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Jon OggThe U.S. Labor Department Friday morning released the Producer Price Index (PPI) for July, which effectively measures wholesale inflation. As a reminder, this is PPI reading now measures final...
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ThinkstockHedge funds remain somewhat of a mystery to much of the public. They are supposed to have absolute returns, but they do not always outperform their benchmarks. A new report from...
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The U.S. Department of Labor has released its weekly jobless claims. The number of people who applied for jobless benefits increased back above the 300,000 level to 311,000 claims. This was an...
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The Commerce Department reported on Wednesday that Business Inventories were up by 0.4% for the month of June. The consensus estimate of economists polled by Bloomberg was spot on at 0.4%, and the...
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ThinkstockRetail sales did not have much to show for in the first month of the third quarter. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that retail sales were flat at 0.0% change in July. This fell...
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Jon OggThe U.S. Treasury Budget for July was announced Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday’s results followed close enough to analysts’ expectations that it should not rock the boat too much in either...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is out with its monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for the month of June. This JOLTS report compares hirings, firings and employees quitting...
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ThinkstockWith sentiment improving and GDP growth rate picking up in the second quarter, investors and economists alike are looking for anything to confirm or refute the upswing in the economy. The...
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The last economic report for Friday was the Wholesale Inventories reading for June. It turns out that inventories rose by only 0.3% for the month. Bloomberg and Dow Jones both had the consensus...
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ThinkstockEconomists and market watchers want to know if labor costs are truly rising or not. After all, there has been very mixed data. Now a report on second quarter non-farm productivity and unit...
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In its new Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households, the Federal Reserve Board provides insight into numerous topics of current relevance to household finances. These topics include...
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ThinkstockFriday morning will bring the quarterly report on nonfarm productivity and unit labor costs. With the Employment Cost Index from last week having shown a pop much higher for the second...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has released its report on weekly jobless claims. We were wondering just on Wednesday whether the prior trend of higher claims would continue, and now we have that...
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ThinkstockThe European Central Bank (ECB) may not have liked to see that Italy has swung back down into recession territory, and it sure as hell doesn’t like to see Europe weakness tied to...
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Thursday will mark yet another Labor Department report covering weekly jobless claims. The question we and others will be asking is whether we have seen a cycle peak in jobless claims and in...
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