Editor's Note: Below are a couple charts and brief excerpt from today's Early Look written by Hedgeye Macro Analyst Christian Drake. Click here to learn more.
As it relates to the profit cycle, the two charts below offer a good juxtaposition of underlying developments while visually emergent risk. Specifically, a late-cycle acceleration in wages alongside a progressive slowing in (global and local) growth and a fading fiscal impulse into peak earnings cycle comps, higher interest rates and residual strong dollar translation effects is not margin and profitability positive. |