Session 6 | Reading 23 | LOS e    

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LO e: Discuss the inventory and business cycles, the impact of consumer and business spending, and monetary and fiscal policy on the business cycle.


 
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Understanding the business cycle can help the analyst identify
 
inflection points, where the risk and the opportunities for higher return may be heightened.
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To identify inflection points, the analyst should
 
understand what is driving the current economy and what may cause the end of the current...
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The inventory cycle is often measured using
 
the inventory to sales ratio.
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The measure increases when businesses
 
gain confidence in the future of the economy and add to their inventories in anticipation...
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As a result, employment increases with
 
subsequent increases in economic growth.
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This continues until
 
some precipitating factor such as a tightening in the growth of the money supply intervenes.
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At this point inventories
 
decrease, employment declines, and economic growth slows.

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