It’s Official: For Caterpillar, The “Great Recovery” Is Now Worse Than The “Great Recession”

Wednesday, August 20, 2014
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
08/20/2014

In October 2008, the month after Lehman failed and the Great Recession started, industrial bellwether Caterpillar underwent a series of 19 consecutive, record, declines in Global dealer retail sales declines, finally emerging from its unprecedented funk in May of 2010, just in time to celebrate the start of financial and economic Greece’s collapse which ended with a sovereign default. Well, as of July 2014, that record is no longer valid, because starting with a -1% drop in Global retail sales in December 2012, CAT has now posted a new record of 20 consecutive global delaer retail sales declines, after a -9% Y/Y print for the month of July.

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