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The Morning Consult consumer sentiment index has continued falling since Monday, but the rate of decline has slowed somewhat. Tuesday's Fed rate cut came too late to have any impact on the latest...
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Sometimes the market demands economic stimulus above and beyond logic. Other times economic stimulus is exactly what is needed.
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Consumer research firm Morning Consult reported Monday morning that its consumer sentiment index fell sharply last week.
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The IMF announced on Monday that the organization stands ready to help nations deal with the financial and health effects of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Two fresh competing looks at U.S. manufacturing data for the month of February would be considered a mixed bag, aside from comparing the data to China.
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The OECD has chopped its forecast for 2020 global economic growth by half a percentage point. The coronavirus outbreak and its impact on China are the primary causes but other risks also exist.
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One of the biggest concerns in the financial markets at this time is that governments and central banks have few obvious policy tools to help keep their economies going if what was seen in China...
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China released its Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for February and what was expected to be a very bad report showed an even worse reading.
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One of the biggest concerns in the financial markets at this time is that governments and central banks have few obvious policy tools to help keep their economies going if what was seen in China...
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The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index for February rose by 1.2% month over month and 7.7% year over year. The impact of recent fears for the spread of the coronavirus have just begun...
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Months of job increases could be reversed quickly if industries such as retail, travel and consumer goods suffer a drop in demand. The remedy to a fall-off in revenue is usually cost cuts, and often...
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Long-term Treasury yields are at lows that have never been seen before, and parts of the yield curve are inverted. With a fresh case of the coronavirus in the United States, the markets are feeling...
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24/7 Wall St. routinely tracks many issues covering the economy and the personal well-being of the average person. With this in mind, we have looked back at our coverage of doomsday preppers from the...
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The Morning Consult index of consumer sentiment fell last week as American consumers worry more about the effects of the global coronavirus outbreak.
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The "working from home" economy will not keep the United States from an economic slowdown if the virus starts to spread in a significant way in America. However, it will keep some of the most...
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