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This week's testimony by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen may have caused a stock market sell-off by noting that the…
Does the trade deficit even matter anymore? That is a legitimate question. The last time an actual trade surplus was…
Factory orders were down 1.0% in the month of September, more or less in line with the Bloomberg consensus.
October marks the third consecutive month that the ISM manufacturing reading flirted with contraction.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Monday morning that construction spending in September increased a little.
If cold and snow keep customers away from retailers, this year the weather should favor them, according to the National…
The University of Michigan has released its final report on consumer sentiment for October and found that sentiment was less…
You hear it in the press and on the news almost daily: wages are stagnant and need to go up.
Only two things can stop a December rate hike now. One is war, and the other is a sharp rise…
The U.S. Department of Labor has just released another report on weekly jobless claims. Its advance figure for seasonally adjusted…
If you were among the minority group of investors expecting a rate hike from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, Thursday's…
ThinkstockJanet Yellen and the Federal Reserve have ended their October FOMC meeting. The decision to not change interest rates (Fed…
A report from Lindsey Piegza, chief economist of Stifel Fixed Income, offers a preview of what to expect before and…
ThinkstockWith this week’s FOMC meeting being highly watched, it seems that investors have almost no fears of a rate hike…
Durable goods came in with a negative reading for the month of September and may portend a bad report later…
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