Slothower cites as bullish omens the onset of positive seasonality and the midterm election cycle.
Sales seasonality too is stronger in the Midwest and Northeast than in the South and West.
Person said seasonality studies show that equities as a whole stumble in the summer.
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More than half the layoffs are a function of workers completing a contract or seasonality.
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Seasonality is liable to be even more important this year than in most years.
Academic studies show similar seasonality in the markets of 36 of 37 developed countries.
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So this might be one of those years when seasonality does not work out.
Either way, investors would do themselves a big favor by checking out the facts about seasonality.
They may not know R, and may not understand Random Forests, but they understand why seasonality should exist.
Those numbers aren't adjusted for seasonality, but are still well above the 8.6% seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate.
In the Life Sciences segment, Corning forecasts sales to be down about 5% sequentially, driven by normal seasonality.
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Developing a specific understanding of seasonality within your own industry can help you fine-tune your own advertising efforts.
There does appear to be some seasonality for Q1, but it may be too early to establish a pattern.
So there are ways, or at least one way, to tinker with seasonality, by incorporating a technical momentum indicator.
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When seasonality takes investors away from equity markets next month, some smart money may start looking a little closer.
The lack of seasonality on this young business is something that should keep revenues growing into the foreseeable future.
Why might seasonality be even more important this year than in other years?
The market is almost always higher in April than in September (annual seasonality).
As it turns out, more than half the first-quarter layoffs were a function of workers completing a contract or seasonality.
But, after stripping out seasonality, the unemployment rate was 5.8% near the all time record low of 5.6% last year.
Accounting for seasonality, the iPhone has remained a huge hit, selling another 60 million units in the subsequent two quarters.
The chip maker said it expected year-on-year sales growth of between 40% and 60% in the first quarter, "given normal seasonality".
Q3 looks to demonstrate the earnings potential given related seasonality (PJM rev recognition), while international and domestic market developments remain encouraging.
The BCB is hoping that seasonality is what caused the inflation spike and things will calm down in the next reading.
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In fact, based on seasonality, gold may become slightly weaker before bottoming and then turning much higher later this year, he says.
Without adjustments for seasonality the index showed that home prices actually increased in 13 of 20 U.S. cities, climbing 0.7% over last year.
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In fact, the fashion for molecular gastronomy has already peaked and been replaced by New Nordic cuisine, which emphasizes its origins and seasonality.
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By the way, the earliest exit date of my version of seasonality (April 20) is approaching, and short-term MACD is on a buy signal.
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It is -- I think it is safe to say that those are numbers that, based on seasonality, have a tendency to jump around.
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