Деловая активность находится в верхних точках своего цикла. Тем не менее аналитики обращают внимание на замедление тенденций и ожидают разворот тренда к значению 57 и последующее снижение:
Доходы потребителей демонстрируют положительную динамику:
При этом, расходы стремятся к сокращению, растут более медленно:
Запасливость и тенденцию накопления подтверждает сокращение потребительского доверия. В назревающей неопределенной ситуации люди склонны откладывать расходы на будущее. По индексу доверия потребителей аналитики ожидают разворот и значения 97 и ниже:
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On Mar. 31, 2017, the Consortium Members submitted a non-binding proposal to the Company's board of directors. In the Proposal, the Consortium Members proposed to acquire all of the outstanding Ordinary Shares that are not already owned by the Consortium Members for US$ 2.15 in cash per Ordinary Share. The Consortium Members also stated in the Proposal that they are interested only in the Proposed Transaction, and that they do not intend to sell their shares in any other transaction involving the Company. The Consortium Members intended to finance the transactions contemplated under the Proposal through equity capital.
Market updates
US Econ Data
Equity indices in the Asia-Pacific region ended the week on a mixed note, even though PMI readings from China improved from last month's levels. The People's Bank of China remained on the sidelines, and has now skipped liquidity injections for a full week. Investors received the latest set of inflation data from Japan, but Tokyo CPI, which leads national CPI by a month, missed expectations yet again.
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Stocks with favorable mention: TSLA, AMZN, NFLX, LULU, COP, HON, CFR, NXPI, ORI, AMGN, TASR, AMD
Stocks with unfavorable mention: PB, CRBP
Gapping down: WYY -34.7%, AKER -18.8%, BLRX -18.3%, DRIO -16.7%, UNXL -14.4%, PTI -12.8%, APRI -10.7%, CTSO -8.3%, NOMD -3%, AEHR -2.2%, BHP -1.9%, BBL -1.9%, SBGL -1.9%, RIO -1.6%, OREX -1.3%, DB -1.2%, CS -1.2%, LYG -1.2%, OAS -1.2%, AG -1.1%, SAN -1.1%, BCS -1.1%, MS -1%, STO -0.9%
Major European indices trade in negative territory with the UK's FTSE (-0.5%) falling behind its peers. The weakness comes after British fourth quarter growth was revised down to its slowest pace since the start of 2013. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sent a letter to the UK government, requesting a second independence referendum. Keep in mind that UK officials have already stated any potential referendum will have to wait until the Brexit process is completed. On that note, European Council President Donald Tusk is expected to issue Brexit negotiation guidelines today.
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Treasuries Edge Higher Ahead of Personal Income/Spending
Equity futures are under water this morning as investors prepare for a batch of influential economic data. The S&P 500 futures trade five points below fair value.
Crude oil has ran into a bit of selling pressure in early action as traders engage in some profit-taking following the commodity's three-day rally. The energy component currently trades 0.3% lower at $50.18/bbl. Also of note, the weekly Baker Hughes rig count data will be released this afternoon at 13:00 ET.
In the Treasury market, U.S. sovereign debt trades just a tick above its unchanged mark with the benchmark 10-yr yield one basis point lower at 2.42%. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari (FOMC voter) and St. Louis Fed President James Bullard (non-FOMC voter) are scheduled to speak later this morning at 10:00 ET and 10:30 ET, respectively.
On the data front, investors will receive a slew of economic reports, including February Personal Income (Briefing.com consensus 0.4%), Personal Spending (Briefing.com consensus 0.2%), and PCE Price Index (Briefing.com consensus 0.1%) at 8:30 ET, March Chicago PMI (Briefing.com consensus 55.8) at 9:45 ET, and the final University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment reading (Briefing.com consensus 97.6) at 10:00 ET.
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For background, TRR ia a national engineering, consulting and construction management firm that provides integrated services to the environmental, energy, and infrastructure markets, primarily in the United States. There are some very large publicly traded engineering and construction firms, including AECOM (ACM), Jacobs Engineerin (JEC), Quanta Services (PWR), EMCOR Group (EME) and MasTec (MTZ).
Names in the construction and engineering space that are closer in size to TRR include the following: Willbros Group (WG), Sterling Construction Company (STRL), Hill International (HIL), NV5 Global (NVEE), Willdan Group (WLDN).
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