High-Frequency Post-Virus Recovery - 2022-07-20

Date: 
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Summary: 

New claims missed, and they've been stealthily creeping higher now for three weeks in a row. But the claims-implied unemployment rate remains an ultra-low 1.06%. In other high-frequency data, forward earnings growth is the only trouble-spot (unfortunately it's the most important).