Economic and financial theories argue that stock prices are affected by macroeconomic trends. Macroeconomic trends include such as changes in GDP, unemployment rates, national income, price indices, output, consumption, unemployment, inflation, saving, investment, energy, international trade, immigration, productivity, aging populations, innovations, international finance.copied content from Business Cycle; see that page's history for attribution increasing corporate profit, increasing profit margins, higher concentration of business, lower company income, less vigorous activity, less progress, lower investment rates, lower productivity growth, less employee share of corporate revenues, decreasing Worker to Beneficiary ratio (year 1960 5:1, year 2009 3:1, year 2030 2.2:1),copied content from Social Security (United States)#Public economics; see that page's history for attribution increasing female to male ratio college graduates.
Economic and financial theories argue that stock prices are affected by macroeconomic trends Macroeconomic trends include such as changes in GDP unemployment rates national income price indices output consumption unemployment inflation saving investment energy international trade immigration productivity aging populations innovations international financecopied content from Business Cycle; see that page's history for attribution increasing corporate profit increasing profit margins higher concentration of business lower company income less vigorous activity less progress lower investment rates lower productivity growth less employee share of corporate revenues decreasing Worker to Beneficiary ratio (year 1960 51 year 2009 31 year 2030 221)copied content from Social Security (United States)#Public economics; see that page's history for attribution increasing female to male ratio college graduates