{"id":724020,"date":"2010-04-26T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-could-this-be-a-recovery-with-caterpillar-sales-like-these-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-26T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T20:14:00","slug":"how-could-this-be-a-recovery-with-caterpillar-sales-like-these-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/724020","title":{"rendered":"How Could This Be A Recovery With Caterpillar Sales Like These? (CAT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/caterpillar-the-rest-of-the-world-is-coming-back-fast-but-boy-america-is-horrible-2010-4\">we noted<\/a> that Caterpillar&#8217;s (CAT) quarterly earnings could basically be boiled down to: Asia good, America bad.<\/p>\n<p>An 8-K filed later on emphasizes this point, and looking at the chart we&#8217;re really perplexed as to how one might consider the US economy &#8212; at least when it comes to the kind of earth-moving equipment that Caterpillar says &#8212; in recovery.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; line-height: 1.25; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"display: inline; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"display: inline; font-weight: bold;\">Retail Sales of Machines <\/span>by marketing region for the 3-month rolling period compared with the same months of the prior year are:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; line-height: 1.25; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"display: inline; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; line-height: 1.25; margin-right: 0pt;\"><span style=\"display: inline; font-size: 10pt;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bd5f3b97f8b9a5a30800100-607-106\/chart.png?resize=607%2C106\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" width=\"607\" height=\"106\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; margin-left: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt; line-height: 1.25; margin-right: 0pt;\"><span style=\"display: inline; font-size: 10pt;\">Down 21% from the first three months of 2009? What&#8217;s going on here?<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-could-this-be-a-recovery-with-caterpillar-sales-like-these-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/ujWe3ucZCZ4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier we noted that Caterpillar&#8217;s (CAT) quarterly earnings could basically be boiled down to: Asia good, America bad. An 8-K filed later on emphasizes this point, and looking at the chart we&#8217;re really perplexed as to how one might consider the US economy &#8212; at least when it comes to the kind of earth-moving equipment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32lK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}