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courtesy of the Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve under Janet Yellen may not be that much different than the Fed under Ben Bernanke – not yet at any rate. In her first formal two-day FOMC meeting...
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ThinkstockThe Business Roundtable has released its 2014 CEO Economic Outlook Survey for the first quarter. While there is an overwhelming number of CEOs looking for sales growth, it is a minority of...
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ThinkstockThe Labor Department has released its latest report on retail inflation via the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Prices in February were up 0.1% on the headline CPI. Core inflation, excluding...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee has another meeting this week regarding U.S. interest rate policy. While no new rate announcement is expected to come, what is expected...
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squirrel83, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York is out with its March 2014 Empire State Manufacturing Survey. Monday’s report signaled that business conditions continued to...
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ThinkstockThe amount of global debt swelled to more than $100 trillion last year, according to the Swiss-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS), as governments borrowed to lift their...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsCan weather be to blame for poor jobs numbers for three consecutive months? After two disappointing Labor Department reports on monthly payrolls, the Bureau of Labor...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has released its year-end reading of household net worth, as well as domestic nonfinancial debt, for 2013. The good news is that this is a record high. The bad news is...
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ThinkstockDespite some very weak independent jobs reports seen so far this week, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the number of weekly jobless claims fell by 26,000 to 323,000 in the latest...
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ThinkstockU.S. manufacturing expanded at a quicker pace in February, according to the closely followed Institute for Supply Management (ISM) index. The index rose to 53.2% from January’s 51.3%,...
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ThinkstockMonday’s economic reports targeted personal income and personal spending, but we would note that the markets are currently focused on Russian military action in the Ukraine. This...
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Friday's markets had been in limbo and were looking for direction, and the Chicago PMI acted as an unusual and unexpected catalyst for the stock market. Sometimes the market manages to run on small...
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ThinkstockFriday’s key economic report was the first revision to fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP). The Commerce Department’s numbers were expected to be revised down, and they were...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve is under a new chairman, and the new policy is still one that will come with ongoing bond purchase tapering. Still, the Fed’s balance sheet keeps growing and is moving...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThursday’s economic report calendar seemed to be good when you consider that the decline in durable goods was better than expected, but the Labor Department has...
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