
WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – New purchases for U.S.in June and unfilled orders continuing to reduce -made goods increased significantly less than expected, pointing to persistent weakness in the production sector. Factory goods purchases increased 0.6%, boosted by demand for equipment and transport equipment, the Commerce Department said on Friday. Data for May was revised right down to show factory orders falling 1.3% instead of falling 0.7% as previously reported.
Economists polled by Reuters experienced forecast factory purchases would rise 0.8% in June. Shipments of produced goods increased 0.4% in June after edging up 0.1% in May. Unfilled purchases at factories fallen 0.7% after declining 0.8% in-may. Inventories increased 0.2% after the same gain in-may. The issues in manufacturing and accompanying poor business investment have captured the interest of Federal Reserve officials.
The U.S. central bank or investment company on Wednesday cut rates of interest for the first time since 2008 to insure against downside risks to the economy from trade tensions and slowing global growth. Manufacturing, which makes up about more than 12% of the U.S. Transportation equipment orders rebounded 3.7% in June after falling 7.5% in-may. Purchases for civilian parts and plane soared 75.1% after tumbling 52.0% in-may.
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The surge in plane orders may very well be short-lived as Boeing has cut production and deliveries of its bestselling MAX 737 aircraft, which was grounded in March after two fatal airplane accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Machinery orders jumped 2.1% after edging up 0.1% in May. June purchases for non-defense capital goods excluding plane The Commerce Section also said, which have emerged as a measure of business spending plans on equipment, increased 1.5% instead of the 1.9% surge reported last month. Shipments of primary capital goods, which are used to calculate business equipment spending in the gross home product report, increased 0.3% in June instead of 0.6% as previously reported.
Normally, I would not be too concerned with low interest rates. Interest rates aren’t something anyone can predict with any certainty. But since we are drowning in so much debt, and interest rates are a function of source and demand (for loans), an extended period of low interest rates as observed in Japan is very possible.
In that case, I believe it’s very important to comprehend what the results of that might be. Many smart people including Warren Buffett assumes this low interest rate environment is a relationship bubble of historic proportions, but I’ve seen the same sort of comments manufactured in Japan for years. For as long as I recall, the JGB (Japanese federal government bond) is a favorite brief by hedge money.
I’ve heard this Japan JGB bubble talk since at least 1993. And the bubble has never popped, yet. So What is Float Worth? In order we see from the above mentioned, if you are a insurance provider and you are proficient at underwriting policies, this can be very advantageous. You can use the float to generate income before you need to pay it out to plan holders. In the wonderful world of BRK, since they are so good at underwriting, we consider float to be as effective as equity.
So the expense of keeping this float has been negative over time. That’s like issuing a bond which has a negative interest rate. Also, so long as the insurance company continues as a going concern, it never must repay the float (the truth is that the monthly premiums paid out for losses and damages is changed by new written insurance costs). Also, this float tends to grow over time at BRK. So one big factor in valuing BRK through the years has been this factor of float. Some individuals include float like equity in their intrinsic value calcuations.
But we must ask, if this low interest rate environment proceeds for longer than we think, what is this float actually well worth? First of all, we must clarify a very important factor. Many BRK followers, I think, presume that this low cost or negative cost float is committed to high return assets like stocks. I used to believe so too.