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Spanish real wages also coming back. This is good stuff! pic.twitter.com/kgYdCR3Nxp

— John Eggen (@Merimack1) 29 января 2015

Spanish retail sales up 6,7% in December from year before. Something is cooking. (graph from Carnegie) pic.twitter.com/PHu2eouPwW

— John Eggen (@Merimack1) 29 января 2015

Strong growth and lending in EZ - signals short EurUsd trade carry higher risk. pic.twitter.com/NAox0iKtFZ

— _financeguy (@_Financeguy) 29 января 2015

Homeownership rate is 63.9%, lowest since 1994. pic.twitter.com/QuVhR6oYSg

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) 29 января 2015

.@davidmwessel explains how college has become a riskier investment: http://t.co/UYxzlDqNle pic.twitter.com/ytlSzhpCHc

— Brookings (@BrookingsInst) 29 января 2015

Americans poll with an eye on their pocketbooks when it comes to energy policy. Data Dive: http://t.co/YZ9vw6g4Q1 pic.twitter.com/z83Ca1x0ce

— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) 29 января 2015

Per minute seven girls still have their genitals cut or mutilated. http://t.co/zsq2UptyQg pic.twitter.com/WfrruDGoPW

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) 30 января 2015

The typical low-income U.S. household has only 9 days of income saved in the bank or at home. http://t.co/ImR2CJgZjx pic.twitter.com/8afE0YuIPU

— Neil Shah (@NeilShahWSJ) 29 января 2015

One week after the ECB’s sizeable QE announcement: European equities had their,largest inflow ever ($5.1bn). pic.twitter.com/rsy0JbO4vl

— Adnan Chian (@adnanchian) 30 января 2015

Which parts of the multiplication table 5-8 year old students found the most difficult (via: http://t.co/Y0u4sIoZ5E) pic.twitter.com/paqCdra8tz

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) 30 января 2015

Shake Shack vs U.S. peers on market-cap/store (easily the highest), nearly $200 mln traded already. (Chipotle #2) pic.twitter.com/X9cPkBn8tB

— Vikram (@vikramreuters) 30 января 2015

Russia Implied Cost of Equity (CoE) correlates closely to Brent: now 16.8% vs. 19-20% at lows pic.twitter.com/uggZeasKIk

— Nick (@NickatFP) 30 января 2015

McDonald's revenues & currency wars

Seems collapsed McDonald's revenues just an effect of "currency wars". Currencies were devaluated, Big Mac USD prices fell, revenues too, nothing special.

How many "Apples" in your country?

At the peak of the US corporate earnings reporting season, Apple Inc. reported record revenue and profit for the 4th quarter of 2014 calendar year (or Q1 2015 fiscal year which began in the US in October 2014). Now the Apple Inc. has market capitalization of about 640 billion dollars, which is larger than the GDP of such countries as Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Venezuela, Algeria and many others (painted in shades of red on the map). US and China are as large as 27-28 AAPL's market caps. India is about 11 "Apples". Japan is 7.5 and the Germany is 5.7 only.

2014 fiscal year was finished with another all-time high in overall corporate profits, both in nominal terms and relative to GDP. Since the end of last recession, profits provide significant contribution to overall US GDP growth. But is this situation any sustainable and just how long it may last? Maybe present year will bring some answers.

Check the graphs below the page to see how US corporate profits evolved over time. You also can note that corporate profits declines for 2 or more quarters tend to precede recessions (see barchart at the bottom).

Tweets & charts

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"in 2014 iOS app developers earned more than Hollywood did from box office in the US." - Asymco pic.twitter.com/hiGdXsKP9Y

— $hane Obata (@sobata416) 28 января 2015

Growth in imports of top importers (ex HK and Singapore) from select countries over the past 10 years. pic.twitter.com/98u3EuvOjd

— Adnan Chian (@adnanchian) 28 января 2015

Rise and Fall – the long-term view on smoking. From http://t.co/dpz3SUkmga pic.twitter.com/qPTCA67Yc1

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) 28 января 2015

Percent change in employment since 2007: Texas vs Da Rest Of Us pic.twitter.com/88P4KEPfUQ

— Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) 28 января 2015

"People with more guns tend to kill more people — with guns." http://t.co/tGX2K63KNP pic.twitter.com/4x15eVONlb

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) 28 января 2015

Greek debt crisis rears its ugly head: Who has the most to lose? http://t.co/H2MZM43kue pic.twitter.com/8JXA0ejkhq

— CNN International (@cnni) 29 января 2015

US unemployment & inflation rates

US unemployment (by all measures) are still higher than pre-recession levels and inflation are way lower, so is there any good reason for Fed to hike? Rather opposite: to postpone hikes to later date

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