High Frequency Data ?? – Winners and Losers … Fantastic Chart
The Fancy Wall Street Name for this information is High Frequency data…. just so you know, we are not really sure where that comes from or what it means in this context… we even checked Wilkipedia and it went into different directions — yaya digressing… too much Java at this writing…
Our Term – Consumer Spending – Winners and Losers
We have been tracking the TSA through put (Air Travel) with great enthusiasm our selves, here and here … Remember this fancy chart we made?
Our Friends at JPMorgan have one upped us and included some really interesting stats, including the afore mentioned TSA throughput..
For those with eyes like ours, first the tiny legend blown up –
And here is the actual chart showing the growth (with the tiny legend) – told ya it was hard to read!
The most resilient number MBA Purchase applications, were discovered and reviewed by us here and here, but this is a neat chart/update – and continues with our original thoughts that Housing will likely be insulated, greatly different from the 07-09 crisis.
Things are coming back, slowly but surely and some much faster than others!
There you have it, some really neat Consumer Winner and loser numbers!
Have a Great “High Frequency Data??” Day!
John A. Kvale CFA, CFP
Founder of J.K. Financial, Inc.
A Dallas Texas based fee only
Financial Planning Total Wealth
Management firm.
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