It’s ugly out there and it could get worse!! If the string of disappointing results continue as they are, we could be looking at the first quarterly drop in earnings since Q309.

Dismal U.S. corporate outlooks and worries about slower worldwide growth have pushed Q3 earnings estimates into negative territory, which, if they hold true, would mean that earnings for S&P 500 companies would fall 0.1% Y/Y, a sharp revision from earlier forecasts of 3.1% growth and the first decline in three years.

via CNBC:

It’s ugly out there and it could get worse.

Dismal U.S. corporate outlooksand worries about slower worldwide growth have pushed [...]

Manufacturing in U.S. Expands at Close to 7 Year High

by Havakasha

I guess that stimulus has helped to get us back on track. Obviously still a LONG bumpy road to go. Huge problems (energy etc.) that are not being tackled due to ideological stupidity.

Manufacturing in U.S. Expands at Close to Seven-Year High
By Shobhana Chandra – Apr 1, 2011 10:49 AM ET

A Boeing 777 jet for Qatar Airways sits on the assembly line at the company’s manufacturing facility in [...]