The Market Ticker - Income And Spending: Hmmmm...
 

From the BEA's whizz on 'ya and claim it's raining department:

Personal income increased $30.1 billion, or 0.2 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) increased $16.2 billion, or 0.1 percent in **vember according to the Bureau of Eco**mic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $63.0 billion, or 0.5 percent. In October, personal income decreased $11.7 billion, or 0.1 percent, DPI decreased $25.6 billion, or 0.2 percent, and PCE increased $44.2 billion, or 0.4 percent, based on revised estimates.

Ah, so let's see, we are spending more than we make (still.) Compounding of this makes that rather dangerous, but **body seems to care.

Never mind that disposable personal income was down in October.

The bad news was found in Proprietor's incomes (down $5 billion) with farmers taking it in the backside and being responsible for all of that (down $12 billion.) **n-farm proprietors saw an increase.

Dividends were up, as was (slightly) transfer payments.

The bad news is that we increased spending almost 4x income advance from all sources on a disposable basis. **t good, with debt paydown and "saving" (combined) dropping a full three tenths to 4.2%. This continues the trend of net-negative movement in this area (numbers under 5% are typically net-negative as the BEA counts paying debts as "saving.")

Prices were basically flat; up less than 0.1% after being down less than 0.1% last month, but most of the flattening was due to energy. Ex-energy and food the trend remained slightly positive.

The market pretty-much saw this release the same way I do; it failed to dent my need for a**ther one of these in what is a holiday-shortened week...

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