Market Talk – March 17, 2025
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 343.43 points or 0.93% to 37,396.52 • Shanghai increased 6.57 points or 0.19% to 3,426.13 [...]
COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; Your ECM has been amazingly accurate. Not only did real estate peak, but it is now official, Germany is in a recession.
Great job
HW
REPLY: There is an accurate business cycle that unfolds but you must step back and observe it from a global perspective. The Economic Confidence Model has a long track record. The numbers are shocking. For 8 out of 12 months in 2018, German production has declined. On average, manufacturing declined 4.1% in November and energy production decline 3.1% in November. Even new construction has declined 1.7%.