{"id":3588,"date":"2019-12-30T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2019-12-30T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T14:41:08","slug":"week-ending-12-27-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"Week Ending 12\/27\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MARKET RECAP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stocks advanced again, by 0.48% in the US and 1.10% outside the US. International stocks have outpaced their US counterparts so far in December, up 4.8% versus 3.1% in the US.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Mastercard Spending Pulse, holiday shopping from November 1st to December 24th was up by a strong 3.4%. And Customer Growth Partners, a retail firm that provides research on retailers, calculates that the Saturday before Christmas was the biggest single shopping day in US retail sales, totaling $34.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>There was also good news for workers. Wages are rising a the fastest pace in more than a decade. Pay for the bottom 25% of wage earners was up by 4.5% in November according to the Federal Reserve of Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The risk is that higher wages are sometimes a leading indicator of future inflation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOREBOARD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Scoreboard-12-29-2019.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3589\" src=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Scoreboard-12-29-2019-98x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Scoreboard-12-29-2019-98x300.png 98w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Scoreboard-12-29-2019-335x1024.png 335w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Scoreboard-12-29-2019-503x1536.png 503w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Scoreboard-12-29-2019.png 557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARKET RECAP Stocks advanced again, by 0.48% in the US and 1.10% outside the US. International stocks have outpaced their US counterparts so far in December, up 4.8% versus 3.1% in the US. According to a report by Mastercard Spending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=3588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}