"Univ. of Mich. releases a Mid Month and Final reading for Consumer Sentiment. There is no way that paid subscribers get the number 2" agree 100%. the article is FALSE, havent you learned ur lesson from the Exposure of THE NEWYORKTIMES.... The last thing you want to belive is FUCKING REPORTERS>>>>>>>>>>> THE NUMBER is a joke...and means nothing to most.....UofMs number was pumpned by DAYTRADERS back in the BULL...but the sample size is toooooooooooooooo FUCKING SMALL and it means DICK. FUCKING RETAIL SALES means more than the MICHIGAN CONSUMER NUMBER.......... THE GOVERNMENT IS FULL OF FUCKING FEAR CREATING HACKS FROM BOTH PARTIES.........ITS OUT OF CONTROL AND WANT TO LEGISLATE EVERYTHING FROM MORALITY TO ECONOMY..............
Well, the article states that "media and the rest of public" gets the number at the same time. (unless I'm mistaken) Bloomy is a media outlet, not an investment bank or broker. That is consistent with the article. So, I don't see how your argument proves the article wrong. Article states they sell the "data" whatever that means, 2 weeks ahead of the public, through paid subscriptions. It doesn't explain if the "data" and the final number released are the same, or if the number is a calculated figure from that "data" So technically the number maybe out to all at the same time. I don't know. Mich site offers a paid subscription for 35k to those "data" collected. That is on their site! http://www.theacsi.org/corporate_subscriptions.htm And that validates the paid for data claim on that article. How can the article be dismissed as bogus right of the bat?. So the question still stands why pay for something that is supposed to be free???? . Now if a reader is working for GSCO or any other subscriber and knows for sure that they get the "data" the same time as the rest... please state so.
The article is misleading because it links the company specific marketing data (sold to companies 2 weeks prior to public release) to the consumer sentiment number and then implies something unethical and illegal is going on because the sentiment number "is included in the Leading Indicator Composite Index published by the US Department of Commerce." The University of Michigan does market research for private companies and that is composed of completely different questions than the ones that go into compiling the consumer sentiment number. The attempt to link the two is inaccurate at best and is most probably an attempt to intentionally mislead the people reading the article.