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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has released its minutes of the FOMC’s March 18 to 19 meeting. These comments should, in theory, not really move the market when you consider that the data is now out...
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ThinkstockNarayana Kocherlakota, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, was speaking on Tuesday in a monetary policy report at the Rochester, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. The first...
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ThinkstockU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made the news recently in testimony that his office was now investigating high-frequency trading to see if it constituted insider trading. Now Holder is...
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By International Monetary Fund [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released its updated 2014 to 2015 economic outlook. The good news is that the group has...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has released its report on consumer credit for the month of February. In February, consumer credit increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.5%. Revolving...
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ThinkstockMore good news is out on employment. The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) rose in March. Monday’s report seems to somewhat shadow the gains seen in Friday’s unemployment...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has issued its key unemployment and payrolls data for the month of March. With stocks at an all-time high, the trader and market participation...
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ThinkstockDennis Lockhart, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, gave a speech on Wednesday to the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce (obviously in Miami,...
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TrimTabs Investment Research indicates that the U.S. economy added between 195,000 and 225,000 jobs in the month of March. TrimTabs often has been conservative in its payrolls expectations.
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ThinkstockADP private sector payrolls data was one of the key metrics we were looking for ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls reports. It is a large gain, but perhaps not quite as...
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ThinkstockThe March Manufacturing ISM Report on Business shows that the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) came in at 53.7%. Growth was reported in New Orders, Employment, Production and Inventories...
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ThinkstockJanet Yellen is still in her getting to know you phase of her tenure as Fed chairman. After spooking the markets at the last FOMC meeting on the timing of when interest rates will raise,...
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ThinkstockWe now have the report for personal income and spending for the month of February. This data is now effectively a month old, so we were only expecting the news to move markets if it was way...
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ThinkstockA Thursday economic report from The Conference Board was its index of leading indicators for the month of February. We always warn readers that leading indicators may not be as leading as...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThursday’s jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department showed that weekly jobless claims rose by 5,000 to 320,000. The prior report was left unrevised at 315,000. Dow...
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